When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, he had no idea that it could also be used for corruption purposes, so loud that it can be heard on the other side of the Atlantic. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has accused Hungary’s telecommunications group Magyar Telekom (alias MATAV) of serious corruption, via its [...]
The Government of the Republic of South Africa has announced that it will deport Serbian fugitive Sasa Kovacevic (alias Dobrosav Gavric) back to his homeland next week. The alleged criminal, who claims that he was duped and had already applied for refugee status, is reportedly wanted in Serbia for the murder of three Serbian soldiers. [...]
South African radio stations have been sent recordings (from a US-based Internet site that broadcasts live air traffic control feeds worldwide) suggesting that a separate jet had allegedly shadowed South African President Jacob Zuma’s recent flight departing from New York. Initially governmental spokesmen denied any shadowing, later another admitted that the jet was shadowed but [...]
Hungarians love to celebrate and be jolly, but according to a recent study (asking 37,000 adults) carried out by opinion search company GfK Hungaria Piackutato Intezete, the majority of Hungarians prefer to stay at home. The study showed that less Hungarians are willing to turn time towards expanding the horizons in the area of entertainment, [...]
One of the world’s most famous teams, the UK-based Liverpool FC has broken ties with German sportswear manufacturer Adidas, the club confirmed Wednesday. Adidas may have missed the fine print on the aborted contract which implies a very impressive track record. Liverpool FC have claimed 18 league titles, 5 European Cup titles and have an [...]
An alarming number of people continue to be arrested for drug trafficking in South Africa, despite the recent severe Chinese sanction, where a South African woman was executed for her alleged role as a drug mule in Beijing. The South African Police Service (SAPS) on Thursday revealed that in 2011 in Cape Town International Airport [...]
Independent weather soothsayers will allegedly be given a jail sentence under a new law amendment to be passed in the Republic of South Africa. This was revealed by Gareth Morgan, spokesperson for the Democratic Alliance (DA) environmental faculty. He claims that the current government wishes to amend the South African Weather Service Law in an [...]
Authorities have reportedly arrested four crime prevention police officers stationed at the Johannesburg international airport. OR Tambo International Airport authorities on Thursday (Jan 12, 2012) confirmed radio reports, saying that the culprits had been arrested for extortion on Thursday after they had been under surveillance for quite some time. Authorities said the four policemen had [...]
It is an acceptable joke that people are dying to get into cemeteries, but it is no joke that just recently the late entry into a local university led to a stampede of students and caused the death of a person. Police are still investigating the cause that led to a stampede ate the University [...]
The Republic of South Africa is considered to be one of the world’s sunniest nations. It is allegedly also one of the world leaders in the risk of malignant skin cancer. This is why activists of the Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA) is now hopes to collect at least 50,000 signatures for its petition [...]
An increasing number of beaches along the South African coastline are claimed to be unsafe – from uncontrolled dogs. South African law enforcement and special services on Thursday warned that they will take stricter measures against dog owners walking their canines on the nation’s so-called ‘blue flag’ beaches. Cape Town Assistant Police Chief Neil Arendse [...]
Based on a recent economic survey 85% of the Hungarians enjoy drinking tap water. At least 75% of all adults participating in the survey, carried out by order of the Hungarian Public Water Association (MAVIZ) claim to “love” the quality of their water. However the survey failed to mention that bottled water costs an arm [...]
Hungary refused to recall its Ambassador to Iran following a meeting of EU Foreign Ministers on Thursday, news-wire MTI reported, saying it would cripple normal day-to-day operations due to its limited staff. Despite this the Hungarian Government joins is European allies in utterly condemning the attack on the Iranian British Embassy, Hungarian Foreign Minister Janos [...]
Arriving on the heels of embarrassing news about Hungary’s ‘new’ relationship with the IMF and the Government’s confusing PR campaign about “this time being different,” the Orban-cabinet was dealt another crushing financial blow on Friday morning. For the first time in 15 years, Hungary’s credit rating was downgraded to ‘junk’ (Ba1) status by Moody’s Investment [...]
Cleared out of bridge underpasses, hiding in underground stations, finding refugein forests, the homeless people of Budapest feel they are being treated as fugitives onthe run. This has FEANSTA, the European Federation of Nation Organizations workingwith the homeless, expressing concerns over concerted attacks in Hungary. The countryis seeking punitive measures against dumpster-diving and street sleeping [...]
A warning has been issued in Budapest, after a leading paediatric hospital (Svabhegyi Gyogyintezet) reported an alarming increase in the number of children with respiratory complaints due to excessive smog levels. Patient numbers could double in the coming days, the center said in a press release, as even children with no previous history of respiratory [...]
Who knows who and when new delegations are arriving to Hungary from China.
However based on the latest reports Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is paying an official visit to the Goulash capital on a week-long trip and will allegedly discuss how it can relocate billions to Europe, in what markets have dubbed “support from Europe’s ailing economy.” The European Union had planned to see their group be the strongest economy of the world, by 2010, but corruption and political feuds had allegedly undermined these plans.
The Chinese have disclosed that they are sending thier premier President Hu Jintao to Budapest (as Hungary is still presiding the EU until July 1, 2011) from where he will also visit Berlin and London on a red-carpet visit (colour not connected to China’s communist regime). He is expected to sign all kinds of trade and cultural agreements but will certainly avoid any questions from the state media on human rights issues.
It is unclear exactly Wen will discuss what as Hu knows exactly what he wants. However China, with its foreign exchange reserve exceeding USD 3-trillion, is expected to buy up large sums of European debt and in return would receive a strong foothold in the EU.
Wen’s delegation is expected to pen some state and commercial deals with Hungary during the visit. Those staning in line to get a handshake and a pat on the back from the Chinese will include Hungarian President Pal Schmitt, Prime Minister Viktor Orban, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron.
A priest, his wife and two accomplices were due to stand trial on Monday (June 13, 2011) at a court in South Africa, sources told Budapest Report. The priest and his accomplices have allegedly been charged with kidnapping, murdering and mutilating the body of a little girl for so-called “muti” harvesting purposes. The child’s remains [...]
The Republic of South Africa on Sunday (June 12, 2011) announced the establishment of a brand new, African continental Free Trade Area (FTA). The country’s 69-year-old Zulu president Jacob Zuma told reporters that the new trading bloc would be the biggest ever from Cape-to-Cairo (a term first coined by British colonialist Cecil John Rhodes in [...]
The rich have grown richer and the poorer are even more poor, according to an independent survey carried out by South African street vendors to review one year after the 2010 South African Football World Cup, to which FIFA had all rights of sales and merchandise. Mpho Tshabalala, a street Vendor in Johannesburg Central Business District (CBD) says he had had high hopes of making some real money and help secure a prosperous a future for his family, via the football spectacle.
Through a translator the 55-year-old Tswana man said, “I have helped my three kids through high school and now they all want to go to college, but I can’t afford it. Local council members promised that we will be able to make some real money during the football spectacle, but then withdrew their promises saying that FIFA has all the rights to sales in the vicinity of the stadiums and other football related merchandise.”
The Austrian Government this week confirmed its decision to deny Turkey any entry into the European Union membership, based on a recent interview with the Austrian Foreign Ministry in Vienna. Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor Michael Spindelegger (see picture) said, “We consider a possible special partnership (with Turkey) and by no means do we support [...]
While the black government of South Africa is looking for a single insignia to unite all sports under one umbrella it is in fact causing a greater divide in the population, where Rugby players and supporters are allegedly boycotting the purchases of the overpriced (recomended retail price of ZAR 600!! -when the minimum monthly wage [...]
Hungary are said to be a strange nation. Allegedly three Hungarians can run in four different directions, but when injustice hurts their dignity they become tight-knit, perhaps now more than any other nation in the 21st Century, even digging up skeletons of their past. Magyars in Bratislava, Paris, Bucharest and Subotica on Saturday (June 4, [...]
The Republic of South Africa mourns the passing away of Nontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu, better known as Mama Sisulu – and dubbed ‘the mother of the nation.’ One anti-Apartheid struggle veteran referred to her as, “Mama Sisuslu was globally just as widely respected as Nelson Mandela.” The widow of the fellow struggle fighter Walter Max Ulyate [...]
Academy award rap singer Eminem has reportedly sued German-owned car maker Audi for unlawfully using his song ‘Lose Yourself’ in an advertisement campaign planned for their 2012 Audi A6 Avant. Eminem’s song was used in his movie titled ‘8 Mile.’ Ironically Audi claims that its video (referred to) was “not an advertisement.” However Eminem’s publishing [...]
Some big things come in small packages, but the news that the Republic of South Africa’s Competition Office (aka Tribunal) approving the “merger” (actually a 51% acquisition) between America’s Walmart and Massmart Holdings comes in one of the biggest packages the southern African country has ever seen. Much to the dissatisfaction of the American investors, [...]
Maybe it was the year without rain or the fact that he is no longer merely a half a dozen Billboard Music Awards baby-faced teen pop star, which prompted Canadian singer Justin Bieber (17) to tattoo the name Yeshua, alias Jesus, in Hebrew on his felt. Hungarian catholics have allegedly condemned his actions calling it [...]
The late Ferenc Madl (President of Hungary between Aug 4, 2000 – Aug 5, 2005) has passed away at the ripe old age of 80 on May 29, 2011, based on a press release made by the State Presidency. He was the President supervising the offices of three Hungarian Prime Ministers, namely Prime Minister Viktor [...]
Police in the Republic of South Africa are investigating the alleged robbery of the world’s most celebrated marathon twins – Russian sisters Olesya and Elena Nurgalieva (see courtesy picture). The team vehicle of the sisiters were reportedly robbed of their possesions (purses, cameras, etc) and running gear at one of the watering points on the [...]
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is said to have made major preparations with a double whammy for his 48th birthday (he was allegedly born on May 31, 1963) in Budapest after his favourite team FC Barcelona won the 2010/2011 UEFA Champions League on Saturday (May 28), a source close to his government told Budapest Report [...]
The Slovakian opposition parties continue to criticize the “restitutional foreign policy” of the Hungarian Government, according to official sources in Bratislava – the capital city that was once also the royal seat of the Hungarian people. The opposition parties allegedly claim that the “revisionist” Hungarian Government wishes to review the past and demand compensation from [...]
At a news conference on Tuesday, PM Viktor Orban announced that his cabinet has reaquired 21.2 percent in the oil giant MOL for EUR 1.88 billion – a package previously owned by Russian Surgutneftegas. Orban’s statement comes after a year-long string of negotiations, that he said “secured” the Hungarian oil company and described as a [...]
A new organisation bringing together Hungarian corporate leaders on climate change will be launched today. The leaders pledge to lobby actively for positive change in Hungarian and European climate change policy. Companies who have joined are committed to supporting ambitious targets and timelines on greenhouse gas emissions reduction and the adoption and implementation of a [...]
Charles Zentai, a Hungarian-born Australian who was set to appear at a court hearing to appeal against extradition to Hungary for alleged war crimes lost his ability to speak due to a stroke suffered on Friday, according to the Australian Associated Press. Zentai’s son Ernies Steiner said a successful extradition procedure would kill his father. [...]
On Monday an official of Hungary’s leading parliamentary party FIDESZ said members of his government are currently in Chino-Hungarian talks in Beijing, where their priority is to lure Chinese invetors to Hungary in their attempt to make Hungary the gateway to Europe for China. FIDESZ party members claim that talks have never been as successful [...]
Unofficial sources claim that the newly wed Prince William and his wife kate Middleton had allegedly aborted plans for a honeymoon trip to Kenya due to being tipped off by US secret services that the Pentagon was planning to raid and liquidate US public enemy number one – Osama bin Laden. During the televised wedding [...]
Wanted dead or alive… Osama Bin Laden has reportedly been killed by American special SEAL forces in Pakistan, in the early hours of Monday (May 1, 2011). His body was said to have been buried in an undisclosed location at sea in a quick-step funeral – allegedly with an Islamic funeral, so as to avoid [...]
The Budapest Stock Exchange Ltd. (BSE) held its Annual General Meeting on April 29, 2011. At this event, the shareholders approved the Financial Statement for the year 2010, as well as the Report of the Supervisory Board and the Report of the independent Auditor. According to the Financial Statement, the BSE’s EBITDA in 2010 was [...]
Several extreme right-wing nationalists in Slovakia have emerged since the recent major events unfolding in Hungary, to harness the political implications and further their agenda related to Slovakian Hungarians in minority. Jan Slota, the co-founder and President of the Slovak National Party (an extremist chauvinist party) said the Hungarian Government renamed the country from The [...]
The Goulash Nation was recently shocked by weekly Heti Valasz after the paper revealed that the wife of Muammar Gaddafi has Hungarian roots – a secret that has been closely guarded by the blood-drenched Libyan dictator. The paper said Safia Farkash (nee Zsofia Farkas) could even apply for naturalization under the new expedited citizenship law, [...]
The Hungarian Socialist Party is anticipating snap elections, based on intelligence gathered from Fidesz circles, President Attila Mesterhazy said on Monday, according to daily Nepszava. To prepare, the party has launched a new initiative – Mestarhazy says a network of several thousand socialist activists will be the new reality in Hungary. “Fidesz will be confronted [...]
On March 11, 2011, a powerful 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the east coast of Honshu, Japan, followed by a powerful tsunami. Hundreds of thousands have been displaced from their homes and the death toll in Miyagi prefecture alone is predicted to reach more than 10,000. During this difficult time, all of our friends and [...]
According to Hungarian media several thousands of the world’s skyscrapers, including those in Japan that resisted the monstrous 9.0 earthquake, employ safety systems invented by a Hungarian. Sandor Tarics (born September 23, 1913) created the technology in the 70s, which works the same way as the shock absorbers in your car’s suspension. The building will [...]
Perhaps Friday 11 will replace Friday 13 as being the unluckiest day in Japan after a Historic Tsunami caused havoc in the Pacific, following an 8.9 magnitude earthquake some 150 km North-east of Japan. The entire world is sending their messages of support and sympathies following the terrible reminder of what nature can do. Some [...]
The South African government has reportedly banned everything concerning out-going Libyan tyrant Maummar Gaddafi. Ironically the dictator was just recently accused by the South African government for violating human rights, ironically because he was allegedly the leading ally of the African National Congress (ANC – currently the leading party in South Africa) during the human [...]
The Robin Hood Action Squad, formed on Monday by the NGO group ‘White Chimney Sweepers’ (WCS), pledged to put an end to evictions of families in Hungary due to (allegedly) fraudulent mortgages, daily Magyar Hirlap reported. WCS President Tamas Dabasi claimed that Hungarian authorities have so far failed to put an end to “white collar [...]
The Hungarian Government has launched another initiative to create and preserve workplaces. Experts said that the government wishes to create at least 3,000 new workplaces this year, while preserving a further 6,000 already existing jobs that could easily see redundancies this year. They said that Labour Secretary Sandor Czomba has called for parliament to be [...]
Germany’s F1 racing driver Nick Heidfeld (33) has been called to replace the injured F-1 Renault team Polish driver Robert Kubica (26) at the start of the new season (March 13, 2011 in Bahrein), based on official statment released on Wednesday night (Feb 16, 2011). The announcement was made by the Malaysian-based Lotus sportscar manufacturing [...]
Due to a major rise in criminal offences committed in the Republic of Hungary in 2010, the National Police (ORFK) have pledged to almost double the force – a source at ORFK told Budapest Report. He was referring to a speech made by ORFK top brass Jozsef Hatala, at a convention on Monday (February 14, [...]
After 30 years of the military dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak, the Arab Republic of Egypt is experiencing a power vacuum after the abrupt resignation of its president on Friday night (Feb 11, 2011). Only a 24 hours earlier Mubarak vowed he would never resign, but world politics have allegedly convinced him to change his mind, [...]
World famous Hungarian-born Hollywood Film Producer Andrew G. Vajna granted this exclusive interview with XpatLoop.com in Budapest. He shared insights with us about his childhood in Hungary, his love for cooking with fresh Hungarian ingredients, and his dream of experiencing life in the time of the Pharaohs. Mr. Vajna was open, witty, and friendly in [...]
American Airlines and Malev have promised to start daily direct flights between the Goulash capital and New York as of April 6, 2011. This was announced on Tuesday (Feb 8, 2011) by representative Kurt Stache in Budapest. The financially troubled Hungarian state-owned national carrier Malev believes that this new seat-sharing agreement will help increase ticket [...]
At the invitation of the European Chambers in Hungary, Minister of National Economy György Matolcsy addressed about 300 European business leaders at a business luncheon on Thursday. At the event Maurizio Sauli, incumbent Chairman of the European Chambers in Hungary, emphasized that European business has continuously being proving that it is strongly committed to contribute [...]
According to government sources undisclosed by origo.hu, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s trip to Egypt just days before the uprising was “hurried” by EU foreign policy leaders, although none foresaw the coming domestic crisis. The sources, close to the Hungarian Government and the Foreign Ministry, said Brussels has not criticized Orban due to the timing [...]
Organisers of the 14th annual Budapest Burns Supper, held at the Corinthia Hotel Budapest on Saturday 29 January, say it hit its charity fund raising target. The evening, held in honour of Scotland’s national bard, Robert Burns, has become a major event in the Budapest social calendar, and has raised hundreds of millions of forints [...]
Leading real estate developer (and allegedly the richest man in Hungary), Sandor Demjan, said the “international environment” could assimilate Hungary soon without improvement in employment and production statistics. This could mean the disappearance of the country as we know it, he said. Demjan said the new development scheme named after the greatest Hungarian, Count Szechenyi, [...]
State prosecution on Thursday filed charges against former communist Interior Minister Bela Biszku, for “denial of the crimes of national socialist and communist regimes.” The charges are based on an August interview with Biszku, where he denied the ’56 Hungarian Revolution and claimed that he had personally “restored order” during his term as Minister, following [...]
DALLAS, Texas and CALABASAS, Calif. – January 20, 2011 – The 12 finalists of the second Indie Game Challenge (IGC) sponsored by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS), GameStop (NYSE:GME) and The Guildhall at Southern Methodist University (SMU) have been announced. Winners will be announced February 11th at the D.I.C.E. (Design, Innovate, Communicate, [...]
Concerning developments in the state of Hungarian democracy, human rights and rule of law are set to be scrutinized by the European Council’s regular ‘current affairs debate’ session on Wednesday, according to Hungarian media, despite the fact that the Goulash Nation is the currently acting President of the the European Union. The probe was proposed [...]
Liberal economist and MEP Lajos Bokros on Thursday ‘renounced’ the Hungarian Democratic Pary (MDF – now outside the parliament and in shambles) saying he is only accountable directly; to his voters. The statement follows a warning from MDF President Zsolt Makay, who told Magyar Hirlap that the party will be considering recalling Bokros from the [...]
Amid painful criticism from international media targeting recent reforms, the Hungarian Government on Monday launched its term as President of the Council of the European Union. After a preliminary festivities, more celebrations are scheduled for Jan 6 in the Parliament despite negative international “PR” recently attracted by pension, tax, constitutional and national bank reforms. Shouldering [...]
The Google Lunar X Prize is offering the largest international incentive prize of all time: A total of $30 million in prizes are available to the first privately funded teams to safely land a robot on the surface of the Moon and have that robot travel 500 meters over the lunar surface and send images [...]
Hungarian state prosecution on Monday has initiated the release of home birth activist Agnes Gereb, from police custody. Imprisonment is to be replaced by home confinement, during the pending legal procedure for the death of an infant allegedly strangled by Gereb. Gereb has been under preliminary police custody since October, after an incident resulting in [...]
Ironically Hungary was to adopt the European common currency, the Euro, in 1999. Nevertheless experts said that the 2014 (another one of the uncertain dates) new deadline calls for an extremely strong Euro. Hungary said that despite the fact that a strong Euro may give Hungary cause to worry on the new adoption date, it [...]
The majority of Poles have welcomed their recently sworn-in Black African MP John Godson, an independent survey revealed. More than 1,000 Polish commuters were allegedly asked about their views of Godson’s appointment. Some 70% said they believe he was “God-sent”, as Poland needs a modern age diverse Parliament, leaning away from the “old-school-ism.” Only 5% [...]
Several NGOs protested on Sunday against pension reform saying the Government is desperately forcing its citizens to leave their private pension funds for a state account so the budget can be sustained, despite officials claiming that the move is voluntary. PM Viktor Orban in a Facebook video message reacted that the move intends to alleviate [...]
Hungary’s sovereign credit rating on Monday was reduced to Baa3 from Baa1 by Moody’s Investors Service, according to Bloomberg. Baa3 is the lowest investment grade, and one step away from speculative, or “junk” category. The Hungarian Forint weakened after the announcement. “Today’s downgrade is primarily driven by the Hungarian government’s gradual but significant loss of [...]
Continued support post-election is virtually unheard of in Hungary, according to analysts, but the Government has kept its two-thirds majority fully intact, several recent polls show. It’s no surprise, according to Government Spokesperson Anna Nagy who on Tuesday said the cabinet’s first “semester” has been characterized by dynamic decision making including 80 decrees, 131 rulings [...]
Experts have welcomed the Hungarian Government’s initiative to boost basic education. Less than a decade ago an independent European survey showed that Hungarian children under the age of 15 barely understand what they are reading. This reportedly caught the attention of the education experts who under the current centre-right government have pledged to boost education [...]
Arriving on the heels of media rumors concerning state acquisition of Hungarian oil giant MOL, a second instance court decision on Thursday said the company acted within legal boundaries, when it placed prohibition on board membership for its Russian shareholder Szurgutnyeftyegaz. MOL officials said denial was a reaction to the Russian company’s refusal to unveil [...]
On a three day visit to to Budapest, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Ahani on Wednesday said the time has come to revive Iranian-Hungarian economic, cultural, scientific and political relations, claiming that Hungary has “neglected” its ties outside the European Union. Meeting with Hungarian Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi, Ali Ahani said the two countries look [...]
After appointing the “three faces of Hungary” representing the nation during the 2011 EU Presidency (pictured), preparations for spearheading the European Union entered full swing on Wednesday as several members of the Hungarian Government visited Brussels to finalize key policy aspects. PM Viktor Orban is set to meet with EC President Herman van Rompuy and [...]
Jealousy played a key role in the murder of a Hungarian man, shot dead in Austria by a police officer who also wounded the man’s girlfriend before committing suicide, Austrian public radio (ORF) reported on Monday morning – according to MTI. The Hungarian consulate in Vienna has yet to confirm the reports.
Hungarian retail and office property developing company TriGranit has announced the completion of a mega mall in the Croatian city of Zagreb. The capital construction, known as Arena Center, is said to have cost the investors some EUR 350-mil. It is reported that TriGranit covered the lion’s share of the project by spending some EUR [...]
Hungary’s Justice Ministry is in talks with their Canadian counterparts to discuss the immigration of Gypsies from Eastern Europe, sources close to the minister revealed in Budapest on Thursday. The two partners are believed to discuss ways of permitting Hungarian Gypsies to enjoy the social system and hospitality of the Canadian people. It is believed [...]
International rating agencies are expected to downgrade Hungary’s credit rating in November following centre-right government’s new budget plans, experts in Budapest and London told Budapest Report. Their cited reasons being that Hungary will be weakened financially as it does not want to depend on an IMF bail-out to strengthen its reserves. Hungary’s 2011 budget has [...]
Hungarian Olympic Committee (MOB) has reportedly drawn up plans for a successful run in the 2012 London Olympics, members said. At the previous London Summer Olympics in 1908 Hungary achieved 3 gold, 4 silver and 2 bronze medals (9 in total) and in the summer Olympics in London in 1948 it achieved 10 gold, 5 [...]
German investor RWE has allegedly scrapped plans to expand the capacity of its lignite-based (brown coal, that is high in water content) power generating unit Matrai Eromu, the company said. The plant, located in Visonta, at the foot of the Matra Mountain, was expecting to spend at least HUF 300-bil on building a new 440MW [...]
The organizers of ABBA World, an interactive multimedia exhibition (music, video, photographs, memorabilia, etc contributed by the former Swedish pop group ABBA), are planning to bring their exhibition to Hungary after having already displayed it in London, promoters said. The show, called ABBA World, is expected to hit the Hungarian cultural scene in December 2010. [...]
The Hungarian Government is unhappy with the way things are being run in the expanded European Union, claiming that old school methods are no longer feasible or sensible in the expanded European Union in the 21st Century, political experts in Budapest said. They complained that Europe was hard hit by the global economic crisis merely [...]
The minister of police, national commissioner and divisional commissioner of crime intelligence of the Republic of South Africa have reportedly convinced the nation’s high court late Friday (29 Oct 2010) to stop the Sunday Independent newspaper from publishing information about dodgy appointments within the crime intelligence division, the periodical announced in a statement late Saturday [...]
The Hungarian Government, led by Prime Minister Viktor Orban has reportedly expressed that it his will do all in its power to weaken the jurisdiction of the Hungarian Constitutional Court (HCC). Ironically the previous president of Hungary happened to be an ex-HCC judge. The ruling party, FIDESZ, a week ago suggested that it wants to [...]
The Israeli Government, via its Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) is reportedly digitalizing the ancient scrolls and scroll fragments, better known as the Dead Sea Scrolls (first discovered in clay pots in a cave 1947). The IAA says that it has started the digital upload of the documents some two years ago and once completed the [...]
The President of Hungary believes Hungary has never been in a better relationship than it currently is with neighbouring Romania, where some 2 million Hungarians live in a minority. President Pal Schmitt made the coments following a meeting with Romanian President Traian Basescu on Tuesday. Romania is said to be piggy-back riding the Hungarian presidency [...]
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has reportedly launched a “public – dialogue initiative” and invite the Hungarian population to submit their views and comments on Hungary’s new Constitution, via the Internet on its website (alkotmany.postr.hu). As of Monday (Oct 18, 2010) all remarks and ideas will be available on the public forum (in Hungarian of [...]
The Hungarian government is reportedly turned to the national Parliament on Monday (Oct 18, 2010) requesting that it prolong the current national state of emergency (declared in the beginning of October effecting three western Hungarian counties following a toxic red-sludge spill directly contaminating at least three reportedly evacuated villages – namely Devecser, Somlovasarhelyd Kolontar – [...]
So far an aluminium toxic sludge spill has claimed the lives of eight people in Hungary, according to authorities reports. The body of the eighth victim of the water poisoning was found near the town of Devecser (Western Hungary). Government officials said that the poison was allegedly caused by neglect at the Hungarian Aluminium Co [...]
The Hungarian Parliamentary committee responsible for nominating delegates for a new Media Tribunal (to oversee Hungary’s media business) has allegedly become biased and is only filling suggestions to appoint members of the Ruling Hungarian centre-right party, FIDESZ (i.e: its own party soldiers). Reportedly the new tribunal will have no opposition party members in an attempt [...]
Hollywood superstar Brad Pitt (who played Achilles in the Hollywood bock-buster Troy, and his twins have allegedly joined Angelina Jolie Voight and their other children in Budapest, reports said. The Troy star had reportedly flown all the way from the walking city to the Hungarian capital in their private jet. Pitt was said to have [...]
October 6 is officially the national day to be sad in Hungary, according to the central legislation that officially announced that the day be declared the “Day of National Mourning” since 2001. This day in Budapest the national flag was lowered to half-mast accompanied by a military display of honours in front of the Parliament. [...]
In our country the Lifetree programme has been professing natural health preserving in physical, mental, spiritual and material sense for a decade. It has had serious professional background support in every mentioned area. We organise a health day joined with a world-record set in Ferenc Puskás Stadium for the second time. Visitors are in front [...]
Hungary has lost another one of its most talented Magyar sons this year with the passing away of the late Tony Curtis (age 85) on Sept 29, 2010. Bernard Swartz, alias Tony Curtis (also known as James Curtis and Anthony Curtis in the begining of his career, launched in 1949) was born to Jewish Hungarian [...]
The European Commission has allegedly taken decisive action against one of its biggest members for the expulsion and deportation of allegedly at least 1,000 Eastern European gypsies (generally also referred to as Roma). The EC in Brussels has reportedly launched infringement hearings against France for allegedly violating EU laws (including the anti-discrimination act and the [...]
The Hungarian Language Museum, located in the tiny village of Szephalom (NE Hungary) has recently opened a permanent exhibition to showcase what it calls the “Secrets of secrets – The past, present and future of the Hungarian language.” Organizers of the exhibit said that their aim was to utilize the achievements of the 21st Century [...]
Perhaps the financially troubled Hungarian Radio (MR) is not really in dire financial need after all. During the Socialist administration era and the Socialist political election campaigns MR was reportedly not bashful when it came to airing politics. However the leadership has allegedly fully denied airing any political messages of the Hungarian nationalist party JOBBIK, [...]
Hungarians are reportedly celebrating the 50th anniversary of one of their favorite cartoons. The Flinstones animated sitcom series had allegedly brought Hungarian dubbing to its peak, when expert linguists, poets and comedians swept the audience off their feet by dubbing the Bedrock scenes in excellent lip-sync – in verse (almost like Dr. Seuss). All Magyar [...]
The Republic of South Africa was represented by President Jacob Zuma, during the SA-EU Summit in Brussels on Sept 28, 2010. The summit reportedly met for the first time under the auspices of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty. South Africa and the EU signed an agreement called the Primary Education Sector Policy Support Program, allegedly the [...]
Ethiopian marathon-man Herkolo Ashenafi won the ’25th Spar International Budapest Marathon and Running Festival’ in the men’s category with a time of 2:23:13 on Sept 26, 2010. The reportedly 42.2 kilometre annual marathon this year took place in rainy weather, in Budapest. Ashenafi was flanked by Hungarians Tamas Toth (2:24:36) and Zsolt Zsoder (2:24:55). To [...]
Hungary is preparing for the seven lean years as the Central Government allegedly plans to lay off more of its workforce to save some HUF 800-bil during its term in office. The Economic Minister in charge of the budget, is reportedly saving some HUF 100-bil during 2011. Currently Hungary’s administration reportedly spends nearly HUF 3-bil/yr [...]
The world’s biggest retailer is reportedly says it is not convinced about the latest threat from trade unions during its acquisition attempt in the Republic of South Africa. Wal-Mart Stores Inc is said to have offered some ZAR 30-bil (about USD 4.5-bil) for South Africa’s wholesaler group Massmart Holdings Ltd, which is registered on the [...]
Hungary will most likely enter the Guinness Book of Records for making the most moonshine (better known as Palinka in Hungary) after the Smallholdings and private homes have been given the green light to distill their own non-commercial amount of home palinka tax-free, as of Sept 27, 2010. Sources at the Hungarian excise and tax [...]
A 41-year-old Romanian national has allegedly been caught red-handed with a reportedly stolen luxury for with a warrant was issued in Switzerland, earlier this year. The seizure was said to have taken place on the Romanian-Hungarian border post of Nagylak. The man was arrested and is now reportedly being questioned by the Romanian and Hungarian [...]
The Hungarian Foreign Ministry has agreed with its Slovakian counterpart to inform each other on all disputed issues via a special hot line, to avoid future diplomatic and political controversies they have learned of only in the press, a source at the ministry in Hungary told Budapest Report Monday. He added that the two ministries [...]
At least 11 people have been arrested on charges of illegal rhino hunting in South Africa, police in Pretoria confirmed to Budapest Report. They added that most of the alleged rhino-poaching syndicate members have been released on bail and will have to appear in court in April 2011. Ironically rhino poaching has become the number [...]
German car makers are breaking new records. However these will not be speed or endurance records, but rather an all new investment record in Central and eastern Europe. The Ingolstadt-based automaker Audi AG (a member of the Volkswagen Group), plans to investment at least EUR 1-bil at its production and assembly unit in Gyor, North-western [...]
The French Government has reportedly expelled and deported several so-called Roma Gypsies back to Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria in what observers called the biggest deportation since the Holocaust. The move has sparked a fierce row between French President Nicolas Sarkozy (who by the way is of Hungarian origin) and European Commissioner Jose Manuel Barosso. Barosso [...]
Initiated by the Hungarian partner the first international-Chinese law firm of the world, named Yingke Várnai was established. As the first step of the European expansion the Deed of Foundation of the Budapest office was signed by Dr. Rupert Várnai and Mr. Mei Xiangrong in Kodály Hall at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Dr. Rupert [...]
The outgoing chief mayor of Budapest, Gabor Demszky will most probably be remembered as the longest serving mayor in the history of Budapest. But he will certainly be remembered as the longest serving mayor who did kaka about cleaning up the doggie-do in the capital. Every year hundreds and thousands of tonnes of dog droppings [...]
South African Communist Party (SACP) General Secretary Blade Nzimande claims that the planned new Media Appeals Tribunal is not aimed at curbing media freedom. He told a meeting of the Cape Town Press Club that the African National Congress (ANC) would not tell journalists how and what to write. “All we want is a fair, [...]
Former South African President Thabo Bheki, has said that African leaders who hang on to power are often the cause of wars on the continent. He said that although the continent has the means to rid itself of such tyrants, the African Union lacks the money to implement these actions. Bheki did not directly point [...]
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) expected thousands of people to take to the streets worldwide next week in support of the first ever Rhino Day. September is Rhino Month and the public are asked to use the WWF’s website to donate cash and combat poaching. Funds raised will be used to buy equipment for rangers [...]
Phil Collins has released a brand new CD “Going Back”, concentrating his music on Motown and the 1960s soul classics. The cover of the album has a picture of Collins playing the drums when he was 15-years-old. All proceeds from the album sales in South Africa will be going to the charity, Topsy Foundation. “I [...]
The Majority of Britons are not so pleased with the visit of Pope Benedict XVI. After his airplane dubbed “Prayer Force 1” landed in Scotland, the pontiff received a relatively cold reception from the population who are allegedly frustrated by the role of the Catholic church and the ongoing scandals of child sexual abuse. The [...]
The Hungarian Parliament on Wednesday passed a law permitting local public institutions to purchase produce from local farms without an often protracted and severely bureaucratic ‘public procurement process’. Hungarian Agricultural Minister Sandor Fazekas (left) and Government Spokesperson Anna Nagy announced the change in the small town of Many, near Budapest. Small farmers will no longer [...]
After Florida and France, South Africa is expecting to open the world’s third Disney theme park in its North-eastern province of Mpumalanga, officials of the National Tourism Agency said. The planned Disney World investment is expected to cost a whopping ZAR 25 billion. Experts claim that South Africa was on the top of Disney’s wish [...]
One of the biggest causes of human deaths in Southern Africa is cause by attacks from hippopotamus, experts said. But this time the hippo was at the other end of the stick, when it was allegedly killed by an oncoming train near Beira in Mozambique. Witnesses claim that the line had not been used for [...]
The corrupt police service of South Africa’s most crime infested Gauteng Province (also dubbed Gangster’s Paradise) has received a new police commissioner, who vows to be more stringent with even the smallest crimes. Police Commissioner Mzwandile Petros said at an anti-crime summit (packed with delegates from community policing forums, NGOs and members of public) that [...]
The United Nations atomic watchdog claims that Iran has once again rejected the request for inspection by international nuclear experts, under the auspices of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The Islamic state denied accusations. The UN reportedly claims it is concerned that Iran is fast working on developing its own nuclear arsenal. However officials [...]
The Hungarian administration has vowed to further boost bilateral relations with Croatia on all levels to help both countries exploit each other’s potentials to the maximum. The Hungarian Government has also promised to give maximum support for Croatia in its bid to join the European Union. The majority of Hungarians are reportedly spending their hard [...]
Former Wham pop group singer George Michael is reportedly doing four weeks in jail after crashing his car into a shop window in England. Reports said that the singer was allegedly under the influence of Canabis, when he dozed off at the wheel of his car and smashed the vehicle into a small photo shop [...]
Ecuadorians in Budapest are as rare as the Hungarians on the Galapagos Islands. Nevertheless Hungarian police have said that they are investigating a homicide in which an alleged Ecuadorian male (48) was stabbed in central Budapest over the weekend and hospitalized. However based on medical reports the patient has since died from his injuries during [...]
The Hungarian green party LMP has pledged to dig at the roots of an ongoing corruption scandal in an attempt to acquire classified documents concerning the allegations in connection to what LMP considers to be an unlawful purchase (via offset agreement) of Swedish-built Gripen fighter planes. LMP said it will not tolerate Swedish excuses and [...]
Police in Kenya have reportedly arrested operators of a morgue and cemetery for their involvement in the illegal trade of male genitalia, allegedly sold for witchcraft purposes. The police said that they received an anonymous tip-off (please excuse the pun – editor) and after investigating the issue confiscated the offending items (reportedly snatched from the [...]
The South African Police Service (SAPS) has announced they have finally paid the full amount to all police officers who worked overtime during the June-July soccer spectacle. Reportedly some 44,000 officers were deployed to work overtime during the tournament, but were not paid by SAPS for these services until just recently. It was not mentioned [...]
Nokia Siemens Networks has picked Budapest for its global railway communications center, the company’s Hungarian MD Robert Esik said at a press conference on Monday. The move is claimed to create 100 jobs this year. Hungarian Economic Minister Gyorgy Matolcsy and Finnish Prime Minister Mari Kiviniemi, on an official Hungarian visit this week, toured the [...]
Anonymous sources in a Monday report of left-leaning daily Nepszava claimed that the Hungarian Bank Alliance (BSz) plans to torpedo the controversial bank tax proposed by Economic Minister Gyorgy Matolcsy (pictured), insisting that the solution to sustaining budget deficit targets in 2011 lies elsewhere. BSz claimed the HUF 200 billion burden on the financial sector [...]
The Khoisan population of the Republic of South Africa (RSA) are demanding their own homeland with their own government and military, representatives told Budapest Report Wednesday. They added that the Khoisan people have already established their own defense force, despite the fact that RSA does not recognise their autonomy as yet. The indigenous San people [...]
Hungarian Agricultural Minister Sandor Fazekas (pictured) on Wednesday announced that the Government has filed an appeal at the European Commission, to extend the moratorium on the acquisition of crop land for foreign nationals in Hungary to April 30, 2014. Fazekas said the move is due to the weakening position of Hungarian farmers, who were left [...]
The Staff and students of a Budapest District 12 school had an surprise start of their school year after their edifice was named after Vatican diplomat Gennaro Verolino, who has reportedly helped save several thousands of Jewish Hungarians during the Holocaust of World War Two. Verolino was announced Righteous Among the Nations by the Jerusalem-based [...]
Hungary has issued an international arrest warrant for a Chinese citizen who has allegedly recently murdered a 21-year-old Norwegian student in Budapest in what police believe could have been a failed love affair. A court has issued the arrest warrant against 26-year-old Zhao Fei, who is suspected of the murder after police found CCTV footage [...]
Religious groups in Hungary welcomed the civilian initiative of the recent “ Anti-Gay Pride March” in Budapest where on Sept 4 Budapestians went onto the street to voice their support for what they dubbed as “ Heterosexual Pride” in answer to the earlier held Gay Pride procession (on July 10, 2010). Although more gay participants [...]
Hungary has been instrumental but not active in NATO’s Afghanistan mission so far, but to save face the government has voted to send a further 200 military staff to its already existing 400 personnel contingent in the Asian war-torn nation. Hungarians have been in this country since 2003, where they run a technical provincial reconstruction [...]
As part of the Hungarian Government’s determined sweep for accountability, Commissioner Ferenc Papcsak on Monday claimed that former Socialist Social Minister Erika Szucs was employed for doing no work whatsoever, after leaving her job at the Ministry. In the contract, Szucs had been falsely registered as a Government Commissioner (which she was not- according Papcsak), [...]
LISBON, Sep 4, 2010 A trial that dragged on for six years amidst public outrage ended Friday in Portugal with the unexpected sentencing of prominent personalities, found guilty in a child sex abuse scandal that shook the nation. The sex ring scandal involving the Casa Pía state-run children’s home in Lisbon broke in late 2002, [...]
The Hungarian Socialist Party (MSzP) on Thursday announced its new communication officers former TV presenter Kata Kormos (pictured left) and former MP Zsolt Torok. Kormos said she believes in the party’s revival and that she intends to explain the socialist stance on people’s everyday problems, on a personal level. “Hungarians are confused about what’s going [...]
For the first time in more than a decade, the Dalai Lama, the Buddhist leader of religious officials of the Gelug or “Yellow Hat” branch of Tibetan Buddhism is scheduled to visit Hungary on Sept 18-19. Tickets for his lecture are already sold out, according to reports, as it has sparked international interest due to [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Whistle-blower group Transparency International (TI) has reportedly released a statement revealing that Hungary’s Socialist party- led governments (under ex-PMs Ferenc Gyurcsany – pictured – and Gordon Bajnai) was allegedly corrupt to the teeth. At the same time TI said that based on an OECD report, the Socialist-led government received bottom marks for combating bribery (despite [...]
After a three day trial a South African judge at the Bloemfontein Magistrates Court has promptly sentenced four white male ex-university students (RC Malherbe, Danie Grobler, Johnny Roberts and Schalk van der Merwe- known as the ” Reitz-4 “, pictured) to a suspended 12 months jail sentence and the equivalent of about USD 3,000 for [...]
Nazi Germany war crime hunting organization, the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s third most wanted war criminal has finally been arrested after more than 60 years after committing his crimes. Samuel Kunz (88) – pictured – was arrested for allegedly participating in the murder of some of 430,000 Jews at the Belzec Nazi death camp in Poland [...]
The strength of the economy of communist China has surpassed that of Japan’s, making it the world’s second strongest economy after the United States of America. Not surprising as both the US and Japan are heavily dependant on the communist regime to produce low and high quality goods dirt-cheap for their own markets and exports. [...]
Police in Northern France have reportedly charged Dominique Cottrez (46) with the murder of 8 newborn infants. Police were alerted by a person who found the dead corpses of two infants in plastic bags while digging in his garden. It turns out that the property formerly belonged to Cottrez’s late parents. Cottrez, a nurse, confessed [...]
It weighs 20kg and eats about GBP 80 worth of green groceries each month, but Ralph the rabbit from Uckfield, East Sussex in Great Britain is not your ordinary pet. It’s owners have made headlines for the past six months as their “British Continental Giant” rabbit is constantly posing for cameras and television crews from [...]
South Africa’s Stellenbosch University has developed a revolutionary idea that it wishes to now commercially market. Researchers have discovered how various non-fiber carbon placed into a simple tea filter bag (pictured) that fits into the palm of a hand is capable of purifying 1 liter of heavily polluted water, so that it can instantly be [...]
A ‘new world’ is to be erected, according to the Hungarian Government’s election program. While this is true in terms of staffing top-level public institutions (according to analysts), PM Viktor Orban on Thursday announced the ‘Szechenyi’ Plan, which will also staff Hungarian SMEs by creating 1 million jobs and boosting the Hungarian economy. Orban said [...]
This autumn, for the eighth occasion, the largest Hungarian MICE workshop and meeting place for travel suppliers, event and training organisers as well as corporate travellers will be held at Hungexpo’s Pavilion G on 20-21 October. Starting from this year, the Business Travel Show (BTS) is organised in cooperation between the founder, Turizmus Ltd, and [...]
Hungarian captain Zoltan Gera (31) earlier this year resigned from Hungarian national football after he was dropped from various international matches. Gera had been totally ignored by former manager-coach Erwin Koeman (49) for the World Cup qualifier against Denmark in October 2009. While Hungary didn’t even make it to the world cup, Gera and his [...]
Hundreds of Hungarians taking a sabbatical for temporary work in the British Isles will be glad to hear that the British Government may abolish the use of costly speed monitoring cameras. They will now be able to return to the Isles with a straight face if they bunked paying the fines they were sent via [...]
American tax-payers are freaked out after they heard that the US Defense Ministry claims that they have been ‘robbed’ of USD 8.65-bil for which the Pentagon can’t give account for. Tax-payers said that they believe the Pentagon had reportedly laundered their money via shady deals during the reconstruction of Iraq, even promising countries like Hungary [...]
British Petroleum Plc (BP), once Britain’s biggest profit-maker, was forced to announce its biggest profit loss ever in the company’s recent quarterly report. In a mere three months the company went GBP 11-bil into the red on reported revenues of GBP 21-bil. The good news is that the company’s big-shot Tony Haywood has parachuted to [...]
Argentina soccer star and coach-manager Diego Maradona has been sacked from his post as manager of the Argentina national squad. The announcement was made shortly after the Argentinian Football Federation (AFA) decided, in a meeting, not to renew the former footballer’s contract due to sloppy performance in the 2010 South African Soccer World Cup. AFA [...]
Portland, Oregon -USA, has been world-renowned for its cement, now Portland police are to put former Vice President Al Gore’s feet in cement, to solidify his alleged sex abuse case, that has been shelved, collecting dust for several years. Portland District Attorney Michael Schrunk has reopened the case that was initially dismissed on the grounds [...]
US senators have allegedly demanded Britain’s biggest company, British petroleum (BP) to hand over documents concerning their role in persuading the British government to the release infamous Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Alegrahi (spelling may vary, as he is also known as al-Megrahi). They reportedly believe BP wanted to get favorable options for exploration and production [...]
South Africa has the highest unemployment rate on the continent and experts say that nothing is expected to change before the end of the year in this regard. Reports said that some 25.3% of the working population are unemployed. Of the 49 million people living in the rainbow nation, only 12.7 million have jobs. Economists [...]
Thousands of South African school children allegedly stayed at home after parents heard the early morning news that 18 month old Panjo, the tiger had escaped from its owner’s one-tone pick up truck (commonly referred to as a bakkie, by the locals) while it was being taken to the local veterinarian for its annual shots. [...]
The Hungarian Government today announced that generic and specialty drug-maker Mylan Inc. will establish a pharmaceutical packaging center in the Komarom Industrial Park. The project is expected to add approximately 400 new jobs to the local economy over the next several years. “Hungary needs such investments and such innovations that strengthen the Hungarian economy. Those [...]
As the Orban cabinet received the first, much-appreciated compliments from international media, such as from The Times’s Adam Lebor (curiously a former harsh critic of the Hungarian PM), its ministers have been spurred to react with self-confidence. Public Administration and Justice Minister Tibor Navracsics on Monday said the Orban cabinet has completed its goals of [...]
The South African Education Ministry has agreed to permit worm-eating among school children in certain parts of the country, especially the Vhembe region of its Limpopo province. Schools in the impoverished regions of Limpopo have asked for special permission to be allowed to feed their pupils the traditional food called Mashonza (the Mopane worm, Latin [...]
One of the world’s most famous socialites, Budapest-born Zsa Zsa Gabor, has gone into a coma, doctors said, according to reports. The Queen of Outer Space is said to have been rushed to hospital after falling and fracturing her hip at the ripe old age of 93. Gabor underwent surgery, but quickly lapsed into a [...]
Finally Hungary has a chance to qualify for a world cup final after so many years of failing to do so. When in South Africa on July 11 to watch the 2010 World Cup final match, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban promised the Hungarian Alliance in Halfway House, South Africa, that he will do everything [...]
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has announced he is retiring from public life after his 79th birthday in October this year. The Anglican religious public figure said he would continue to visit his office at least once a week until February 2011 and honor existing appointments. However Tutu declines to give any media interviews, but said [...]
Government investigators have proclaimed that there are no persons responsible for the six deaths of new-born babies in a hospital in South Africa. However heath professionals are demanding an explanation as to why and how the infants were allowed to die under alleged sterile-clean hospitals. Initially hospital staff complained that there was a lack of [...]
In a recent interview British model Elle Macpherson was confronted but laughed that she had been joking about consuming rhino horn. In a recent on-line interview on the social network, twitter it was revealed that although news may be a load of bull, but like a stupid cow the model surely should have known that [...]
The Hungarian Government is working towards stabilizing the budget and has not concluded any new stand-by loan agreement for 2011, claiming that its decision would not jeopardize the financing of the central budget. As the Hungarian Parliament completes the process of adopting new economic legislation the country can expect new structural reforms from the Prime [...]
South African radio reports show that merely less than 4% of all women’s rape cases saw perpetrators being convicted. This disturbing factor has raised eyebrows amid international women organisations, who have pledged to take immediate action and lobby for more stringent laws and regulations to be introduced, to not allow perpetrators to be acquitted. Reports [...]
South African professional golfer, Louis Oosthuizen (27), has dedicated his win of the classic British Open on Sunday (July 18, 2010) to the world’s best known icon, Nelson Mandela. He stunned everyone at St. Andrews, considered the home of golf, winning by seven shots. It was his first major here and the last person to [...]
Namibia is to murder some 80,000 Cape fur seals this year to “reduce” the seal population because they are allegedly “eating” too much fish. I’ve never seen seals eating out at McDonald’s, but perhaps the Namibian government doesn’t know seals eat only what fish they need, the rest they just simply leave in the ocean. [...]
On request from High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton, Hungarian Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi is to attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on July 22-23, according to a Ministry press release. On Wednesday, Martonyi held a preliminary meeting with Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi, who said China [...]
The Hungarian currency plunged to 290 against the Euro on Monday, as the meeting between the Government and an IMF/EU delegation failed due to disagreements over parts of the country’s so-called fiscal consolidation plan and PM Viktor Orban’s 29 economic action points. A key point under IMF fire was Orban’s bank tax, which will inhibit [...]
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy on Thursday paid a four-day visit to Hungary. Kennedy met with Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi. His visit comes as Hungary begins a process to rewrite its Constitution. Regarding this process, Justice Kennedy said, “The people of Hungary have the opportunity to restate to [...]
As the major heat wave hit Hungary this week, a level three warning was issued by the Hungarian Surgeon General on Thursday. Speaking to reporters, Dr. Judit Paller (pictured left) said the required emergency measures will include monitoring water quality and safety. Paller added that an emergency level warning will be unlikely, which would require [...]
It was the best of Budapest, it was the worst of Budapest – was what various representatives of the political spectrum say about the 20 years liberal mayor Gabor Demszky has spent in office. But as the ‘Demszky era’ comes to a close, four candidates have lined up to run for the coveted position, possessing [...]
The Government has decided to reduce the budget of the Aug 20 national holiday celebration by 50%, Justice Ministry Spokesman Zoltan Kovacs (pictured second from right) said, speaking to reporters in flood-stricken Edeleny. The news comes after a recent Facebook initiative demanding to scrap celebration expenses altogether, donating its entire budget to flood-reparation causes. Kovacs [...]
It seems that right-leaning media in Hungary can never get enough of the scandals of the Gyurcsany-cabinet, even during a Fidesz Government. According to daily Magyar Nemzet, former Social Minister Erika Szucs was commissioned by the Ministry of Social Affairs to work on press monitoring for HUF 6 million, four months after leaving office. The [...]
According to a Hungarian Foreign Ministry statement on Friday, American authorities speaking to the Hungarian consul, have confirmed finding the body of one of the victims of the Delaware River accident. The search for the other missing Hungarian continues, the statement said.
One of the most exciting multicultural festivals in Central Europe, four days long, with 15 stages and approximately 200 programs: concerts, DJs, theater shows and performances. The festival is characterized by its wide variety of musical styles: rock, pop, jazz, hip-hop, electro, world music… Sopron, the town hosting VOLT Festival lies on the Austrian-Hungarian border, [...]
It was a sad day for Hungarian liberals on Wednesday, as analysts were not even surprised when Budapest Mayor Gabor Demszky revealed to reporters that he has left the liberal party Alliance of Free Democrats. Demszky said he would rather exclude himself, as the formerly glorious ‘democratic light of the regime change era’ is now [...]
Incoming Slovak Prime Minister Iveta Radicova on Wednesday said she intends to withdraw planned retaliatory measures against Hungarian dual citizenship. Despite this, speaking to Hungarian weekly HVG, she said Hungarian dual citizenship will be “annulled” in Slovakia. The statements come as the a new center-right coalition government launches in Slovakia, which includes Hungarian-Slovakian ‘reconciliation’ party [...]
Baby-faced Portuguese striker Cristiano Ronaldo (25) has allegedly become a daddy via a surrogate mother, reports claim. The world’s most expensive soccer player (worth Euro 81 million) has allegedly sowed his seed with some unknown American lassie, who reportedly hates football. Ronaldo was quoted by various media reports on how happy he is, but he [...]
Due to the slack performance by Brazil at the 2010 South African World Cup, coach Donga has lost twice, once because his team were eliminated and secondly because he was fired with immediate effect. Brazil lost 1-2 to The Netherlands on Saturday (July 2, 2010). According to reports the next man in line to take [...]
Talent scouts from European football clubs are grabbing ‘low-cost’ Bafana Bafana players from the Republic of South Africa. Following the 1-1 draw match against Mexico and 2-1 win against France during their Group A round matches it was only unlucky for the host nation of the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup, not to join the [...]
South Africa’s Jabulani ball makes history again as a Cuban has reportedly juggled the wonder-ball for a registered 3 hours, three minutes and 14 seconds. The amazing feat was carried out at a hotel in Havana, the capital of Cuba. The ball master is said to be a certain Erick Hernandez, who also holds the [...]
It was a long way for both Spain and Holland to the cup final of the 2010 World Cup. let’s see what the two teams had to do to reach the ultimate spot. Spain had to beat Germany 1-0 in their semi-final match of the 2010 South African World Cup. prior to that thie track [...]
Spain has reached the final of the 2010 South African World Cup, which the country’s most obvious fan will be watch at home. The country’s most obvious fan, a drummer known only as “Manolo” has reportedly given up his battle against the noisy plastic trumpets, the vuvuzelas. He is said to be Spain’s most famous [...]
After just two months in office, the Orban cabinet is facing devastating opposition fire from left-leaning media including daily Nepszava, who recently accused the center-right government of designing the incoming ‘bank tax’ around companies close to party circles. These the paper says would be treated more leniently by the new legislation. Nepszava claimed that one [...]
The Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) on Wednesday fined L’Oreal Hungary for HUF 5 million for unfounded marketing claims in advertisements of several products including Vichy Liftactiv CxP, Revitalift and Vichy Cellu Metric. The cosmetics giant said it is examining the possibilities to appeal against the decision in court. GVH officials added that tests concerning the [...]
Just recently an Englishman called Zachariah Evans was browsing around on the internet on Google Earth and found God. Well, actually the Son of God, on an agricultural field. You would say that Google has accidentally revealed the face of Jesus Christ in Hungary to the world, but theologians would rather say that God has [...]
The Polish election office said Monday (July 5, 2010) that based on the counted votes the next president of the Polish Republic will be Bronislaw Komorowski (pictured). He is a center-right candidate of the Civic Platform party, which won 53.01% of all legible votes (a political scenario similar to Hungary where the centre-right government is [...]
Experts are concerned in Hungary as to the relationship of the Orban-cabinet with online media outlets, as new legislation may push for stricter control over online publishers including owners of personal blogs – who could be compelled to register with authorities. Adding to worries in a more lighthearted way, controversy broke out on Friday over [...]
Six unions on Thursday filed a complaint with the Hungarian Constitutional Court (AB), seeking to annul the Government’s legislation modifying the regulation of layoffs in the civil servant sector, according to newswire Fuggetlen Hirugynokseg (FH). The amendment allows the Government to layoff public employees without justification, according to Jozsef Feher, Chariman of the Civil Servants’ [...]
A Budapest conference on Thursday called for initiatives supporting a stable business climate for the property sector, as a recent Hungarian Statistical Office (KSH) study reported worrying trends in the Hungarian real estate industry, such as 15.7% decreasing volume of construction. According to Henrik Toth, the President of the Joint Venture Alliance’s Economic Strategy Commission, [...]
The Hungarian Prime Minister’s personal economic consultant, Gyorgy Szapary, told portal fn.hu on Tuesday that the Government will seek to renew the loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund, after the current one expires in 2010. Szapary said the Government has no plans to borrow, but will seeks to restore investor confidence by running a [...]
The South African Police Service (SAPS) claim that a British journalist Simon Wright (44) was allegedly arrested for being the master-mind behind the recent attempt to portray blemished World Cup stadium security in South Africa after the England-Algeria match at Green Point Stadium in Cape Town, during their group stage match of the 2010 FIFA [...]
The world of professional and international rugby has already embraced television-refereeing as a standard when there is a disputed try. The governing body of the international football federation, FIFA, has announced that it would be “Nonsense not to reopen the file on goal-line technologies” as an increasing number of fans are disgusted by the fact [...]
On the heels of dire news from the small Northeastern town, media reports from Felsozsolca once again shocked public opinion as a complete lack of solidarity was displayed by the small town’s authorities. Citizens who were vacated from their homes by the flood reported receiving notices from the mayor’s office to demolish homes deemed “dangerous,” [...]
The ‘bank tax’ to be levied by the Orban cabinet’s first economic ‘action plan’ caused international uproar and could depress the Hungarian economy even further, according to a Friday report by Bloomberg. The financial wire claims to have obtained a letter signed by International Banking Federation (IBF) President Alessandro Profumo, which calls for “profound modification” [...]
The Czechs secured victory at the recent European Athletics Team Championships (First League) in Budapest. Participants included Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Ireland, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden and Turkey. The event was the last major competition before the upcoming European Championships in Barcelona.
It was red-carpet night as Twilight series actors Kristen Stewart (20), Robert Pattinson (24) and Taylor Lautner (18) paraded onto the North American premier of Eclipse, the third of the series in the vampire movie saga Twilight. The screening was at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Thousands of fans were cordoned off and [...]
Hungary commemorated the 1st anniversary of the death of the king of pop, Michael Jackson. Magyar fans have dubbed Michael, “Budapest’s black son,” as he was instantly adopted by the Hungarian capital during his filming of the album History in 1994. The game black jack in Hungary has also sometimes referred to by young Michael-lovers [...]
A Budapest conference organized by the Joint Venture Alliance (JVSz) and ITD Hungary on Wednesday sought break-out strategies from the prolonged effects of the economic crisis by focusing on the untapped potential of Far-eastern markets for Hungarian SMEs. State Secretary of the Economic Ministry Zsolt Becsey suggested that export should be directed towards China, Russia [...]
It’s the end of the Italian dream and the start of a Slovakian fairytale. Slovakia was not even a nation some 20 years ago, and now every country in the world knows their name as they have felled the reigning world cup champions – Italy. Paraguay and New Zealand could not stop Italy, but Slovakia [...]
The national football squad of the tiny Central European nation of Slovenia was able to defy the big bad bear (Russia) to qualify for the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup and became one of the most celebrated participants in the host nation, South Africa. However their goal-less loss against England (which scored the only goal [...]
Rhodesian-born celebrity and international swimmer Charlene Lynette Wittstock (32) has agreed to marry the frog crown prince of the mini state of Monaco. The lucky guy is Crown Prince Albert II (52) of Monaco and the pair have officially announced their engagement on Wednesday (June 23, 2010). The couple say they have been seriously dating [...]
All the world‘s a stage, all men and women on it merely its prayers. As You Like It (or not) The new arguments against ideological Isms in Hungary are troublesome, and translate to far more than a “play on words” or recasting a textual reality. They have started to eek blood. People here express rage, [...]
The recent release of the documentary Bun es buntetlenseg (‘Guilt and Impunity’) about the life of Bela Biszku (former communist minister responsible for retribution after the ’56 Revolution) sparked controversy in Hungary, as the Biszku family attempted to ban its screening but gave in after pressure from several directions including the Parliamentary Committee for Culture [...]
French President Nicholas Sarkozy (of Hungarian descent) has expressed his fury over the imcompetence of his national team, slagging French squad coach Raymond Domenech for his unorthodox conduct and slacking to be a deserving ambassador to France when he declined to shake hands with South African coach Carlos Alberto Parreira, after the host nation of [...]
Ex-US president Bill Clinton will be among the spectators of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Group C football match between the United States and Algeria on Wednesday (23 June, 2010) at the Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria, South Africa. It can not be confirmed yet, but FIFA has also invited Monika Lewinsky alongside the other [...]
Bad sport disgraced France coach Raymond Domenech (58, pictured right) declined to shake hands (it’s tradition) with South Africa’s celebrated coach from Brazil, Carlos Alberto Parreira (67, pictured left) after the host nation of the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup beat France 2-1 (2-0) in their Group A challenge. But still both national teams said [...]
Two gorgeous Dutch models, accused of ambush marketing at a recent FIFA football event were released on Tuesday (June 22, 2010) after FIFA allegedly received millions of Euros in an out of court settlement, reports suggested. Two blond bombshells arrested for so-called ‘ambush marketing’ during a 2010 FIFA Football World Cup match have now been [...]
The host nation of the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup has said an early goodbye after they were unable to gain a 4-goal difference in their group to advance into the next round. Bafana, Bafana as the South African team is commonly known, was unable to take advantage of the one-man advantage after France had [...]
Jozsef Debreczeni, writer and failed candidate of the MDF party in the 2010 elections, was acquitted of defamation on Tuesday after a Budapest court declared that his statements concerning security company UD Zrt. fall under the right to free speech and should be constitutionally protected. Debreczeni had made the statements in September 2008, in an [...]
Vegetable shops were closed in Cape Town as local Portuguese shopkeepers were among the 64, 644 spectators watching the match between Portugal and North Korea at Greenpoint Stadium in the mothor city of the host nation of the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup. We can’t wait for the next game against Brazil after the Portugal [...]
U.S. Ambassador to Hungary Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis on June 21 opened trading at the Budapest Stock Exchange (BET) with a symbolic ringing of the bell (replica of the bell indicating the start of trading at the New York Stock Exchange), marking the 5001st day of trading at the institution. In her opening address, Tsakopoulos Kounalakis [...]
Nigerian midfielder Sani Kaita (24), was given the red card in the 33rd minute of match in which Greece defeated Nigeria 2-1 in Group B on Thursday (June 17, 2010). Because of this he has received multiple e-mails with the death threat “This man must die.” The Nigerian Government and football federation have taken the [...]
Chelsea’s French striker Nicholas Anelka (31) has been banished from the French national squad by his coach Raymond Domanech, for foul language and calling his mother a “whore.” Domanech had allegedly heavily criticized Anelka’s competence as a striker in their team’s recently discouraging 2-0 defeat by Mexico. The French Football Federation made the announcement in [...]
FIFA officials are taking none of the Dutch government’s abuse following the so-called ambush-marketing stunt at a World Cup match between Denmark and The Netherlands, where 36 lightly dressed models showed more than a Dutch beverage. South African police (for whatever reason) have apparently also apprehended and questioned two women on suspicion of what they [...]
It was a freezing cold quiet night in Pretoria, the capital of the host nation of the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup as Bafana, Bafana, the national squad of the Republic of South Africa, was white-washed in a 3-0 victory by Uruguay. It was a crying game as hundreds of home fans left the stadium [...]
Millions of football fans worldwide could hear a pin drop as thousands of South African die-hard fans at Pretoria’s Loftus Versveld Stadium on Wednesday (June 16, 2010) failed to blow their noisy plastic instruments known as the vuvuzelas. The so-called 12th man of the South African squad was silenced by the spectacular 15 yard shot [...]
By adapting the scientific understanding of teenagers, how they think, learn, and are moved to action, a successful program of history teaching, called Facing History and Ourselves, has gained prominence internationally. Adaptable to all regions, a basis for this method is to draw on the parallels with clearest modern tragedy from Holocaust Education. The focus [...]
On June 15, 2010 Brazil played perhaps one of its toughest matches as the top ranked against Communist Korea as the lowest ranked (105th position), experts said. During the match Brazil shot 26 tries at goal of which 10 were on target compared to Korea’s 11 shot attempts on goal of which only three were [...]
John Travolta (56) and wife Kelly Preston (47) have arrived to the host nation of the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup to promote Quantas, Australia and the Socceroos and last, but not last – her pregnant tummy. Everywhere they travel in the Republic of South Africa the couple and their daughter Ella (10) were widely [...]
The strike acts of thousands of striking exploited security employees have overshadowed South Africa’s 2010 World Cup venues. Security employees of two host city stadiums have been immediately dismissed despite the fact that their claims were valid, experts said. Over the past few days security workers at the Durban and Cape Town football stadiums engaged [...]
According to a Hungarian internet blog report, victims of recent record flooding located in Northeastern town Felsozsolca have been neglected by authorities responsible for flood relief and are facing unbearable circumstances including complete lack of food, shelter and security. According to reports, groups of victims have been rejected “registration” as victims, after insisting on remaining [...]
The Savaria International Dance festival was recently held in Hungary, featuring several events of the International Dance Sport Federation (IDSF), including the IDSF Latin Cup Europe and the ISDF Open. Photos by Dr. Tibor Milibak.
World 83rd ranked South Africa, the Host nation of the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup, have played a world class match against Mexico (ranked 17 in the world). The Mexicans dominated most of the first half, but were incapable of penetrating the South African defense to take the lead. The second half started with a [...]
The driver of the car that killed little Zenani Mandela (the 13-yeqr-old great-granddaughter of South African political icon Nelson Mandela) has allegedly been arrested and charged with drunken driving and manslaughter, police revealed on Friday (June 11, 2010). Nelson Mandela cancelled his attendance to the opening game of the 2010 FIFA World Cup between the [...]
