After being appointed acting director general of Slovenia's main hospital in December, Aleš Šabeder was named for a full four-year term at the helm of UKC Ljubljana by the hospital's council on Wednesday.

The Slovenian men's ice hockey team opened the Olympic tournament in PyeongChang on Wednesday with a 3:2 win over the favoured United States in overtime.

Boštjan Jazbec, the governor of Slovenia's central bank, has been put forward for a post at the Single Resolution Board by the European Commission. The Commission announced on Wednesday that as a member of the board, he would be in charge of resolution planning and decision-making.

Banks operating in Slovenia made a total of EUR 422.6m in profit after tax last year, up 27.1% compared to the year before, Banka Slovenije announced in a press release on Wednesday.

Classes at schools and kindergartens across Slovenia were cancelled on Wednesday as some 40,000 teachers went on strike for better pay, half of them turning out for a massive rally in the centre of Ljubljana.