Archive of articles - August 1999, page 3

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Cinderella Senec surprises league in its inaugural Superliga season

For the first time in club history, VTJ Koba Senec is this season playing in Slovakia's elite football division, the Mars Superliga. After finshing first in the second division last year and thus qualifying for promotion to the premier league, Senec has played surprisingly well and currently holds down sixth place out of 16 teams after four games.Senec's Superliga promotion almost never occurred. A controversial decision by the Slovak Football Union overturned the results of a match played between ŠKP Devín and Senec in early June. The ruling, which nullified a Senec victory and meant that Devín moved up to the Superliga instead, was based on the argument that one of the Senec players had been ineligible to play in June because he had received a yellow card in 1997 while playing for a different team.

Brutal 10-minute wind storm rips apart property

Finance Ministry to itself become money market player

Cabinet greenlights social benefit cuts

The Slovak cabinet passed several amendments to the Labour Code, the Employment Law and the Housing Contribution Law on August 18, paving the way for deep cuts in social benefits.The revision to the employment law cuts the maximum unemployment benefit from 5,400 Slovak crowns ($130) per month to 4,500 crowns ($107).The term of eligibility for receiving these benefits has been cut from one year to nine months.

Private doctors support government's health care moves

NATO-compatible anti-aircraft system deployed

Opinion poll shows HZDS has more support than SDK

Labour unions warn 50,000 will rally in fall

Sport briefs

Superliga fourth round completedSlovak Baseball Federation playoffsSlovak junior team resumes European competition

Romany man shot in police station

A young Romany man being questioned about a bicycle theft was shot in the stomach during a one-on-one police interview in a Poprad police station August 13. Despite three operations, he died from his injuries five days later.Police are reporting that the shooting of Ľubomir Šarišský was either accidental or that the boy fatally shot himself in the stomach after an argument with the policeman.Ladislav Maličký, an investigator with the Prešov regional police, told the SITA news agency that the crime will be "reconstructed in two weeks to prove one or the other (two possible police) causes of the shooting." The idea that the crime had a racial element or was intentional, he said, "is out of the question."

'Rascals' terrorize rare flower

KDH member killed in head-on car crash

NBS greenlights transfer of bad loans from IRB

Number of job seekers up 31% in second quarter

TV Luna to start broadcasting in November

Čarnogurský calls for bureau to dig up communist crimes

Three members of VSŽ Board of Directors resign

Asylum requests don't alter Belgium's visa policy