In order to strengthen its competitive market position, Heineken Hungária Breweries will invest HUF 540 million in its 125-year-old Sopron brewery. The Hungarian government is to cover half of the investment costs, the Hungarian news agency MTI reports. The Dutch company has undertaken to preserve 465 jobs and that it buying 85% of the raw […]
In spite of the global challenges caused by the pandemic, cargo traffic at Budapest Airport proved very strong in 2020. The airport handled 134,459 tons of air cargo last year and registered a record quarter at the end of 2020. A statement by the airport management company Budapest Airport says that BUD Cargo City has […]
With the ending a week ago of Qatar’s blockade, introduced in 2017 by several Arab states, Qatar Airways is allowed to use Saudi airspace again and it resumed daily flights from Doha to Saudi Arabia earlier this week. A plane operated by the national carrier of the State of Qatar landed in Riyadh earlier this […]
Lajos Tihanyi's painting 'Akt studium' (Nude study) was sold as the most expensive classic work at Hungarian art auctions in 2021. The hammer price for the Tihanyi work was HUF 95 million at the winter auction of the Judit Virág Gallery. On the back of the work, which has been hidden for a hundred years, […]
This Tuesday, the first shipment of Moderna vaccine arrived in Hungary shortly after 10 o'clock. A van with the vaccine shipment, accompanied by police escort, left Belgium at 4 pm on Monday afternoon and arrived to the Budapest site of Hungaropharma pharmaceutical wholesale distribution company. The consignment, which contains 7,200 vaccines enough to vaccinate 3,600 […]
The new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) was responsible for 128 deaths by Tuesday in Hungary - more than in any one day in 2021. They were mostly elderly, chronic patients. Thus, the official number of deaths related to the new coronavirus infection rose to 10,853 in this country. The related government website (koronavirus.gov.hu) also writes that […]
Judoka Hedvig Karakas and footballer Dominik Szoboszlai were chosen as Hungarian athletes of the year 2020 by the Association of Hungarian Sports Journalists. The winners of the 63rd annual voting were announced at the M4 Sport-Athlete of the Year gala at the National Theater, the award ceremony was held without spectators due to the coronavirus […]
Belgium based company group Roger&Roger will invest EUR 16.5 million to build a new tortilla chips production facility at the premises of its Hungarian subsidiary, SUGO Food Ltd., in Baja, S Hungary. While retaining 99 jobs, there will be also 60 new jobs created, a new production hall will be built, and the newly developed […]
Surplus on Hungary’s external trade in goods amounted to EUR 811 million in November, exports decreased by 0.5% and imports went up by 0.4% compared to October, according to the latest data published by the Central Statistical Office. In EUR terms, the value of exports was 6.9% and that of imports 1.9% higher in November […]
Thirty towns and cities in Hungary joined the call of the Hungarian Cancer League and took part in the World Cancer Walk on Sunday, the organization told the state news agency MTI. The initiator of the World Cancer Walk is the NGO ‘Relay For Life’. Although many walks, hikes, parades have been / are / […]
The new coronavirus infection took the life of 94 Hungarians in the past 24 hours, bringing the official number of COVID-19 deaths in this country to 10,648. The infection was detected in another 1,778 Hungarian citizens, thus increasing the number of infected people identified in Hungary to 342,237. The majority of the 94 deaths were […]
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 […]
