Qatar Airways, which celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2022, has been named ‘Airline of the Year’ by the international air transport rating organization, Skytrax, for an unprecedented seventh time (in 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2022). Qatar Airways also took home three additional awards including World’s Best Business Class, World’s Best Business Class […]
The real estate market has also started to reorganize in the premium segment: while the share of foreign investors has decreased in the capital and the agglomeration, luxury properties on Lake Balaton are still attractive to buyers from abroad, according to an analysis by the real estate agency Duna House. According to the company, demand […]
It was 150 years ago, on September 23, 1872 that a well-known pioneer of the Hungarian pharmaceutical industry, Gedeon Richter was born. Today, the Budapest-based company bearing his name is present in 50 countries of the world. In 1901, Gedeon Richter bought the Sas Pharmaceutical Factory in Budapest, where he set up a laboratory for […]
The Minister for Economic Development, Márton Nagy, outlined targeted steps to support the corporate sector threatened by the energy crisis and rising prices at AmCham Hungary's Business Forum in the Gundel restaurant in Budapest this Thursday. The manufacturing sector in Hungary, especially SMEs, are highly exposed to rising energy prices, and the energy intensity could […]
The Embassy of the Czech Republic in Hungary held a reception at the Stefánia Palace in Budapest this Thursday evening to celebrate their country’s national day. The event was preceded by a concert with young performers from the Visegrád countries. As the Czech ambassador, Tibor Bial pointed out in his welcoming speech to the guests […]
The World Press Photo 2022 exhibition was opened at the Hungarian National Museum this Thursday, presenting close to 140 photographs from around the world. According to the organizers, the public can discover many carefully uncovered stories in the World Press Photo exhibition. The four global winners have each spent years working on their subject. Documenting […]
According to data published by the Hungarian Energy and Public Utility Regulatory Authority (MEKH) September, the level of Hungarian natural gas storage facilities has exceeded 70% of the total capacity. It means that Hungary is the third best in Europe in terms of the level of storage facilities filled in relation to consumption. As of […]
Hungary may be the first European Union member state to see its funds frozen by the bloc over corruption concerns and repeated breaches of the rule of law. The government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán could face the suspension of a third of Hungary’s budgetary funds if the European Commission’s proposal is accepted. The European […]
Two more cases of monkeypox were confirmed in the laboratory of the National Public Health Center (NNK) last week, bringing the total number of cases diagnosed in Hungary to 77. The NNK told MTI on Thursday that the new cases – a 25-year-old man and a 38-year-old man – are in isolation at home, and […]
AutoWallis Group is opening up to online sales and the western region, the car company may acquire the company operating the JóAutók.hu and Autó-Licit.hu portals, and will enter the Austrian market with its SsangYong wholesale business, the CEO of AutoWallis Group said at a background meeting in Budapest on Wednesday. Gábor Ormosy said that the […]
At its recent annual award ceremony in London, Air Cargo News, one of the largest international cargo agencies, Budapest’s Ferenc Liszt International Airport has received this year’s accolade, dubbed the Oscars of the aviation industry, in the ‘Cargo Hub of the Year’ category. Cargo received huge recognition at the prestigious Air Cargo News Awards 2022, […]
Budapest Nyugati [‘Western’] Railway Station has been selected as part the ‘Treasures of European Film Culture’, the European Film Academy has announced. Treasures of European Film Culture is a growing list of places of a symbolic nature for European cinema, places of historical value that need to be maintained and protected not just now but […]
Both the number of Hungarians infected with the new coronavirus and that of those dying as a result of this infection are increasing, according to a summary published by the related government website koronavirus.gov.hu about the past seven days. In the past week, 48 people died, mostly elderly and chronically ill – six more than […]
Following the example of a tree planting two years ago, the Swiss-Hungarian Chamber of Commerce (Swisscham Hungary) came up with the idea of another green project: an insect hotel in Népliget park in Budapest in order to provide these small creatures with a safe, reliable place to survive bad weather, find food or even build […]
The Hungarian Drone Coalition, in cooperation with HungaroControl and the Neumann Technology Platform, hosts the 4th Drone Summit and Expo at the Hungexpo fairgrounds in the Hungarian capital. The presentations at the conference aimed, among other things, to raise awareness of the importance– and to highlight the indispensable role – of technological developments in the […]
