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Hungarian-French Tennis Doubles Beats World Rankings Leaders In Rome
- 18 May 2015 9:00 AM
- sport
A Hungarian-French tennis doubles has beaten the duo leading tennis doubles world rankings 6-4 at a match in Rome. Hungarian tennis player Tímea Babos and her French pair Kristina Mladenovic beat Swiss-Indian doubles Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza in two sets, winning the Internazionali BNL d’Italia female tennis doubles competition in Rome on Sunday.
Plans Emerge Of Gigantic Mosque To Be Built In Budapest
- 18 May 2015 9:00 AM
- property
An entry dated 22 April on the Islamic website Iszlám.com includes a video of a gigantic building which is claimed to depict a mosque planned by the Turkish ministry of religious affairs to be constructed in Budapest, a reader’s message to the news website MNO.hu reveals.
Hungary's M1 Newscast Losing Viewers
- 14 May 2015 9:00 AM
- tech
The number of viewers of the nightly news programme “Híradó” aired on M1 at 7.30 p.m. has dropped from 332,000 when M1 became an all-news channel on March 15 to 151,000 among adults, Népszabadság reports. Ratings for the state-run TV news had been gradually dropping in recent years, but even in February and early March over 300,000 people watched the nightly news.
Hungarian Socialist Referendum Question On Sunday Work Approved
- 14 May 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The National Election Committee (NVB) has approved a question for a national referendum submitted by the leader of the opposition Socialists regarding payment for Sunday work. The question József Tóbiás submitted to the committee on April 21 is the following: “do you want parliament to amend the labour code to allow payment of a 200% premium for Sunday work in the retail trade sector?”
Hungarian Town Tata Ready To Take Over Pope Statue From French Town
- 14 May 2015 9:00 AM
- getting around
The town of Tata in northern Hungary is prepared to receive and install a statue of Pope John Paul II from Ploërmel, a town in Brittany, if France “rejects the Christian roots of European culture” and decides to demolish it, two politicians of the allied ruling Christian Democrats said. The holy Pope is highly respected in Tata, which has also named a square after him, party leader Zsolt Semjén ...
Hungarian Daily Népszabadság Editor-In-Chief Resigns Over Accident Leading To Death
- 14 May 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Marcell Murányi, editor-in-chief of Hungary’s largest daily Népszabadság, has resigned over a road accident later leading to death. Murányi said he resigned after “learning from press reports that the man hurt in an accident he had been involved in has died.” Business daily Napi Gazdaság said on Wednesday that Murányi drove over a cyclist in central Budapest just after midnight on March 30.
Selah Sue Concert, A38 Ship Budapest, 12 May 8pm
- 12 May 2015 9:04 AM
- entertainment
Selah Sue will be in Budapest again to tour her new album Reason, recorded live in Zurich. Selah was not necessarily destined to become an artist, “I grew up in a really little town in Belgium, and none of my family was into music,” reveals the twenty‐one year old, with refreshing sincerity. “As a kid, I wanted to be a ballerina. I danced from the age of six to twelve”.
DK Queries Hungary’s PM’s Wealth Accumulation
- 12 May 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Democratic Coalition is asking the Tax Office to look into how Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister’s Office leader János Lázár and Felcsút mayor Lõrinc Mészáros have apparently acquired considerable wealth in recent years. MP Ágnes Vadai said on Monday that the party is interested in how the prime minister has become so rich, although his salary would not make that possible.
There Can Be No Taboos, PM Orbán Tells Top Academics
- 11 May 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Politics must deal with real-life problems instead of ideological obsessions and the country must develop its own answers to issue of concern to us, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told over 150 leading academics, businessmen and scientists at the Friends of Hungary Foundation’s second international conference in Budapest on Saturday.
Hungarian-French Tennis Doubles Beats World Rankings Leaders In Rome
- 18 May 2015 9:00 AM
- sport
A Hungarian-French tennis doubles has beaten the duo leading tennis doubles world rankings 6-4 at a match in Rome. Hungarian tennis player Tímea Babos and her French pair Kristina Mladenovic beat Swiss-Indian doubles Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza in two sets, winning the Internazionali BNL d’Italia female tennis doubles competition in Rome on Sunday.
Plans Emerge Of Gigantic Mosque To Be Built In Budapest
- 18 May 2015 9:00 AM
- property
An entry dated 22 April on the Islamic website Iszlám.com includes a video of a gigantic building which is claimed to depict a mosque planned by the Turkish ministry of religious affairs to be constructed in Budapest, a reader’s message to the news website MNO.hu reveals.
Hungary's M1 Newscast Losing Viewers
- 14 May 2015 9:00 AM
- tech
The number of viewers of the nightly news programme “Híradó” aired on M1 at 7.30 p.m. has dropped from 332,000 when M1 became an all-news channel on March 15 to 151,000 among adults, Népszabadság reports. Ratings for the state-run TV news had been gradually dropping in recent years, but even in February and early March over 300,000 people watched the nightly news.
Hungarian Socialist Referendum Question On Sunday Work Approved
- 14 May 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The National Election Committee (NVB) has approved a question for a national referendum submitted by the leader of the opposition Socialists regarding payment for Sunday work. The question József Tóbiás submitted to the committee on April 21 is the following: “do you want parliament to amend the labour code to allow payment of a 200% premium for Sunday work in the retail trade sector?”
Hungarian Town Tata Ready To Take Over Pope Statue From French Town
- 14 May 2015 9:00 AM
- getting around
The town of Tata in northern Hungary is prepared to receive and install a statue of Pope John Paul II from Ploërmel, a town in Brittany, if France “rejects the Christian roots of European culture” and decides to demolish it, two politicians of the allied ruling Christian Democrats said. The holy Pope is highly respected in Tata, which has also named a square after him, party leader Zsolt Semjén ...
Hungarian Daily Népszabadság Editor-In-Chief Resigns Over Accident Leading To Death
- 14 May 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Marcell Murányi, editor-in-chief of Hungary’s largest daily Népszabadság, has resigned over a road accident later leading to death. Murányi said he resigned after “learning from press reports that the man hurt in an accident he had been involved in has died.” Business daily Napi Gazdaság said on Wednesday that Murányi drove over a cyclist in central Budapest just after midnight on March 30.
Selah Sue Concert, A38 Ship Budapest, 12 May 8pm
- 12 May 2015 9:04 AM
- entertainment
Selah Sue will be in Budapest again to tour her new album Reason, recorded live in Zurich. Selah was not necessarily destined to become an artist, “I grew up in a really little town in Belgium, and none of my family was into music,” reveals the twenty‐one year old, with refreshing sincerity. “As a kid, I wanted to be a ballerina. I danced from the age of six to twelve”.
DK Queries Hungary’s PM’s Wealth Accumulation
- 12 May 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Democratic Coalition is asking the Tax Office to look into how Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister’s Office leader János Lázár and Felcsút mayor Lõrinc Mészáros have apparently acquired considerable wealth in recent years. MP Ágnes Vadai said on Monday that the party is interested in how the prime minister has become so rich, although his salary would not make that possible.
There Can Be No Taboos, PM Orbán Tells Top Academics
- 11 May 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Politics must deal with real-life problems instead of ideological obsessions and the country must develop its own answers to issue of concern to us, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told over 150 leading academics, businessmen and scientists at the Friends of Hungary Foundation’s second international conference in Budapest on Saturday.