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TASR Launches NewsNow, First Slovak Public Service News in English

TASR Launches NewsNow, First Slovak Public Service News in English

Bratislava, February 3 (TASR) – The aim of the new public service news website by TASR called NewsNow – now available at newsnow.tasr.sk – is to increase the availability of current issues in Slovakia in English. In addition to timely text stories, the website also carries the weekly video news digest

Bratislava Airport Handled 44 percent More Passengers Y-o-Y in January

Bratislava Airport Handled 44 percent More Passengers Y-o-Y in January

Bratislava, February 2 (TASR) – Bratislava’s Milan Rastislav Stefanik Airport (BTS) handled 44 percent more passengers in January than it did in the same month of 2015, the airport’s spokesperson Veronika Sevcikova told TASR on Tuesday. According to Sevcikova, a total of 97,808 passengers used the airport in

Figel: Pociatek Came into Limelight Mainly with Scandals

Figel: Pociatek Came into Limelight Mainly with Scandals

Bratislava, February 2 (TASR) – Jan Pociatek as Transport, Construction and Regional Development Minister has been almost absent and has only come into the limelight mainly thanks to scandals, said Christian Democrat (KDH) chairman and former transport minister Jan Figel in an interview for TASR on Tuesday. “In a responsible Coalition

Most-Hid: Teachers' Situation Can Be Addressed before Election by Law

Most-Hid: Teachers' Situation Can Be Addressed before Election by Law

Bratislava, February 2 (TASR) – If there’s a will to address the situation faced by teachers in Slovakia, it’s possible to do so prior to the parliamentary election (March 5), announced Most-Hid chairman Bela Bugar at a press conference on Tuesday, adding that the party has prepared an amendment

Zilina Hospital Provides Health Care in Full Scope after Nurses Leave

Zilina Hospital Provides Health Care in Full Scope after Nurses Leave

Zilina, February 1 (TASR) – Notwithstanding the departure of some 175 nurses, emergency health care at Zilina Faculty Hospital is being fully maintained and elective care partially, hospital director Ivan Macuga told a press briefing Monday. “First of all, I would like to say that it’s a pity nurses who

Education Ministry: Draxler Carefully Considers Schools' Requirements

Education Ministry: Draxler Carefully Considers Schools' Requirements

Bratislava, February 1 (TASR) – Education, Science, Research and Sport Minister Juraj Draxler is carefully taking the requirements of the education sector into consideration, according to ministry spokesperson Beata Dupalova Ksenzsighova on Monday. She was speaking in response to an evaluation of the incumbent Cabinet’s activities by the Slovak Teachers

Prochazka on Miskov's Billboard Offer: Smer Is Siet's Only Rival

Prochazka on Miskov's Billboard Offer: Smer Is Siet's Only Rival

Bratislava, January 29 (TASR) – Smer-SD is the only opponent of the Siet party, said Siet chairman Radoslav Prochazka in response to the SKOK party’s offer of 100 billboards to Siet in February if Prochazka states a clear yes or no to post-election cooperation with Smer-SD, said Prochazka on Friday