Budapest, May 8 (MTI) – Five new Polish feature films and four
animations will be shown during the Polish Film Spring opening in
Budapest on Thursday, the organiser told reporters.  Continue »

Budapest, May 8 (MTI) – The first applications will be invited
early in summer for projects supported by the Swiss-Hungarian
Cooperation Programme, a spokesman for the National Development
Agency said on Thursday.  Continue »

Budapest, May 8 (MTI) – A young Hungarian man aged 16 has been
apprehended by police in Central Hungary for desecrating Jewish
graves with an accomplice in a cemetery in Romania last year,
Hungary’s national bureau of investigation said on Thursday.  Continue »

President Laszlo Solyom will present two
new ombudsmen candidates for Parliament to hold its fourth vote on
the post at the end of May. Continue »

After 1,581 consecutive days, David Witthoft of Connecticut has stopped wearing his #4 Brett Favre jersey,
that he got as a gift for Christmas in 2003. His father said that the
last day his son wore the jersey was his 12th birthday. Continue »

Ecostat’s
confidence index for small and medium sized enterprises (SME) dipped to 91.2
percent in April from 97.8 percent in March and 101.4 percent – the index’s
all-time high – in April 2007, as companies continued to cope with tightening
business conditions. Continue »

Budapest, May 7 (MTI) – An exhibition of contemporary Israeli
art focusing on the Holocaust opened in Budapest on Wednesday.  Continue »

Budapest, May 8 (MTI) – Five hundred cave scientists and
environmentalists signed a petition against a project to convert a
former Turkish bath in western Budapest into a spa hotel, national
daily Nepszabadsag reported on Thursday.  Continue »

Budapest, May 8 (MTI) – The governing Socialist (MSZP) party
must reach an agreement with its former coalition partner Free
Democrats (SZDSZ) on co-operation before the autumn session of
parliament, MSZP parliamentary group leader Ildiko Lendvai told
daily Nepszabadsag on Thursday.  Continue »

Budapest, May 8 (MTI) – Hungary’s industrial output rose an
annual 4.3 percent in March according to working day-adjusted
figures published by the Central Statistical Office (KSH) on
Thursday.  Continue »