Unfortunately we don’t know in details what happened in the Gellért Bath in Budapest in 2007. Hungarian News Agency (MTI) reports that a Hamburg court has brought a charge of embezzlement and misappropriation against two German company managers. The prosecution alleges that the insurance company Hamburg-Mannheimer International (HMI) organized a […]
Being a catholic country Hungary celebrates All Saints’ Day on 1 November. This is a national holiday, all the shops and banks are closed this day. In the evening traditionally the families go to cemeteries to place flowers on the graves of their dead relatives and friends.(Officially 2 November is […]
Condoms and dummies caused problems in the Hungarian and Slovak parts of the Druzhba oilpipeline – reported the Hungarian News Agency MTI. It is unclear how the unusual pollution got into the pipeline but there must have been a large quantitiy of it because the rubber items made the instruments […]
In August a Slovak millionaire woman killed four people in a road accident, and now a new case has provoked public outcry in Hungary. On 11 October four Hummer SUV crossed the Hungarian – Romanian border. They belonged to an Austrian Hummer community having been organized on the internet and […]
After Hollywood director Oliver Stone script writer Joe Eszterhas gave a lesson in a filmmaking „master course” being held in Budapest. As a part of the course, Paul Verhoeven’ Basic Instinct was on, and after the screening the participants had the chance to discuss it with Joe Eszterhas, the writer […]
According to the official data a record number 19,200 runners entered the 2012 Spar Marathon in Budapest, which took place on 7 October. Just after the start, the rummer in Andrássy street (Photo: MTI) This year the fastest runner was Gábor Józsa (2h 21m 6s), while among the women Tímea […]
Some days ago I wrote about the debate over a Budapest park which got its name after the Turkish statesmen Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Now, the disagreement can been seen by anybody: the statue of Atatürk, which stands in the park, has been covered with red paint. The police are investigating […]
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his Slovak counterpart Robert Fico signed an agreement on Tuesday about building a new bridge between the two countries over the river Danube. The bridge will have been built by 2016 or 2017 and as far as the costs are concerned they will go […]
After some debate and hesitation a new park in Budapest got its name after Kemal Atatürk, the Turkish statesman of the 20th century. The decision was not easy, the local council had changed its mind more times considering the diplomatic tense Between Hungary and Armenia. How does Armenia come into […]
American higher education website Superscholar.org recently published a list called „The 10 Smartest People AliveToday”. The author confesses that it is not so easy to define the adjective “smart”, but on the basis of IQ and accomplishment 10 people are listed at the website as “unworthy of being called some […]