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Billboards against cat and dog meat consumption
Date: 2013-11-26 11:08:57
The Animals Asia Foundation (AAF) is campaigning on Billboards, in more than a dozen major Chinese cities against the still prevalent cat and dog meat consumption in the country. On...
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Nébih : 2.2 million lab tests
Date: 2013-11-25 12:05:38
The Special Affairs Directorate of the the National Food Chain Safety Office (Nébih) carried out 351 checks during its one year existence, actions were taken in the case of about...
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MKEH: two new cash machines can be distributed
Date: 2013-11-25 12:02:37
The distribution of the Alt Cash Kft. and the Japán Cash Company Kft. can be started as the cash registers have met the required standards – the Hungarian Trade Licensing...
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Bisnode: the average age of the domestic firms is under ten years
Date: 2013-11-25 12:02:22
The average age of the domestic firms is 9.63 years. The age of the largest Hungarian companies is currently around an average of only 14 to 15 years – the...
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The Food Bank collected more durable food over the weekend for the needy than in last year
Date: 2013-11-25 11:22:28
The weekend food collection action of the Hungarian Food Bank Association ended with success. The population collected a total of 140 tons of food for the families in need –...
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The rise of GKI-Erste economic sentiment index continued in November
Date: 2013-11-25 09:20:56
According to the empirical survey conducted by GKI with the support of the EU both business and consumer expectations improved dynamically in November. The trend of the GKI-Erste economic sentiment...
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Feldman Zsolt: innovation and cooperation should be increased in the dairy sector
Date: 2013-11-22 12:35:43
In order to improve competitiveness and efficiency, there is a need to strenghten The farmer cooperation and innovation in the dairy sector –Feldman Zsolt Deputy Minister of State of the...
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Eat wisely, but with joy during the holidays!
Date: 2013-11-22 11:08:15
If there is a time when those who wish to lose weight or body mass index want to disappear for a while, then it is the period around Christmas and...
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Antibiotics and analgesics in certain milk products in Taiwan
Date: 2013-11-22 11:00:57
Up to 70 percent of all dairy products sold in Taiwan may contain derivatives of drugs which have flown into the products from the body of the animals – the...
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Foodsharing portal catching up
Date: 2013-11-22 10:09:10
A website launched this week is helping Austrians share food rather than waste it, in an attempt to limit the environmental damage of wasted food – and put bread on...
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Cure found for Cryphonectria parasitica
Date: 2013-11-22 09:58:19
The Cryphonectria parasitica, deriving from China is destroying the chestnut trees for decades. Since the appearance of the fungus more than 1,000 hectares of trees destroyed in Hungary, making the...
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The regulation on fatty acid content of foods has been published
Date: 2013-11-21 12:20:09
After a ninety-day grace period, the regulation on fatty acid content of foods has been published in Wednesday's issue of the Magyar Közlöny (Hungarian Gazette). The essence of the regulation:...
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Tobacco retail: The NAV is watching the ads on the Internet
Date: 2013-11-21 12:15:21
The tax authority this year removed 1289 ads, that violated the Excise Act from the TeszVesz, Vatera, Apród, Topapró, Expressz and Apróhirdetésingyen portals. 55.1 percent of the removed ads, a...
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KSH: earnings grew by five percent in September
Date: 2013-11-20 12:20:33
The gross average earnings increased by 5.0 percent, while the average net earnings by 6.4 percent in September, compared to a year earlier – the Central Statistics Office (KSH) told...
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Coface CEE Top 500: Top companies with increasing turnover but sharply declining profits
Date: 2013-11-20 11:00:53
– Poland again ranked first, Hungary and Romania catching up while Ukraine dropping out of the Top 3 – More turnover did not lead to a stable development in net...
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The NAV warns: check your orders until 25 November
Date: 2013-11-19 12:50:07
The online cash registers can also be ordered online at the magyarorszag.hu site – the National Tax and Customs Administration (NAV) told MTI on Tuesday. The NAV also pointed out...
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Retail sales of drugs without a prescription rose by ten percent
Date: 2013-11-19 12:30:10
Retail (including pharmacies and other outlets) reached 10 percent more revenue from nonprescripted drugs and medicinal preparations (OTC) in the first nine months of the year, compared with the same...
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Regus: flexible working conditions are stimulating creativity
Date: 2013-11-19 12:10:53
According to the recent survey of Regus, nearly three-quarters of the Hungarian respondents, believe that flexible working conditions are increasing productivity. The most important results of the survey: · 74...
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Hungary is in the middle field in terms of late payments
Date: 2013-11-19 12:03:44
Among the EU Member States Hungary is in the middle in terms of late payments. Four percent of the annual total business turnover should be written off, due to late...
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Foreign eggs unfit for consumption were withdrawn from circulation in Kecskemét
Date: 2013-11-19 11:20:36
The Veterinary and Food Administration Authority of the Bács-Kiskun Government Office withdrew foreign origin eggs, that were unfit for eating from circulation – the Ministry of Rural Development (VM) informed...
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Pankucsi: PC-based cash registers can be ordered from now
Date: 2013-11-18 12:50:23
Despite the difficulties, the deadline for the introduction of the online cash machines does not change. Governmental proposal of this kind is not on the agenda. Among the small cash...
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GfK : consumers spent about one-fifth more on small household appliances in the third quarter
Date: 2013-11-18 12:30:52
The sales of consumer durables increased by 24 percent in the third quarter of 2013, compared to the same period of the last year and amounted to 108 billion HUF....
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Food Avalanche has helped to tens of thousands people
Date: 2013-11-18 12:01:03
Almost one hundred tons of grain was harvested by the local governments and non-governmental organizations that are involved in the Food Avalanche of the Hungarian Food Bank Association and Syngenta....
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Fazekas Sándor: the goal is to transport more local products to the markets
Date: 2013-11-18 11:31:09
According to the Minister for Rural Development, the goal is to transport more local products to the markets. Fazekas Sándor spoke about this in Lengyeltóti this Saturday on the forum...
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External trade turnover increased in the EU and in the Euro Zone in September
Date: 2013-11-18 11:25:52
According to the datas of Eurostat, the external trade turnover both increased in the EU28 and in the Euro Zone in September as well. According to seasonally adjusted datas export...
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National sweeteners growing more popular
Date: 2013-11-18 09:31:29
Stevia is a natural, non-caloric, sweet-tasting plant used around the world for its pleasant taste, as well as for its increasingly researched potential for inhibiting fat absorption and lowering blood...
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More and more applications yet for the hungarikums
Date: 2013-11-18 09:00:09
Nearly one hundred applications arrived to the Hungarikum Commission until Thursday: to support the collection, research and promotion of Hungary’s national values, the hungaricums. Horváth Zsolt, the depository coordinator commissioner...
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650 tons of sweets for two and a half billion HUF for Santa Claus and Christmas
Date: 2013-11-15 13:10:21
In recent years, the food retail sector reached an about two and a half billion HUF revenues from the seasonal sweets of the December holiday season. In 2012, 1 percent...
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GfK continues international expansion
Date: 2013-11-15 13:01:23
Continuing its strategy of international expansion, GfK, an international market leader in market research, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with four of the country’s leading television broadcasters, Band TV,...
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NGM: New cash machine regulation to ensure the smooth transition
Date: 2013-11-15 12:20:18
In order to easen the online cash register replacement, the Minister of National Economy introduced three new regulations. The services will have eight days after the regulation will come into...
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