The Budapest Times syndication http://www.budapesttimes.hu Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:21:33 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.budapesttimes.hu/images/M_images/BT_logo_webrss.jpg http://www.budapesttimes.hu The Budapest Times syndication http://www.budapesttimes.hu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15123&Itemid=159 Hundreds of Czechs attended the funeral of Milan Paumer, who achieved fame as a member of a group whose members shot their way out of Czechoslovakia in the 1950s, Radio Prague reported last Wednesday Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:15:59 +0100 http://www.budapesttimes.hu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15122&Itemid=159 Berlin’s famous polar bear Knut was alone again last week after his girlfriend returned to her zoo in Munich, Britain’s Daily Telegraph reported last Tuesday citing German media. Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:15:06 +0100 http://www.budapesttimes.hu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15121&Itemid=159 A 76-year-old Croatian grandmother has had her breasts surgically enhanced to make her latest husband happy, the Croatian Times reported last Tuesday. Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:14:21 +0100 http://www.budapesttimes.hu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15120&Itemid=159 A Russian rapper was last week serving a 10-day jail sentence after being convicted of hooliganism following comments about corrupt local police, the Moscow Times reported last Tuesday. Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:13:32 +0100 http://www.budapesttimes.hu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15119&Itemid=159 Almost half of all foreign prisoners in Austrian jails are Romanians, the Austrian Times reported last Tuesday. Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:12:49 +0100 http://www.budapesttimes.hu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15116&Itemid=159 A 16-year-old schoolgirl required emergency surgery last week after receiving a knife wound to the chest while allegedly haranguing a 34-year-old English teacher at the window of her ground-floor flat in the industrial city of Dunaújváros. Police said the girl had persistently demanded to speak to the teacher, named as Alexandra K., in the early hours of 31 July. The teacher had called the police, whereupon the girl left, only to return after officers had visited the flat and driven away. Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:59:08 +0100 http://www.budapesttimes.hu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15115&Itemid=159 Tamás Tóth, the recently appointed Budapest police chief, promised a more effective force in an interview with the daily newspaper Népszabadság last week. The commissioner repeated his intention to review the effects of reforms introduced in past years. Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:56:43 +0100 http://www.budapesttimes.hu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15114&Itemid=159 Budapest’s new smog rule that came into effect last Friday will reduce the number of cars by only 15 per cent in case of a smog alert, according to vehicle testers and a civil organisation polled by news portal hirszerzo.hu. Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:54:56 +0100 http://www.budapesttimes.hu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15110&Itemid=159 The German CEO of the recently re-privatised national airline Malév has escaped the government’s apparent drive to replace the heads of all state firms and bodies with its own appointees. Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:37:57 +0100 http://www.budapesttimes.hu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15109&Itemid=159 This year’s Hungarian Formula One Grand Prix attracted 203,000 visitors compared to 184,000 arriving at Mogyoród in 2009. Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:36:59 +0100 http://www.budapesttimes.hu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15108&Itemid=159 The admittedly populist Two-Tailed Dog Party (MKKP) is seeking financial contributions from the public and the help of activists in order to achieve its goal of nominating a mayoral candidate in the cities of Budapest and Szeged in the upcoming municipal elections. Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:36:01 +0100 http://www.budapesttimes.hu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15107&Itemid=159 The nationalist party Jobbik plans to table a proposal for the amendment of rules on voting in parliamentary committees. Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:35:08 +0100 http://www.budapesttimes.hu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15106&Itemid=159 The centre-right Fidesz government of prime minister Viktor Orbán looks set to continue apace its railroading of legislation through parliament. Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:34:08 +0100 http://www.budapesttimes.hu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15105&Itemid=159 The government continued last week with its apparent determination to demonstrate that two former prime ministers are guilty of corruption. Gyula Budai, commissioned by conservative prime minister Viktor Orbán to dig into a scandal over a dubious land deal on the shores of Lake Velence, presented two audio recordings that he claims proved the complicity of the previous Socialist government and its prime ministers Ferenc Gyurcsány and Gordon Bajnai. Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:33:18 +0100 http://www.budapesttimes.hu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15076&Itemid=159 Forty-one per cent of Romanians would vote for Nicolae Ceausescu in a presidential election, an opinion poll revealed last week. Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:06:48 +0100