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Serbia: Greetings from Belgrade as low-cost flight route opens [Jul 17, 2010] Serbia's capital is now on the low-cost flight route - and its people are trying to present a friendlier face to visitors. Adrian Bridge reports. [via YahooNews] More >>

BELGRADE -- (B92) [Mar 27, 2010] Work on the Gazela bridge and Terazije Tunnel have caused a complete traffic collapse in Belgrade?s center. [via YahooNews] More >>

BELGRADE -- (B92) [Mar 27, 2010] The traffic regime on the Gazela Bridge will be altered on Monday morning, according to the Serbian Roads public company as restoration work begins. [via YahooNews] More >>

Belgrade's busiest bridge to be reconstructed after 40 years (EARTHtimes.org) [Mar 15, 2010] Belgrade - Serbia and the Austrian company Strabag on Monday signed a 58-million-euro (79.6 million dollars) contract for the reconstruction of Belgrade's busiest bridge, Gazela. A crack in Gazela forced Belgrade authorities earlier this year to part... [via YahooNews] More >>

BELGRADE -- (B92) [Feb 12, 2010] EBRD will decide at the end of February whether it will approve a EUR 33mn loan for the reconstruction of the Gazela Bridge in Belgrade. [via YahooNews] More >>

BELGRADE -- (B92) [Feb 02, 2010] The parliament?s Committee on Transportation and Communications will discuss problems caused by the damage discovered on Gazela Bridge in Belgrade. [via YahooNews] More >>

BELGRADE -- (B92) [Feb 01, 2010] Preparatory works to repair Belgrade?s busy Gazela Bridge, which has cracks in its main pier, are starting today. [via YahooNews] More >>

Serbia's busiest bridge damaged, partly closed (EARTHtimes.org) [Jan 29, 2010] Belgrade - A crack in Serbia's most heavily travelled bridge has forced its partial closure, wreaking chaos in traffic in the country's capital on Friday. ... [via YahooNews] More >>

CORRECTED - Serbia takes infrastructure loans to boost economy (Reuters via Yahoo! Philippines News) [Oct 26, 2009] (Corrects the total amount of two loans in 1st paragraph to 529 million euros instead of 429 million euros) * Serbia agrees on new loans for motorway, bridge [via YahooNews] More >>

BELGRADE -- (B92) [Oct 24, 2009] Chinese, Serbian government and city of Belgrade representatives yesterday signed an interim contract on the construction of the Zemun-Bor?a bridge. [via YahooNews] More >>

Serbia to borrow 145 mln eur from China -economy ministry (Reuters via Yahoo! Malaysia News) [Oct 23, 2009] BELGRADE, Serbia, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Serbia will borrow 145 million euros from China in 2010 to build a Belgrade bridge at annual interest of three percent, Serbia's Economy Ministry said in a statement on Friday. [via YahooNews] More >>

(AFX UK Focus) 2009-04-13 15:32 Serbia eyes 200 mln euro Chinese loan -- minister (Interactive Investor) [Apr 13, 2009] BELGRADE, April 13 (Reuters) - Serbia is negotiating a 200-million euro loan with the Chinese government to construct a bridge over the Danube River in Belgrade, a deputy prime minister said on Monday. "The negotiations have gone pretty far," Mladjan Dinkic told reporters. "If we conclude the deal a Chinese company would build the bridge." Belgrade, where residents live on both sides of the ... [via YahooNews] More >>

How Russia has stymied a free Kosovo / Moscow's support for Serbia blocked independence (San Francisco Chronicle) [Dec 16, 2007] Stand on the blue neon bridge over the Ibar River here and straddle the frontline of today's Cold War. To the south is Kosovo, an ethnic Albanian province propped up and championed by the United States. To the north is Serbia, a state that looks solidly to... [via YahooNews] More >>

Catholic and Orthodox leaders meet (The Canton Repository) [Sep 30, 2006] BELGRADE, Serbia - Roman Catholic and Christian Orthodox leaders meeting for the first time in six years said they will continue their efforts to bridge the divide between their ancient branches of ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Thieves pinch Nato-bombed Serbian bridge (Independent Online) [Aug 18, 2006] Hoping to bag a piece of history, thieves have made off with part of a Serbian bridge destroyed during the 1999 Nato bombing campaign. [via YahooNews] More >>

Thieves pinch Nato-bombed Serbian bridge (Independent Online) [Aug 17, 2006] Hoping to bag a piece of history, thieves have made off with part of a Serbian bridge destroyed during the 1999 Nato bombing campaign. [via YahooNews] More >>

Thieves pinch Nato-hit Serbian bridge (Gulf Times) [Aug 17, 2006] BELGRADE: Thieves have made off with a part of a Serbian bridge destroyed during the 1999 Nato bombing campaign against the Balkan country, the daily Politika said yesterday. [via YahooNews] More >>