The taxi driver of a mini-bus taxi has appeared in a South African court where he faces charges of culpable homocide. The driver a week ago crossed the solid line of a railway crossing, skipping the security booms at a level crossing, before his mini-bus was hit by an oncoming train. Reports said that 10 [...]
As the Orban Government implements its new economic policy allegedly focusing on the middle class, mortgage owners on Tuesday awoke in Hungary to a skyrocketing Swiss Franc, which could cause monthly payments for many to rise through the roof. Setting an all-time record on Tuesday morning, one Swiss Franc rose to 221.70 HUF, which analysts [...]
BUDAPEST – Six were killed and 13 injured in a Bratislava (formerly Hungarian Pozsony -ed) in a street shooting on Monday morning, according to Bratislava Ambulance officials, InfoRadio reported. The attacker, a 15-year-old drug addict according to locals, committed suicide. The victims, including a 3-year-old boy, have been taken to Bratislava Hospital, ambulance spokesperson Dominika [...]
Speaking at the annual Ambassadors’ Summit on Monday in Budapest, PM Viktor Orban said that national unity has arrived in Hungary in 2010. For the diplomatic sphere, this means that the nation has regained its voice on the international stage, he added. Orban claimed that his Government has restored the rule of law in Hungary, [...]
With the upcoming Municipal Elections to be held without Budapest’s Gabor Demszky due to his withdrawal, caucus leaders delivered goodbye speeches thanking the outgoing politician for his his alleged work, at the City Council’s Thursday meeting. Fidesz leader Istvan Gyorgy said that criticizing Demszky is “not appropriate” at such a meeting, but added that his [...]
Budapet Airport’s recent photo completion, which included more than 280 participants, celebrated the institution’s 60th birthday.
A Hungarian officer serving in Baghlan province was killed in a convoy attack on Monday, the Defense Ministry told Hungarian News Wire MTI. Two others sustained severe injuries in the conflict.
The Hungarian Tax Agency (APEH), could gain the power to eavesdrop on citizens as the Government recently initiated its merger with the Hungarian Customs and Finance Guard (VPOP), an organization with the jurisdiction to carry out police-style investigations. The merger, overseen by recently appointed APEH President Ildiko Vida, has left security experts worried about excessive [...]
Reports claim that less than 70% of the population in Hungary have savings of any kind. One of the reasons is that there is a growing number of people living beneath the bread-line. Three brainy Hungarian bankers are said to have devised a scheme (similar to Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus’ Grameen Bank) where impoverished Hungarians, [...]
World-renowned Hungarian porcelain manufacturing company Zsolnay is reportedly boosting its production output following the recent capital injections by various owners, due to be carried out before the end of August this year. One of the new owners Manufaktura Befekteto is allegedly investing some HUF 730 million, partly by acquiring a 49% stake in Zsolnay from [...]
Hungarian National Flood Relief Agency Director Gyorgy Bakondi (pictured) on Wednesday told reporters that the Government must provide emergency housing for all homeless flood victims by the end of October. Bakondi said that funds will be redirected from the Aug 20 fireworks show (worth HUF 150 million) to the renovation of destroyed homes. The Director [...]
A new EU initiative designed to help more young people embark upon the great mobility adventure – a fun, interactive and dynamic two-day YOUTH ON THE MOVE event will take place on Oct 8-9 in Budapest. More information will be available soon on Twitter, Facebook and the YOUTH ON THE MOVE website. YOM on Facebook [...]
So as of September 1st Hungarian authorities are going to be fining smokers HUF 30,000 if they are caught smoking by an underpass or entrance to Budapest’s underground system. And if they refuse to pay the fine or are too poor to do so? Well, throw them in jail then and let the taxpayers foot [...]
South African white nonagenarian Anna de Jager, the 92-year-old Orange Free State great-grandmother, will be awarded her doctorate degree within weeks. This wouldn’t be such a news item if it weren’t for the fact that she started her studies some 40 years earlier. She claims that she had tried to complete her studies several times [...]
Based on los Angeles media reports pop singer Rod Stewart (66) has fathered his eighth son to Penny Lancaster (39), who has already bore him a son called Alastair (4). Lancaster will reportedly be expecting their baby at a new natal ward in February 2011, just before her 40th birthday. The couple have been married [...]
Hungary’s own FBI (known as the NNI) has announced that it has completed investigation on the multiple murders against Hungarians of the minority gypsy or Roma committed between July 2008 and Aug 2009. The national prosecutor is reportedly being asked to press charges against four suspect. The alleged Hungarian suspects now in custody, are to [...]
Women have been heavily neglected in the Republic of South Africa, especially black public servants, like nurses, teachers and essential service workers. Some 1.3 million protesters, mostly underpaid and overworked women public workers, downed tools to march on the parliament of South Africa on Tuesday (Aug 11, 2010) demanding higher salaries and housing benefits. Hundreds [...]
There’s a possible new movie on the rise as Hollywood script writers gear up to the update on poor innocent dear, Naomi Campbell who received diamonds from perhaps hundreds of men during her lifetime so far. But according to her former agent Carol White and actress Mia Farrow, who both testified against Campbell and former [...]
Some things just never cease to be in news headlines. One such item is the ongoing saga surrounding the alleged rape cases of film director Roman Polanski, who this time media headlines say went too far again. It is alleged that in 1974 Polanski and Jack Nicholson had befriended a former model called Edith Vogelhut [...]
The number of new car sales in Hungary increased after almost a year, according to the Hungarian Association of Vehicle Importers (MGE). The number of new passenger vehicles in July 2010 were 4,359 (up 19% year-on-year), while the number of light commercial vehicles (LCV) were 855 (up 49% year-on –year). According to market researchers there [...]
The Pentagon recently reportedly admitted that an increasing number of American soldiers were committing suicide. Authorities suggested that perhaps more soldiers die of suicides and self-destructive behavior than in combat, these days. A 300 page US Army report, considered to be just the tip of the ice-berg, reveals that in one month more American soldiers [...]
Wedding bells are ringing and Hollywood stars are flocking to the wedding of big-screen movie star George Clooney who is said to be tying the knot with Italian cocaine addict model Elisabetta Canalis. The male star has allegedly set the stage for his wedding at a garden gazebo on his Lake Como home. Canalis is [...]
Dr. Mamphela Ramphele is reportedly the first South African managing director of the World Bank. She allegedly made a name for herself after obtaining a medical degree in 1972 during the height of Apartheid, when she was also an anti-Apartheid activist and has been voted one of the top 100 Great South African, receiving the [...]
Have you ever stood in a cave and heard your echo bounce back, well then don’t miss this. Scientists believe that the world’s biggest underground natural cave network is beneath the Goulash capital, Budapest, commonly referred to by Europeans as the ‘Paris of the East’, due to its gorgeous picturesque view. Part of the cave [...]
Hungary meets England at London’s Wembley football stadium, just as the British Premier League is about to take off. The international friendly on Wednesday (Aug 11, 2010) is always one of the most anticipated matches between the two nations and reportedly will be televised for the broader audience unable to be the event live match. [...]
America is no longer the land of the free, it is the land of the free-to-do-as-you-like, according to legal experts who are defending three law abiding citizens in Florida. His clients are being sued by a convicted inmate Michael Dupree for some USD 500,000 in compensation for alleged disabilities and traumas he suffered after wanting [...]
A mother from Howick, near Maritzburg in South Africa is the oldest participant at the 2010 UCI BMX World Championship hosted in the Rainbow Nation. The sport is officially also registered as an Olympic discipline. McGilvray says she has been riding 15 years since she first took her children to a BMX junior race. McGilvray [...]
In a global economy knowledge is the new international currency that businesses can’t afford to miss out on, according to experts at Discovery Invest, an authorized life investment services company, which has invited Rudy Giuliani, the charismatic leader and former Mayor of New York City as one of its key-note speakers at its leadership summit. [...]
Hotel heiress Paris Hilton was reportedly paid USD 1.8 million to spend the night with a mysterious fat spectacled Malaysian playboy billionaire Taek Jho Low (25), who is allegedly financial advisor for the Kuala Lampur-based investment group UBG Berhad, invited the diva to entertain him at the flashy Byblos nightclub in Southern France. Naturally her [...]
The South African sea-faring haven Simon’s Town was turned into a Hollywood production studio overnight with Oscar awards winner Halle Berry (43) and hot stud Olivier Martinez dressed half naked during the shooting of the shark-attack thriller movie Dark Tide, due to hit the silver-screen next year. Berry, who is believed to have brought her [...]
South African Police have arrested three suspects in connection to the recent brutal murder of an entire family, involving a 28-year-old mother and her two daughters (8 months and 3 years old). The business woman was already a widow as her husband had allegedly been murdered some months earlier. Police believe that the motive could [...]
Fashion is always bringing new trends. The cosmetic world never ceases to surprise the masses. A British business is allegedly raking in a fortune in London, where clients pay a pretty sum to soak their feet in fish tanks as they sit back and read magazines or discuss the latest gossip. The owner has imported [...]
Visitors to the Kruger National Park nature reserve in the Republic of South Africa were surprised to see how the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup fever seems to have been adopted by the natural wildlife there. Guests near a rest camp reportedly saw a young male elephant playing soccer with a flattened beer can that [...]
On August 6, 2010, the United States Customs and Border Protection agency announced the implementation of a $14 fee beginning September 8 for applications made through the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA). This fee is based upon the costs incurred for administering the system and as established by the Travel Promotion Act of 2009. [...]
It was perhaps Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard (pictured) who is to blame for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Holocausts. It was reportedly Szilard who first succeeded in bringing about a nuclear chain reaction from a split atom in 1933and later patented the idea. He turned to German-Swiss Nobel physicist laureate Albert Einstein and together they developed [...]
Some kids have lots f trouble getting up and catching the bus to school. That’s why their parents may be glad to hear that an Indianapolis speed-freak in the United States has developed a super-fast school bus with a top speed of almost 590 kph. He had to reinforce the entire framework, undercarriage and the [...]
Los Angeles real estate agents reportedly claim that a villa, in which the King of Pop rented until his death in June 2009, is now up for sale. The owner of the Holmby Hills villa has asked for a mere USD 29-mil for the edifice in which Michael Jackson lived, and let’s also be honest [...]
The 160 million population of Bangladesh have reportedly been banned by their government from downloading and using the national anthem as their ringtone on mobile phones. The decision was recently brought in a court in Dhaka. Anyone caught violating the ruling is allegedly expected to pay a fine, while the court has already ruled that [...]
British second division soccer team Ipswich Town FC will see a Hungarian national goalie guarding its net in the new football season. Officials at the club have announced that they acquired the Hungarian goal keeper Marton Fulop (27), pronounced: Marton Foo-lip from Sunderland FC. The parties have allegedly signed a two-year contract at the British [...]
No matter what happens to you, if you’re famous you make the news headlines. Just recently the Brazilian media highlighted the fact that a leg injury had kept national football star Kaka (28) from performing his best in the 2010 South African World Cup (between June 11- July 11, 2010). Spain’s Real Madrid midfielder was [...]
News reports say that the government of communist China is allegedly behind the purchase offer to buy up Britain’s most successful soccer team Liverpool FC. Just recently Chino-American businessman Kenny Huang had reportedly made a handsome bid to buy the debts of the club and in turn become the new owner. But football officials allegedly [...]
German researchers have allegedly discovered why women are more attracted to the ever popular Christmas daddy than they generally are to other men. It reportedly turns out that the color red has a special effect triggering the sexuality of males towards females. In an independent survey almost 300 female university students were allegedly to point [...]
Astronomers at the Garching-based European Southern Observatory (ESO) claim to have witnessed the three-dimentional explosion of the core of a giant supernova for the very first time in history. Their findings allegedly showed how the 1987-A supernova explodes and send its matter in all directions at an estimated speed of some 100-million kph. They were [...]
Scientists reportedly demonstrated how obese parents would most likely have children who also struggle with obesity all their lives. This was determined without relating obesity to any form of hereditary genetics. The British Government has actually announced that it will pay out cash sums of money to obese people who can prove they have lost [...]
The Pokerface lady is expected steal the show at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards (VMA) after she was allegedly nominated in 13 categories, But Lady Gaga will have to keep her panties on until September 12, 2010 when she will have the chance to personally receive at least one at the awards ceremony in [...]
Hungarian historians will be glad to lay their hands on the memoirs of El Dulce. Reportedly the Italian history society is going to release the memoir of Benito Mussolini from the diaries he regularly wrote between 1935 and 1939. The diaries allegedly claim that Mussolini wanted to avoid Italy entering World War Two by all [...]
Sounds just like the conditions in Hungary today. The Slovakian Government is reportedly dumping 20,000 public servants this year. That’s about 9% of the total 230,000 pen-pushers working for the central budget. It seems that the new Slovak Government is following the sober decision of the new center-right Hungarian Government, which reduced its ministries to [...]
Social networking sites like Facebook reportedly cause the British economy an annual GBP 14-billion loss. Allegedly at least 17 million (50% of all) of the United Kingdom’s some 34 million registered employees have admitted to being addicted to the social networking platforms. The majority of them do their chat, shopping, match-making, and businesses via these [...]
The Slovakian Prosecutor’s Office is reportedly going to review the complaint lodged by Slovakian lassie Hedviga Malinova, who is a member of the 520,500 minority Hungarians living in Slovakia. Her defending lawyer, Roman Kvasnica has requested that Slovakia’s Chief Prosecutor Dobroslav Tmka agree to hear key witnesses who have not yet been called to testify. [...]
Political and cultural ties have never been so strong between Hungary and its northern neighbor Slovakia, according to Slovakian President Ivan Gasparovic. He claims that the recent shift in political parties in both countries has led to the improvement of ties on both sides. The President has insisted that talks between Slovakia and Hungary should [...]
Authorities wish to start fining perpetrators who smoke in any of the underpasses or the entrances of Budapest’s underground network after September 1, 2010, now that the new anti-smoking law has been introduced. Anyone caugh huffing and puffing the tobacco plant can expect to dig deep into their pockets to pay a whopping penalty of [...]
The annual youth music festival dubbed, the Sziget Fesztival (this year between August 9-16, 2010), will be more than just music and beer guzzling this year. Organizers said they will put an extra-special emphasis on Hungary’s role in presiding the European Union between January 1 – June 30, 2011. The management will help the central [...]
British pop star Robbie Williams has reportedly promised to marry American actress Ayda Field on Saturday (August 7, 2010). The wedding is said to be hosted at a small chapel on Santa Catalina Island, off the coast of California. The pop stars mother is reportedly not satisfied with her new daughter-in-law to be, but then [...]
American aerospace group NASA are reportedly planning to send another gadget on wheels to probe the surface of the red planet in our solar system. This time however, experts plan to add extras, including a science-fiction type high resolution video camera (dubbed the Mars Descent Imager – MARDI) to record the landing on Mars. The [...]
The Polish Parliament has inaugurated Bronislav Komorowski as Poland’s new president in Warsaw on Friday (August 6, 2010). His predecessor Lech Kaczynski passed away in a dodgy but tragic aircraft accident (with his wife and official government delegation) en route to a Polish commemorative event in Russia earlier this year. The early presidential election saw [...]
British Black Beauty Naomi Campbell reportedly claims she had received one larger polished diamond and a pouch of “dirty stones.” She claims that she didn’t know what they were (silly girl – ed) , but admitted receiving the blood diamonds from Liberia’s ex-warlord and dictator Charles Taylor, but (like Eve in the garden of Eden [...]
Unconfirmed sources say that the Republic of South Africa is to construct new state-of-the-art nuclear power stations (similar to that of its 1,800 MW Koeberg plant – pictured), based on, and involving, Russian and Chinese expertise and technologies. This is perhaps one of the reasons South African president Jacob Zuma and his 11 ministers, accompanies [...]
The capital city of the Russian Federation is covered in thick smog, based on reports from Moscow. The problem is reportedly causing several businesses and schools to close down due to health risks. Moscow has a population of some 10 million people, about the same as the entire population of Hungary. A thick blanket of [...]
Learning from the achievements of former new York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Hungary’s Interior Minister Sandor Pinter has launched an outright war against crime in the Hungarian capital. He reportedly wants beggars and loafers off the street and plans to have them temporaily and permanently employed some way or another. He was reportedly quoted saying, [...]
Former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson has turned into an animal rights activist and is currently appealing to residents along the Gulf of Mexico to help save the natural wildlife. The blond bombshell is also helping 50 displaced dogs to find homes in the area. She was reportedly disgusted by the lack of responsibility shown by [...]
Many people contributed to the cause of the 1956 Hungarian revolution where outnumbered schoolboys (even as young as 12 and 14) and university students took up arms against the mighty Soviet Red army tanks that rolled into Budapest. It all started on October 23 and was over by November 4, leaving hundreds and thousands of [...]
Hungarians will be permitted to make their own vodka-style moonshine, known as Palinka (min 40% alcohol content) after a law was passed putting home-made Palinka in the same category as other home-made delicacies. Already small alcohol distilling manufacturers (mostly enjoying a monopoly situation) are complaining that they will go out of business once people are [...]
Pal Schmitt (68) was recently inaugurated as Hungary’s new President of the Republic. Although the position is meaningless as the president in Hungary has little or no powers, it does come with its benefits and prestigious moments. One of the benefits of being the president is that he can veto parliamentary decisions and send them [...]
Norwegian telecom company Telenor has reportedly teamed up with energy drink maker Red Bull to launch a mobile phone network in Hungary. Based on promotional details subscribers are being offered two packages for call times and the latest handsets available on the market, including the RBM2 unit. Subscribers will also bee able to access their [...]
The central State Medical Authority has promised that there will be far less mosquitoes in August to plague residents, who are buying up all kinds of insect repelling creams and devices. Laszlo Tajti, research biologist says that by the beginning of August there should have been a considerable decrease in the number of blood-suckers in [...]
The Hungarian Government recently announced that it would like to bid for hosting a FIFA World Cup tournament in the foreseeable future. Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban had made mention of this when he visited South Africa and watched the final match on July 11, 2010. While rban was watching the match live, some 500, [...]
The Budapest City Council has reportedly scrapped even the idea of hosting what has become a family household name – the Red Bull Air race – due lack of funding. The council argues that the Hungarian transport Authority had reportedly earlier decided that the event was dangerous and hazardous to the environment and did not [...]
Hungary’s youngest mobile internet service provider Business Telcom (Btel) is allegedly pleased with the developments of its two-year agreement signed earlier this year with Vodafone Hungary, the local arm of England’s leading mobile service provider Vodafone Plc. The company is offering monthly internet access packages of between 1-8GB. Based on the increasing number of mobile [...]
The Hungarian Government has launched a new initiative to send Gypsy teenagers to summer camps and hold law enforcement seminars for them there. A non-profit society is managing the camps in close collaboration with the Hungarian police force under the auspices of the Ministry of the Interior, responsible for law enforcement. Teen-agers are being enlightened [...]
Budapest’s ferihegy International Airport has reportedly increased security measures after an veiled EU audit revealed various ‘ hazardous ’ items had been allowed to pass through its security monitoring system. The increased security is expected to effect some 10% of all passenger turnover, based on information from the authorities. The airport has reportedly been demoted [...]
Hungarian universities claim that in 2010 less qualified Hungarian doctors will be leaving the country and added that already 80% of those who graduated have begged to be allowed to stay on as so-called resident doctors at the university clinic hospitals in Hungary. In 2010 there were allegedly some 700 medical graduates Of the 700 [...]
For centuries the people of Visegrad have been drinking and – yes – exporting their beloved mineral water from the tiny town of Visegrad in the Danube bend of northern Hungary. Rumor has it that Roman legions, who lived in the region 9along the river that was then the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire), [...]
The Budapest Transport Co. (BKV) will reportedly see a late arrival of underground train carriages, due to the fact that Hungary’s transport authority (NKH) has refused to issue a running permit the French rolling stock company Alstom on the goulash capital’s refurbished M2 and newly built M4 underground routes. NKH argues that Alstrom’s so-called Metropol [...]
Hungary’s financial and banking supervision PSzAF is reportedly conducting an in-depth probe at 500 banks nationwide after consumers complained they felt that their interests were not sufficiently represented at these institutions. Banks are said to have misled the public with false advertising and speculative measures, especially in the areas of passing on a new bank [...]
Hungary’s center-right government coalition has pledged to allocate a whopping HUF 1-trillion to strengthen small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to help boost its ailing economy. The money has been promised to arrive to the SMEs by no later than December 31, 2013 via EU funds secured by Hungary’s Ministry of national Development. The ministry [...]
A Human Rights Committee of the Hungarian Parliament is to question former disgraced Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany in September 2010. Incidentally Gyurcsany was also head of the Socialist Party (MSzP) that led the failed social-liberal government coalition between April 2002 and April 2010. Ironically Gyurcsany was never actually elected Prime Minister by the Hungarian people [...]
Hungarians have always been leaders in the field of mathematics and computer sciences and it was Hungarian-born American mathematician, John von Neumann, who is dubbed the father of the computer after he came up with the idea of the binomial system in 1951. But like in any other country in the world Internet crimes have [...]
The American heirs of Hungarian banking magnate baron Lipot Mor Herzog are reportedly still waiting for the Hungarian Government’s reactions to their claim to retrieve the stolen works of art that once belonged to their wealthy Hungarian ancestor. Herzog’s heirs have in the United States reportedly filed a restitution lawsuit against the Hungarian state who [...]
Hungarian executives are reportedly still questioning why the chief financial officer (CFO) of the Hungarian division of Britain’s biggest retailing chain Tesco is forced to quit her position. CFO Erzsebet Antal, who earlier also did a remarkable job at the helm of Hungarian airlines MALEV, had earlier this year allegedly announced her resignation and is [...]
The 2010 South African World Cup’s North Korean national coach Kim Jong-Hun (53) has reportedly been reprimanded, abused and brain-washed by the communist leadership of North Korean tyrant Kim Jong-Il . After having been forced to listen to hours of demoralizing blah-blah speeches of some 400 senior cadres of the dictator, Jong-Hun was sentenced to [...]
The South African Government and sports bodies are reportedly working on new initiatives to prevent the country’s 2010 World Cup state-of-the-arts stadiums from turning into white elephants. The premier league (PSL) has welcomed and strongly supports the initiative of staging soccer matches more for excitement than for profit. In the first step four soccer teams [...]
My name is Robert Keats of Canada and I wish to tell a story of a Hero. The story starts early one morning in Alberta (Canada) when Mr. Laszlo Korozstos was getting his work truck ready for the day, when just a little was from him a women was clearing the snow off her car. [...]
Luxury goods retailers have emerged as the most active and expansive retail sector, responsible for over 23% of new store openings during the past year, according to the new edition of How Global is the Business of Retail? by leading global real estate adviser CB Richard Ellis (CBRE). CBRE’s annual survey – now in its [...]
The Hungarian Government is due to take over the presidency of the European Union on Jan 1, 2011 for the six-month period that follows. Prime Minister Viktor Orban has reportedly vowed to help boost European initiatives while also boosting the national economy of Hungary. His government is focusing on a full restructuring of the strategic [...]
Although the European Union has 27 member states, the European Swimming Championship will host some 40 nations in Hungary. This year the 12-day tournament is being launched on Wednesday (Aug 4, 2010). The swimming, diving and synchronic water dancing events are being held at Budapest’s Margaret Island and two open water heats are being held [...]
Hungary’s Richter Gedeon pharmaceuticals company says its expects to see sales increase by at least 10% in Russia and its former satellite states, while also anticipating 5% rise in sales in Hungary this year. At the same time the company’s sales are expected to decrease som 20% in the United States. Based on its H1/2010 [...]
Hungary has a newborn male baby jaguar, that was recently born at the Zoo in Szeged (SE Hungary). The zoo says that the baby’s mother is reportedly incapable of fending for her baby as she lacks the natural instincts due to being born and raised in captivity. The baby has been separated from its mother [...]
Hungary’s centre-right government coalition, which holds a 2/3 majority in Parliament plans to pass 42 new laws in November this year. The laws are expected to effect the 2011 central budget, a 16% flat rate personal income tax and the merger of the revenue agency APEH with the customs authority. There is also a planned [...]
The new Hungarian government has pledged to politically clean up its 10 national parks, and they are allegedly starting from the top. Three of the nation’s biggest national parks will see the removal of their top executives. These are Gabor Salamon (director of the Aggtelek National Park, located in North-eastern Hungary), Istvan Sandor (director the [...]
The Dutch Government has announced that its NATO troops have started their withdrawal from Southern Afghanistan. This makes Holland the first NATO country to pull out of the mission there after spending an alleged USD 1.8 million of Dutch tax-payers money, wasting four years and at least 24 soldiers’ lives. Nevertheless this did not stop [...]
Hungary’s National Transport Authority (NKH) has grounded several malfunctioning small buses belonging to the corrupt Budapest Transport Company (BKV). Authorities are now investigating the service condition of these buses. Reportedly the road-worthiness some 30 BKV buses have been revoked. The process will cause heavy delays on major routes extending the commuter waiting period by at [...]
The worst Monsoon floods in the history of Pakistan have left some 3 million people homeless and almost 2,000 dead, UN reports said. The government has announced a state of emergency and appealed for international aid. The death toll will most probably increase as the rains continue. The military-wrecked North-western Swat Valley is said to [...]
The Russian Government has announced a state of emergency after at least 40 people died in wildfires raging throughout seven regions of the country due to the drought and extraordinary heat waves torturing the Asian nation. The population has criticised the state for being slow to react to the emergencies that pose a threat to [...]
Thomas Vecsey (of Hungarian descent), spokesman for the Vienna Public prosecutor’s Office has reportedly confirmed that based on the existence of a diary the Austrian Government is allegedly investigating how the late Jurg Haider’s extreme right wing Freedom Party received large amounts of funding from former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and ruling Lybian dictator Muammar [...]
With incoming news of most British banks turning profitable once again, British tax-payers are putting pressure on their government to persuade banks to hand out loans again to help boost local industries and enterprise. The UK-based HSBC bank has boasted gross profits of USD11.1-billion for H1/2010, up more than 200% year-on year compared to its [...]
Supermodel Naomi Campbell has reportedly requested heightened security during her hearing as a court witness at a human rights tribunal in Sierra Leone. Photographers have been banned from the establishment. Prosecutors allegedly want the supermodel to defend herself in the witness stand that she had not received any so-called blood-diamonds (stones illegally mined in war [...]
Russia’s alleged number-one enemy Doku Umarov (aka Abu Usman, dubbed as the Emir of the Caucasus), leader of the Chechen rebels has allegedly handed over his title (a position he has held since 2006 after having joined the separatists in 1992) to Aslambek Vadalov, the appointed new dynamic young leader. Ironically Russian officials have prematurely [...]
World military powers have reportedly welcomed the enforcement of the ban on cluster bombs as of Sunday (Aug 1, 2010). The Convention on Cluster Munitions (adopted in 2008 and signed by 37 nations) prohibits the production, storage and use of such inhumane weaponry after it had allegedly resulted in decades of killing and maiming millions [...]
Lebanon opened fire on Israeli troops claiming that they had crossed their border without permission, reports said. The incident ironically took place almost 24 hours after short range rocket missiles were allegedly fired from Egypt into the borderline territory of Israel and Jordan. Incidentally reports claim that Lebanese forces opened fire on Israeli soldiers who [...]
The two finalists in the 2010 South African World Cup have reportedly received a belated penalty from the international football governing body, FIFA. Reports said that FIFA has decided to carry out the penalty and book Holland (actually the Netherlands, as Holland is merely a county in The Netherlands) and Spain for abusing the fair [...]
United States space agency NASA is carrying out more space walks than originally intended in the hopes of repairing a major cooling system of the joint Russian American international space station, technically referred to as the ISS. Reportedly the walks on the wild side are necessary because a pump in the system has allegedly failed [...]
Russia’s worst drought and heat waves (exceeding 40C) since 1975 have forced grain prices to soar on the international commodity exchanges worldwide. Wheat prices have reportedly reached a two-year high following the dramatic developments in Russia, which is responsible for about 25% of exports to the world. Grain prices in August have allegedly soared 50% [...]
Elvis Presley’s 1957 white Knabe piano will be among the 207 memorabilia to go under the hammer in Memphis, Tennessee in the United States on Aug 14, 2010. Experts believe the piano will fetch at least USD 1 million. Other items for auction include his first global music contract with RCA Records (expecting too fetch [...]
Former Interpol head and National Commissioner of the South African Police Service, Jacob (Jackie) Sello Selebi (60,) has been sentenced to 15 years prison for charges of corruption on Tuesday (Aug 3, 2010). Presiding Judge Meyer Joffe called Selebi a “ stranger to truth, ” an “ unreliable witness ” and an “ embarrassment to [...]
International watchdogs fear the illicit trade of illegal blood diamonds from Zimbabwe will continue without international intervention, while thousands of villagers and illegal miners are being abuse, exploited and murdered. Every day between 100 and 1,000 smugglers do errands for alleged Zimbabwean military officers when they smuggle diamonds into Mozambique, where they are reportedly sold [...]
This year in September the Budapest-based American Chamber of Commerce in Hungary (AmCham) is further expanding on its so-called high performance Career School initiative series (launched in September 2009), according to Laszlo Metzing, AmCham Chief Operating Officer and Committee Coordinator. He added that the chamber plans to boost its activities by creating the third in [...]
The Hungarian Government plans to reduce corporate taxes so much that it would certainly draw investors back to Hungary from its lower tax bracket peer – Slovakia. Several hundreds of Hungarian companies escaped ridiculously high Hungarian corporate taxes and moved to neighbouring Slovakia during the past 5-10 years, where the economic environment was more business [...]
The city of Budapest on Monday (Aug 2, 2010) inaugurated its new central sewage waste water treatment plant valued at some EUR 430 million. The plant was 65% funded by the European Union, while the Hungarian Government contributed with 20% and the Budapest City Council had to cough up the remaining 15%. An additional EUR [...]
The Hungarian Motion Picture public foundation MKKA said five Hungarian film productions have won awards in their respective categories in Sarajevo. “The Tender Son: The Frankenstein Project” received a special prize from the international jury. “Bibliotheque Pascal” was awarded the best film by the CICAE international federation of art cinemas and the pan-European movie website [...]
The Iraqi war was never supposed to come about according to most Americans, citing that it was merely a profit orientated, money-guzzling political stunt. Finally President Barack Obama has announced that a decision will be made to withdraw US military troops from Iraq. Initially America had attacked Iraq and arrested dictator Saddam Hussein for possessing [...]
The, Republic of South Africa fears the end of press freedom in the rainbow nation as the leading government party (the ANC) wants to set up a so-called Media Appeals Tribunal arguing that the mere fact that the Press Ombudsman is from the media ranks, a former journalist and not an independent person who sees [...]
The Lipizaner stud farm and Spanish riding school at Kyalami, in the Republic of South Africa this year celebrates the 60th anniversary, experts said. The breed is the oldest man-bred horse in the world, dating back to the Carthaginian empire. It is believed that Hannibal rode on a Lipizzaner. However the breed as we know [...]
Are Liverpool FC fans about to consume more Chinese food? Perhaps, after their team is saved by Chinese entrepreneur Kenny Huang, who has been sniffing around for more than two years, sources said. He has allegedly offered Liverpool’s current owners a price he can’t refuse in return for a controlling stake in Britain’s most successful [...]
Police in Zimbabwe have reportedly received an increasing number of reports that dogs have gone missing in various neighborhoods in and around the capital city Harare. It is believed that the increasing number of Chinese immigrants are buying up young dogs for their traditional cuisine. At the same time high demand has increased the black [...]
Chelsea FC’s defender Ashley Cole (29) has reportedly been made an offer he can’t refuse and will not be joining Spain’s most famous soccer team Real Madrid, after all. He will stay with the British premier league, according to Blues (Chelsea FC) manager Carlo Ancelotti, who has dubbed Cole the “best left-back in the world.” [...]
Red Sea ports of Eilat and Aqaba (in the border region of Israel and Jordan) were struck by short range military rocket missiles on Monday (Aug 2, 2010), allegedly fired from Egyptian territory, reports claim. Preliminary reports said that there were several casualties and deaths among civilians from both countries. Israe4li and Jordan police launched [...]
Archaeologist have reportedly discovered relics, which they believe may have once belonged to the Biblical character John the Baptist. The historic discovery is reportedly an urn that was allegedly found on a Black Sea island off the coast of the Southern Bulgarian town of Sozopol, which dates back to the Bronze age. For a long [...]
The Warner Bothers’ block-buster thriller Inception is reportedly ruling the movie scene in North America. In three days, the film collected USD 27.5 million in ticket sales. In the United States alone domestic ticket sales for Inception has passed USD 194 million after having led the list three weeks in a row. It has also [...]
Named after the world-famous Hungarian composer, the Bela Bartok International Choir Competition was held for the 24th time in Debrecen, finishing with German victory on Sunday. Participants from 14 countries around the globe, including China and Venezuela, competed in five categories with finals held between the Peking Philharmonic Choir, the Debrecen Grammar School Choir, the [...]
Australia’s Red Bull pilot Mark Webber won the the Formula 1 Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday (Aug 1, 2010) at the Hungaroring race track, 30km north of Budapest. With that he takes the championship lead from England’s Lewis Hamilton, who failed to finish the race. His result also helped place the Red Bull team to [...]
