The China-Belarus Industrial Park Great Stone closed the year by signing a lease agreement with its resident company IPD Group on 30 December, BelTA learned from the press service of the park. The leased area is 5,500 sq.m. This transaction is one of the largest this year in the industrial real estate market of the country. IPD Group will use the premises to start a series production of high-tech data processing and storage devices. In particular, the company will be engaged in...

The international symposium of confectioners Food Prom Confectionery will take place in Minsk on 24-25 May, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian state food industry concern Belgospishcheprom. The symposium will discuss the most topical issues of industrial development of the confectionery market in Belarus, Russia and EAEU countries, global trends, best practices of leading companies, changes of consumer preferences in pandemic conditions, standardization and...

The Belarusian heavy truck manufacturer BelAZ showcased its products and innovative solutions at the international business week in Ufa, the capital of Bashkortostan, Russia, BelTA learned from the BelAZ press service. Aleksei Moroz, the head of the department for promotion of underground and road-building vehicles at BelAZ, made a presentation during the session "Bashkortostan - Belarus: Potential of industrial cooperation". "Major consumers of our equipment are mining...

Foreign tourists now choose premium-class hotels in Belarus more often, Aleksei Strelchenko, an assistant to the director general of the Hotel Holding Company of the Belarusian President Property Directorate, told a press conference, BelTA has learned. "The first quarter of 2022 was not optimistic for the hotel business. Yet, things improved eventually. First of all, it was thanks to the unprecedented growth in the influx of Russian tourists to Belarus. So, if we consider hotels by...

Almost 380,000 foreigners have visited Belarus as part of the visa-waiver travel program, BelTA learned from the State Border Committee of Belarus. Since the launch of the visa-waiver program for neighboring EU countries, Belarus has hosted 378,290 arrivals: 244,017 citizens of Lithuania, 26,534 non-citizens and 86,752 citizens of Latvia, and 20,987 Polish citizens. Over the past week, Belarus hosted over 8,000 visa-waiver arrivals, most of them being citizens of Lithuania. More...

The names of the Belarusian candidates for a manned space flight have been revealed. Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko met with the Belarusian cosmonaut candidates at the Gagarin Research and Test Cosmonaut Center in Russia on 24 December, BelTA has learned. The Belarusian candidates for a manned space flight are: Belavia stewardesses Marina Vasilevskaya and Viktoriya Fidrus, a forensic expert from Brest Oblast Darya Mikhnyuk, an obstetrician-gynecologist from Baranovichi...