The Budapest Sun Online RSS Feed http://www.budapestsun.com en http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28226 Wed, 7 May 2008 +0100 Opinion http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28226 http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28202 Wed, 7 May 2008 +0100 Traffic buster http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28202 I couldn't help notice the irony in multilingual Karolina Romanek's apparently well intentioned announcement of her group's launching their $3m Earthrace ocean going ship (Hungarian backing record bid, The Budapest Sun, Apr 30). http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28203 Wed, 7 May 2008 +0100 Opinion http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28203 In a mission to find out about the situation of asylum-seekers and recognized refugees in Hungary, UNHCR's officials recently visited two out of Hungary's three refugee reception facilities. http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28204 Wed, 7 May 2008 +0100 News http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28204 Hungary is to take command of Kabul's international airport from October, and plans to send 60 more troops to Afghanistan next year as part of its commitment to NATO, minister of defense Imre Szekeres announced on Sunday (May 4). http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28205 Wed, 7 May 2008 +0100 News http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28205 The public first got to know László Majtényi as data protection ombudsman in 1995. After the end of his term in 2001, he chaired the Károly Eötvös Institute of Public Politics. Although he says this period was one of the most successful times of his life, he is now back in public office, as the head of the National Electronic Media Authority (ORTT). http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28206 Wed, 7 May 2008 +0100 News http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28206 Freedom House Europe, Perspective Institute, and Transparency International Hungary were due to hold a joint press conference and briefing on transparency in campaign financing on Wednesday morning (May 7), after The Budapest Sun went to press. http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28207 Wed, 7 May 2008 +0100 News http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28207 Waiting staff leave the start line for the fourth annual Budapest waiters’ race at 3:30pm last Tuesday, Apr 29. http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28208 Wed, 7 May 2008 +0100 News http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28208 In politics and the economy alike, last year was characterized by contradictory developments. Political risk, which increased significantly in 2006, did not subside, while economic risk remained hardly changed. http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28209 Wed, 7 May 2008 +0100 News http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28209 Budapest-based journalist and author Adam LeBor is to present a BBC World documentary on life in Jaffa as the broadcaster marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of Israel this month. http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28210 Wed, 7 May 2008 +0100 News http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28210 Studio Metropolitana is holding what it calls a FutureWorkshop Conference, as the conclusion of the Futurbia project’s first planning period to establish what the future of Budapest might look like. http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28211 Wed, 7 May 2008 +0100 News http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28211 http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28212 Wed, 7 May 2008 +0100 News http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28212 Imagine the scene: it is your child's first haircut. You have taken the poor mite to your regular stylist. The place is full of adults, and has a heavy chemical smell. Your kid doesn't particularly want a hair cut, or care that it "will be much more comfortable in the summer with short hair." In fact, your pride and joy would far rather be outside playing on the rocking space ship. http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28213 Wed, 7 May 2008 +0100 Business http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28213 For the second month running, TRI Hospitality Consulting's HotStats survey of European chain hotels has reported good figures for Hungary, an trend reflected in the quarterly figures. http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28214 Wed, 7 May 2008 +0100 Business http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28214 Magyar Telekom (MTel) has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with IKO Production Kft to split the activities of the jointly owned IKO-Telekom Media Holding Zrt and gain full control of the holding's two independent content service provider subsidiaries, IKO New Media Kft and IKO Content and Rights Kft. http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28216 Wed, 7 May 2008 +0100 Business http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28216 Colliers International's Hungarian arm has established a new hotel and leisure department. http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28217 Wed, 7 May 2008 +0100 Business http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28217 Andreea Anca looks at an exhibition dedicated to explaining the rise of László Moholy-Nagy. http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28218 Wed, 7 May 2008 +0100 Style http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28218 I lived in the first settlement of Budapest, Óbuda, close to 20 years ago, just when the real transformation of the area around Kolosy tér began, and I experienced regular shocks as I witnessed original peasant houses being bulldozed. http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28219 Wed, 7 May 2008 +0100 Style http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28219 http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28220 Wed, 7 May 2008 +0100 Style http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28220 Being prepared to do anything for your loved ones is a common feeling for many people, but, for most, it is a concept which is never, thankfully, put to the test. http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28221 Wed, 7 May 2008 +0100 Style http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28221 Music re-recordings are very common these days, but, more often than not, the newly added sounds to an old tune mercilessly destroy the nostalgic memory of the original. http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28222 Wed, 7 May 2008 +0100 Style http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28222 The first night of the English language play Equus, written in 1973 by Peter Shaffer, and directed by Rhett Stevens, on Apr 30 at the Macska Diákpince, was only seen by a handful of people. http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28223 Wed, 7 May 2008 +0100 Style http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28223 Like Cuba's crumbling old colonial architecture, and the classic veteran American autos from the 1950s and '60s still running on Havana's streets, the leading exponents of the Afro-Cuban musical scene in the 1990s were aging, but still glorious. http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28224 Wed, 7 May 2008 +0100 Style http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28224 http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28225 Wed, 7 May 2008 +0100 Style http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28225 http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28215 Wed, 7 May 2008 +0100 Business http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28215 The break up of the coalition govt becomes official, leaving both parties at all-time lows. http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28172 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 +0100 News http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28172 László Kapolyi, Socialist (MSzP) MP, billionaire entrepreneur and chairman of the Hungarian Social Democratic Party (MSzDP), has been accused of hiring a firm of private detectives in order to gather information on former prime minister Viktor Orbán, Lajos Simicska, former head of tax authority APEH, and former head of Magyar Posta, István Kalmár, in 2002. http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28173 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 +0100 News http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28173 Earthrace, the world's fastest, and greenest, powerboat, kicked off its round-the-world record attempt at 2:33pm CET on Sunday (Apr 27), in an attempt to promote the use of sustainable fuels, and is relying on Hungarian help to keep it on track. http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28174 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 +0100 News http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28174 The idea of "objective responsibility" (in which the owner of a vehicle will be held responsible for every violation committed by it, regardless of who is driving) comes into force today (Thursday May 1), along with a zero tolerance policy by the police (already in action for drink driving and speeding), it was announced on Saturday (Apr 26). http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28175 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 +0100 News http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28175 A Goddess festival is to be held in Budapest this June 17-22. http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28176 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 +0100 News http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28176