Former Hungarian water polo player Sándor Tarics, the oldest living Olympic champion in the world, has received the Middle Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary in his home in California in the United States.
Former Hungarian water polo player Sándor Tarics, the oldest living Olympic champion in the world, has received the Middle Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary in his home in California in the United States.
The Hungarian Army will be able to get free of charge military helicopters worth USD five million a piece, which have been withdrawn from service in the United States Marine Corps, and offered to partner countries.
Norwegian coach Karl Erik Böhn is the new manager of the Hungarian women’s national handball team. His contract expires until after the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. However, his contract may be supervised or even canceled.
This Sunday, two Budapest football clubs, Vasas and Ferencváros play their Hungarian first division match in the Puskás Stadium, the last league match as the establishment, opened in 1953 as People’s Stadium, is to be demolished.
August 25th was another record-breaking day as the temperature reached all-time highs for this day both in Budapest and nationwide. In the Hungarian capital, temperature was first measured officially in 1871.
The departing Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Hungary, Chung-Ha Suh has been given a high state distinction by the President of the Republic of Hungary for his three-year activity in deepening Hungarian-Korean relations.
Host nation Hungary took three of the eight gold medals up for grabs in the first day of finals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships taking place at the National Olympic Center canoeing and rowing course in Szeged, SE Hungary.
Her Majesty Elizabeth II, the Queen of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland sent a message, expressing her best wishes, to the President of the Republic of Hungary on the occasion of the Hungarian National Day of August 20.
Forty members and friends of Democrats Abroad-Hungary have recently gathered in a vineyard on Csobánc near Lake Balaton to celebrate U.S. President Barack Obama’s 50th birthday with a luau in recognition of the President’s Hawaiian birthplace.
The United States Ambassador to Hungary, Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis, accompanied by some Embassy staff, was among the four and a half thousand participants who swam across Lake Balaton this past week-end.
According to a decision earlier this year by the Thai government, as of 11 August onwards, Hungarian citizens are exempt from visa requirement, if they travel to Thailand as tourists and stay not longer than thirty days.
Hungarian First Division football team Újpest FC has a new sports director, Leo Beenhakker. The Dutch football expert has a successful past as he won league titles in Holland (Ajax, Feyenoord) and in Spain (Real Madrid).
The Hungarian Formula One Grand Prix car race takes place for the 25th year at the Hungaroring race track in Mogyorod, east of Budapest this week-end. In 1986, it was the first F-1 race behind the Iron Curtain.
Both defense lawyer and the prosecutor lodged appeal against the acquittal of 97-year-old Nazi war crimes suspect Sándor Képíró. The first degree sentence on Monday referred to insufficient evidence in the case.
