THE SLOVAK national team won five medals at the WAKO World Championship in Belgrade, Serbia; with Veronika Petríková from the Košice sports club ŠKP PŠ Košice receiving the historically first gold for her country, in the K1 category of women under 56 kilograms.
THE NATIONAL (NAKA) investigator on October 29 charged three employees of the P.J. Šafárik University in Košice (UPJŠ) of bribery in connection with the election of the university rector.
THE PUBLIC Procurement Office will scrutinise the competition over the TechMatch 2015 international conference on startups, organised by a state agency, the Slovak Business Agency (SBA).
A COMMEMORATION ceremony for soldiers who fought and died in the First World War was held at the military cemetery in the Bratislava borough of Petržalka on November 1, attended by representatives of Bratislava City Hall, foreign embassies, military attaches and the public.
THE OPPOSITION tried to oust Health Minister Viliam Čislák on October 30; but failed, as only 38 MPs out of 112 lawmakers present in parliament voted for his dismissal. MPs from the ruling Smer party backed him.
A WAVE of ribbon-cutting ceremonies and the opening of new highways has been an unambiguous signal that parliamentary elections are coming since the times of three-time PM Vladimír Mečiar, who even paid the German supermodel Claudia Schiffer to accompany him while opening a short stretch of highway back in 1998.
PRESS photography is a popular genre that has many competitions; and the Slovak one has been reviewed and evaluated for the fourth time this year.
NEGATIVE interest rates as a result of high investor demand have moved Slovakia into an elite European club.
WHEN teachers marched in the streets asking for higher wages and more finances to the education sector in late 2012, they returned to their classrooms with the government’s promise to hike their salaries by 5 percent.
