Slovakia News

UNESCO has recognised a 5,000-year-old city in Peru and an historic town centre in Slovakia as worthy additions to its World Heritage List.

Slovakia has recorded four new confirmed cases of A/H1N1 novel flu, taking the overall number to 13, the country's chief public health officer, Ivan RovnA1 2, said on Tuesday, June 30 to the TASR newswire.

THE ADOPTION of the euro at the beginning of this year has helped to protect Slovakia from the most severe impacts of the global financial crisis, said EU Foreign and Security Policy Chief Javier Solana, who visited Slovakia on June 30 to meet Slovak Foreign Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajcak and Prime Minister Robert Fico.

Slovak gas distributor Slovensky plynarensky priemysel has signed a gas-supply contract with E.ON Ruhrgas, said SPP chairman Bernd Wagner at a press conference in Bratislava on June 29, the TASR newswire reported.

The Slovak Economy Ministry confirmed on June 22 that Slovakia may well face another natural gas crisis if Russia cuts all Europe-bound gas supplies via what it sees as its undisciplined customer Ukraine, the SITA newswire reported.

The recent heavy rains have caused river levels to rise, especially in the Danube and Morava Rivers.

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Hard Rock International and two Austrian companies are to build a huge five-billion-euro casino complex in Hungary, the group's parent company said Friday.

The number of graduates without work is rising in Slovakia as the crisis reduces the number of job vacancies, it was announced on Tuesday, June 23.

At least eight people died in overnight flooding in the eastern Czech Republic, police said on Thursday, and rising river levels prompted flood warnings across central Europe following heavy rains this week.

A new case of H1N1 flu has been confirmed in Slovakia, the tvnoviny.sk portal has said, adding that a 24-year-old woman who has contracted the new strain of flu has been hospitalised in Trnava.

Former Justice Minister Stefan Harabin has become the new President of the Slovak Supreme Court.

A fourth case of A/H1N1 novel flu infection has been confirmed in Slovakia, TASR was told by Health Ministry spokesperson Zuzana Cizmarikova on June 22.

Slovakia's low-cost air carrier, SkyEurope Airlines, has filed for bankruptcy protection from its creditors as the company stated in a Monday morning, June 22, press release that the Bratislava I District Court has granted its petition, the SITA newswire reported.

There are many ways of getting to know foreign cultures, and the most accessible are those which need no words, no translation and no explanation - " for instance, music, dance, crafts and food.

Chinese solar cell manufacturer Yingli Green Energy Holding yesterday signed a contract to supply crystalline photovoltaic-solar modules to a 9-mW power plant in Slovakia this year.

Tractor-trailers hauling shiny Kia compacts or Citron minivans have been a common sight on Slovakia's D1 highway in recent years.

Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived in Slovakia for a two-day visit with nourishing economic cooperation on his agenda.

Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived in Bratislava, capital of Slovakia, Thursday for a state visit to expand China's cooperation with Slovakia.

Members of the governing coalition still differ in their opinions about the founding and the existence of the Specialised Crime Tribunal to be based in Pezinok which could continue the agenda of the Special Court ruled unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court, the TASR newswire reported.