As of this August, movies and TV series on public service television channels in Hungary (m1, m2, Duna TV and Duna World) can be also watched in their original language as an alternative to the audio track with Hungarian dubbing.
As of this August, movies and TV series on public service television channels in Hungary (m1, m2, Duna TV and Duna World) can be also watched in their original language as an alternative to the audio track with Hungarian dubbing.
Celebrated pianist, jazz musician and composer György Vukán died this Monday, just nine days before his 72nd birthday. Although, he was widely known as a musician, he also held a degree in dentistry (received in 1964), a profession he also practiced.
“Chess education was introduced in 2010 to the Happy Kids International Kindergarten, where my own kids went at that time,” Hungary’s Judit Polgár, the world’s top female chess player recalls in a recent interview to Diplomacy & Trade.
Located at the edge of the former Jewish Quarter in downtown Budapest, at Paulay Ede Street 1, the Israeli Cultural Institute (ICI) hosts and organizes concerts, exhibitions, film screenings and club activities for Jews and non-Jews.
Under the auspices of the Ministries of culture in Bulgaria, the institute introduces Bulgarian culture to Hungary’s international audience through exhibitions, a great number of concerts, film screenings, literary evenings and more.
An exhibition opened in the Hungarian National Gallery on June 27, presenting paintings and drawings by French and Hungarian impressionists and post-impressionists, including Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, Pál Szinyei-Merse and József Rippl-Rónai.
In its WittyLeaks series, a recent issue of Diplomacy & Trade has carried a piece by the Swedish ambassador to Hungary, Karin Olofsdotter who describes her walk from her residence to work as she observes everyday life in Budapest.
CERN, the European organization for nuclear research, inaugurated its data center in Budapest, marking the completion of the facility hosting the extension for CERN computing resources. CERN and this facility are connected with 100 Gbit/s circuits.
The Hungarian shadow-dance group ‘Attraction’ won this year’s Britain's Got Talent show on ITV with 27% of the viewers’ votes. The Hungarians finished ahead of a teenage comedian from Yorkshire and a pair of singing brothers from Wales.
The Hungarian Ministry of Human Resources (EMMI) has issued a statement on Minister Zoltán Balog’s trip to China this week. Minister Balog signed a bilateral cultural cooperation agreement with in the Chinese capital, Beijing this Tuesday.
The American International School Budapest is an independent, nonprofit coeducational day school for students from pre-kindergarten to 12th grade. The campus stands on 13.1 hectares of land, some 13 kilometers from Budapest, in Nagykovácsi.
A dozen people in the small southern Hungarian village of Geresdlak, Baranya County, start a Finnish language course financed by the European Union. They wish to talk the language of the increasing number of immigrants from Finland.
The Danube Tower in the unique 19th-century complex Fort Monostor on the bank of the River Danube in Komárom, northwestern Hungary will host the 23rd international Mediawave Festival from Tuesday through Saturday this week.
Diplomacy & Trade regularly prints the accounts of personal experiences and thoughts by Ambassadors accredited to Budapest. This time, we publish the piece written for us by the Korean ambassador to Hungary, Gwan-Pyo Nam.
A mini Hungary model park has opened in the local arboretum in Szarvas, east-central Hungary. The new tourist attraction of the town comprises of miniature replicas of most famous building complexes of Budapest and the countryside.
