Norwegian coach Karl Erik Böhn is the new manager of the Hungarian women’s national handball team. His contract expires until after the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. However, his contract may be supervised or even canceled.

Bank of China Ltd. may be a new addition to the currently 15-strong list of primary dealers of Hungarian government bonds, CEO of the State Debt Management Agency (ÁKK), Gyula Pleschinger told Bloomberg in an interview on Monday.

Sunshine Garage requires little ground space but offers unrivalled technical safety and speed as well as safety of valuables - in congested cities or as a P+R facility. Also, it offers the quickest return on investment in the non-residential sector.

This Sunday, two Budapest football clubs, Vasas and Ferencváros play their Hungarian first division match in the Puskás Stadium, the last league match as the establishment, opened in 1953 as People’s Stadium, is to be demolished.

August 25th was another record-breaking day as the temperature reached all-time highs for this day both in Budapest and nationwide. In the Hungarian capital, temperature was first measured officially in 1871.

The departing Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Hungary, Chung-Ha Suh has been given a high state distinction by the President of the Republic of Hungary for his three-year activity in deepening Hungarian-Korean relations.

Hungarian Airlines Malév is to get a HUF 8.5 billion (EUR 31.17 m) capital injection from the state that is re-channeling this sum in the budget as an extraordinary government measure. The carrier already got an injection in June.

The latest event organized by the Diplomacy and Trade Business Club took place on the national day of August 20th in the Budapest Marriott Hotel with the participation of diplomats, business people and their children.

For thousands of years the speed of communications was determined by the speed of the swiftest runner or the fastest horse. The development of the telephone was a major step towards speeding up communication worldwide.

Host nation Hungary took three of the eight gold medals up for grabs in the first day of finals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships taking place at the National Olympic Center canoeing and rowing course in Szeged, SE Hungary.

Her Majesty Elizabeth II, the Queen of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland sent a message, expressing her best wishes, to the President of the Republic of Hungary on the occasion of the Hungarian National Day of August 20.

Message from Her Majesty The Queen on the occasion of Hungarian National Day

Her Majesty The Queen has congratulated His Excellency President Pál Schmitt on the occasion of the Hungarian National Day on 20 August.

"On the occasion of your National Day, it gives me much pleasure in sending Your Excellency my warmest greetings, together with my best wishes for every success for the people of the Republic of Hungary in the coming year."

Elizabeth R.

Wednesday evening saw the official opening of the 39th ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Szeged, southeast Hungary. The event that concludes this Sunday will have over a thousand competitors from 88 countries.

An internationally successful exhibition of replicas of China's first emperor’s famous ancient terracotta army arrived in Budapest this summer. The show features some 170 quality replicas of the most famous clay figures in the world.

Forty members and friends of Democrats Abroad-Hungary have recently gathered in a vineyard on Csobánc near Lake Balaton to celebrate U.S. President Barack Obama’s 50th birthday with a luau in recognition of the President’s Hawaiian birthplace.