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New Water Purification Kit Developed By The Hungarian Defence Forces
- 22 Nov 2012 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The companies of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) have developed water purification and arsenic removal devices based on a new patent. The recent innovations include a bus that may be deployed in extreme circumstances too, Zoltán Borbíró, the Deputy State Secretary of the Ministry of Defence told the Hungarian News Agency MTI in an interview.
Homeless Return To Underpasses In Budapest
- 21 Nov 2012 8:01 AM
- current affairs
Homeless people and illegal street vendors have moved back into 20 out of 31 underpasses monitored by closed-circuit cameras in Budapest, city council’s anti-crime committee was informed on Tuesday.
Hungarian Parliament Bans Totalitarian Names
- 20 Nov 2012 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Parliament passed legislation Monday evening stipulating that no company, organisation, media product, public institution or public space may be named after anyone who played a leading part in laying the foundations, building or sustaining totalitarian political regimes in the 20th century.
Hungary's Homeless Face Harassment, Force
- 15 Nov 2012 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Frequent police checks for ID, harassment and even use of physical force make life difficult for homeless people, a poll conducted by the human rights group for homeless people A Város Mindenkié (The City Belongs to Everyone) has revealed.
Court Annuls Ban On Public Homeless In Hungary
- 14 Nov 2012 8:06 AM
- current affairs
The Constitutional Court has struck down as unconstitutional a ban imposed on homeless people which would have prevented them from living in public areas.
Hungary's LMP MPs Will Do Public Work
- 14 Nov 2012 8:00 AM
- current affairs
LMP MPs have opted not to pay the Ft 100,000 per person fine following their demonstration in the area of construction company Közgép in Budapest but will do 120 hours of public work instead.
100.000 Will Be Able To Obtain Language & IT Training Grants In Hungary
- 8 Nov 2012 8:00 AM
- community & culture
One hundred thousand Hungarian adults will be able to obtain training grants in IT and foreign languages. The adult education programme is targeting the unemployed, new mothers, the Roma, those living in the poorest areas and the over-45s. There has never been such a project in Hungary on this scale and with these aims.
Fewer Murders In Hungary So Far This Year
- 18 Oct 2012 11:42 AM
- current affairs
The number of murders has dropped by over 20% nationwide, and by over 40% in Budapest, an Interior Ministry source reports. Police registered 76 murders from January to August, compared to 97 in the same period of last year, while the Budapest figures dropped from 26 to 15.
Xpat Opinion: Disappointment Following A Postponed Teachers’ Pay Raise In Hungary
- 15 Oct 2012 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Left-of-centre, centrist and pro-government commentators are all appalled by the sudden move announced as part of a 400 billion HUF fiscal package. Early last week, Minister of the Economy György Matolcsy announced as part of his adjustment package that the planned introduction of a “career path” for teachers, comprising an immediate 30 per cent pay raise, will be postponed by four months, from ...
New Water Purification Kit Developed By The Hungarian Defence Forces
- 22 Nov 2012 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The companies of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) have developed water purification and arsenic removal devices based on a new patent. The recent innovations include a bus that may be deployed in extreme circumstances too, Zoltán Borbíró, the Deputy State Secretary of the Ministry of Defence told the Hungarian News Agency MTI in an interview.
Homeless Return To Underpasses In Budapest
- 21 Nov 2012 8:01 AM
- current affairs
Homeless people and illegal street vendors have moved back into 20 out of 31 underpasses monitored by closed-circuit cameras in Budapest, city council’s anti-crime committee was informed on Tuesday.
Hungarian Parliament Bans Totalitarian Names
- 20 Nov 2012 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Parliament passed legislation Monday evening stipulating that no company, organisation, media product, public institution or public space may be named after anyone who played a leading part in laying the foundations, building or sustaining totalitarian political regimes in the 20th century.
Hungary's Homeless Face Harassment, Force
- 15 Nov 2012 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Frequent police checks for ID, harassment and even use of physical force make life difficult for homeless people, a poll conducted by the human rights group for homeless people A Város Mindenkié (The City Belongs to Everyone) has revealed.
Court Annuls Ban On Public Homeless In Hungary
- 14 Nov 2012 8:06 AM
- current affairs
The Constitutional Court has struck down as unconstitutional a ban imposed on homeless people which would have prevented them from living in public areas.
Hungary's LMP MPs Will Do Public Work
- 14 Nov 2012 8:00 AM
- current affairs
LMP MPs have opted not to pay the Ft 100,000 per person fine following their demonstration in the area of construction company Közgép in Budapest but will do 120 hours of public work instead.
100.000 Will Be Able To Obtain Language & IT Training Grants In Hungary
- 8 Nov 2012 8:00 AM
- community & culture
One hundred thousand Hungarian adults will be able to obtain training grants in IT and foreign languages. The adult education programme is targeting the unemployed, new mothers, the Roma, those living in the poorest areas and the over-45s. There has never been such a project in Hungary on this scale and with these aims.
Fewer Murders In Hungary So Far This Year
- 18 Oct 2012 11:42 AM
- current affairs
The number of murders has dropped by over 20% nationwide, and by over 40% in Budapest, an Interior Ministry source reports. Police registered 76 murders from January to August, compared to 97 in the same period of last year, while the Budapest figures dropped from 26 to 15.
Xpat Opinion: Disappointment Following A Postponed Teachers’ Pay Raise In Hungary
- 15 Oct 2012 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Left-of-centre, centrist and pro-government commentators are all appalled by the sudden move announced as part of a 400 billion HUF fiscal package. Early last week, Minister of the Economy György Matolcsy announced as part of his adjustment package that the planned introduction of a “career path” for teachers, comprising an immediate 30 per cent pay raise, will be postponed by four months, from ...