PRESS DIGEST - Bulgaria - Dec 2

SOFIA, Dec 2 (Reuters) - These are some of the main stories in Bulgarian newspapers on Tuesday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

GENERAL AND POLITICS

- Brussels may strip Bulgaria off some 58 million euros ($73.13 million) from the EU-backed pre-accession programme ISPA needed for water network upgrades in the capital Sofia, unless water prices in the city increase, Sofia's deputy mayor Irina Savina said (Dnevnik, Monitor, Klasa).

MONITOR - About 4,000 Bulgarians do not know they are HIV-positive, Dr Tonka Varleva, head of the Bulgarian anti-AIDS programme, said.

ECONOMY

DNEVNIK - Investors have frozen projects in Bulgaria's ski resorts and planned construction of golf courses in the northeastern part of the country worth a total 4.5 billion levs ($2.90 billion) due to the global financial crisis.

BUSINESS

MONITOR - The Bulgarian Stock Exchange posted a turnover of 2.67 billion levs for the first eleven months of the year.

STANDART - Bulgarian investment company Chimimport CHIM.BB posted a profit of 93.6 million levs for the first nine months of the year, compared to 89.17 million levs for the same period a year ago.

PARI - Bulgarian investment company Synergon holding PETHL.BB posted net sales revenue of 304.6 million levs for the first nine months of the year, up by 47.5 million levs from a year ago.