Archive of articles - November 2005, page 8

Slovaks can vote on designs for euro coins

Filtering Bollywood for the rest of us

HOLLYWOOD has always peddled spectacle. Today this typically means special effects-driven action movies. But at the height of Hollywood's golden age - the late 1940s and 1950s - when the use of colour and the widescreen format came into prominence, the movie studios sang a different tune.

Around Slovakia

Slovakia tops euro adoption preparedness

SLOVAKIA scored a promising split time in the race towards euro adoption, lining up with Estonia, Lithuania and Slovenia in technical and administrative preparedness, according to a recent report by the European Commission.

One-stop office for businesses

SE privatization pushed back to early 2006

Breaking the silence on the Roma Holocaust

On the night of August 2 to 3, 1944 the "gypsy" section of the concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau was closed down. A small number of the prisoners from all around Europe were deported to concentration camps in Buchenwald and Ravensbrűck. The remaining 2,897 Roma men and women, including old people and children, were taken to the gas chambers. Nobody survived.

Minister files criminal complaint over Universal Media deal

THERE are no secret CIA jails for Al-Quaeda terrorists in Slovakia, said Slovak Justice Minister Daniel Lipšic, responding to information published by The Washington Post. The US newspaper published an article claiming that the US secret service has such clandestine jails in Eastern Europe.

Who develops open source, and why?

IVAN Hanzlík, strategy director of EEA communications solutions, says open source developers are motivated by a variety of things.

Airport bidders dwindle as consortium pulls out

ONE of the five favoured consortiums contending to buy Bratislava's M R Štefánik Airport withdrew from the running. The departure of French company Vinci and Austrian A-way from the privatization bid leaves four short-listed consortiums to vie for a chance to acquire a 66-percent stake in the Bratislava and Košice airports.

Reader feedback: Europe is not stable

White Lady of Levoča

PEOPLE wandering around the city walls of Levoča in the past would come across a niche with a picture of the legendary White Lady calling them to enter the city.

Ministers name auto appointee

Reader feedback: Leaving bleak and brutal Bratislava

Notebooks catching up with desktops

MORE and more people prefer to be mobile with their notebook PCs and work online when travelling or visiting off-site locations. People also buy notebooks and not desktops because notebooks are an important part of their image.

Letter to the Editor

In response to your report on the government incentives available to foreign investors, I would suggest that clarifying the rules without doubt makes public officials behave more fairly.

Neo-Nazism: gaining or losing momentum?

ÚVK members selected

Intelligence Service shadowed minister