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Hungary Death Rate Fifth Highest In EU
- 4 May 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The death rate in Hungary is the fifth highest in the European Union and 70 percent higher than the EU average, a fresh report published by the Central Statistical Office (KSH) shows. Fully 127,000 people died in Hungary in 2013 compared with 107,000 in Portugal and 109,000 in the Czech Republic, two countries with smaller populations than Hungary, KSH said in its Hungary 2015 report.
Treating A War Criminal At The Budapest Jewish Hospital
- 5 Apr 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Béla Biszku, who died at age 94 last week, was Hungary’s most infamous unrepentant hard-line communist and the only official of the former pre-1989 regime ever prosecuted for crimes against humanity. Biszku served in the Hungarian Workers’ Party (Magyar Dolgozók Pártja) from 1949, as well as in its successor, the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party (Magyar Szocialista Munkáspárt – MSZMP), ...
Xpat Opinion: Court Acquits Leaders Of Alumina Plant In Red Sludge Trial
- 3 Feb 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The leading pro-government daily finds it outrageous that the leaders of the MAL Company, responsible for a 2010 industrial accident in western Hungary in which ten people died, were cleared of the criminal charges against them. A left-wing commentator blames the government for suggesting that the management bore responsibility for the disaster.
Xpat Opinion: Obama Discloses Pressure Against Hóman’s Statue In Hungary
- 1 Feb 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Commenting on President Obama’s remarks on how the United States acted to prevent the erection of a statue to interwar Culture Minister Bálint Hóman, a left-wing newspaper calls the government’s attitude shameful, while a pro-government daily quotes an official statement denying that the government yielded to foreign pressure in scrapping the project.
Hungarian Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond Dies
- 4 Jan 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Oscar Prize winning Hungarian cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond died in Big Sur, California on Friday at age 85, his business partner announced on Sunday. Zsigmond left Hungary after the 1956 Uprising and worked in Hollywood for 50 years, winning an Oscar for Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1978, a Bafta prize for The Deer Hunter in 1980 and an Emmy award in 1993 for Stalin, a co-production ...
Turkey To Restore Suleiman’s Grave In Hungary
- 22 Dec 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Turkey is ready to finance the costs of restoring the mosque and minaret in Szigetvár, site of the death of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, ambassador Sakir Fakili told the town’s planning council on Monday. The remains of Suleiman’s grave were found earlier this year near Szigetvár, where the Ottoman leader died during a siege of the castle in 1566.
Xpat Opinion: Criticism Of Planned Statue Of Anti-Semitic Hungarian Interwar Minister Of Education
- 14 Dec 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The leading left-wing daily criticizes plans to honour the memory of historian Bálint Hóman, who as Minister of Education and Religion under Regent Miklos Horthy was actively involved in anti-Semitic legislation.
Jewish Federation, US Organisations Protest Against Planned Wartime Minister Statue
- 10 Dec 2015 4:00 AM
- current affairs
The Federation of Jewish Communities in Hungary (Mazsihisz) will organise a traditional Hanukkah celebration at the site of a planned statue of Bálint Hóman, a Horthy-era minister, in Székesfehérvár, in central Hungary, at the weekend, the federation’s president said. “In a democratic country like Hungary there is no place for a statue for an anti-Semitic person,” András Heisler told a press ...
Hungarian Wine Maker Guilty Of Murdering Thief
- 12 Nov 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
A man who poured anti-freeze into his homemade sour cherry wine to punish thieves has been sentenced to seven years in prison after one of his victims died. The incident occurred in Vácszentlászló in 2013 when the 37-year-old man saw his wine being stolen and decided to teach the thief a lesson. He bought five litres of anti-freeze at a filling station on October 24, of which he poured one or two ...
Hungary Death Rate Fifth Highest In EU
- 4 May 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The death rate in Hungary is the fifth highest in the European Union and 70 percent higher than the EU average, a fresh report published by the Central Statistical Office (KSH) shows. Fully 127,000 people died in Hungary in 2013 compared with 107,000 in Portugal and 109,000 in the Czech Republic, two countries with smaller populations than Hungary, KSH said in its Hungary 2015 report.
Treating A War Criminal At The Budapest Jewish Hospital
- 5 Apr 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Béla Biszku, who died at age 94 last week, was Hungary’s most infamous unrepentant hard-line communist and the only official of the former pre-1989 regime ever prosecuted for crimes against humanity. Biszku served in the Hungarian Workers’ Party (Magyar Dolgozók Pártja) from 1949, as well as in its successor, the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party (Magyar Szocialista Munkáspárt – MSZMP), ...
Xpat Opinion: Court Acquits Leaders Of Alumina Plant In Red Sludge Trial
- 3 Feb 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The leading pro-government daily finds it outrageous that the leaders of the MAL Company, responsible for a 2010 industrial accident in western Hungary in which ten people died, were cleared of the criminal charges against them. A left-wing commentator blames the government for suggesting that the management bore responsibility for the disaster.
Xpat Opinion: Obama Discloses Pressure Against Hóman’s Statue In Hungary
- 1 Feb 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Commenting on President Obama’s remarks on how the United States acted to prevent the erection of a statue to interwar Culture Minister Bálint Hóman, a left-wing newspaper calls the government’s attitude shameful, while a pro-government daily quotes an official statement denying that the government yielded to foreign pressure in scrapping the project.
Hungarian Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond Dies
- 4 Jan 2016 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Oscar Prize winning Hungarian cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond died in Big Sur, California on Friday at age 85, his business partner announced on Sunday. Zsigmond left Hungary after the 1956 Uprising and worked in Hollywood for 50 years, winning an Oscar for Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1978, a Bafta prize for The Deer Hunter in 1980 and an Emmy award in 1993 for Stalin, a co-production ...
Turkey To Restore Suleiman’s Grave In Hungary
- 22 Dec 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Turkey is ready to finance the costs of restoring the mosque and minaret in Szigetvár, site of the death of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, ambassador Sakir Fakili told the town’s planning council on Monday. The remains of Suleiman’s grave were found earlier this year near Szigetvár, where the Ottoman leader died during a siege of the castle in 1566.
Xpat Opinion: Criticism Of Planned Statue Of Anti-Semitic Hungarian Interwar Minister Of Education
- 14 Dec 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The leading left-wing daily criticizes plans to honour the memory of historian Bálint Hóman, who as Minister of Education and Religion under Regent Miklos Horthy was actively involved in anti-Semitic legislation.
Jewish Federation, US Organisations Protest Against Planned Wartime Minister Statue
- 10 Dec 2015 4:00 AM
- current affairs
The Federation of Jewish Communities in Hungary (Mazsihisz) will organise a traditional Hanukkah celebration at the site of a planned statue of Bálint Hóman, a Horthy-era minister, in Székesfehérvár, in central Hungary, at the weekend, the federation’s president said. “In a democratic country like Hungary there is no place for a statue for an anti-Semitic person,” András Heisler told a press ...
Hungarian Wine Maker Guilty Of Murdering Thief
- 12 Nov 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
A man who poured anti-freeze into his homemade sour cherry wine to punish thieves has been sentenced to seven years in prison after one of his victims died. The incident occurred in Vácszentlászló in 2013 when the 37-year-old man saw his wine being stolen and decided to teach the thief a lesson. He bought five litres of anti-freeze at a filling station on October 24, of which he poured one or two ...