Hungary's TriGránit Development Corporation and the People’s Government of Putian City, Fujian Province in Southeast China signed a Letter of Intent on development and construction of a large urban center and a leisure complex.

Organized on September 21 by Jam Dance Studio and Visual World Foundation, Swing and Soul Day offers a great range of dance related programs. Look after your body and think of dance as a source of energy! Oh, and ALL THAT SWING!

The Arab Republic of Egypt is represented in Hungary by a senior diplomat, Dr. Ashraf Mohsen Mohamed Mohsen who presented his credentials in March this year. He gave an interview to the summer issue of Diplomacy & Trade.

Investment expert Csaba Kilián has been named as the new General Secretary of the Association of the Hungarian Automotive Industry (MGSZ). He has long been involved with the industry during his activities as investment promotion director.

Croatian energy group INA has announced that it has made a new oil discovery with exploratory well Deletovci-1 Zapad within the oil field Privlaka near the town of Vinkovci. The latest tests show daily oil production of around 600 barrels per day.

The U.S. ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, has been killed in the second largest Libyan city of Benghazi in an attack by Islamist rebels. His car was reportedly attacked, killing him and two bodyguards. a fourth US citizen also died in Benghazi.

Hungarian athletes won two gold, six silver and six bronze medals at the Paralympic Games in London. With this medal count, the 33-member delegation produced Hungary’s fourth most successful participation in Paralympic history.

Former Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány and three of his associates began a week-long hunger strike in frpnt of Parlaiment in a protest against the Orbán government’s plans to reform the election system by requiring advance voter registration.

The vacuum cleaner factory in Jászberény, SE of Budapest, that supplies the European market, has been committed to innovation for 14 years within Electrolux that celebrates the 100th anniversary of vacuum cleaner innovation this year.

As part of the Jewish Summer Festival, Budapest’s Central (Szabó Ervin) Library hosted two spectacular exhibitions, on Israel’s finest children’s book illustrations, and on famous Jewish manuscripts and ceremonial objects.

The new season of the Budapest Festival Orchestra once again opens with the Budapest Mahler Festival. The festival program reflects the revamped strategy of the Orchestra/BFO, which focuses particularly on new, modern music and a young audience.

With support from the Brazilian Embassy in Budapest, the Council of Citizens, an entity representative of the Brazilian residents in Hungary, organizes the second Brazil Week in the Hungarian capital between September 7 and 13, 2012..

Armenia severed all diplomatic ties with Hungary after Azeri soldier Ramil Sahib Safarov, who was serving a life sentence in Hungary for killing an Armenian soldier in Budapest in 2004, was extradited to his home country where he was pardoned by the President.

In the summer issue of Diplomacy & Trade, the contributor to the WittyLeaks section of the publication was the Spanish ambasador, Enrique Pastor de Gana who wrote a piece on Hungarian-Spanish football relations from a personal experience.

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