13.800 people from 50 countries gathered on the rainy Sunday morning for the Budapest International Marathon and Running Festival where the best known participant was Slovak foreign minister Mikulás Dzurinda.
13.800 people from 50 countries gathered on the rainy Sunday morning for the Budapest International Marathon and Running Festival where the best known participant was Slovak foreign minister Mikulás Dzurinda.
NATO’s Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges, Gábor Iklódy is the first Hungarian to work in NATO’s top management. He is the Secretary General’s primary advisor on emerging security challenges...
The Dalai Lama lectured on Buddhism, led a public training session on the art of happiness and visited the Parliament during his recent trip to Hungary on September 17-20.
Lan Xang, or the Land of a Million Elephants, as it is endearingly known among the peaceful residents of Laos, has recently evolved into a fashionable tourist destination and a country of endless possibilities among foreign investors, including Hungarian ones.
The EU’s relation with China is one of the topics of discussion at the meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels. Diplomacy & Trade online takes a look at this issue that is likely to be also highlighted when Hungary takes over the rotating EU presidency next year.
In behalf of the government of New Zealand, the Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade, John Allen, reappointed Rezsõ Sárdi as Honorary Consul of New Zealand for the second time since assuming the position six years ago.
A Hungarian native speaker from Romania will play American football in the sports’ top league from this season after being drafted by the one of the top teams, the New England Patriots. Zoltán Meskó is one of the few European professionals in the NFL.
A Hungarian soldier seriously injured in an attack in Afghanistan two weeks ago died this Tuesday in the military hospital Honvédkórház in Budapest. He is the second mortal casualty of attack on home-bound Hungarian troops.
As of October this year, Hungary will again be the leading nation running the area at Kabul International Airport used by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). The commanding officer will be a major-general of the Hungarian Army.
Canadian Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon announced the appointment of his country’s new ambassador to Hungary, Tamara Guttman. She will have concurrent accreditation to the Republic of Slovenia and to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Hungarian teenagers continued the country’s great Olympic traditions by excelling at the First Youth Olympics held in Singapore. Hungarian athletes collected 6 gold, 4 silver and 5 bronze medals, finishing 8th on the medal table featuring 84 nations.
Less children were born in Hungary in the first half of 2010 than a year before but the number of deaths was also lower. Statisticians calculate that immigration helped the Hungarian population to be slightly over 10 million.
66-year actress Ahna Capri has died after a serious traffic accident in Hollywood. She is best known for her partnership with Bruce Lee in the classic movie ‘Enter the dragon’.
A Hungarian soldier died and three were injured as their convoy came under fire Monday morning in Afghanistan. The convoy was transporting home-bound Hungarian troops of the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT).
The Grassalkovich Castle in the town of Gödöllõ, just east of Budapest will be the central venue for the Hungarian Presidency of the European Union in the first half of 2011, hosting the meetings of EU ministers. It comes as no surprise as the town and the previous Hungarian government also contemplated this idea.
