Three thousand visitors and tens of thousands of online viewers were attracted to the 8th World Chess Festival on Saturday. The program included which attracted performers from 15 countries to the National Gallery, according to a Global Chess Festival statement issued on Monday. News of the chess celebration spread overseas, as the whole of New […]
Levente Szemerei and Eszter Csillag won the 37th Spar Budapest Marathon’s men’s and women’s race, respectively this Sunday. More than 17,000 people took part in the different events of the two-day running festival. Szemerei completed the 42.195 kilometers in 2:21:44 and Csillag in 2:59:16. In the men's race, Irishman Derek Crammond was second in 2:29:57, […]
Hungarian family-owned Caadex Ltd. in Mindszentgodisa, S Hungary, has decided to invest more than HUF 500 million in energy and equipment, the company informed the state news agency MTI. According to the statement of the Baranya County company, which is engaged in the production and trade of tin and steel products, the HUF 357 million […]
The stock index of the Budapest Stock Exchange (BSE) rose this week amid falling turnover, closing at 39,537.63 points on Friday, up 4.49% on the previous week, or 1,699.33 points, the state news agency MTI reported this Sunday morning along with a brief analysis. The weekly turnover on the stock market was HUF 30.3 billion, […]
The winner of the second edition of the Atlas Award is Dimitry Ljasuk, the founder of Pozitivo Digital Ltd., a creative company based in Budapest. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia to a Hungarian mother and a Ukrainian father, Dimitry Ljasuk has lived in Hungary from the age of one. He believes that today's modern man […]
Duna House Group’s closed Q3 with declining volumes compared to the record levels in the first two quarters, as an aggregate of three very different market factors. The performance of the Italian subsidiaries continues to be strong, only the significant seasonal impact of August lowered the volumes compared to H1 levels. Volumes declined moderately and […]
Switzerland-based leading auto part supplier SAG – Autonet Group opened its brand-new high-tech warehouse worth over EUR 50 million in Üllő, just south of Budapest. Offering vacancies for 130 future workers, the project will provide a highly automated storage space of 16,500 square meters that is bound to serve a number of regional markets. Hungarian […]
66% of Hungarian firms plan to cut back on IT upgrades due to the significant rise in energy prices, according to a joint survey by Association of Information Technology, Telecommunications and Electronics Enterprises (IVSZ) and the Macronome Institute. The association says that this result is also worrying because in order to maintain and increase the […]
In August 2022, 1.4 million guests spent 3.9 million tourism nights in commercial accommodation establishments (hotels, boarding houses, camping sites, bungalow complexes and community hostels) in Hungary, with the number of guests up by 7.9% and the number of nights by 3.1% compared to the same period of the previous year, the Central Statistical Office […]
The National Center for Public Health (NNK) has confirmed monkeypox infection in another person, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 78 in Hungary, the NNK told the state news agency MTI on Friday. The statement said that the 30-year-old man is in isolation at home and does not require hospital treatment. An epidemiological […]
European Union Member States, including Hungary, have voted in favor of the next package of sanctions against Russia this week. The package includes a ban on imports of more Russian products, an extension of the list of persons subject to travel bans and asset freezes, and a price cap on oil shipments from Russia to […]
UNESCO declared Hollókő, a village NE of Budapest, a World Heritage Site 35 years ago this year, and a photo album was published to mark the anniversary. The publication ‘The Heart of Hollókő - Values, Beauties and Experiences of the Living World Heritage Village" was presented in Budapest this Thursday, the village council informed the […]
German-owned Infineon Technologies celebrated the expansion of its plant in Cegléd, which is Hungary’s biggest semi-conductors manufacturing facility. The EUR 100 million investment that is to create up to 275 jobs allows for the production of high-power semiconductor modules that will be built into the inverters of electric and hybrid vehicles. One fifth of the […]
It was on this day in 1849 that thirteen generals of the Hungarian army were executed by the Austrian Empire in the city of Arad, then part of the Kingdom of Hungary (now in Romania), after the Hungarian War of Independence (1848–1849). The same day, Hungary's first prime minister was executed in Pest. The national […]
In August 2022, the volume of sales in retail trade increased by 3.3% according to raw data and by 2.4% when adjusted for calendar effects compared to the same period of the previous year, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) reported this Thursday morning. In August, calendar-adjusted sales volumes decreased by 2.4% in specialised and non-specialised […]
