Without an access ramp to the cafeteria in Stiv Naumov dormitory in Skopje, a student in wheelchair was forced to eat alone in his room
In the cold and rainy periods, I was waiting in the rain in front of the cafeteria building for one of the kitchen staff to get me my meal and come back. If there was an access ramp, I would have gone myself into...
The promise of Mayor Boban Stefkovski to build a sports center in Vardarishte is unfulfilled
The scattered waste at Vardarishte, photograph taken on 9th January 2023 by Meta.mk
The current Mayor of Gazi Baba municipality, Boban Stefkovski, in his electoral campaign for the local elections that took place in October 2021, promised a cleanup of former Skopje’s landfill Vardarishte and...
“e-Society.mk”: Video surveillance can easily “delete” privacy
(This content is a translation of the original article in Macedonian, published on the 7th of December 2022)
The video surveillance systems and the processing of biometric data have an enormous inherent risk of violating privacy, which is one of the human rights, and intrusion...
e-Society.mk annual conference opened, cyber resilience for freedom and security in focus
(This content is a translation of the original article in Macedonian, published on the 6th of December 2022)
Metamorphosis Foundation for the 18th time organized the international e-Society.mk conference, which started on the 6th of December. The two-day conference in the Marriott hotel in Skopje...
The food banks in Portugal can feed up to 4% of the total population
Portugal has over 10 million citizens and even 21 food banks, which can feed up to 4% of this EU member country's total population. Their main goal is to fight against throwing all kinds of food as waste and to divert the secured surplus...
Bostanie Cooperative Garden in capital of North Macedonia teaches young people gardening
In the Novo Lisiche Park, at the outskirts of Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, 50-some enthusiasts for the second consecutive year have been working in the Bostanie Cooperative Garden. The enthusiasts, including, of course, young people, through training and workshops, can learn gardening...
“Evolution – Torres Strait Masks” exhibition opens at Mala Stanica Gallery in Skopje
The international traveling exhibition by the Gab Titui Cultural Centre in cooperation with the National Museum of Australia, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Australian Embassy in Belgrade, was opened on the 8th of June at the National Gallery of...
People in North Macedonia aware about disinformation, but counteracting this evil requires great efforts
The main actors in the process of counteracting the effects of the disinformation should be the institutions that are tasked with the creation of media policies, but also the media outlets and the journalists. Still, a systematic approach, with participation of several other factors...
Lunar eclipse: The Blood Moon phenomenon as seen this morning in the sky above Skopje
Early this morning, as was previously calculated and in a period of only a few minutes, the Earth moved between the sun and the moon. In those moments, the moon was completely eclipsed, a phenomenon that occurs once every 2 and a half years....
Portalb.mk marked its 10th anniversary
On the occassion of its 10th anniversary, Portalb.mk news site organized a panel discussion with the subject "The vision about North Macedonia," that was attended by representatives of civil society organizations, the executive power, the local governments, professors and students.
Portalb.mk's Editor in Chief, Elida...
Ai Weiwei’s exhibition “In Search of Humanity” at the Albertina Modern Museum in Vienna
Author: Bojan Blazhevski
On the 16th of March, at the Albertina Modern Museum in Vienna, a comprehensive retrospective exhibition by the renowned Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei was opened. The exhibition named "In Search of Humanity" gathers in one place Weiwei's artworks coming from...
Protesters in front of Russian embassy in Skopje shout ‘Putin is a fascist’ demanding end to war against Ukraine
Dozens of citizens of North Macedonia and Ukrainians residing in Skopje protested against Russian invasion on Ukraine through a march from the main square of the capital of North Macedonia to the Russian embassy on February 25. They sung Ukrainian songs and shouted "Putin...
[Photos] Giraffes and lemurs celebrated Valentine’s Day at the Skopje Zoo
Valentine's Day was also celebrated by some of the animals at the Skopje Zoo, the largest zoological garden in North Macedonia. The employees of the Zoo in the capital of North Macedonia were hanging out with the giraffes and the lemurs, and Meta.mk's photojournalist...
[Photo Story] 2021 seen through the lenses of a group of Macedonian photographers
At the end of the first month of the new year, we produced a photo story together with several domestic photographers who participated with one photograph each, featuring their remembrance of the year 2021. Each of the photographs is presenting different life moments of...
After 82 days in office, Mayor Danela Arsovska still hadn’t cleaned all illegal dumps throughout Skopje
The first 82 days since Mayor Danela Arsovska took over the helm of Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, expired on Friday, the 28th of January, which prompted Meta.mk to check on site whether one of the most important promises that Arsovska gave in...
Thousands of people in Kumanovo region in past 4 decades have been poisoned by arsenic and other toxic deposits
In the past several decades, the villages of Tabanovce, Lojane and Vaksince in the Kumanovo region have been continuously poisoned by arsenic and other toxic elements that had been dispersed on two locations near the border of North Macedonia with Serbia.
At the first location,...
Female farmer from North Macedonia: Young women farmers need favorable conditions and financial support to become equal
Zhivka Gjurchinovska is a woman who has no problem driving a tractor. She is a diligent farmer and a mother of three. They live in the village of Tumchevishte, in the Gostivar area in the northwestern part of North Macedonia.
Gjurchinovska has been a farmer...
Rusino landfill still pollutes city of Gostivar, its citizens request waste selection and recycling to start [Photo gallery]
Located 10 km from the center of the city of Gostivar, in the west of the Republic of North Macedonia, is one of the largest landfills in the country. One rainy October day, the journalistic team from Meta.mk and Portalb.mk, visited the Rusino landfill...
A new Russian themed children’s playground emerged in the center of Skopje, North Macedonia
A children's playground with Russian thematic was built behind the Universal Hall at Skopje's city center during the local election campaign in North Macedonia. The playground, where the children from the surrounding buildings are supposed to play, has a floor with the map of...
Skopje at 40ºC: Elephants in the Zoo cooling down, construction workers baking on the scaffoldings
The heatwave that swept North Macedonia at the start of this week, will most likely last another week. In the capital Skopje, the temperatures rose to 40ºC and the National Hydrometeorological Service (UHMR) forecast 42ºC for the capital. The scorching heat has brought Orange...
