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November 4, 2021 - Because Chops breakfast serves every kind of Split morning, rain or shine.  Breakfast - sworn by parents as the most important meal of the day, never missed by athletes, and indeed a meal no tourist traveling Croatia can afford to miss before their sightseeing adventures.  And while you're exploring Split, you'll notice that some restaurants do breakfast better than the rest. Chops Grill is one of them.  Making waves last year with their affordable yet quick grab-n-go brekky options, like the irresistible croissant sandwich with prosciutto or salmon and tangy spring onion and honey mustard touch,…

November 4, 2021 - The atypical humanitarian Split Beard Auction is part of the global Movember movement. The highly anticipated event celebrates its jubilee 5th edition this year. The auction urges men to stop shaving in November and determine the price of their beards or the amount for which they are willing to shave them off. Then, if enough donations are collected for that beard, the person shaves at the Beard Auction on the first Sunday in December, and the collected funds are donated to the Split County League Against Cancer. People can also nominate a "beard" or "mustache" via social…

November the 4th, 2021 - Having teamed up with Gong and Code for Croatia, the new Popravi to platform (Fix it) offers people a quick, free and easy way to report damage in public areas, whether it be broken lights or something more. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, the service portal for reporting utility problems to the competent services "Popravi to", whose task is to eliminate and solve them, has been fully available on the Internet as of Tuesday this week, and it also covers the entire territory of Croatia, Gong announced. Popravi to is a free tool created in cooperation…

November the 4th, 2021 - The Croatian Government has approved the concession termination of the Vukovar Free Zone, bringing the number of them located on Croatian territory down. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Marija Brnic writes, in terms of the EU, Croatia is at the very top in terms of the number of free zones - until last week it had eleven, with three being in the process of being ''deleted'' for some time now, and according to the new concession, the Vukovar Free Zone will also join that listdecentia . The request to terminate the concession came from Vukovar itself, more precisely from…

November the 4th, 2021 - The Vodnjan Infobip company has gone from strength to strength over recent years, and now, with its most recent take over of an American rival, this remarkable Croatian company is edging ever closer to Wall Street. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Ana Blaskovic writes, the first, and so far the only Croatian ''unicorn'', the Vodnjan Infobip, is continuing with its ambitious expansion. After a financial injection of half a billion dollars last month, this company acquired the American Peerless Network, a global provider of VoIP (Voice over IP) services. Although the value of the transaction remains a secret…

November the 4th, 2021 - Funerals can be just as expensive as any other form of gathering, and without sounding utterly morbid - if you want to die with a bit of luxury and an empty pocket, then reserving a Mirogoj grave site might be up your alley. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, across the Republic of Croatia, grave site prices range from a few thousand to an incredible half a million kuna. An eye-poppingly expensive ad was published recently on the popular Njuskalo buying and selling website, which acts a bit like the original Croatian eBay. For ''just'' 479,000 kuna (which…

October 21, 2021 - In April this year, 10 digital nomads from all over the world came together for the inaugural Dubrovnik Digital Nomads-in-Residence (DNIR) program. As part of European Freelancer Week 2021, TCN caught up with some of them 6 months on - next up Alyssa Isogawa from California.  A year ago, the city of Dubrovnik held the first-ever digital nomad conference in Croatia - Dubrovnik for Digital Nomads - as part of European Freelancer Week. The city has made great strides advancing its DN credentials and strategy, thanks in part to the award-winning Dubrovnik Digital Nomads-in-Residence program, which…

November 3, 2021 - Just over a month until Digital Nomad Week, the virtual edition with 10,000 nomads expected to attend, and more than 100 speakers including TCN. Continuing our look at the keynote speakers, meet the very dynamic Alex Fasulo.  In 2015, Alex Fasulo quit her job with no plan, no money, and no idea what she was going to do with her life. She dove headfirst into freelancing platform, Fiverr, and have never looked back. Today, her freelancing businesses generates 350k+ in income per year, and she is using her experience to show everyone what's possible online today. …

ZAGREB, 3 November, 2021 - Following harsh reactions to his column, journalist Boris Dežulović said on Wednesday that if there were Vukovar victims who felt offended, they were not offended by his article but by those who trade in their suffering, and that his article was about trade in the horrible sacrifice of Vukovar. "If there is anyone offended, if some innocent people, victims, their families are offended, it was not me who has offended them, they have been offended by those who trade in their suffering, that is what my article is about," Dežulović said on Wednesday morning in an interview…

ZAGREB, 3 November, 2021 - The Croatian Journalists Association (HND) on Wednesday welcomed the fact that Croatian Radio-Television (HRT) has dropped suits against the HND and the chair of its Croatian Television (HTV) branch, inviting new HRT director-general Robert Šveb to drop all suits against journalists and media. The HRT has dropped a lawsuit it filed on 24 December 2018 against the HND and Sanja Mikleušević Pavić, an HTV journalist and president of the HND's HTV branch, over a September 2018 statement in which the branch condemned the resale of tickets to the World Football Championship, among other oversights, the HND said. The…