Archive of articles - August 2015

Slovak Matej Tóth won first gold in athletic discipline at World Championships

SLOVAK race walker Matej Tóth (of VŠC Dukla Banská Bystrica sports club) won a gold medal in the 50 kilometre walk at the World Championships in Beijing, while also winning the overall title in the prestigious IAAF Race Walking Challenge series.

Increase in number of Slovak millionaires outpaces the rest of Europe

THE NUMBER of millionaires in Slovakia has increased year-on-year by more than 9 percent to 4,200 – which is twice as fast as growth among the rest of Europe. 

SIAF air fest was attended by 140,000 spectators, many pilots

SLOVAK International Air Fest (SIAF) 2015, the biggest air show in the country, took place between August 29 and 30 and attracted almost 140,000 visitors who were offered static and dynamic demonstrations and acrobatics by pilots from 14 countries.

Slovak police discovered dozens of illegal migrants, politicians react

ON THE WEEKEND of August 29-30, Slovak police discovered 60 foreigners mostly from Syria in suspicious vans near the city of Žilina – in northern Slovakia – and in Štúrovo in the south of the country.

SNP anniversary in Banská Bystrica featured black flags

SLOVAKIA commemorates the 71st anniversary of the Slovak National Uprising (SNP), one of the key moments in Slovakia’s World War II history, when rebels in the Nazi-allied Slovak state stood up to the oppressive regime. 

Ťatliak’s lost mountain chalet

THE WESTERN Tatras began welcoming hikers and tourists later than the neighbouring High Tatras. This was mainly due to the mountain range’s remote nature and more difficult accessibility. 

Turčianske Teplice looking for engineering investment

THE SPA town of Turčianske Teplice will see engineering revived after several years.

Korean companies are still coming

GOOD location, stability and human resources are among the main reasons Korean investors come to Slovakia. 

Wandering while also offering charity

THE DONORS’ hiking event Karpatská vandrovka is unique in Slovakia. The 50 kilometre hike along the main ridge of the Volovské vrchy mountains is focused on collecting money.

Váhostav-SK makes profit of €1.4 million in first half of 2015

CONSTRUCTION company Váhostav-SK made a profit of around €1.4 million in the first half of 2015, with its CEO Marián Moravčík stating that it would like to increase the figure to €7.5 million by the end of 2015.

Harmony of the unexpected

EVEN cultures and lifestyles perceived as exotic can have some meeting points; or they can have differences that complement one another wonderfully. Those willing to explore this phenomenon can, for example, get a taste of Korean culture – both traditional and modern – as it is richly represented in Slovakia.

Mediateque commemorating films shot at Orava Castle opened

Classical music, sports, films, pop-culture – Japan has it all

TRADITIONAL Japanese theatre, dance, gastronomy – these have all been presented to Slovaks within the endeavour to keep and enhance mutual exchange. It turns out, however, that the culture of “the country of the rising sun” still has much more to offer and to be explored and discovered.

Police charge school staff over death of schoolboy

THE SLOVAK Catholic Schools Association (ZKŠS) have issued a statement in defence of staff from the United Primary School in the Bratislava borough of Karlova Ves who are facing charges relating to responsibility for the death of a six-year-old schoolboy called Matúš, who was crushed by a snow-laden tree branch that fell on him in the schoolyard last winter.

Slovak grandfather receives birthday wishes from all over the world

A PICTURE of a Slovak man who is turning 100-years-old has received more than 3,500 wishes in several languages after his grandson Peter Holík published his photo on social networks. 

Company selling land for Jaguar plant oppose fraud claims

A COMPANY called Poľnohospodárska pôda (Agricultural Land) which has been buying up plots on which Jaguar Land Rover is planning to build a factory in Nitra, intends to file a criminal complaint for slander against the non-parliamentary Sieť party leader Radoslav Procházka, the TASR newswire learnt on August 27.

Police find lost Andy Warhol picture

THE DIRECTOR of the Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art in Medzilaborce, Valika Maďarová, faced calls for her resignation after the museum lost a picture from Warhol’s famous Campbell’s Soup Can series. However the police have now recovered the pictures, the SITA newswire reported.

Parents, autistic children must often cope alone

SEEING little help from state Jozef Šóth, the father of an autistic son Andrej, and other parents created a special facility for autistic adults in Drahuškovo in 2007. The centre fights for its own survival year to year. 

Pollution from communist era remains a problem

LEAKING toxic pollution from the old chemical waste dump in Bratislava’s Vrakuňa neighbourhood has already contaminated local ground water and continues to spread.