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A charity foundation Promyk in Suwałki, providing food to the poorest families has been robbed. The thieves have taken everything: canned goods, pasta, grits, sugar – a total of 175 kilograms of food. What is now left are tears and desperation, because it’s the middle of winter and people knock
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Chopin’s music? Lech Wałęsa? “Solidarity”? Beautiful women? Wrong! The world knows Poland more than these because of “Polish Vodka”, but there is more to it … Żubrówka – one of the most famous Polish vodkas 5.7% of people think that our country is known abroad for the “disco polo” music.
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Electronic sick leave has become an alternative to traditional, paper forms since the beginning of the year. The new system was supposed to improve and accelerate health centres’ work. However, not everything works as it should. Will the old paper sick leave be soon forgotten? Press spokeswoman of the Social
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Famous neurosurgeons from the Wrocław hospital on Borowska street have conducted a unique surgery. A man got a chance to regain physical fitness after having fallen from a height and breaking his spine 18 months earlier. Unfortunately, the Polish state health fund was not supportive. 150K such surgeries a year
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More than 43.4 million złoty has been raised this year by the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity (WOŚP) for pediatrics and seniors. The 24th final was held on Sunday under the slogan “We aim high!”, and at about 8pm there were fireworks – “lights to heaven” all over the country.
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The Centre of Public Opinion Research (CBOS) has run a survey about life satisfaction among Poles. Over three quarters of Poles (75.7%) are generally satisfied with their lives, with one-quarter (25.1%) being very satisfied. Every fifth respondent (20.3%) says they are moderately satisfied with their life,
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Polish railways PKP will start relying on renewable energy sources and test solar cells as a source of energy for railway stations. New eco-friendly train stations PKP Polish Railway Lines have announced the installation of three photovoltaic panels on the building of the Railways in Nowy Sącz. The project
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Rejoice English speakers – Netflix Poland has opened its virtual doors for business, ushering in a new era of on-demand English language content. It’s been a game-changer in other countries. No ads.. yay! The email arrived, titled “Netflix is now available in Poland! Start your free month today.
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The city of Gdańsk has approved a plan for the region entitled “A low-carbon economy Plan for Gdańsk”. All regions will need to issue such a plan in order to secure EU funding for an ambitious nationwide implementation. A Gdańsk power station Poland is Europe’s worst offender for
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Due to allegations of revenue gathering, the camera device controllers at the municipal Police (Straż miejska) will cease to maintain Warsaw’s cameras on the 1st January 2016, as handover of control to the road transport inspectors (Inspekcja Transportu Drogowego) begins. In Warsaw, there may be more accidents as a
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Tonight another draw of receipts in the lottery organised by the Polish Ministry of Finance will take place. Six Lenovo ThinkPad and five iPads Air 2 await the winners. Gather your receipts and register them online Fiscal receipts issued in November and registered in the lottery in the same month
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Young doctors will learn, and parents will be able to better understand the heart defects of their unborn child – an obstetrician and gynaecologist from Cracow and his team have developed and printed a 3D model of the foetal heart. A small thing making a big change It looks a bit