| Goriki Panterji is presenting traditional may songs! Please click on the picture! |
| Majnike pesmi (Slovenski komorni zbor): |
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| The entomologist as philosopher |
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| A Slovene from Argentina: Bass-baritone Marcos Fink is singing today at the Staatsoper "Der geduldige Sokrates" |

| Canada hosted a World Championship game for the first time in the 100-year history of the International Ice Hockey Federation. |
| Anze Kopitar tallied for the Slovenian team, while Robert Kristan allowed five goals on 65 shots in a losing effort. A member of the Los Angles Kings, Kopitar is the lone NHLer on Slovenia, which was shelled 8-0 the last time it faced Canada in this tournament. |
| Canada held a 1-0 lead after the first period on a goal from Hamhuis, and Heatley extended the margin 41 seconds into the middle stanza, one-timing a feed from Nash by the glove of Kristan. |
| St. Louis' power-play tally gave the Canadians a 3-0 edge at 10:18, but the Slovenians capitalized on a lengthy 5-on-3 power play two minutes later. Kopitar took a pass from Tomaz Razingar down low and lifted the puck over the glove of Ward. |
| A power-play marker by Heatley restored a three-goal cushion for Canada at 15:07. Heatley gathered the puck below the right circle and chipped it underneath the left arm of the Slovenian netminder. |
| Heatley completed the hat trick midway through the third period and Canada cruised to the finish. |
| HELSINKI (Thomson Financial) - Finland's Kemira Oy said it will expand its paints business in Romania after agreeing to form a 50:50 joint venture with Slovenia's JUB. |
| Kemira currently has a 'small-scale' operation in Romania and wants to grab a bigger slice of the country's 180 million euros paints market, a Kemira spokesman told Thomson Financial News. |
| No financial details of the tie-up, to carry the name Tikkurila JUB Romania, were disclosed. |

| LJUBLJANA (Reuters) - The European Union will probably lift its 11-year-old ban on imports of U.S. poultry, Enterprise and Industry Commissioner Guenter Verheugen said on Tuesday. |
| "The Commission will find a solution and the only solution is to lift the ban," Verheugen said ahead of a Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC) meeting in Brussels on May 13. |
| The EU banned imports of U.S. poultry in April 1997 because U.S. poultry producers use a low-concentration chlorine wash to reduce harmful pathogens, a practice not permitted by the EU food safety regime. |
| Verheugen told a news conference the ban has stayed in force so long due to lack of clear political will, which appeared to corroborate Washington's long-standing claim that the ban was rooted in politics and not in scientific facts. |
| "The reason why there has been no solution so far is that there was a clear lack of political guidance. ... Now there is a strong political will to solve this issue," he said during a one-day visit to Slovenia. |
| He declined to say when the ban would be lifted but said that, "In November I made a clear commitment the issue will be solved ahead of the EU-US summit here in Slovenia (in June)." |
| Poultry is one of the 31 issues disputed by the EU and the United States. Verheugen said earlier that failure to resolve the poultry spat could jeopardize attempts to reach consensus on wider issues like health care, financial services, patents, cosmetics and biofuels. |
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| KBC's planned stake sale in Slovenia's NLB rating-neutral - Fitch |
| 06 May 2008 |
| MUMBAI (Thomson Financial) - Fitch Ratings said KBC Group's structured sale process for its 34 percent stake in Slovenia's NLB bank, as well as the divestment of its 50 percent stake in NLB Vita is rating-neutral. |
| "NLB's issuer default and support ratings are underpinned by the potential support available from the Slovenian state - which is also the bank's largest shareholder - reflecting the bank's systemic importance and dominant domestic franchise. Therefore, the ratings remain unaffected by KBC Group's announcement," Fitch said. Fitch has an 'A-' long-term issuer default rating with stable outlook, and 'F2' short-term IDR on NLB. TFN.newsdesk@thomsonreuters.com ypv COPYRIGHT Copyright Thomson Financial News Limited 2008. All rights reserved. |
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