Archive of articles - March 2007, page 9

Slovak economy saw 8.3% growth in real prices

Office buildings: Aesthetics versus profit

BRATISLAVA'S buzzing business life has outgrown the blocky architecture that it inherited from its socialist past and is now searching for more interesting and original office designs. The office architecture business has made so much progress that it now has its own category in the CE ZA ARs, the Slovak "Oscars". Last year's prize went to Márius Žitňanský's design for the Montex office building.

Dell opens new centre

THE DELL computer company has opened new premises in Bratislava that promise to provide the city with 600 new jobs.

Jan Kavan's scandals

1991: Information suggesting that Kavan cooperated with the communist state security forces, the ŠtB, was leaked. After five years, a court finally ruled that his cooperation with the ŠtB had not been intentional. However, the Czech Supreme Court later ruled that Kavan had lied to the British authorities regarding his role in providing the ŠtB with information that led to the imprisonment of eight people for distributing foreign literature safe at the ministry, the origin of which he could not explain.

Cabinet to close regional administrative offices

FA Minister hopes to see US visa regime lifted

Foreigners face new barriers to citizenship

ACQUIRING Slovak citizenship will take longer and be more difficult under the terms of a proposed amendment to the State Citizenship Act scheduled to be approved this summer.

"Murgaš' plot"

Banská Bystrica region boss Milan Murgaš has long served as evidence that the Smer party is incapable of dealing with improper behaviour within its own ranks.

Samsung chooses Slovakia

THE KOREAN electronics firm Samsung is to build a new € 400 million factory in Slovakia as part of the first large foreign investment the Robert Fico government has attracted since taking power last year, and the third-largest that the country has ever won.

Fico's new media advisor calls for "self-discipline"

PRIME Minister Robert Fico has engaged a new media advisor. Psychologist Ľubica Mižičková says she will counsel her boss, whose notoriously poor relations with the media have worsened since he took office last year, to delegate more responsibility and give more interviews.

Kostolište

THE VILLAGE of Kostolište in the Záhorie region is better known to many people by its old name, Kiripolec. Because of its location along the Hungarian border, it was often the victim of invasions.

Oil prices below 61 USD

Winter comes to an end

THE CURRENT WARM weather indicates that winter in Slovakia is indeed over. Temperatures in ski resorts at altitudes around 1,000 metres reached as high as 10 degrees Celsius during the last few days. This means real trouble for the snow cover. Some snow was even seen evaporating right before skiiers' eyes, mainly on southern slopes during somewhat cloudy weather and relatively strong wind.

Culture Ministry fined for supporting TASR

Club owner: Wänke on the take for years

STANISLAV Szabo, owner of the ŠK Eldus Močenok football club, told the SITA news agency that the bribe he paid FA deputy director Vladimír Wänke on March 6 as part of a police sting operation was not the first time he had paid Wänke off.

Market needs intelligent buildings

Most Slovaks live in concrete blocks of flats, the legacy of Socialist architecture, and to them, the idea of computer-managed intelligent buildings sounds like science fiction. However, effective facility management, along with the possibility of integrated computer technology, is becoming more of a reality in Slovakia.

RENT issues a challenge to Slovak musical theatre

IMAGINE YOU'RE a young artist living in New York City in the 1990s, struggling to create and pay your rent at the same time. Outside of your art and your dreams, all you have is a close-knit community of like-minded friends.

Bugár and Duray square off as SMK congress nears

TENSIONS seem to be mounting within the opposition Hungarian Coalition Party (SMK), which has so far been one of Slovakia's most stable parties with voter support holding at around nine percent.

Unemployment rate still decreasing