Archive of articles - April 2006, page 10

Culture shorts

Slovnaft raises petrol prices

Insurer publishes hospital ratings

Rescue service stations get new operators

Buy-back of Transpetrol

Eurostat reports 15.6 percent jobless rate

State guarantees down

Incentive dispute may land Slovakia in Washington

SLOVAKIA might just end up at the Washington court of arbitration if the Slovak government does not find a way to appease the incentive-hungry suppliers of the Korean carmaker Kia, which is building an auto factory near Žilina.

Online investment still fringe activity

GIVEN the current low interest rates in Slovakia, deposits in Slovak banks do not yield high returns. One of the only ways to secure a significant return on one's capital is to invest on foreign capital markets.

Germany seeks Slovak support

Found: 16 tanks in farm warehouse

THE DISCOVERY of 16 T-72 tanks in a farm warehouse in northern Slovakia has renewed suspicions that army stocks are falling into the wrong hands with the complicity of state institutions.

FNM closes 2005 with a surplus

Changes will not affect Istrobanka

Investor paradise or purgatory?

A LITTLE over a year ago it seemed that Korean investors had found an investment paradise in Slovakia. The government loudly celebrated the interest of Kia and Hankook in building plants in Slovakia, while some state officials, perhaps carried away by enthusiasm, made sweet-sounding promises to the potential investors that wooed them to the land under the Tatras.

Slovak soldiers under artillery fire

Reader feedback: EU integration is not a socialist agenda

HZD uses president to lure voters

Around Slovakia

A Slovak first - medical staff strike

FOR THE FIRST time in the history of the country, Slovak health care employees have gone on strike for more pay and better work conditions. The strike started on April 6 at 3:30 pm.