Known killer of two children still free after eight years

The story starts in 2000."On April 9, 2000, Ciarán Tobin, an Irish citizen working as a senior manager of Irish Life and Permanent Hungary, was driving towards Budapest through a small town of Leányfalu. His speed was estabilished at least 80 km/h in a 50 km/h...

Hungary wants to tax the internet

Did you hear that Hungary is a controversial country? Well this is just one more example for this. We would need to spread the use of internetin our country since considering the internet penetration in EU we arestill somewhere behind. So what should one do to help this?...

Visa-Free Travel Expanded by Homeland Security

"""The Department of Homeland Security announced proudly on March 17 that three former Eastern bloc nations - Slovakia, Hungary, and Lithuania - have entered into a memorandum of understanding allowing visa-free travel to and from those countries and the United States. Which...

Serbia's neighbours recognise Kosovo

Serbia's neighbours, Bulgaria, Croatia, and Hungary, recognized Kosovo's independence today, which was a blow to Serbia as they are trying to resist the province's breakaway." Serbia immediately warned its three...

Money just flows on the streets of Budapest

As 1 and 2 forint coins are getting phased out in Hungary (1 USD is 175 forints) they are being collected for various charity purposes. One of the local councils (there are 3200 in a country where ten million lives...) managed to collect so much of them that the big plastic...

Budapest: madness on the streets -- literally

Last year, as one of the first steps in a sweeping health reform, OPNI (National Institue of Psychiatry and Neurology) was closed down in Budapest. According to one the biggest TV channels in Hungary, there are about 5-600 schizophrenic people now without regular medical...

Sheep? Pig? Or Sheep-Pig?

"BEIJING, Dec. 30 (Xinhuanet) -- An odd species of pig was found in Britain, media reported Saturday. An odd species of pig was found in Britain. It looks like sheep, but in fact is pig, hence it is called...

Santa brings Christmas cheer in six languages

"It could be a scene straight out of the Christmas classic 'Miracle on 34th Street': Ireland's first multi-lingual Santa Claus is bringing smiles to the faces of children from countries like Poland, Hungary and Romania in Dublin this Christmas season. All this month, hundreds...

Slovakia Radioactive material seized was Uranium from Russia

As we sit and and have to listen to all these Global Warning Freaks worried that in 200 yrs. (when we all will be dead) the Earth will be a few degrees hotter, while people right now are planning on turning us...

Hungarian police ban rightist march

"Hungarian police banned a march by rightists groups planned in downtown Budapest as part of ceremonies marking the 1956 failed anti-Soviet revolt. Budapest police decided right-wing organizations will not be...

When documentation gets declassified

Some documents were declassified by the Hungarian Office of National Security (Hungarian secret service) pertaing to olajszőkítés (literally oil bleaching). I will try to give some background. The story begins...

Jaksity György on pension and local councils

Index.hu, one of the leading Hungarian portals have interviewed György Jaksity, chairman and CEO of Concorde Securities and the chairman of Budapest Stock Exchange. Read parts of this interview translated below.What should be done differrently?Currently we are in the phase...

GLOBAL POLITICAL RISK HIT LIST

This  index has been compiled by the Eurasia Group - a global political consultancy company who consider political, social, security and economic indictors to compile this list. This is the least stable 24...

FTSE Group issues country classification changes

"1) Israel will be promoted to Developed status from June 2008. Israel meets all quality of markets criteria for a Developed market and has done so since being included on the Watch List in 2006. A new FTSE Index for Developed markets in Europe, Middle East and Africa will be...

Steely Kuznetsova On Course for Second U.S. Open Crown

"Svetlana Kuznetsova beat Hungarian teenager Agnes Szavay 6-1 6-4 to reach the U.S. Open semi-finals on Wednesday and believes she is a better player than when she won the title in 2004. The St. Petersburg native was too consistent for the 18-year-old Szavay, who was...

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