Five times Olympic champion gymnast Ágnes Keleti, currently the oldest living Olympic medalist, has turned 100 years old this Saturday. Ágnes Keleti won her first Olympic title in floor exercise in Helsinki in 1952 when she also earned a silver and two bronze medals. Four years later in Melbourne, she defended her individual title in […]
The Hungarian construction material company MASTERPLAST is starting a project, to be implemented at its subsidiary, MASTERPLAST YU D.o.o. located in Subotica, northern Serbia. The project is supported by Hungarian taxpayers. With the project, the glass fabric production capacity will be expanded by 25%, the existing weaving and coating machine park will be modernized, a […]
The number of people identified as infected with the new coronavirus in Hungary increased to 340,459 as another 2,716 Hungarian citizens were diagnosed with the infection in the past 24 hours. By Saturday, 114, mostly elderly, chronic patients died, increasing the official number of the deceased to 10,554. The number of people cured is 193,172 […]
Budapest Airport, the operator of the Liszt Ferenc International Airport of the Hungarian capital, expects passenger numbers to increase from the summer schedule period, and awaits the gradually surging traffic with a safe, renewed environment and even higher service quality. The coronavirus pandemic had a strong impact on aviation as a whole in 2020. The […]
Duna House Group reports to have been out of the COVID-crisis by the fourth quarter of 2020. Besides the Group's real estate brokerage arm that reached new highs in Q3 2020 and grew by 13% year-on-year in the next quarter, the loan brokerage business line also reached new records with 34% year-on-year growth. A summary […]
The Hungarian currency set out on a strengthening path in the first week of 2021 as optimism that vaccinations will curb the pandemic and Democrats’ Senate election gains in the U.S. boosted international investor sentiment. The forint reached its strongest level against the USD in 2.5 years on Thursday. The forint appreciated sharply in the […]
Sangsin Hungary Ltd. that produces metal frames for rechargeable (secondary) battery installation in electric vehicles for Samsung SDI in Jászberény, SE of Budapest, decided to make a EUR 28.8 million investment project to increase their production capacity, to match the growing market demands. As the Hungarian Investment Promotion Agency (HIPA) reports, the development will also […]
Hungarian retail sales went into the red. The turnover of grocery stores also increased only moderately. However, online stores surge. In November 2020, the volume of sales in retail shops decreased by 0.3% according to raw data and by 0.8% when adjusted for calendar effects compared to the same period of the previous year, according […]
The new coronavirus epidemic situation is worsening Hungary again: more infections and more fatalities than in the previous days. The new coronavirus infection was detected in another 3,068 people in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of confirmed infections since the outbreak to 334,836. The last time more than 3,000 new infections was […]
The internationally expanding Virtuosos classical music television talent search began its sixth season this last November. This time, young people from the four Visegrád countries and Serbia compare their skills and knowledge. The super jury of the contest features international stars like Spanish opera singer Plácido Domingo or German television personality Thomas Gottschalk. Thomas Gottschalk […]
Ford's sales fell by about 20% in Hungary last year as a result of the coronavirus epidemic, yet, the brand was able to improve its share of the new car market thanks to the traditionally strong position of its trucks. Ford Hungary announced at Wednesday's online press conference that in 2020, the brand sold 18,782 […]
Industrial producer prices as a whole were 5.5% higher in November 2020 than a year earlier. The rate of increase of prices was influenced primarily by the weakening of the forint against the euro. As the Hungarian Central Statistical Office reports, domestic output prices were up by 1.3% and non-domestic output prices by 7.7%. Compared […]
Opposite the Central Station in Brussels, at the entrance from the ‘Spanjeplein’, a statue of 20th century Hungarian composer Béla Bartók was inaugurated in 1995. It was a gift from the city of Budapest on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Bartók's death. That year, a series of concerts ‘Jubilate Hungaria 95’ around the […]
The most frequent service in the first month of the year will be between Budapest's Ferenc Liszt International Aurport and Amsterdam by KLM, while Wizz Air is scheduled to operate flights to 22 destinations. Other airlines flying from Budapest with a weekly frequency of more than ten departing flights are Lufthansa (14 times a week […]
103 Hungarians died in the past 24 hours, bringing the official number of deaths in this country to 10,080. 5,760 coronavirus patients are hospitalized, 394 of whom are on ventilators. The new coronavirus infection was detected in 870 new cases, increasing the number of identified infections in Hungary to 329,721. The number of people who […]
