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- Pole position
Poland is the featured country at this year's Local Colors Festival - an event that celebrates the dozens of cultures in the Roanoke area with entertainment and food.
- 48 Hours in Warsaw, Poland
The airport is conveniently located within the city limits and only a 15-minute drive or 30-minute bus ride from the city centre.
- Polish Central Bank Chief Concerned More Banks On Sale - Reuters
WARSAW More European banks, faced with pressure from the euro-zone crisis, may put their Polish units up for sale, following several such recent moves, Marek Belka, governor of the National Bank of Poland, is quoted as saying by Reuters Thursday."Allied Irish Bank had a fantastic subsidiary in Poland, probably the best Polish bank, but had to ... (more)
- Poland's slowing economy: Set the eagle free
POLAND'S new national stadium is a symbol of optimism. The firm that built it is as German as it is Polish.
- Polish Scout and Warsaw Resistance Fighter Speaks at Tuscarora High School
Julian Kulski, the son of a former mayor of Warsaw, Poland, spoke to a large crowd at Tuscarora High School Wednesday night. http://www.topix.com/bigpic/mini-c59969610e2cdecd395381955ef5cf9f
- Katowice Street Art Festival 2012
Photo of artist Escif's street art creation in Katowice, Poland, 2012 . The streets of Eastern Europe are some of the greatest examples of open air galleries, as street artists from the Czech Republic to Russia have taken to exhibiting their best work on walls and pavement. http://www.topix.com/bigpic/mini-ff3f1fe2ae7ea8913f713855be380767
- Opel's U.K. Ellesmere Port plant saved. But Germany?
Vauxhall and its UK factory have been saved by a ground-breaking 'round the clock' flexibility deal that secures thousands of jobs. http://www.topix.com/bigpic/mini-bfe812e761b13fb29c4f42d697430629
- Chaurasia's magic flute charms Poles
By Surender Bhutani, Warsaw, May 17 : The profile of Poland has gone up by many notches as a cultural destination for Indian artists.
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- Thousand Oaks surgeon invited to perform at Berlin Philharmonic concert
COntributed PHOTO Dr. Kouros Azar (right) practices the violin with Danielle Belen, a member of the faculty at the Colburn School in Los Angeles and the concertmaster for the New West Symphony. ...
- Controversial art under fire
There have been a wave of online complaints regarding the artwork depicting the face of Anders Behring Breivik - the man accused of mass murder and the confessed perpetrator of the terrorist attacks ...
- War hero honoured in US
The United Sates has awarded a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom to Jan Karski, a former officer of the Polish Home Army often described as the man who tried to stop the Holocaust.President ...
- General Papala suspects charged
Prosecutors have charged two former car thieves with the murder of the head of the national police force 14 years ago, in a case that has long been associated with organised crime and ...
- 48 Hours in Warsaw, Poland
Poland , Warsaw is easily accessible by train and plane. The airport is conveniently located within the city limits and only a 15-minute drive or 30-minute bus ride from the city ...
- Early morning Warsaw fire under investigation
WARSAW, Ill. – An early morning fire in Warsaw resulted in minor facial burns to a resident and moderate damage to his living room.Warsaw and Hamilton firefighters responded at 2:05 a.m. to ...
- Russian whizzes win global collegiate IT contest
WARSAW (AFP) - Three Russian computer whizzes were crowned the world's top collegiate programmers Thursday, when they clobbered 111 other teams from across the globe to win the 36th annual ...
- US wants bn a year for Afghanistan, Poland says
Radoslaw Sikorski said Poland could be asked to contribute up to million (25 million euros) each year. "Our government is currently verifying our capacities," he said. The US expects ...
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- Wage growth quickens to 5.2% y-o-y in Q1
The average gross monthly wage in the national economy amounted to PLN 3,646 (approx. €861) in the first quarter of 2012, which is 5.2% higher in nominal terms compared with ...
- Sejm backs retirement age increase
The Sejm on 11 May voted to approve the government’s pension reform plan lifting the retirement age to an equal 67 years for both men and women, up from 65 and 60 years at the moment, ...
- BNP Paribas to slash 400 jobs in Poland
BNP Paribas is the latest foreign banking group to announce substantial lay-offs at its operations in Poland. In a statement to the Warsaw Stock Exchange on 9 May, the French company ...
- Ipsos: consumer mood dips in April
The Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) shed 2.32 points in April to stand at 75.05 points, according to research conducted by Ipsos. The Index thus returned to a downward trajectory ...
- BorgWarner to expand Podkarpackie plant
BorgWarner, a global maker of automotive powertrain solutions, has received approval for a new investment at its manufacturing facility in Trzebownisko near Rzeszow (Podkarpackie voivodship), ...
- Akamai opens CEE centre in Krakow
Akamai Technologies, a NASDAQ-listed provider of enterprise cloud optimisation services, has opened a technology centre in Krakow. The facility currently employs 40 people, and the ...
- Updated Convergence Programme: deficit to fall below 1% of GDP in 2015
The Ministry of Finance expects the general government deficit to drop to 2.9% of GDP by the end of 2012 and the general government debt to fall to 53.7% of GDP, as part of an ongoing fiscal ...
- General government deficit down to 5.1% of GDP in 2011
In 2011 the general government deficit amounted to just under PLN 78bn (approx. €18.9bn), i.e. 5.1% of GDP, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) announced on 23 April. This ...
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- Rubbish? I should koko!
The Euros approach apace, the infrastructure is not ready, the roads, railways and hotels will not cope. The city centres set to receive hun...
- Mazowsze
The curse of Warsaw’s Plac Defilad has struck again, this time with City Hall tearing up its agreement with the Swiss architect Christian Kerez for the construction of the city’s new Museum of Modern Art. The development leaves the entire project up in the air, with it being unclear whether another architect will be brought in to construct the Kerez design, or whether the city will turn to the architects who took second place in the original design competition.
- Kujawsko-Pomorskie
Residents of a luxury residential estate in Torun are up in arms at the discovery that their homes have apparently been built on an old munitions dump. Sappers have been in action at the site removing more than forty mortar shells, totalling around 200kg of explosive material. “A single shell, if it exploded could do damage within a radius of 700m. It’s a considerable risk,” commented Maciej Grabowski, one of the bomb disposal experts working on the site.
- Wielkopolskie
Poznan’s Lawica airport ceremonially opened its new taxiway this Tuesday, at a stroke trebling the airport’s capacity. The new taxiway runs 2.5km along the entire length of the runway and is connected to it by two rapid-exit taxiways, enabling planes to clear the runway faster. There is also a new apron.
- Lubelskie
A 32-year-old man appeared before Lublin Regional Court this week charged with beating his partner to death in a drunken argument last February. Asked how he thought the woman died, he answered simply, “I don’t know.”
- Malopolskie
A ski mountaineer and a tourist died in a freak accident last Monday week. The skier, who was a GROM special forces officer, fell while descending Rysy and hit the tourist as she walked a trail on the mountainside. The accident happened while a TOPR mountain rescue group was training nearby, and they saw the accident and raised the alarm. However, both those involved died at the scene. Their bodies were transported to hospital by helicopter.
- Leaving your car in the leaves
Residents of Zachodnio-Pomorskie were left rubbing their eyes is amazement this week when when they were confronted with the peculiar sight of a car perched on top of a large tree.
- 35 fighters face gaol
Authorities in Silesia and Pomorskie this week arrested 35 hooligans in connection with a series of underground organised fights.
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