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  • Video: Exploring Legend Of Hungarian 'Suicide Song'

    Video: Exploring Legend Of Hungarian 'Suicide Song'

    • 5 Jan 2021 8:27 AM

    This video explores the legend surrounding "Szomorú vasárnap", 'Gloomy Sunday' in English, a supposedly cursed song linked with over two hundred suicides all over the world.

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  • Hungarian Opinion: PM Orbán Expects Fast Growth In 2021

    Hungarian Opinion: PM Orbán Expects Fast Growth In 2021

    • 5 Jan 2021 8:16 AM

    A pro-government commentator is hopeful that Prime Minsiter Orbán and National Bank President Matolcsy are right to expect a swift rebound for the Hungarian economy and the start of another ‘golden era of growth’.

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  • Hungarians Barred From London-Bratislava Flight

    Hungarians Barred From London-Bratislava Flight

    • 5 Jan 2021 8:09 AM

    About 30 Hungarians were stranded at England’s Luton airport on Monday after they were not allowed to board a Wizz Air flight bound for Bratislava, Telex reports.

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  • Teacher Union Wants Education Workers Added To Govt's Vaccination Plan In Hungary

    Teacher Union Wants Education Workers Added To Govt's Vaccination Plan In Hungary

    • 5 Jan 2021 8:01 AM

    Hungarian teacher union PSZ has called for teachers to be added to the government’s Covid-19 vaccination plan.

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  • Opposition LMP Calls For Pension Hike In Hungary

    Opposition LMP Calls For Pension Hike In Hungary

    • 5 Jan 2021 7:57 AM

    The government is “cruelly letting old people down” by keeping the minimum pension low and indexing pensions below inflation, Erzsébet Schmuck, co-leader of the opposition LMP party, said, and called on the government to raise pensions by 4% in January, as well as increase the minimum pension “two-and-a-half-fold to above a monthly 71,000 forints (EUR 197)”.

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  • Hungarian Agriculture University To Be Run By Foundation

    Hungarian Agriculture University To Be Run By Foundation

    • 5 Jan 2021 7:52 AM

    The Szent István University of Agriculture in Gödöllő, near Budapest, will be taken over by a foundation on February 1, the innovation and technology ministry said.

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  • Watch: Xploring Hungary – Budafok Wine Cellars

    Watch: Xploring Hungary – Budafok Wine Cellars

    • 4 Jan 2021 12:06 PM

    Budafok is the twenty-second district of Budapest, in the south-west of the capital and it is famous for its 100km long underground labirynth which is unique in the world.

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  • Peter Jones, Author, Coach, Hotel Owner

    Peter Jones, Author, Coach, Hotel Owner

    • 4 Jan 2021 11:54 AM

    Peter currently owns and operates an apartment hotel chain called Nova and airbnb business in Hungary. He has been doing it for 15 years and loves holding seminars about property, airbnb, bank loans and investments at his seminars. He also coaches people online as well as at his seminars since he likes sharing his life and business experiences with people.

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  • 'The Fairy Queen' Opera Online Streaming In Budapest, 9 January

    'The Fairy Queen' Opera Online Streaming In Budapest, 9 January

    • 4 Jan 2021 10:49 AM

    Purcell's The Fairy Queen was originally a “semi-opera”, that is, a series of musical passages created for a production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream which did not relate an independent story, but only took on true meaning in conjunction with the prose work.

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  • Covid Update:144,804 Active Cases, 93 New Deaths In Hungary

    Covid Update:144,804 Active Cases, 93 New Deaths In Hungary

    • 4 Jan 2021 9:58 AM

    856 new cases were confirmed. The number of people infected with the coronavirus in Hungary now stands at 328,851. The number of deaths stands at 9,977, while the number of those recovered now stands at 174,070.

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  • Watch: Hungarian Engineers Develop Mask That Stops Coronavirus ‘By 99.98%'

    Watch: Hungarian Engineers Develop Mask That Stops Coronavirus ‘By 99.98%'

    • 4 Jan 2021 9:50 AM

    Two Hungarian engineers designed a special mask that virtually stops the coronavirus.

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  • Hungarian Opinion: Further Comments On The Lessons Of 2020

    Hungarian Opinion: Further Comments On The Lessons Of 2020

    • 4 Jan 2021 8:54 AM

    Opponents of the government find the administration at fault in both home and international politics, while being dissatisfied with the performance of the opposition.

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  • Hungary Subsidising Chinese Uni Campus In Buda Castle

    Hungary Subsidising Chinese Uni Campus In Buda Castle

    • 4 Jan 2021 8:28 AM

    The government will contribute Ft 841.5 million to help establish a campus in Hungary for China’s Fudan University, the university’s first campus outside of China.

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  • Hungary Won’t Use Russian Vaccine

    Hungary Won’t Use Russian Vaccine

    • 4 Jan 2021 8:23 AM

    Hungary will not make use of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine because Russia does not have adequate capacity to produce enough doses of the remedy, Prime Minister’s Office leader Gergely Gulyás said in an interview with ATV on Thursday.

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