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Water Forest revives High Tatras
A NEW forest is growing in the part of the Tatras that was devastated by a windstorm a year and half ago. It is the result of the Water Forest project, which has built over 4,000 water storage systems and planted 17,254 new trees on more than 50 hectares of the destroyed mountains.
State scrambles for substitute investor
SLOVAK authorities have pledged to help find a new investor for the impoverished southeastern Slovak town of Rimavská Sobota to replace the Dräxlmaier company of Germany, which suddenly scrapped a planned investment in the town in early May.
Ducký bill on auction
AN AUCTION for one of the infamous "Ducký bills" - promissory notes signed against the SPP gas utility by its murdered former director, Ján Ducký - will be held on June 13 in Prague.
Four artists look back at 1980s
RIGHT in the middle of the busy city centre, inside the historical Pálffy Palace that houses the Bratislava City Gallery, is a path of chopped wood pieces that leads all the way up the palace's 104 stairs. It ends in an exhibition hall in a circle of ash.
"My problem": Hungarians and gypsies
IT'S MID-May, a month from national elections, and Žilina Mayor Ján Slota is everywhere in this thriving town of 85,000.
Data beating voice services
VOICE services still make up the largest portion of telecom revenues in Slovakia, but market saturation has caused operators to refocus their advertising and revenue structures on a new wave of demand for data services.
Take your phone number with you
IF ALL goes as planned, number portability - the possibility to keep the same telephone number when you switch telecom operators - will be a reality for Slovak consumers from the beginning of 2007. Slovakia's two mobile phone operators will begin offering the service as early as June 2006, but the process with fixed lines could take a bit longer.
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