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    Xpat Report: Muaythai Day 2024 in Budapest

    • 20 Feb 2024 2:29 PM

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    • 20 Feb 2024 1:39 PM

    January has ended, the first warm rays of the sun and the blooming snowdrops indicate that spring is on its way, as well as the last weekend of February, the first big event of this year, the 16th Lelkes Mineral Show in the MOM Sport Center.

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    • 20 Feb 2024 12:40 PM

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  • Interview 3: Andrew Prest, Vice President, AutoWallis Group Hungary

    Interview 3: Andrew Prest, Vice President, AutoWallis Group Hungary

    • 20 Feb 2024 11:35 AM

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  • An Englishwoman's Life in Communist Hungary': Book 2, Chapter 4.

    An Englishwoman's Life in Communist Hungary': Book 2, Chapter 4.

    • 20 Feb 2024 10:20 AM

    Marion Merrick’s books are the only first-hand account written by a westerner of what it was like to live and work in communist Hungary, and then in the aftermath of the 1989 change of regime.

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  • Sarah Diefallah, Egyptian Interdisciplinary Artist in Budapest

    Sarah Diefallah, Egyptian Interdisciplinary Artist in Budapest

    • 20 Feb 2024 7:21 AM

    Sarah was born in Giza, Egypt in 1997. Following the Arab Spring, she moved with her family to Qatar, where she started exploring visual arts to express her experience as a young immigrant.

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  • Watch: Hungary to Ratify Sweden’s NATO Accession Soon

    Watch: Hungary to Ratify Sweden’s NATO Accession Soon

    • 20 Feb 2024 7:00 AM

    A pro-government pundit welcomes a military-industrial agreement under preparation between Sweden and Hungary, as more noteworthy than the planned parliamentary vote on Sweden’s NATO membership.

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  • Dutch Woman Stabs Partner to Death in Downtown Budapest Flat

    Dutch Woman Stabs Partner to Death in Downtown Budapest Flat

    • 20 Feb 2024 6:55 AM

    A Dutch woman stabbed her partner to death in a rented apartment in central Budapest’s Kazinczy Street, the website police.hu said.

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  • River Areas on Flood Alert in Northern Hungary

    River Areas on Flood Alert in Northern Hungary

    • 20 Feb 2024 6:49 AM

    Areas along the rivers Tisza, Bodrog, Takta and the estuary of the river Sajó in northern Hungary are on flood protection alert, the northern Hungarian water management directorate said.

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  • Chinese Tourists Arriving in Hungary Quadrupled Last Year

    Chinese Tourists Arriving in Hungary Quadrupled Last Year

    • 20 Feb 2024 6:46 AM

    Hungary’s tourism sector has received five professional awards from China, one of the top sources of tourists in the country, the Hungarian Tourism Agency (MTÜ) said.

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  • Updated: 100 Arcade Machines to Take You Back to Childhood @ Savoya Park Budapest

    Updated: 100 Arcade Machines to Take You Back to Childhood @ Savoya Park Budapest

    • 20 Feb 2024 6:34 AM

    From Arcadia Team: Arcadia Savoya closes its doors on the 25th of February this year. Many thanks to you all for the last year! We are happy that you have kept visiting and our gratitude extends to the Savoya Park Mall, for being ever so welcoming to us.

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  • 5 of the Best Suits for Spring & Summer in Budapest

    5 of the Best Suits for Spring & Summer in Budapest

    • 19 Feb 2024 4:22 PM

    Do you wear suits on a weekly basis? If not, ask yourself the question: why? And please, save the answer, "I don’t have anywhere to wear them." Budapest is a beautiful city with old-world grandeur that begs for elegant people to inhabit it. Go through your wardrobe, get those suits cleaned and pressed, and be ready for spring. Undoubtedly, the best season for tailoring in the capital.

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  • Protest Highlights Plight of 7,000 Children in Hungary Living in Children’s Homes - "Most Will Never Be Taken in By A Family"

    Protest Highlights Plight of 7,000 Children in Hungary Living in Children’s Homes - "Most Will Never Be Taken in By A Family"

    • 19 Feb 2024 12:32 PM

    Civil groups organised a demonstration in support of victims of child abuse and for “a healthy society” at Heroes’ Square in downtown Budapest on Friday evening.

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  • Update on Paedophile Scandal in Hungary: PM's Press Chief Describes Media Reports on Orbán & Reformed Bishop as “Stupid”

    Update on Paedophile Scandal in Hungary: PM's Press Chief Describes Media Reports on Orbán & Reformed Bishop as “Stupid”

    • 19 Feb 2024 12:29 PM

    The prime minister’s press chief on Monday decried “left-wing press reports” saying that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán “also held [Reformed Bishop] Zoltán Balog responsible for the clemency” granted by President Katalin Novák to a man convicted for helping to cover up child abuse.

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