Budapest, April 17 (MTI) – Rainy weather, sporadic showers are
forecast for Friday. Southerly winds will gust to high. Lowest night-time temperatures will be between 4 and 9 degrees
Celsius and day-time highs are expected to be between 15 and 19
degrees, the National Weather Service forecast. Continue »

Budapest, April 17 (MTI) – Priorities for the government’s
traffic policy for the next few years include offering residents
incentives to buy environment-friendly vehicles or to choose public
transportations as well as to build up the transportation
infrastructure, Lajos Szucs, department head at the Ministry of
Economy and Transportation, said on Thursday.  Continue »

Budapest, April 17 (MTI) – Rail workers’ union VDSZSZ said on
Thursday it would not join the strike called by public transport
company BKV for Friday, union chief Istvan Gasko told MTI.  Continue »

Budapest, April 17 (MTI) – The national Academies of Sciences of
the four Visegrad countries – Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland and
Slovakia – are set to hold an annual meeting in Budapest on April
21-22, the president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences told MTI
on Thursday.  Continue »

Budapest’s 3,000 taxis are all booked
up for Friday morning, when a round-the-clock public transport
strike is set to hit the city. Unions of cash-starved public transport company BKV have started
strike preparations and it is unlikely that the stoppage can be
averted. Continue »

A MiG-29 military aircraft crashed in
Kecskemet, Central Hungary while attempting to land, the defence
ministry reported. Continue »

Workers of the Budapest Transport
Company (BKV) are preparing for an all-day strike on Friday after
unions and the management failed to arrive at a compromise in
negotiations lasting until late Wednesday. Continue »

Budapest, April 17 (MTI) – Hungary will be able to receive
liquefied natural gas (LNG) from 2012 when a pipeline with a planned
transfer facility on the Croatian Island of Krk is expected to be
built, national daily Nepszabadsag reported on Friday.  Continue »

Budapest, April 17 (MTI) – Hungarian gross wages rose 13.4
percent in the twelve months to February and net wages increased
11.5 percent, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said on Thursday.  Continue »

Hungary has asked the United States
to help investigate far-right activities in the country, according
to unnamed sources cited by business weekly HVG. Continue »