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415 000 Szitizens At Sziget Festival In Budapest – Together!
- 18 Aug 2014 3:00 AM
- entertainment
Sziget Festival has attracted a record weekly crowd of 415 000 this year. Passes were sold out already before the start of the event and on Thursday there was full house with 85 000 fans on the island. The festival keeps on using the ‘Island of Freedom’ as its slogan and even more efforts were put into the improvement of the visual experience around the festival site.
Hungary’s Fidesz Official’s Personal Website A Little Too Personal
- 14 Aug 2014 9:00 AM
- tech
The website of the Fidesz state secretary for agriculture Róbert Zsigó was hacked in April 2013 and diverted visitors to a hardcore porn website for over a year, Blikk has discovered. After the tabloid informed the state secretariat of this, it deleted the site, saying the politician had been the “victim of a bad joke or an organized attack”.
Tobacco Franchises In Hungary Apparently Awarded At Will
- 14 Aug 2014 9:00 AM
- shopping
Democratic Coalition (DK) has made the scorecards of winning tenders for tobacco franchises available to the general public.
Sign Language Teaching App “Jeles” To Make Debut At The Sziget Festival Budapest
- 13 Aug 2014 9:00 AM
- tech
The public debut of the “Jeles” will take place 13 August 2014, at the Sziget Festival, where anyone can get first hand experience with the app that has been developed mainly for children with no hearing disability. Developed by Hallatlan Foundation and the Vodafone Hungary Foundation, “Jeles” will officially be available for free download to iOS and Android devices from September.
Xpat Opinion: The Hungarian Post Office
- 12 Aug 2014 9:00 AM
- shopping
‘Why don’t you write about the Post Office?’ asked a friend this week, knowing only too well my fraught relationship with that particular institution over the last thirty years. Were I writing this by hand, the tension and frustration evoked in those memories would be discernible in my manuscript.
Budapest Card Information
- 11 Aug 2014 8:00 AM
- specials
The purpose of Budapest Card, the capital’s only official city card, is to help visitors and tourists enjoy an eventful stay in the city and at the same time promote to them Budapest’s rich and diverse culture. The Budapest Card has been present on the capital’s tourism market since 1997, and since its introduction more than 1,000,000 cards have been sold.
Hungary’s Roma Community Marks 70th Anniversary Of Roma Holocaust
- 4 Aug 2014 7:00 PM
- community & culture
Hungary’s 700,000 strong Roma community is holding memorial events throughout the country today on the occasion of international Roma Holocaust remembrance day.
Norway Funds Supervision Moves To Hungary’s Cabinet Office
- 4 Aug 2014 9:00 AM
- property
The government is to transfer oversight of Norway Fund programmes from the state-owned Széchenyi Programme Office to the Prime Minister’s Office by Aug 31. Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein decided on May 9 to suspend further disbursement of funds to Hungary.
Religious Freedom Report On Hungary Published By US State Dept
- 4 Aug 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The US State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor recently released its annual International Religious Freedom Report. The report spotlights typical examples of abuses and restrictions representative of problems of religious freedom reported in each country, shedding light on the nature, scope and severity of religious freedom violations. The US State Department helped to ...
415 000 Szitizens At Sziget Festival In Budapest – Together!
- 18 Aug 2014 3:00 AM
- entertainment
Sziget Festival has attracted a record weekly crowd of 415 000 this year. Passes were sold out already before the start of the event and on Thursday there was full house with 85 000 fans on the island. The festival keeps on using the ‘Island of Freedom’ as its slogan and even more efforts were put into the improvement of the visual experience around the festival site.
Hungary’s Fidesz Official’s Personal Website A Little Too Personal
- 14 Aug 2014 9:00 AM
- tech
The website of the Fidesz state secretary for agriculture Róbert Zsigó was hacked in April 2013 and diverted visitors to a hardcore porn website for over a year, Blikk has discovered. After the tabloid informed the state secretariat of this, it deleted the site, saying the politician had been the “victim of a bad joke or an organized attack”.
Tobacco Franchises In Hungary Apparently Awarded At Will
- 14 Aug 2014 9:00 AM
- shopping
Democratic Coalition (DK) has made the scorecards of winning tenders for tobacco franchises available to the general public.
Sign Language Teaching App “Jeles” To Make Debut At The Sziget Festival Budapest
- 13 Aug 2014 9:00 AM
- tech
The public debut of the “Jeles” will take place 13 August 2014, at the Sziget Festival, where anyone can get first hand experience with the app that has been developed mainly for children with no hearing disability. Developed by Hallatlan Foundation and the Vodafone Hungary Foundation, “Jeles” will officially be available for free download to iOS and Android devices from September.
Xpat Opinion: The Hungarian Post Office
- 12 Aug 2014 9:00 AM
- shopping
‘Why don’t you write about the Post Office?’ asked a friend this week, knowing only too well my fraught relationship with that particular institution over the last thirty years. Were I writing this by hand, the tension and frustration evoked in those memories would be discernible in my manuscript.
Budapest Card Information
- 11 Aug 2014 8:00 AM
- specials
The purpose of Budapest Card, the capital’s only official city card, is to help visitors and tourists enjoy an eventful stay in the city and at the same time promote to them Budapest’s rich and diverse culture. The Budapest Card has been present on the capital’s tourism market since 1997, and since its introduction more than 1,000,000 cards have been sold.
Hungary’s Roma Community Marks 70th Anniversary Of Roma Holocaust
- 4 Aug 2014 7:00 PM
- community & culture
Hungary’s 700,000 strong Roma community is holding memorial events throughout the country today on the occasion of international Roma Holocaust remembrance day.
Norway Funds Supervision Moves To Hungary’s Cabinet Office
- 4 Aug 2014 9:00 AM
- property
The government is to transfer oversight of Norway Fund programmes from the state-owned Széchenyi Programme Office to the Prime Minister’s Office by Aug 31. Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein decided on May 9 to suspend further disbursement of funds to Hungary.
Religious Freedom Report On Hungary Published By US State Dept
- 4 Aug 2014 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The US State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor recently released its annual International Religious Freedom Report. The report spotlights typical examples of abuses and restrictions representative of problems of religious freedom reported in each country, shedding light on the nature, scope and severity of religious freedom violations. The US State Department helped to ...















