Katarina Richterova

While some tourists take the spa waters in Hungary others are heading to neighbouring Slovakia for a little tooth tourism. The country's dentists are finding that…

In Slovakia, women with the eating disorder weigh as little as 30 kilograms. They have little physical strength and their behavious is similar to drug addicts. Anorexia is…

No loud cheering or hasty comments to the media, but rather cautious celebrations behind closed doors, that is how Smer - Slovakia's Social Democrats - marked their…

Health care workers have been stirring up public debate having gone into their first major strike in history, leaving several hospitals with emergency care only. The…

Summer in Central Europe - swimming, sunbathing and... shopping. Summer sales have become so popular in Central Europe that some are beginning to ask: is shopping an…

Air is one of the things that bring people to Slovakia's Tatras National Park. Many call the Tatras a healing "respiration resort". Walks through the forests help to get…

About 40 percent of adult Slovaks smoke. The trend among adults has stabilized, but the number of young smokers is on the increase - mainly those experimenting with…

In much of Central Europe there's an Easter Monday tradition which can surprise and shock outsiders. Men go from house to house symbolically beating women with a whip made…

Looking through the new offers every day, sending out CV's, job interviews and then waiting anxiously for a phone call. Sounds familiar? In Slovakia, as in other countries…

Late Thursday evening Tony Blair came for the first-ever visit of a serving British prime minister to Slovakia. Prior to the visit there was a great deal of speculation…