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Bulgarian village goes Chinese in yoghurt craze

Momchilovtsi has given its name to a drinking yoghurt that's the rage for Chinese consumers

    Published Tue, Sep 26, 2017 · 09:50 PM

    Momchilovtsi, Bulgaria

    THE Bulgarian villagers hunker over their books, struggling with their Mandarin words and characters. But they are not going to China - the Middle Kingdom is coming to them. Because of yoghurt.

    "It's difficult. You have to be quite tough not to give up," says pensioner Tsvetka Radkova, 66, as she puffs and pants in the classroom in the village of Momchilovtsi in southern Bulgaria.

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