Sóstó Zoo, the country’s largest animal park, located in Nyíregyháza, NE Hungary, has recently received the director and chief vet of the Jakarta Ragunan Zoo. Both parties are interested in signing a new cooperation agreement.

Hungary is in charge of the protection of the airspace of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania for a period of four months as of 1 September as part of NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission. Hungary took over the mission at the Siauliai Air Base in Lithuania from Norway and Italy.

The 15th Smart Times international car meeting was held this Friday and Saturday in and around Budapest. The aim of these gatherings s to forge together the Smart community and establish relationship with Smart fans from all around the world.

Gellért Mester made good use of his lunch-break and helped his football team win a match in the Somogy county championship recently. He scored goals in the first half before going back to work in a restaurant in Siófok at Lake Balaton in Western Hungary.

Dozens of migrants (they could number as many 50) were found dead in a truck with temporary Hungarian license plate parked along the A4 motorway in Austria, some 30 kilometers from the Hungarian border on Thursday. Hungary will help in the investigation.

A brief disturbance broke out among migrants entering Hungary at a refugee camp near the village of Röszke on the Hungarian side of the border with Serbia on Wednesday, the Hungarian news agency MTI reported. Police used tear gas to restore order.

Until 2020, the EU made available HUF 70bn for cooperation and support projects within the Danube region. On August 20, 2015 the European Commission adopted the Danube Transnational Program elaborated jointly by the 14 countries of the Danube basin.

There is no threat of an epidemic in Hungary in connection with the influx of migrants and there is no evidence that they are spreading pathogens, Hungary’s health authority (ÁNTSZ) is quoted as saying by the Hungarian news agency MTI.

The traditional St. Stephen’s Day fireworks were launched this Friday evening from ships on the Danube, two bridges – Chain Bridge (Lánchíd) and Liberty Bridge (Szabadság híd) - and from Gellért Hill to be watched by tens of thousands of people on either banks of the river.

Players wore black armbands paying respect - along with spectators - in the the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid Tuesday night to the memory of Erzsébet Hunyadvári, the widow of legendary Hungarian footballer Ferenc Puskás. She passed away last week.

95-year-old Hungarian swimmer Béla Bánki Horváth won the men's 50-meter freestyle event in his age category at the FINA World Masters Championships in Kazan, Russia this Thursday. Two days earlier, he won the 200-meter backstroke with a new world record.

The National Bank of Hungary has acquired new luxury real estates by buying a villa in one of Budapest’s most expensive 12th district for over HUF one billion forints back in February, and another property in the Castle District of for about HUF 800 million.

With three gold, two silver and four bronze collected, Hungary became the 6th most successful nation in the swimming pool at the World Aquatics Championships in Kazany, Russia. Considering other aquatics events, too, Hungary was the 8th most successful country.

With the start of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil a year and a day away, the Hungarian Olympic Committee has announced that the country already has 33 quotas in four different sports: athletics, sailing, shooting and swimming.

A new fire engine – or as it is called by professionals: vehicle sprinkler –, developed by Hungarian engineers, was presented at the 9th district fire deprtment in Budapest. The Heros Aquadux X 1500 fire engine is based on Renault chassis.