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Civil Activists Thwart Attempts To Exploit Refugees In Hungary
- 6 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A glass of milk, a pair of new shoes, a couple of good words. A small group of volunteers are trying to make the situation of refugees stranded in Szeged’s train station more tolerable. Hungarian immigration authorities routinely transport registered border jumpers to the station right after the departure of the last Budapest-bound train. They were supposed to catch a train to their open refugee ...
Storm Floods Homes, Halts Trains In Budapest
- 11 Jun 2015 11:35 AM
- current affairs
Budapest authorities received more than 100 reports of damage and calls for help as a result of the intense hailstorm that struck the city late Tuesday afternoon. Spokesman Máté Kisdi said that in most cases disaster response personnel had to provide assistance because of flooded underpasses and cellars. Fire-fighters had to save a car from one metre of water on Péterhegyi út in the 11th District.
Nepal Earthquake: Hungarian Alpinist Alive
- 30 Apr 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Ethnic Hungarian mountaineer Zsolt Török, of Arad in western Romania, is alive but stranded at Mount Everest’s base camp having lost his tent and entire equipment to an avalanche that swept across the mountain in the aftermath of the earthquake, it has been reported. Mr. Török has also lost all of his clothes except for what he was wearing at the time.
Szijjártó: Contact With Ten Hungarians Still To Be Made In Nepal
- 28 Apr 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The foreign ministry has still not made contact with 10 of the 58 Hungarian citizens who were in the earthquakehit area of Nepal on Saturday, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said. While 18 Hungarians have managed to leave Nepal safely according to the latest updates, and the whereabouts and the conditions of 30 other people are also known, the ministry has so far failed to make contact with 10 ...
Hungarian Leftist Parties To Stage Anti-Govt Demo
- 10 Apr 2015 12:00 PM
- current affairs
Parties of the leftist opposition will hold a demonstration of “victims” of the past five years of the Fidesz-led government in central Budapest on Saturday. Socialist board member Károly Beke said that the last government cycle had left in its wake “broken tobacconists, farmers stripped of their land and people deprived of their private pension savings, as well as stranded Quaestor investors”.
Icy Weather Cuts Off Electricity Supply In Hungary
- 3 Dec 2014 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Nearly 40 villages remained without electricity on Tuesday as freezing rain and ice caused power lines and trees to collapse, while many roads had to be closed to traffic. Authorities have banned entry to wooded areas more than 400 metres above sea level in the Pilis, Budai and Visegrádi hills.
Hungary’s Parliamentary Committee Calls Ukraine Situation “Dramatic”
- 26 Mar 2014 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Parliament’s national security committee met on Tuesday to hear representatives of the police and the secret services, as well as foreign affairs officials over recent developments in Ukraine. After the session, Socialist head of the committee Zsolt Molnár said that the situation in Ukraine had turned dramatic.
Hungarian Ministry Advises Against Travel To Crimea
- 26 Mar 2014 8:00 AM
- travel
The Foreign Ministry has advised Hungarians against travelling to Crimea after the “uncertain and dangerous political and security situation” which has developed since the March 16 referendum. Hungarians who are already on Crimean territory should leave as soon as they can, a ministry statement said.
Xpat Opinion: Hungary's Sólyom Airlines Stranded Before Take-Off
- 14 Oct 2013 8:00 AM
- travel
A business daily calls dreamers all those who believed for a moment that the amateurish adventure called Sólyom Airways was viable.Napi Gazdaság asserts that the attempt to set up a new Hungarian air company was doomed to failure from the very start, and that is why the over 70 staff members, mostly former MALÉV employees have to find new jobs after having worked unpaid since September.
Civil Activists Thwart Attempts To Exploit Refugees In Hungary
- 6 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A glass of milk, a pair of new shoes, a couple of good words. A small group of volunteers are trying to make the situation of refugees stranded in Szeged’s train station more tolerable. Hungarian immigration authorities routinely transport registered border jumpers to the station right after the departure of the last Budapest-bound train. They were supposed to catch a train to their open refugee ...
Storm Floods Homes, Halts Trains In Budapest
- 11 Jun 2015 11:35 AM
- current affairs
Budapest authorities received more than 100 reports of damage and calls for help as a result of the intense hailstorm that struck the city late Tuesday afternoon. Spokesman Máté Kisdi said that in most cases disaster response personnel had to provide assistance because of flooded underpasses and cellars. Fire-fighters had to save a car from one metre of water on Péterhegyi út in the 11th District.
Nepal Earthquake: Hungarian Alpinist Alive
- 30 Apr 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Ethnic Hungarian mountaineer Zsolt Török, of Arad in western Romania, is alive but stranded at Mount Everest’s base camp having lost his tent and entire equipment to an avalanche that swept across the mountain in the aftermath of the earthquake, it has been reported. Mr. Török has also lost all of his clothes except for what he was wearing at the time.
Szijjártó: Contact With Ten Hungarians Still To Be Made In Nepal
- 28 Apr 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The foreign ministry has still not made contact with 10 of the 58 Hungarian citizens who were in the earthquakehit area of Nepal on Saturday, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said. While 18 Hungarians have managed to leave Nepal safely according to the latest updates, and the whereabouts and the conditions of 30 other people are also known, the ministry has so far failed to make contact with 10 ...
Hungarian Leftist Parties To Stage Anti-Govt Demo
- 10 Apr 2015 12:00 PM
- current affairs
Parties of the leftist opposition will hold a demonstration of “victims” of the past five years of the Fidesz-led government in central Budapest on Saturday. Socialist board member Károly Beke said that the last government cycle had left in its wake “broken tobacconists, farmers stripped of their land and people deprived of their private pension savings, as well as stranded Quaestor investors”.
Icy Weather Cuts Off Electricity Supply In Hungary
- 3 Dec 2014 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Nearly 40 villages remained without electricity on Tuesday as freezing rain and ice caused power lines and trees to collapse, while many roads had to be closed to traffic. Authorities have banned entry to wooded areas more than 400 metres above sea level in the Pilis, Budai and Visegrádi hills.
Hungary’s Parliamentary Committee Calls Ukraine Situation “Dramatic”
- 26 Mar 2014 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Parliament’s national security committee met on Tuesday to hear representatives of the police and the secret services, as well as foreign affairs officials over recent developments in Ukraine. After the session, Socialist head of the committee Zsolt Molnár said that the situation in Ukraine had turned dramatic.
Hungarian Ministry Advises Against Travel To Crimea
- 26 Mar 2014 8:00 AM
- travel
The Foreign Ministry has advised Hungarians against travelling to Crimea after the “uncertain and dangerous political and security situation” which has developed since the March 16 referendum. Hungarians who are already on Crimean territory should leave as soon as they can, a ministry statement said.
Xpat Opinion: Hungary's Sólyom Airlines Stranded Before Take-Off
- 14 Oct 2013 8:00 AM
- travel
A business daily calls dreamers all those who believed for a moment that the amateurish adventure called Sólyom Airways was viable.Napi Gazdaság asserts that the attempt to set up a new Hungarian air company was doomed to failure from the very start, and that is why the over 70 staff members, mostly former MALÉV employees have to find new jobs after having worked unpaid since September.