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Construction starts on Samsung plant
CONSTRUCTION on the new Samsung Electronics plant in Voderady, near Trnava, started on April 30.The new plant will start producing LCD flat panels in March 2008, the SITA news wire wrote."We want to become number one on the European LCD flat panel market by 2012," Sang Wan Lee, the president of Samsung Electronics' LCD division, said at the ceremonial launch.
May Day celebrated in style
On May 1, celebrations of the "holiday of work" were held across Slovakia but, unlike during communist times, people could choose what kind of celebration they wanted to take part in and whether they wanted to take part at all.
Visas and betrayal
The Bush-Merkel-Barroso summit may have escaped notice in the hoopla surrounding the first of May, but it produced a resolution on climate change. It would have been far more welcome if it had produced a resolution on changing the US visa regime for new EU members.
Malinová accused
When the Attorney General says that ethnic Hungarian student Hedviga Malinová will soon be charged with lying to police, we have to believe she will really be charged. But to avoid the fate it suffered six months ago, this case has to be adjudicated by a court.
A sick and pathetic pensioner
One would almost feel sorry for him, when one saw how slowly he entered the courtroom, how bewildered he looked, his white and strained face showing suffering and anxiety. In a broken voice he asked the court and the entire nation for clemency: "I hope you won't convict a poor pensioner in bad health."
Cross-border bank fees to be cut
THE EUROPEAN Commis-sion took another step towards its goal of having a free flow of goods, services, labour and capital between member states this March when it announced that transactions between banks within the EU should cost no more than domestic transactions.
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