Zsófia Konkoly and Bianka Pap won gold medals in the 100m butterfly and 100m backstroke events respectively at the Tokyo Paralympic Games this Thursday. Zsófia Konkoly, who competed in the S9 category, set a new European record in the preliminaries with a time of 1:07.05 and qualified for the final in first place. There, New […]
TriGránit, the developer of Millennium Gardens and the Kantin restaurant chain, which focuses on premium office catering, have agreed to open the latest unit of the restaurant chain, successfully operating under the Kantin brand in the Millennium Gardens office building in Budapest. TriGránit, the developer of Millennium Gardens and the Kantin restaurant chain, which focuses […]
From December 1 this year, vaccination will be compulsory for all on-board staff on the airline's aircraft, but regular PCR and antigen tests will also be accepted in exceptional cases, Wizz Air said. As the business news site napi.hu reports, in a spirit of corporate social responsibility, the airline is introducing the new rules to […]
A modern, more comfortable hall with a modern digital passenger information system and new end-of-track displays awaits the nearly 18 million passengers who pass by the station every year, MÁV Hungarian Railways announced on Wednesday. The renovation of the entire roof of Nyugati ('Western') station is scheduled to be completed by next summer while repairs […]
According to estimates by the Duna House property agency, the number of sales transactions on the Hungarian residential property market recoiled and returned to early 2021 levels in the second month of the summer. The 11,185 transactions forecast by the property agency exactly equals the January 2021 and early summer 2020 figures, when the market […]
On Monday afternoon, August 30, the last brushstrokes and the slogan "The future is written by Hungarians" were painted on the giant fire mural with which the organizers of the Brain Bar Future Festival pay tribute to the Hungarian scientist who played a key role in the development of Pfizer-BioNTech's coronavirus vaccine, Katalin Karikó, the […]
Hungary’s Luca Ekler won the gold medal in the women’s long jump in the T38 category at the Tokyo Paralympics on Tuesday, beating her own world record twice, the Hungarian state news agency MTI reports. A world and European champion, the Hungarian competitor started her second event in Tokyo after finishing fourth in the 100m […]
110 new infections have been confirmed in the past 24 hours in Hungary, bringing the total number of identified infections since the start of the epidemic to 812,337 in this country. One patient has died, and thus, the total number of deaths is 30,058, the related government website reports. The number of recovered patients is […]
Like the Mercedes factory in Kecskemét, the Suzuki factory in Esztergom is also forced to shut down due to the global microchip shortage, the company told the Hungarian language Slovakian daily Új Szó, which reports that the factory will be shut down between September 6 and 18. During the shutdown, the factory will provide rest […]
The complete recycling of smokeless tobacco products such as Iqos devices will be made possible at a center opened by Phillip Morris International (PMI) on Monday near Gyál just SE of Budapest. Apart from Hungary, a similar center only exists in Japan. The US tobacco company chose Hungary because of its location, infrastructure, external relations […]
In the 2nd quarter of 2021 service exports calculated in EUR increased by 21%, while its imports decreased by 3.4% compared to the same quarter of the previous year. The surplus was EUR 1571 million, EUR 983 million more than in the 2nd quarter of 2020. As reported by Hungary's Central Statistical Office (KSH), the […]
Table tennis player Péter Pálos won the second gold medal for Hungary at the Tokyo Paralympic Games, while the country’s third gold at this competition came in the women’s 100-meter breaststroke event that was won by Fanni Illés. Péter Pálos defeated Samuel Philip von Einem of Australia 3 sets to 2 in the final. The […]
A technical base is being developed near Budapest’s Ferenc Liszt International Airport by Sixt, a member of the AutoWallis Group, in the interest of preparing the Group for serving car sharing and even fleet management providers in addition to developing its car rental services. Of the company’s HUF 565 million investment project, HUF 282 million […]
The Danish household goods retail JYSK chain has opened its first large-format, 900-square-meter store in the city center of Budapest. The company is expanding despite the coronavirus epidemic: it currently has 88 stores in Hungary, four of which opened this financial year and three more planned for the next. JYSK employs more than 800 people in […]
Continest Technologies has opened its factory producing foldable containers in Székesfehérvár. The Hungarian-owned company that uses innovative technology will be able to produce 1,200 foldable containers per year in its nearly 4,000-sqm plant. More than HUF 680 million has been spent on the mechanization of the production plant this year, and considerable improvements are planned […]
