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Belated Honours For Polish Hero

Oct.13.2005

The Polish nobleman regarded as the father of the American cavalry finally received a hero's funeral on the 226th anniversary of the Revolutionary War battle in...

Muck Flies In Election Campaign

Oct.13.2005

Poland's presidential candidate Lech Kaczynski sacked his campaign manager for saying the family of rival Donald Tusk had ties to Nazi Germany's army during Wor...

Chopin Contest Enters 2nd Round

Oct.13.2005

The 15th International Chopin Piano competition in Warsaw has entered the second round. Poland, Japan and South Korea have the largest national groups among 32 ...

Stash Of Ciggies Nailed By Customs

Oct.13.2005

Polish customs officials have seized at least 8 million cigarettes apparently destined for the British market in a coordinated sweep in two cities this week, th...

Poland Skittled By Sven's Crew

Oct.13.2005

A superb late strike by Frank Lampard gave England a 2-1 World Cup qualifying victory over Poland and top place in Group Six on Wednesday. Both sides had alr...

Friday Vernissage

Oct.14.2005

Galeria SD Wilanow will showcase the work of the Palka Family – that’s right, generations of artistic talent under one roof! Witold Palka, born...

A Close Run Thing

Sept.10.2005

Poland's free-market enthusiast Donald Tusk won most votes in presidential elections on Sunday, putting him in the leading position for an October 23 run-off ag...

Return Of The Moonstealers

Oct.7.2005

Poland's presidential race is still wide open but conservative contender Lech Kaczynski already has something to celebrate -- a movie he starred in as a child w...

Puppets Sing Opera In Warsaw

Oct.7.2005

The world famous Carlo Colla & Sons Puppet Theatre has come to Warsaw for a series of shows presenting Cinderella and Giuseppe Verdi’s “Aida”. The Warsaw pr...

Bring On The Clowns

Oct.6.2005

Thirty-two years after Jan Tomaszewski was famously dismissed as a clown before thwarting England’s World Cup dream, his Polish heir Jerzy Dudek has his sights ...

Transition Poles

Oct.6.2005

Nearly a quarter of Poles are keen to go abroad in search of employment, a study published Wednesday reveals. The 'Social Diagnosis 2005' study revealed 22....

Kaczynski Stokes His Campaign

Oct.5.2005

Warsaw readers of mass-circulation daily Gazeta Wyborcza were surprised by a colourful 30-page long pamphlet called 'Strategy for Warsaw' which was added to tod...

Gardening On The Wrong Side Of The Law

Oct.5.2005

Police from the central Polish city of Lodz found a plantation of over 300 marijuana bushes in one of the city's suburbs. The 29 year old owner of the plantatio...

Polanski Happier On European Shores

Oct.5.2005

Director Roman Polanski is happy to have no part in the US movie scene, as he insists the European film industry is stronger than ever. Polanski, 72, argues ...

New Paper Amongst The Pigeons

Oct.5.2005

Leading Polish media group Agora will launch a new nationwide daily in coming months and the project's high start-up costs will significantly depress its fourth...

Environment Remains Stumbling Block

Oct.4.2005

Poland could miss out on billions of euros in aid because the European Commission has doubts if the country's newly amended environment protection law meets EU ...

Pope's Car Could Fetch Millions

Oct.4.2005

THE 1975 powder-blue Ford Escort once owned and driven by Pope John Paul II will go up for auction later this month in Las Vegas after a father-son ownership sp...

Poles Under More Pressure In Belarus

Oct.4.2005

The brother of a Polish minority leader in Belarus has been dismissed from work. Andzelika Borys, the democratically elected president of the organization of et...

Stasi Spied On Present Pope

Oct.4.2005

The former East German secret service considered Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, one of the most dangerous critics of communism and spied on h...

Presidential Race No Walkover

Oct.4.2005

The new Polish president will probably only be elected in the second round of elections later this month, sociologist Andrzej Rychard has told Polish Radio. ...

Shady Banker On Trial

Oct.26.2005

A trial has got underway in Poznan in the mid west of Poland of Piotr B. (name withheld) who is accused of having caused the bankruptcy of Bank Staropolski. ...

Pope's Last Hours

Oct.4.2005

Struggling to breathe, Pope John Paul II mumbled his final words weakly in Polish: "Let me go to the house of the Father." Six hours later, the comatose pontiff...

Not Eating Their Greens

Oct.4.2005

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Champion Improving After Crash

Sept.4.2005

Olympic and world swimming champion Otylia Jedrzejczak of Poland was out of danger in hospital yesterday after sustaining injuries in a car crash at the weekend...

15th Chopin Competition Starts

Oct.3.2005

Dang Thai Son, the winner of the International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition 25 years ago is inaugurating the 15th edition of this prestigious event tonigh...

Tragedy For Olympic Hero

Oct.3.2005

Olympic champion swimmer Otylia Jedrzejczak is recovering from head and spinal injuries in a car crash that killed her brother a day earlier. She was in stab...

Talks Off To A Rocky Start

Sept.30.2005

Polish centre-right parties clashed on Thursday at their first meeting to form a ruling coalition after winning Sunday's election, with signs a new government c...

Poland Pays For Stalin's Actions

Sept.30.2005

Poland will have to pay thousands of euros in compensation after the European Court of Human Rights accused it of breaking International laws. The case involves...

Unearthing The Truth

Sept.30.2005

Poland is willing, able and eager to conduct excavation missions for uncovering mass graves in Iraq upon the request of the Kuwaiti government and after obtaini...

Tech Boom Predicted

Dec.14.2002

Polish consumers lag in technology ownership and Internet usage, but they are likely to rapidly catch up with their Western European counterparts once incomes i...

Poland Tops Graduate Lists

Sept.29.2005

Statistics show that Poland has the highest percentage of university graduates as a share of the under 30 population. Another one for the books in the latest Eu...

Physicist Will Be PM

Sept.28.2005

Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, a former school principal turned economic adviser, is set to become Poland's new prime minister as he embarks on talks to form a new go...

Mother Knows Best

Sept.27.2005

Mother knows best, or at least that is the hope of Poles and foreign investors who worry about the victory of controversial conservative twins Lech and Jaroslaw...

Final Election Results Out

Sept.27.2005

Poland's socially conservative Law and Justice party held its lead over the market-oriented Civic Platform to win the country's parliamentary election, accordin...

Polish Ladies Triumphant

Sept.27.2005

Polish volleyball players have won the European Championships in Zagreb, Croatia, having beaten world champions - Italy 3-1 in the final. The Polish ladies have...

Victory For The Right

Spet.26.2005

Poland's centre-right parties crushed the ruling left in parliamentary elections, early results showed on Monday, but faced tough coalition talks on splits over...

Poland In EU's Top Ten

Sept.23.2005

Poland received 2.7 billion euro from the EU budget in 2004, which places Poland in the 10th place among all 25 EU member states. The number – reduced by Wa...

Poet Celebrates 500th Birthday

Sept.23.2005

Fans of old Polish culture are meeting in Warsaw for the Days of Old Polish Literature and Culture. The meeting commemorates the 500th anniversary of the birth ...

Tusk Edges Away In Election Race

Sept.22.2005

Support for Donald Tusk increased dramatically this month in Poland, according to a poll by TNS OBOP. 49 per cent of respondents would vote for the Civic Platfo...

Wizz Air Expands Polish Services

Sept.22.2005

Wizz Air, Central and Eastern Europe`s largest low-fare, low-cost airline commenced services between London and Poznan , Poland and Budapest and Sofia, Bulgaria...

Poles Mourn Wiesenthal

Sept.22.2005

Polish Holocaust survivors and top politicians expressed regret over the death of the world's most famous Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal, who has passed away in V...

Idea Becomes Orange In Poland

Sept.22.2005

Mobile operator Orange, a subsidiary of the France Telecom group, has announced the launch of the Orange brand in Poland. PTK (Polish Cellular Telephony) Ce...

Famed Nazi Hunter Passes Away

Sept.21.2005

Simon Wiesenthal, the Holocaust survivor who helped track down numerous Nazi war criminals following World War II then spent the later decades of his life fight...

Festival Honours Wajda

Oct.20.2005

Film director Andrzej Wajda has received the Platinum Lions during the Festival of Polish films which has just wound up at the coastal city of Gdynia. The great...

Exhibition Opening

Sept.15.2005

Galeria SD will showcase the work of two Polish artists: Danuta Krol and Henryk Bakalarczyk-Gida. Henryk Bakalarczyk-Gida is a member of the Union of Sculptu...

Smugglers Of Space Dust

Sept.12.2005

An unusual attempt at smuggling was uncovered at the Polish-Ukrainian boarder crossing in Dorohusk. The truck driver claimed that he had a load of quartz, yet t...

15 Year Old Space Ace

Sept.12.2005

Piotr Bednarek, a 15 year old boy from Central Polish city of Czestochowa, has discovered a planetoid. The boy analysed photographs of outer space made by a...

President Tours America

Sept.12.2005

President Aleksander Kwasniewski has begun a week-long visit to the United States. The Polish president’s itinerary includes delivering lectures at local politi...

Poland's Leader Concerned About Ukraine

Dec.14.2002

‘Ukraine cannot afford to waste what it gained in the course of the Orange revolution’, said Poland’s president Aleksander Kwasniewski. Speaking at the Euro...

Polish Days In Austria

Sept.12.2005

The annual Polish Days in Austria have begun in Vienna under honorary patronage of both countries prime ministers. By the end of October nearly 30 events will h...

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