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Music, dance, food, fashion – the Indian way
Twenty-one locations in Hungary will host activities when the Indian Embassy…
Indonesian children to share in adventures in Pécs
A children’s book by Hungarian author Erika Bartos has been translated into…
Revolución de Mayo of 1810 celebrated
The Ambassador of the Argentine Republic, Maximiliano Gregorio-Cernadas, and…
Counterculture, celebrity and capitalism
When Jann Wenner asked investigative reporter Joe Hagan in 2013 to write his…
India on display
A composite event to promote India’s States, particularly their economic,…
‘Global situation is unstable, dangerous’
The Norwegian constitution was adopted on this day 204 years ago, by a national…
Thunder and lightening
Nick Cave is a Bad Seed. That’s a simple statement but one often ignored. In the…
On the waterfront
The outside isn’t completely left behind when you go through the revolving door…
On a need-to-know basis
There’s an old truism that journalists should know a lot about a little and a…
A wellness wonderland
Nature can be cruel and nature can be kind, and at Moravske Toplice village in…
Sameer Hamdan and Zuhair Awad were presented with the recognition established on the 25th anniversary of the Best of Budapest & Hungary Awards
The 25th Best of Budapest & Hungary gala was hosted on April 14, 2018, at the…
One last blast of musical magic
On August 29, 1966, The Beatles ended a US tour at Candlestick Park in San…
10 things not everyone knows
Mummified kings and subterranean caves? Hungary possesses a number of…
Hiroshima-Nagasaki horror revisited
At the Hospital in the Rock Nuclear Bunker Museum, they are posing the question…
Tasty Asian food: can do
The cuisine of Asia has long been well represented on the Hungarian street-food…
Through Hungary to Europe, through Algeria to Africa
The Algerian and the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry organised a…
A fashion brand between two continents
While outside everything is grey and grey, if you believe what the trend oracles…
Was an innocent man executed?
Not surprisingly, after writing 53 “Maigret” books, author Simenon went for…
Room with a double view
Dawn is just after 7am and the red ball of the sun rises out of the…
A healthy obsession with evil Harry Lime
Each visit to Vienna turns up new attractions, and we confess that it was only…
Camp follower at long last
“Maybe I’ll go to the game this afternoon,” says a young fellow running a shop…
Breakfast, the Niki Lauda way
Three-time Formula One World Champion and entrepreneur Niki Lauda is a…
Piling on the pressure
Maigret enthusiasts know not to expect a lot of out-and-out excitement in…
Quite a cake
Legend has it that a young apprentice cook named Xaver Loibner created the…
400 hotels in 40 years
NH Hotel Group is a Spanish-based hotel chain headquartered in Madrid. The…
Election 2018 - Projected share of parlt seats with 98.96 pc of votes counted
Hungary's incumbent Fidesz-led alliance appears set for a two-thirds majority in…
The city you thought you knew
Here at The Budapest Times, whenever out and about in the big city lately, we…
Election 2018 - Fidesz secures sweeping victory for third successive term (adds more analysts, opposition comments)
Budapest, April 9 (MTI) - Hungary's incumbent Fidesz-led alliance, based on…
Election 2018 - Election office to start publishing results at 9.30pm
Budapest, April 8 (MTI) - National Election Office (NVI) chief Ilona Palffy has…
Temple of Levantine dining
Baalbek? This is a town on a hilltop in the Bekaa Valley, the most spectacular…
Five alternative sightseeing tours
From Trabant city tours to funicular and flying experiences, there are plenty of…
Art, and fish, draw countries even closer
Five of us are sitting around the table, only a few metres from the river: the…
Brush with fame
It's obvious for those who already know his work: Mihály Munkácsy is the most…
Verbal scrap
BRIT & Echo Award winner Rory Graham (aka Rag’n’Bone Man) will embark on the…
Not only for tourists
There are restaurants in the city that people born and raised here would never…
Bloodhound on the trail
Simenon unleashes a wham-bam opening here that has our head in a spin trying to…
Co-teaching makes program special
English-Hungarian Bilingual Education Program, a forward-looking education…
Celebration centres on ladies
Women were to the fore when Tunisia’s Ambassador to Hungary, Her Excellency…
Looking for a lovely international kindergarten in the heart of Budapest?
When I was a teenager, my Mum had some money saved, so she asked her good…
Inspire, excel, exceed
Record numbers attended the Open Days on 5 and 12 February at Britannica…
High standards, respect for all
The BME International Secondary Grammar School (ISGS), founded in 1992, is one…
Faster, more discreet and more exclusive
An airplane stops in the parking position on the tarmac. A few minutes later, a…
An investigation in reverse
The last time we encountered Detective Chief Inspector Maigret he was run-down…
Ireland’s St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated worldwide
The Ambassador of Ireland Mr. Pat Kelly and Ms. Margaret Kilmartin organized the…
Budapest, Győr join Global Greening
St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland and March 17, better known as St.…
The most elegant wine event of Central Eastern Europe is moving to the Castle Garden
After 8 years a new venue was found for the VinCE Budapest Wine Show taking…