Germany's biggest discount retail chain, Aldi, will enter the Hungarian market, daily Napi Gazdaság said on Tuesday.

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Hungarian fixed-line telephone use dropped sharply in April as both the number of subscribers and average use per customer fell, the telecom watchdog HNN said on Tuesday.

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The Alliance of Free Democrats, junior coalition party in a Socialist-led coalition government, pledged on Tuesday to stay in government, just after it helped defeat the Socialist candidate for president.

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A Hungarian court ordered drug producer Richter Gedeon to pull its new generic osteoporosis drug from stores pending a patent suit brought by U.S. drug giant Merck and Co. Inc, Merck said.

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Saturday 11th June, doors open 8.45 for 09.10 k.o. Champs Sports Bar, Dohany utca 20, 7th. And South Africa vs Uruguay, ko 15.00

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The Budapest bourse slipped by 0.4% to 17,807 points by noon on Tuesday, with a poor HUF 3.4 billion turnover. MOL and OTP were in the focus of investors' attention, but Richter was the only blue chip that produced gains.

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A young man and woman get together for a brief moment, but clearly don't belong together. Or do they? As the two bump into each other, year after year, there always seems to be plenty keeping them apart.

Oliver and Emily, a pair of dynamic, diametrically opposed twenty-somethings whose initial fateful meeting sets off sparks…then seems to go nowhere. Over the next seven years, they will continue to meet. But is their relationship simply a good friendship? Is it destined to be yet another romantic disaster?
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Pogo Producing Company announced today that it has agreed to sell its wholly-owned subsidiary, Pogo Hungary, Ltd., to Toreador Resources Corporation. The purchase price for the transaction is approximately $9.0 million. Closing is expected by the end of June 2005.
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"From this month a new chef from Belgium arrived to Óceán, his name is Wim Cornett, he had been working in many Michelin star restaurant all over the world, let us give you a taster from our brand new Menu.

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Copenhagen Airports AS is to launch a bid for Budapest Ferihegy International Airport, which is being privatised by the Hungarian government, daily Boersen reported, citing Flemming Petersen, head of investor relations at the Danish airport operator.

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11-25. June 2005

This year, "Bartók +..." International Opera Festival, Miskolc will be organized for the fifth time. The ambition of the Festival is to make Miskolc a widely-known festival city.

This exceptional event offers a selection of the best opera performances in Central and Eastern Europe and the participation of world famous artists who have appeared regularly on the stages of the Scala, Metropolitan, Coven Garden, Mariinskj Theater and many others. In 2005, in addition to the ever renewing repertory of Bartók’s works, composers of the Bel canto tardition (Bellini, Donizetti and Rossini) are brought to the limelight.
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Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Paris; Choeur de Radio France/Wiener Singverein, Wiener Sängerknaben - The National Concert Hall
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The Bosnian government may call off the deal on the country's largest fuel retailer Energopetrol with the Hungarian-Croatian consortium of MOL and INA, Hungarian newswire MTI reported on Monday.

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Hungary's biggest bank, OTP Bank plans to mandate BNP Paribas soon to organise a medium-term eurobond facility of up to 1 billion euros, a source familiar with the transaction told Reuters.

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Papp László Budapest Sportaréna

Out of all the post-Nirvana American alternative bands to break into the pop mainstream, Green Day were second only to Pearl Jam in terms of influence. At their core, Green Day were simply punk revivalists, recharging the energy of speedy, catchy three-chord punk-pop songs. Though their music wasn't particularly innovative, they brought the sound of late-'70s punk to a new, younger generation with Dookie, their 1994 major-label debut.

Green Day weren't able to sustain their success -- Dookie sold over eight million, while its follow-up, Insomniac, only sold a quarter of its predecessor -- yet their influence was far-reaching because they opened the doors for a flood of American neo-punk, punk metal, and third wave ska revivalists.
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