Private clinic operator MedLife has leased an entire office building, Porumbaru Business Center, where it will relocate its head office, CB Richard Ellis Romania has announced. The building covers 1,200 sqm of office space. MedLife has also leased space in City Gate office building, where it will open a private clinic and a pharmacy, at the ground floor of the northern tower in City Gate (in picture).

Rompetrol Rafinare's shareholders Tuesday approved on principle the conversion into shares for the bonds the company failed to recover on account of Petromidia refinery's historic debt, the company announced.

Car maker Renault today inaugurates the Technical Testing Center in Titu, with a one-year delay on the deadline initially announced. Romanian president Traian Basescu will attend the opening ceremony, along with Renault's production director Patrick Pelata.

If it was not for an unavoidable trip out of Bucharest, I would be running in the Bucharest City Marathon this year. I am 28, a light smoker who's been trying to quit since forever, I rarely exercise, I sit at my desk for hours, sometimes walk instead of taking the bus or taxi, but not as much as I would like, I eat at crazy hours.

Hospice Casa Sperantei charity hopes it will reach more than 100 runners for its team in the Bucharest City Marathon, which will take place on October 17 in the Romanian capital city. This will be the biggest team Hospice has had for the marathon, almost three times bigger than least year's.

Leave your car at home and walk, bike or take the public transport on September 22, which will be

The Bucharest sector 2 City Hall plans to build a cable car ('telegondola') crossing the northern Bucharest lakes and is preparing the bid to choose the company which will offer consultancy for the zonal urban planning needed for the project. The consultancy fee will reach EUR 150,000. The consultancy bid will take place on September 20.

Local independent taxi drivers will organize a protest today in Constitutiei Square in Bucharest, between 10,00 and 14,00 hours, when around 4,000 taxi drivers are expected to rally. These independent taxi drivers, who are working as self employed (PFA) will protest against the decision to pay the social contributions retroactively, for the last five years.

Romania’s Senate adopted Tuesday a bill according to which accredited private pre-university education units would be financed mainly from the state and local budgets. The bill amending Education Law 84/1995 was adopted with 82 votes for, six against and four abstentions. It was adopted tacitly in the Chamber of Deputies.

The European Union has condemned the French government over its treatment of Roma migrants, comparing it to the Roma expulsion atrocities committed during the second world war.

The French government claims that most European Union states oppose Romania and Bulgaria’s accession to the Schengen Area before the monitoring mechanism is lifted, after the foreign ministers of member states on Monday recommended its extension, writes website EurActiv.com.

Gheorghe Muresan is a famous Romanian basketball player who, at 7 foot 7 inches (2.31 m), is the