The Hungarian postal service company Magyar Posta is temporarily suspending the operation of 366 post offices in 210 municipalities to reduce energy consumption. At the same time, the company announced on Friday a collective redundancy plan affecting 300 employees in management and service areas, the state news agency MTI reports. Magyar Posta said that in […]
A lion figure made of hundreds of thousands of Lego blocks were placed on Clark Ádám Square on Thursday morning, Budapest Transport Center (BKK) told the state news agency MTI. They wrote that the lion is an important symbol for the people of Budapest, and the stone lions on the bridgehead of the Chain Bridge […]
Students, parents, teachers and their supporters formed live chain of about ten kilometers in the Hungarian capital Thursday morning at the initiative of the Unified Student Front in support of Hungarian teachers’ fight for decent pay and better working conditions, state news agency MTI reports. Katalin Törley, founder of the Tanítanék ['I would teach'] movement, […]
BME Suborbitals, a team of engineering candidates from the Budapest University of Technology (BME), finished 5th in their category and 9th in the overall ranking at Europe's most prestigious international rocket competition, the European Rocketry Challenge. The competition, organized by the Portugal Space Agency (Agência Espacial Portuguesa) and the European Space Agency, was held in […]
Over the past week, 140 chronic patients, mostly elderly, died (22 more than in the previous week), bringing the total number of deaths related to the new coronavirus infection in Hungary to 47,938, according to the government portal koronavirus.gov.hu. 9,023 new cases of new coronavirus infection were confirmed over this period, thus, the total number […]
Archaeologists and volunteers of the Damjanich János Museum in Szolnok, E Hungary, have recently discovered a 1,700-year-old Roman gold coin on the outskirts of Törökszentmiklós, Péter Kovács, archaeologist of the museum, told the state news agency MTI on Tuesday. The find is also significant for the Damjanich János Museum because no Roman gold coin has […]
Hungarian phrama company Gedeon Richter Plc. has announced that it has submitted a Type II Variation application for RYEQO® to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for the treatment of moderate to severe pain associated with endometriosis in adult women of reproductive age with a history of previous medical or surgical treatment for their endometriosis. RYEQO® […]
To commemorate the 66th anniversary of the 1956 Revolution and War of Independence, Niagara Falls was once again lit up in Hungarian national colors on October 23, 2022, the Hungarian state news agency reported on Monday morning. It was for the third time, the Canadian and US sides of the falls were lit in red, […]
A solidarity demonstration for teachers was held in Budapest on Sunday, the commemoration day of the 1956 Revolution and War of Independence, jointly organized by the Adom Student Movement and the Democratic Trade Union of Teachers (PDSZ), the state news agency MTI reported. The demonstrators gathered at Kálvin Square and then marched across Szabadság [‘Liberty’] […]
The Budapest Stock Exchange (BSE) share index rose this week, with the BUX closing at 39,603.36 points on Friday, up 65.73 points or 0.17% on the previous week, the state news agency MTI reported this Sunday morning along with a brief analysis. Weekly turnover on the stock market was HUF 31.11 billion, up from HUF […]
BlueVoyant, an industry-leading cyber defense company converging internal and external security, has opened a regional headquarters in Budapest. The headquarters includes a security operations center (SOC), which successfully monitors and protects the digital ecosystem of customers worldwide. BlueVoyant, which provides unique cybersecurity solutions, has been present in Hungary since 2021. The company chose Budapest as […]
On Friday, 6,419 people entered Hungary at the Ukrainian-Hungarian border, while 5,968 of those entering at the Romanian-Hungarian border said they had come from Ukraine, the National Police Headquarters (ORFK) said. Of those who entered, police issued 232 people with temporary residence permits valid for 30 days. They will have to go to the office […]
An investment of EUR 66 million further modernizes Viterra Növényolajgyártó [‘Vegetable oil production’] Ltd.’s oilseed crush plant in Foktő, Bács-Kiskun county, as a result of which an automated unit for vegetable oil further refining has been installed. About 8% of the investment was covered by Hungarian taxpayers’ money through a government decision. Thus, Viterra’s plant […]
Hungarian pharmaceutical company Gedeon Richter Plc. and Dr. Max BDC, s.r.o. (‘Dr.Max Group’) have announced that Richter’s indirect Romanian subsidiary, Armedica Trading S.R.L has signed a share sale and purchase agreement to divest the Richter Group’s Romanian wholesale and retail operations (Pharmafarm S.A. and Gedeon Richter Farmacia S.A., respectively) to Mediplus Exim S.R.L (“Mediplus”), a […]
Slovakia is sending 40 police officers to help Hungary protect the Hungarian-Serbian border, which is plagued by illegal migration, the Slovak public news agency TASR reported on Thursday, citing a statement by Interior Minister Roman Mikulec. He said that the Slovak police officers would be deployed in mixed teams with their Hungarian counterparts, and that […]
