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110,000 Refugees Registered In Hungary This Year
- 12 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A total of 110,000 refugees have been registered in Hungary this year, Immigration and Citizenship Office head Zsuzsanna Végh announced yesterday on Kossuth Rádió. At present there are over 4,000 people at refugee stations, twice as many as there are places, but everybody receives adequate accommodation. She said it is necessary to have more temporary stations, such as the new centre about to be ...
Afghan Embassy Budapest Closed Last Month
- 12 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Afghan embassy in Budapest closed on July 1 for reasons of economy, the Foreign Ministry confirmed on Tuesday. It said the embassy closed, presumably because the Afghan government is cutting its network of embassies for financial reasons. There are some 2,000 Afghans among the 5,000-6,000 asylum seekers staying in Hungary, according to the Helsinki Committee.
Majority Of Hungarians Feel Defenceless In Face Of Effects Of Climate Change
- 12 Aug 2015 4:00 AM
- current affairs
Fully 80 % of Hungarians feel the effects of climate change on a daily basis, and worry about it, while every seventh feels correspondingly defenceless, according to a survey published by the Energiaklub thinktank. People in small towns and villages especially feel summers are getting hotter and hotter and droughts are getting more frequent, while damagecausing pests are spreading at a faster ...
110,000 Refugees Registered In Hungary This Year
- 11 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A total of 110,000 refugees have been registered in Hungary this year, Immigration and Citizenship Office head Zsuzsanna Végh announced yesterday on Kossuth Rádió. At present there are over 4,000 people at refugee stations, twice as many as there are places, but everybody receives adequate accommodation. She said it is necessary to have more temporary stations, such as the new centre about to be ...
World-Famous Hungarian Geneticist Endre Czeizel Dies
- 11 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- health & wellness
Endre Czeizel, the world-famous Hungarian doctor and geneticist, has died at the age of eighty-one following a long battle with leukaemia in the early hours of Monday, his daughter told the state news agency MTI. Born in Budapest in 1935, Mr. Czeizel graduated at Budapest’s Semmelweis University of Medicine in 1959 and worked as a researcher at the National Institute of Public Health right up to ...
Hungarian Minister Praises “Three Strikes” Law
- 11 Aug 2015 1:00 AM
- current affairs
The “three strikes” regulation against violent repeat offenders introduced five years ago has achieved its primary goal, Justice Ministry state secretary Róbert Répássy told a press briefing on Monday. He said that in the past five years courts have convicted 473 repeat offenders, more than half of whom are now serving prison sentences.
Bigger Budget For Sziget Budapest
- 10 Aug 2015 2:40 AM
- entertainment
The Sziget Festival starts this week with an expanded budget that allows organisers to pay guest performers 30-40% more than last year, chief promoter Károly Gerendai told Népszabadság. This year’s budget is Ft 4.7 billion, up from Ft 3.7 billion last year. The most expensive performer is English singer Robbie Williams, who will be on stage on Monday, “Day Zero” before the six-day festival gets ...
Luxury Vintage Budapest Provides Grand Secondhand Style
- 7 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- shopping
By We Love Budapest: A new deluxe boutique is now open close to Pest’s Danube Promenade, proffering pre-owned fashion pieces made by top-quality designers from near and far. Catering to women who want to wear clothing and accessories of exclusive brands but are unwilling to sacrifice half of their monthly income for this preference, ...
Migrants’ Entry Points IIn Hungary Changing
- 7 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Migrants are crossing the Serbia-Hungary border at different points since work began on building the fence along the border, according to Csaba Segesvári, a journalist with local newspaper Délmagyarország. When migrants see uniformed personnel near the green frontier, mostly soldiers working on building the fence, they seek other routes.
110,000 Refugees Registered In Hungary This Year
- 12 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A total of 110,000 refugees have been registered in Hungary this year, Immigration and Citizenship Office head Zsuzsanna Végh announced yesterday on Kossuth Rádió. At present there are over 4,000 people at refugee stations, twice as many as there are places, but everybody receives adequate accommodation. She said it is necessary to have more temporary stations, such as the new centre about to be ...
Afghan Embassy Budapest Closed Last Month
- 12 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Afghan embassy in Budapest closed on July 1 for reasons of economy, the Foreign Ministry confirmed on Tuesday. It said the embassy closed, presumably because the Afghan government is cutting its network of embassies for financial reasons. There are some 2,000 Afghans among the 5,000-6,000 asylum seekers staying in Hungary, according to the Helsinki Committee.
Majority Of Hungarians Feel Defenceless In Face Of Effects Of Climate Change
- 12 Aug 2015 4:00 AM
- current affairs
Fully 80 % of Hungarians feel the effects of climate change on a daily basis, and worry about it, while every seventh feels correspondingly defenceless, according to a survey published by the Energiaklub thinktank. People in small towns and villages especially feel summers are getting hotter and hotter and droughts are getting more frequent, while damagecausing pests are spreading at a faster ...
110,000 Refugees Registered In Hungary This Year
- 11 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A total of 110,000 refugees have been registered in Hungary this year, Immigration and Citizenship Office head Zsuzsanna Végh announced yesterday on Kossuth Rádió. At present there are over 4,000 people at refugee stations, twice as many as there are places, but everybody receives adequate accommodation. She said it is necessary to have more temporary stations, such as the new centre about to be ...
World-Famous Hungarian Geneticist Endre Czeizel Dies
- 11 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- health & wellness
Endre Czeizel, the world-famous Hungarian doctor and geneticist, has died at the age of eighty-one following a long battle with leukaemia in the early hours of Monday, his daughter told the state news agency MTI. Born in Budapest in 1935, Mr. Czeizel graduated at Budapest’s Semmelweis University of Medicine in 1959 and worked as a researcher at the National Institute of Public Health right up to ...
Hungarian Minister Praises “Three Strikes” Law
- 11 Aug 2015 1:00 AM
- current affairs
The “three strikes” regulation against violent repeat offenders introduced five years ago has achieved its primary goal, Justice Ministry state secretary Róbert Répássy told a press briefing on Monday. He said that in the past five years courts have convicted 473 repeat offenders, more than half of whom are now serving prison sentences.
Bigger Budget For Sziget Budapest
- 10 Aug 2015 2:40 AM
- entertainment
The Sziget Festival starts this week with an expanded budget that allows organisers to pay guest performers 30-40% more than last year, chief promoter Károly Gerendai told Népszabadság. This year’s budget is Ft 4.7 billion, up from Ft 3.7 billion last year. The most expensive performer is English singer Robbie Williams, who will be on stage on Monday, “Day Zero” before the six-day festival gets ...
Luxury Vintage Budapest Provides Grand Secondhand Style
- 7 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- shopping
By We Love Budapest: A new deluxe boutique is now open close to Pest’s Danube Promenade, proffering pre-owned fashion pieces made by top-quality designers from near and far. Catering to women who want to wear clothing and accessories of exclusive brands but are unwilling to sacrifice half of their monthly income for this preference, ...
Migrants’ Entry Points IIn Hungary Changing
- 7 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Migrants are crossing the Serbia-Hungary border at different points since work began on building the fence along the border, according to Csaba Segesvári, a journalist with local newspaper Délmagyarország. When migrants see uniformed personnel near the green frontier, mostly soldiers working on building the fence, they seek other routes.