"Shopping center owners, investors and tenants alike have fallen victim to a severe reduction in retail spending, leaving store space vacant and same-store sales well below levels seen in recent years. Retailers have shown little interest in opening new outlets, and are instead waiting on the sidelines for economic conditions to improve and for a visible uptick on the jobs front."
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"Hungary's forint fell one percent against the euro from opening on Thursday, easing to 289 by 0949 GMT according to Reuters data on the back of broad losses for global emerging markets. By 0959 GMT, it had recovered slightly to 288.80 per euro."
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"Hungary's government may not have to draw on the full amount of its loan from the IMF if market conditions improve further, a senior debt agency official said on Thursday. Deputy Chief Executive Andras Laszlo Borbely told Reuters several foreign investment banks had approached the debt agency (AKK) in the past couple of weeks encouraging Hungary to issue a Eurobond as sentiment across central Europe improved, confirming an earlier report on Thursday from business weekly Figyelo."
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"National Gallop" on May 31 will be much more up his street. Up to a hundred horses and riders will race round the square in thoroughly courageous fashion, competing in an all-day tournament with a €200,000 bounty."
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"An 87-year-old man accused of committing war crimes has been granted bail by the Federal Court in Perth. Charles Zentai is accused of beating a Jewish teenager to death in Budapest during World War II."
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"Since their entry to the Schengen zone, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary have been issuing 50 percent less visas for Belarussians, Moldavians, Russians and Ukrainians than before."
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"After a prolonged stay in the U.S., a Brylcreemed Hungarian teenybopper teaches his Commie-era peers about rock 'n' roll in "Made in Hungaria," helmer Gergely Fonyo's fluffy but swinging musical romance. Solidly entertaining '60s-set tuner is based on the Hungarian stage musical that was in turn inspired by the early days of Magyar rocker Miklos Fenyo."
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"Germany's disappointing World Ice Hockey Championship bid ends with a 2-1 win over Hungary in Switzerland, for 15th place out of 16 teams."
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"The wide variety of Irish whiskeys and drought Irish stouts, along with the genuine Irish atmosphere make us feel as though we were in Dublin. No taboos, and your sense of time will be gone as soon as the live music starts playing, and the venue starts to breathe." says the pub's owner."
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"Hungary's parliament passed key amendments to tax and pension laws on Monday in a preliminary vote, seen as the first test of the new Socialist minority government which took office last month."
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"U.S. FBI agents are helping Hungarian police investigate a recent series of killings involving Gypsies. The head of Hungary's police Jozsef Bencze said FBI agents analyze evidence they receive from Hungarian police officers and help produce psychological profiles of killers, the Hungarian news agency MTI said Monday."
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"In Hungary, football is king, but its rugby union is now confident of threatening its all-powerful throne. While Hungary has failed to qualify for the football World Cup over the past two decades, despite the glory days of the fifties, rugby is enjoying growing popularity."
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"Hungary repurchased 34 billion forints ($153.6 million) worth of government bonds at a weekly auction on Wednesday, down from 67 billion last week, the State Debt Management Agency (AKK) said on its page."
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"Acupath Laboratories Inc. has announced it will soon offer flow cytometry testing using the FLAER reagent for paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), an acquired genetic blood disorder. The disease is defined by hemolysis, in which the body's own immune system destroys its red blood cells."
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"Thousands of mourners are expected on Wednesday at the funeral of Jeno Koka, the fifth Hungarian Gypsy shot to death in a series of crimes police say may have been committed by the same small group."
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