Hungary's handling of Roma affairs strongly influences the country's reputation in the United States, which is looking at the Hungarian government's Roma program with great anticipation, a Hungarian government official said in Washington.

The Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Hungary proposesl to bridge the longstanding divide between international business organizations and the government in Hungary by setting up a Council of Chambers.

The prime ministers of the Visegrád Four (V4) group of countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) have signed a statement highlighted the group's role in advancing European integration in its member countries.

Péter Lakatos, a photographer contracted with the Hungarian News Agency MTI, has won 1st prize in the spot news singles category of the 54th World Press Photo contest, selected from the best photos made in 2010.

Hungary is going ahead with plans to upgrade equipment for its PRT mission in Afghanistan in spite of a call by President Hamid Karzai to demobilise the NATO reconstruction teams, the daily Népszabadság daily said on Thursday.

"Airplane Gizi", a veteran female thief in her 85th year, has been caught again, in Bicske, west of Budapest. She received her nickname in the 1950s for utilizing the then exisitng domestic flights in Hungary for burglaries nationwide.

Some would say mass manufacturing was born in Hungary, for if was József Galamb who not only created Ford's Model T, or "Tin Lizzie" but was elemental in introducing the conveyor belt to production lines. Galamb was born 130 years ago.

Influenza is gripping Hungary. So far, nine people have died as a result of flu-related complications. More and more hospitals have banned visits due to contraction fears. Three of the victims had contracted influenza B.

About 3.3 percent of just over three million members in Hungary's mandatory private pension funds have opted to stay in the private system, according to the National Pensions Directorate. The total number of those who have chosen to stay is 102,019.

European Union foreign ministers on Monday discussed how to finance infrastructure needed for joining up the bloc's energy networks to form a single energy market. The meeting was chaired by Hungarian foreign minister János Martonyi.

Ferenc Szõnyi is the fifth man in the world to have completed the double deca ironman competition: 76 kms of swimming, 3,600 kms cycling and 844 kms running. it took him 481 hours, 54 minutes and 10 seconds to finish this race.

Swiss Ambassador Christian Mühlethaler arrived to Hungary for the first time in 1969 as a tourist and came back several times as a tour guide in the 1970s. He gave an interview for the Swiss Focus section in Diplomacy & Trade.

Hungary's new drug strategy will focus on prevention at the earliest ages while proposing stricter prosecution for drug dealers, a senior official at the National Resources Ministry, told the daily Népszabadság on Tuesday.

Three young women died at a club in downtown Budapest late Saturday night after panic broke out and guests were trying to leave. No other injuries were reported. Police detained five people in connection with the incident.

At their recent meeting in Budapest, the Secretaries of State for EU Affairs of the EU trio presidencies – Spain, Belgium, Hungary – presented an evaluation of their joint efforts aimed at the smooth transition between the presidencies.