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Romania, at the bottom of the European league for digital TV services
Romania ranks among the last in Europe for the digitization of TV services, with only 42 percent of Romanians receiving digital television services, according to SES, a satellite services company. SES wants to create an action group with other players, such as TVR, to give an impulse to digitization. The only country in Europe completely [...]
Heavy rain affects glass ceiling of newly opened Romanian National Library headquarters
The heavy rain in Bucharest on Tuesday afternoon, which inundated streets in various areas of the capital city Bucharest also took by surprise the employees of the National Library, as the glass ceiling of the library’s new building started leaking, already damaging the floor in the Library’s large atrium. The Library inaugurated its building earlier in [...]
Bucharest restaurant Aqua Chique burns down, neighbour Casa di David’s kitchen also affected
Two restaurants in the Herastrau park in Bucharest were affected by a fire on Sunday evening (May 13). The fire broke at the Aqua restaurant and expanded to Casa di David, where the kitchen burned down and part of a dining hall was also affected. Casa di David (in picture), one of the luxury restaurants [...]
Over 2,000 gather at start line for first cross country biking event this year in Romania
Biking continues to increase in popularity in Romania, with a competition gathering over 2,000 participants last week-end in Bucharest. The event, called the First Escape 2012, is in its second edition and opens the season for mountain biking competitions in Romania. Held this year on May 13, the event was won by Belgian Wouter Cleppe, [...]
Queen Mary’s heart in a silver box exhibited in the Romanian city of Suceava
The Northern Romanian city of Suceava is currently hosting an exhibition centered around the silver box that contains the heart of Queen Maria (Mary) of Romania. The exhibition, which will be on until May 20 at the History Museum from Suceava, also includes medals and coins from the British Museum collection, which illustrate the ancestry [...]
Work – life balance improves but Romania is still below worldwide average
The work-life balance has improved overall across the world, but Romania is below the global average, according to a survey by Regus, which involved 16,000 employees and businessmen from 80 countries. Romania’s index was 116, below the average 124. The survey revealed that most Romanian employees- 79 percent – enjoy work more and 45 percent [...]
Romania loses more than 280,000 hectares of forest in 10 years
Romania’s forest’s are being chopped down at the alarming rate of three hectares per hour, according to environmental pressure group Greenpeace. The group’s study, published today ( May 14 ) shows that between 2000 and 2011 over 280,000 hectares of forest in Romania were lost or degraded and Greenpeace Romania is asking the Minister of [...]
Romania officially opens Delta pavilion at World Fair in South Korea
Romania’s pavilion at the World Fair in Yeosu, South Korea, themed around the Danube Delta, officially opened last week-end. The Romanian pavilion includes Kinect applications that allow the visitor to discover and interact with dance, music and costumes specific to the Delta, with Romanian pottery and traditional crafts and footage of the Danube Delta and [...]
Luxury car theft again under Police investigation in Romania
The Police have been searching the houses of 27 suspects in Bucharest, Ilfov, Calarasi and Giurgiu counties, looking for evidence of their involvement in a luxury car theft network. The Police will take the 27 suspects into custody, according to officials. A similar investigation started in August last year, when the Police started investigating employees [...]
‘Magic mentalist’ wins ‘Romania’s got talent’ competition after flat-lining during live show
A Romanian calling himself a ‘magic mentalist’ won the Romania’s got talent final after having stopped his own heart during a live event and after having guessed what the jury members would say during the gala. Romanian Cristian Gog, who was voted the most talented Romanian, won the final after shocking many of the 5 [...]
Romania strikes gold, silver and bronze at European Gymnastics Championship, wins title after four years
Several Romanian gymnasts won silver and gold medals at the European gymnastics championship in Brussels on Sunday (May 13 ), while the Romanian team got the European title over this week-end. Romanians won the floor, bean and vault finals in the senior competition. Romania also won the European title with its team of women artistic [...]
Study rates Romania as EU’s worst for press freedom
Freedom House, an NGO promoting civil liberties and freedoms around the world, has rated Romania’s press ‘partly free’ in its most recent report. Although overall the country comes out mid table, it is at the bottom of the EU pile. Romania ranks 86th out of 197 countries, alongside the Dominican Republic, with a rating score [...]
Athletic Bilbao files official complaint over Bucharest airport delays after Europa League final
Athletic Bilbao football club has lodged an official complaint over long delays suffered by returning fans at Bucharest’s airports. The Romanian media picked up a comment from an involved Athletic Bilbao fan reported by Spanish news service El Correo, in which he described the scenes at the airport as a shameful chaos, and called Romania [...]
The 30,000 Spanish supporters who landed for UEFA final give 30% flight boost to Bucharest airport
Passenger traffic on the Henri Coanda airport in Bucharest received a 30 percent boost after as many as 30,000 Spanish football supporters landed in the Romanian capital for the Europa League final, according to Valentin Iordache, spokesman for the Bucharest Airport company, quoted by Agerpres. The number of passengers is in line with the authorities’ [...]
Spanish high flyers to arrive in Bucharest for UEFA Europa League final
The list of high level Spanish officials who are expected to Bucharest today for the Europa League final, that started off with the Prince Felipe de Asturias, the heir to Spain’s throne (in picture), also includes the Madrid mayor Ana Botella and Patxi Lopez, the head of the Basque regional government, and Ignacio Gonzalez, vice-president [...]
Spanish landing in Bucharest for UEFA final: Old Town crowded, some roads blocked before game
While it is still uncertain how many Spanish football supporters of the two teams, Athletic Bilbao and Atlético Madrid, arrived in Bucharest to attend the UEFA Europa League final, it’s certain that the Romanian city has been ‘invaded’ by Spaniards, and the authorities have taken measures to smooth things out before the game. Scheduled to [...]
New French president: Unpleasant to hear Romanian, Polish friends speaking English, but I understand the need
The newly elected French president Francois Hollande ( in picture) recently said it is unpleasant for him to sometimes hear his friends – Romanians, Poles, Portuguese, Italians – speaking in English, even though he understands the need to use English in informal conversations, he said in an interview for Slate.fr. “Yes I speak English, more [...]
SlickFlick founder in TechCrunch: For Romanians, the world is now flat
International technology blog TechCrunch, which has over 12 million unique readers a month, recently published a guest article by Romanian entrepreneur Maria Constantinescu, founder of SlickFlick photo story app, who wrote about Romania’s coding talent as alternative in the quest for talent. She writes about what Romania has to offer in an era when tech [...]
Bucharest metro names stations after famous football players during UEFA Europa League final
Inspired by a similar move at the London tube for this year’s Olympics, the Bucharest metro company Metrorex changed the names of six of its stations during the upcoming Europa League final in Bucharest. Between May 6 and 10 the six metro stations will be alternatively named Nicolae Dobrin (Victoriei station), Gică Hagi – the [...]
Super Moon to shine brighter on Saturday evening skies
The Moon will shine brighter on Saturday night (May 6 ), astrologists say. The phenomena, that the media has already called ‘Super Moon’, is actually scientifically called “Perigee Moon.” The full Moon on that night will be seen as 14 percent bigger and a third brighter than usually. The phenomena is not necessarily rare. The [...]
Romanian Brancusi’s bronze gilded head sculpture sells for USD 12.6 mln at New York auction
Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi’s ”Prométhée’ sculpture, a gilded bronze head, was sold at a Sotheby’s auction in New York for some USD 12.6 million yesterday (May 2 ). The work of art was conceived and cast in an edition of four in 1911. The starting price for the piece was USD 4.75 million but went [...]
Director of ‘Devil Inside’ shooting werewolf flick in Bucharest, Romania
A new movie directed by William Brent Bell, the director of the horror film ‘The Devil Inside’ is being shot in Bucharest, starring actors Vik Sahay (in picture ) from the series ‘Chuck’ and AJ Cook from the ‘Criminal Minds’ series. The new movie ‘WER’, a werewolf saga, is being shot by the local Media [...]
Romania’s designated PM wants to replace classic work car with hybrid one
Although yet to receive the Parliament vote to be named Prime Minister, the designated PM Victor Ponta said he intends to enforce a ruling for public institutions to buy only non-polluting cars. “Public institutions cause a great deal of pollution in the capital city,”‘ said Ponta. He has already asked to use a hybrid car [...]
Romania’s nuclear security evaluation lacks enough info on earthquake risks
The report on nuclear safety issued by Romania fully respects the stress test requirements in Europe but does not adequately address the issue of effects caused by a sudden transition from one state to another at the Cernavoda power plant in case of earthquakes and extreme external events, according to the Group of European Regulators [...]
Romania loses first spot on Internet speed in Europe to The Netherlands, outpaced by four other countries
Romania is no longer the country with the highest Internet speed in Europe, found a research by American company Akamai. Romania ranks ninth in the world and fifth in Europe based on the speed of Internet connections in the fourth quarter of 2011. The average speed in Romania went down by 8 percent, from 7 [...]
Romania strikes gold, silver and bronze at European Gymnastics Championship, wins title after four years 
‘Magic mentalist’ wins ‘Romania’s got talent’ competition after flat-lining during live show 
Three trams collide, derail in Bucharest accident, at least 86 injured 
‘The Avengers’ epic movie almost covers production costs with first week-end box office revenues 
Athletic Bilbao files official complaint over Bucharest airport delays after Europa League final 
Wajiha Haris, Scheherazade Foundation president: “No” is never an option 
Romania’s Education Minister accused of having plagiarized three international research papers 
German STEAG buys wind farm from Romanian Monsson, plans EUR 200 mln investments 
Romanian actor Serban Ionescu left bed bound after catching Lyme’s disease from tick bite 
S Immo to put EUR 66 mln into The Mark – Bucharest office building with intelligent facade
