From 8 am this Wednesday morning, the Teachers' Union and the Democratic Union of Teachers called a nationwide indefinite strike in Hungary. They are demanding a pay raise for teachers, a reduction in their compulsory teaching hours and an increase in the salaries of non-teaching staff working in schools. Teachers participated in the strike not […]
The number of people actively infected with the new coronavirus in Hungary has fallen by more than 8,000, and the number of hospitalized people by 79 over the long week-end. The number of fatalities went up by 178 to a total close to 45,000. Since last Friday, 4,902 people have been diagnosed with the new […]
As we have entered a new year, I look back at 2021 with very mixed feelings. As in 2020, the COVID pandemic continued to affect our lives negatively, sometimes even with tragic effects. One year ago, my father passed away in Switzerland – not from COVID, but with COVID – and we were not able […]
The Money Museum of the National Bank of Hungary (MNB) will open an interactive exhibition in the newly renovated Postapalota (‘Postal Palace’) from March 16, with a special focus on young people, the Hungarian state news agency MTI reports. The interactive exhibition on the history of money and the operation and future of money management […]
The prime ministerial candidate of the opposition parties running with joint candidates in the April 3 parliamentary elections, Péter Márki-Zay expressed his belief in Hungary's return to the "good side of history" at a rally held on the occasion of the March 15 national holiday in Budapest on Tuesday. Speaking at the Technological University of […]
On Hungary’s national holiday marking the outbreak of the 1848 revolution, Viktor Orbán referred to the “youth of March,” who said at that time that “let here be peace, liberty and concord.” Addressing a crowd on Kossuth Square in front of the building of Hungarian Parliament, the prime minister added that “we need the same […]
A poetry flashmob, a poetry stage, unique outdoor installations, gastronomic specialties and renewed exhibition spaces await visitors in Kiskőrös, the hometown of the best-known Hungarian poet of the 19th century, Sándor Petőfi in connection with the Petőfi Memorial Year. Sándor Petőfi, the Hungarian poet with works translated into the most (about 150) languages, was born […]
The Japanese widow of Hungarian sculptor Nándor Wagner passed away last October. For three decades, Mrs. Chiyo Wagner was a true companion of her husband and – after his death – she worked to preserve his artistic legacy. Born in Sapporo on September 22, 1930, she was the fourth daughter of the Akiyama family, one […]
On Sunday, 4,006 people, including 1,239 children, arrived in Budapest by train to escape the war in Ukraine, the Budapest Metropolitan Police (BRFK) said on Monday on police.hu. According to the statement, most of them asked for information and travelled on individually or went to relatives. In the capital and in rural accommodation, 34 people, […]
The Hungarian government on Saturday amended its March 5 decree on the export of "strategically important" agricultural products, adding durum wheat and hulless sunflower seeds to the list of restricted crops and clarifying that cereals can still be freely exported as seeds, the Hungarian Gazette reports. The range of crops concerned has been extended to […]
The Budapest Stock Exchange's (BSE) share index, the BUX, closed the week at 42,905.55 points, up 6.61% or 2,658.85 points compared to last Friday, the Hungarian state news agency MTI reported this Sunday morning. Turnover was HUF 190.623 billion, down from HUF 322.227 billion the previous week. Leading stocks were stronger with the exception of […]
Flights are arriving and departing seamlessly and as scheduled, passenger processes are continuing as usual at Budapest's Ferenc Liszt International Airport. Flights to Ukraine and Russia are still suspended, but the war in Ukraine is not affecting flights to other destinations. The airport operator 'Budapest Airport' says that together with the Airport Police Directorate, it […]
AbbVie and Gedeon Richter Plc. have announced a new co-development and license agreement to research, develop and commercialize novel dopamine receptor modulators for the potential treatment of neuropsychiatric diseases. The collaboration is based on the results of preclinical research carried out by Richter and includes several new chemical entities selected for development. AbbVie and Richter […]
It was thirty years ago that the Kőbánya Brewery became a shareholding company, it was 25 years ago that it took up the name Dreher Breweries and it will be five years this April that the Japanese Asahi Group Holding announced completing the acquisition of the company among other businesses in the region. On all […]
The opening ceremony of a complex corporate development project to be carried out by KTS Metalltechnik Ltd. has taken place in Bátonyterenye, NE of Budapest. Thus, the company will be able to participate as a supplier in the expansion of the electric battery production capacity in Hungary. The development project is to cost HUF 250 […]
