Archive for: October, 2010

Corgon league match previews

Football

Friday 29. October MŠK Žilina – Dukla B. Bystrica, After a rocky relationship with the club so far this season, the Zilina fans plan to return with strong numbers for this local derby and there should be a top atmosphere for the Champions who return to Stadion Pod Dubnom for the first time in over a month after [...]

Police chief Spisiak takes credit for Mello’s capture

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Chief of police, Jaroslav Spisiak, has taken some credit for the capture of one of the most wanted criminals of the Slovak underworld by Polish police on Wednesday. He said personnel changes after he took up the post played a key part in capturing Karol Mello, who was number one on the Slovak hit list. [...]

Masaryk unveiling on 92nd anniversary of CS

photo (c) John Boyd

Yesterday marked the 92nd anniversary of the establishment of the first Czechoslovak Republic (1918-1938), and to celebrate the occasion a statue of its first president T.G. Masaryk was unveiled in Bratislava . The 2m-high statue of Masaryk was placed on the pedestal in front of the National Museum, replacing the original bronze lion statue that [...]

Fico says Transparency Int. is not transparent

Robert Fico © Tibor Macak - TheDaily.sk

Former PM Robert Fico has taken the recently published Corruption Perception Index (CPI)  of Transparency International personally, seeing the comments of the Slovak branch as an attack on his government. Fico’s Smer-SD party therefore plans to write an official protest to the NGO corruption watchdog Transparency International in Berlin against its Slovak branch, accusing it [...]

Chinese investors ready to pounce on Slovak market

No project too big for the Chinese

Private companies from China are getting ready to pounce on investment opportunities in Slovakia, with the focus mostly on large infrastructure projects. The new Chinese Ambassador in Slovakia, Gu Ziping, made the intention clear, saying that interested companies are now only waiting for Slovakia to divulge the tender specifications for road and other infrastructure projects. [...]

New fresh food market in old IKEA building, BA

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A developer wants to convert the former IKEA store on Tomasikova street in Bratislava into a fresh food market. The company BZ Group plans to reconstruct the building swiftly so that it can launch the operation by 5 November already. The building has been empty since IKEA moved out a few years ago, being used [...]

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