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Budapest Named 'Best Value For A City Break'
- 28 Mar 2013 7:00 AM
- travel
Hungary’s capital has just been named as this year’s best value city break destination, in the new City Costs Barometer released by the UK Post Office 'Travel Money' guide. The reports’s key findings show that Budapest has overtaken last year’s best bargain, Riga, to emerge as the cheapest of 25 city break destinations for meals, drinks, sightseeing, city travel and hotel accommodation.
Xpat Report: Happy 100th To Paul Erdős, Hungarian Mathematician
- 28 Mar 2013 6:50 AM
- community & culture
Paul Erdős (26 March 1913-20 September 1996, died at 83) was an influential Hungarian mathematician who spent a significant portion of his later life living out of a suitcase and writing papers with those of his colleagues willing to provide him room and board [1, 2]. He worked on problems in combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, classical analysis, approximation theory, set theory, and ...
MPs Expense Claims Riding High In Hungary
- 28 Mar 2013 6:35 AM
- current affairs
MPs have run up more official expenses in the past three years than in the previous four years, the tabloid Blikk reported on Tuesday. The tabloid found that the ten MPs claiming the most expenses have collected at least Ft 25 million each so far and could rake in a further Ft 11-12 million before the next elections.
Vehicles Stuck On Snowbound Roads In Hungary
- 27 Mar 2013 8:02 AM
- current affairs
Fire-fighters freed more than 40 cars trapped in the snow in Somogy county yesterday, where 15-20cm of snow had fallen by Tuesday morning.
Local Residents Catch Bank Robber In Hungary
- 26 Mar 2013 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Local residents caught a man who robbed the savings co-operative in Mártély, Csongrád county Monday afternoon. The man entered the bank with an imitation gun and when he was given the cash he demanded he began to run away.
Hungary's National Bank Governor Matolcsy Cancels Press Conferences
- 26 Mar 2013 8:00 AM
- current affairs
MNB governor György Matolcsy will not hold press conferences after the monetary council’s rate-setting meetings, unlike his predecessors, he announced on Monday.
Hungarian Horsemeat Found In England
- 25 Mar 2013 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Some 100kg of horse meat labelled as beef and imported from Hungary has been discovered in England, the British Food Standard Agency announced on Friday. It said 40kg of the shipment were sold in Liverpool and nearby Preston.
Budapest Acts To Close Cultural Café
- 25 Mar 2013 8:00 AM
- entertainment
Budapest mayor István Tarlós agreed to let Jewish cultural centre Sirály remain open for the Passover season after a failed attempt to shut down the Sixth District facility Friday. The city property management company sent an e-mail on Thursday evening then attempted to take control of the Király utca café on Friday morning by sending security guards to change the lock on the front door.
Three New Hungarikums Named
- 23 Mar 2013 9:00 AM
- shopping
The Hungaricum Committee classified three additional products as hungarikums – distinctive products unique to Hungary – at its meeting in the village of Herend, Veszprém county yesterday. The new hungarikums are handmade porcelain from Herend, pálinka and the grapeskin brandy törkölypálinka.
Budapest Named 'Best Value For A City Break'
- 28 Mar 2013 7:00 AM
- travel
Hungary’s capital has just been named as this year’s best value city break destination, in the new City Costs Barometer released by the UK Post Office 'Travel Money' guide. The reports’s key findings show that Budapest has overtaken last year’s best bargain, Riga, to emerge as the cheapest of 25 city break destinations for meals, drinks, sightseeing, city travel and hotel accommodation.
Xpat Report: Happy 100th To Paul Erdős, Hungarian Mathematician
- 28 Mar 2013 6:50 AM
- community & culture
Paul Erdős (26 March 1913-20 September 1996, died at 83) was an influential Hungarian mathematician who spent a significant portion of his later life living out of a suitcase and writing papers with those of his colleagues willing to provide him room and board [1, 2]. He worked on problems in combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, classical analysis, approximation theory, set theory, and ...
MPs Expense Claims Riding High In Hungary
- 28 Mar 2013 6:35 AM
- current affairs
MPs have run up more official expenses in the past three years than in the previous four years, the tabloid Blikk reported on Tuesday. The tabloid found that the ten MPs claiming the most expenses have collected at least Ft 25 million each so far and could rake in a further Ft 11-12 million before the next elections.
Vehicles Stuck On Snowbound Roads In Hungary
- 27 Mar 2013 8:02 AM
- current affairs
Fire-fighters freed more than 40 cars trapped in the snow in Somogy county yesterday, where 15-20cm of snow had fallen by Tuesday morning.
Local Residents Catch Bank Robber In Hungary
- 26 Mar 2013 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Local residents caught a man who robbed the savings co-operative in Mártély, Csongrád county Monday afternoon. The man entered the bank with an imitation gun and when he was given the cash he demanded he began to run away.
Hungary's National Bank Governor Matolcsy Cancels Press Conferences
- 26 Mar 2013 8:00 AM
- current affairs
MNB governor György Matolcsy will not hold press conferences after the monetary council’s rate-setting meetings, unlike his predecessors, he announced on Monday.
Hungarian Horsemeat Found In England
- 25 Mar 2013 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Some 100kg of horse meat labelled as beef and imported from Hungary has been discovered in England, the British Food Standard Agency announced on Friday. It said 40kg of the shipment were sold in Liverpool and nearby Preston.
Budapest Acts To Close Cultural Café
- 25 Mar 2013 8:00 AM
- entertainment
Budapest mayor István Tarlós agreed to let Jewish cultural centre Sirály remain open for the Passover season after a failed attempt to shut down the Sixth District facility Friday. The city property management company sent an e-mail on Thursday evening then attempted to take control of the Király utca café on Friday morning by sending security guards to change the lock on the front door.
Three New Hungarikums Named
- 23 Mar 2013 9:00 AM
- shopping
The Hungaricum Committee classified three additional products as hungarikums – distinctive products unique to Hungary – at its meeting in the village of Herend, Veszprém county yesterday. The new hungarikums are handmade porcelain from Herend, pálinka and the grapeskin brandy törkölypálinka.