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Suzuki Model Fails Emissions Tests
- 12 Jul 2017 8:32 AM
- current affairs
Software on Suzuki Vitara models – made exclusively in Esztergom – may illegally modify pollution tests, according to an investigation by the Dutch traffic authority RDW.
Citizens Losing Fight Against Unbearable Noise From Budapest Airport
- 12 Jul 2017 8:10 AM
- current affairs
Life in the southern suburbs of Budapest, near Budapest Airport, is noisy and unhealthy. Planes taking off and landing make sleep at night impossible. At certain areas, the noise created cracks in walls and some people stay indoors all day in order to avoid kerosene drizzling from the sky. The problem affects hundreds of thousands of people who have been fighting the airport in courts for years – ...
Police To Fence Off Budapest Pride Marchers
- 7 Jul 2017 9:34 AM
- getting around
Saturday’s Budapest Pride march will be secured by fencing off its entire route, the police said in a statement on Thursday. The march organiser Rainbow Mission Foundation said earlier in the day that the LGBTQ community were against the use of fences.
Agnes Weninger, Former Editor-in-Chief, Best Of Budapest & Hungary
- 6 Jul 2017 12:00 PM
What’s been happening at work and at home since your first Xpat Interview?
Passenger Jet Intercepted By Hungarian Gripens
- 5 Jul 2017 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Hungarian army’s Gripen fighter jets were scrambled on Tuesday to intercept a passenger jet which entered unannounced Slovenia‘s airspace patrolled by Hungary, the defence ministry said.
Budapest Gay Pride Festival Gets Under Way
- 3 Jul 2017 8:26 AM
- current affairs
The 22nd Budapest Pride festival of the gay (LGBTQ) community opened on Friday night. At the opening ceremony, Szilvia Nagy of the organising Rainbow Mission Foundation said it was “not easy” to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer in Hungary, and recalled that it was in 2007 for the first time that Pride marchers in Budapest were attacked by violent “counter-demonstrators”.
All Six Upgraded Metro Cars Withdrawn From Service
- 26 Jun 2017 10:34 AM
- getting around
The National Transport Authority on Friday withdrew from service with immediate effect six upgraded metro carriages after one broke down at Nyugati railway station. Its doors did not open and the passengers took great pains to free themselves while the metro driver said amid profuse apologies that the remote-control system did not work.
Hungarian Authorities Could Have Prevented Tragic Death Of 71 Migrants In 2015, Report Concludes
- 20 Jun 2017 1:00 AM
- current affairs
The death from asphyxiation of 71 asylum seekers mostly from Syria in August 2015 could have been avoided if Hungarian authorities had intervened sooner, concludes a joint investigative report workgroup of Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) and regional public media companies Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) and Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), reports Hungarian news site index.hu.
Free Public Bike Pumps Available In Budapest
- 19 Jun 2017 8:52 AM
- getting around
The inaugural launch of the free of charge public bike pump system of the Municipality of Budapest took place at Liszt Ferenc square in the 6th District. The aim of the project was to support the everydays of the city’s cycling community and the bicycle transport.
Suzuki Model Fails Emissions Tests
- 12 Jul 2017 8:32 AM
- current affairs
Software on Suzuki Vitara models – made exclusively in Esztergom – may illegally modify pollution tests, according to an investigation by the Dutch traffic authority RDW.
Citizens Losing Fight Against Unbearable Noise From Budapest Airport
- 12 Jul 2017 8:10 AM
- current affairs
Life in the southern suburbs of Budapest, near Budapest Airport, is noisy and unhealthy. Planes taking off and landing make sleep at night impossible. At certain areas, the noise created cracks in walls and some people stay indoors all day in order to avoid kerosene drizzling from the sky. The problem affects hundreds of thousands of people who have been fighting the airport in courts for years – ...
Police To Fence Off Budapest Pride Marchers
- 7 Jul 2017 9:34 AM
- getting around
Saturday’s Budapest Pride march will be secured by fencing off its entire route, the police said in a statement on Thursday. The march organiser Rainbow Mission Foundation said earlier in the day that the LGBTQ community were against the use of fences.
Agnes Weninger, Former Editor-in-Chief, Best Of Budapest & Hungary
- 6 Jul 2017 12:00 PM
What’s been happening at work and at home since your first Xpat Interview?
Passenger Jet Intercepted By Hungarian Gripens
- 5 Jul 2017 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Hungarian army’s Gripen fighter jets were scrambled on Tuesday to intercept a passenger jet which entered unannounced Slovenia‘s airspace patrolled by Hungary, the defence ministry said.
Budapest Gay Pride Festival Gets Under Way
- 3 Jul 2017 8:26 AM
- current affairs
The 22nd Budapest Pride festival of the gay (LGBTQ) community opened on Friday night. At the opening ceremony, Szilvia Nagy of the organising Rainbow Mission Foundation said it was “not easy” to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer in Hungary, and recalled that it was in 2007 for the first time that Pride marchers in Budapest were attacked by violent “counter-demonstrators”.
All Six Upgraded Metro Cars Withdrawn From Service
- 26 Jun 2017 10:34 AM
- getting around
The National Transport Authority on Friday withdrew from service with immediate effect six upgraded metro carriages after one broke down at Nyugati railway station. Its doors did not open and the passengers took great pains to free themselves while the metro driver said amid profuse apologies that the remote-control system did not work.
Hungarian Authorities Could Have Prevented Tragic Death Of 71 Migrants In 2015, Report Concludes
- 20 Jun 2017 1:00 AM
- current affairs
The death from asphyxiation of 71 asylum seekers mostly from Syria in August 2015 could have been avoided if Hungarian authorities had intervened sooner, concludes a joint investigative report workgroup of Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) and regional public media companies Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) and Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), reports Hungarian news site index.hu.
Free Public Bike Pumps Available In Budapest
- 19 Jun 2017 8:52 AM
- getting around
The inaugural launch of the free of charge public bike pump system of the Municipality of Budapest took place at Liszt Ferenc square in the 6th District. The aim of the project was to support the everydays of the city’s cycling community and the bicycle transport.