Delavska Hranilnica, a bank founded and majority owned by trade unions, is looking back at its best business year yet, posting double-digit growth in revenue, profit and total assets for 2024.
The bank, by its own accounts Slovenia's largest banking institution in majority domestic ownership, saw i

The Slovenian parliament has passed legislation that makes it easier to hire foreign workers in an effort to help businesses across multiple industries that struggle to fill labour shortages.
Changes to two laws governing how foreigners can be hired expand seasonal work, so far confined to agricult

After a record-breaking year for Slovenian tourism, visitor numbers and nights were slightly lower in the first quarter of this year, according to the latest official statistics.
Visitor numbers fell by 1.3% year-on-year to almost 897,400 and the number of nights spent at tourism accommodation faci

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HONG KONG SAR and SHANGHAI, CHINA - Media OutReach Newswire - 29 April 2025 - Hang Lung Properties Limited (SEHK stock code: 00101) (the "Company" or "Hang Lung") is scaling up its collaborative eff

HONG KONG SAR - Media OutReach Newswire - 29 April 2025 - ESF Renaissance College Hong Kong (RCHK) is proud to announce an exciting collaboration with Tramplus, a sister company of HK Tramways, to redesign the interior and exterior of an iconic Hong Kong tram. This unique project showcases the oppo

A party that used to make and break Slovenian governments, the Slovenian People's Party (SLS) is looking to carve its way back into the national parliament under a new leader. Tina Bregant, a 49-year-old paediatrician, was elected the party's first female leader at a congress on 26 April.
A success

The National Assembly has passed a law declassifying documents and records pertaining to Slovenia's independence, the ten-day war that followed, and arms trade in the early 1990s to help Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina defend themselves in the bloody collapse of the former Yugoslavia.
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Issues related to the Slovenian ethnic minority in Austria and the German-speaking community in Slovenia as well as the situation in the Western Balkans were in focus as Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon met her counterpart Beate Meinl-Reisinger in Vienna on 25 April.
Austria's new government included b

Amnesty International has raised inadequate access to primary healthcare due to a shortage of GPs and gynaecologists as one of the burning issues in Slovenia in its latest annual report on the state of human rights worldwide.
The report notes that a shortage of family doctors left about 140,000 peo

An installation dedicated to the Austrian writer and poet Ingeborg Bachmann has been put up in Nova Gorica to serve as a place for reflection and various events as part of the first cross-border European Capital of Culture until the end of autumn.
A temporary gift of the Carinthian Cultural Foundat

An initial report into the 10 March plane crash at Velika Planina that killed Swedish businessman and former politician Carl Lundström has confirmed weather conditions were unfavourable for flying, but does not yet formally conclude poor weather as the most likely cause of the accident.
The flight

Rok Žitko, a quantum physics researcher at the Jožef Stefan Institute, writes about the potential for further development of quantum science as a flagship field of research in Slovenia in an opinion piece for the Slovenia Times ahead of World Quantum Day.
This year marks the centenary of the beginn

Jadranka Jezeršek Turnes, a science and innovation communicator and contributor to the EU Framework for Science Diplomacy, argues in an op-ed for The Slovenia Times that strong science diplomacy is needed, in particular for small countries such as Slovenia, which must take a strategic step forward.

In her opinion piece for the Slovenia Times, Eva McLellan, vice president of AmCham Slovenia and managing director of Roche Slovenia, calls for healthcare to be recognized as a strategic investment in Europe's sustainable future-one that benefits all demographics, from women to the elderly.
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