Ovidiu Rom's Halloween Charity Ball this year, which took place on October 30 at the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, brought together business people and public figures who dressed up for the 50s and raised money to send poor children to kindergarden. The Ovidiu Rom charity raised over EUR 500,000 at this charitable event, enough to keep 1,200 poor children in kindergarden for a year. See a photo gallery from the event below.

The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, the three-hour long documentary directed by Andrei Ujica won the Best East European Documentary Award at the 14th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival in Jihlava, the Czech Republic.

The new law on the education which the Government has recently assumed responsibility for allows teaching history and geography in the mother tongue for all the national minorities, not only for the Hungarian one, said Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc.

The Romanian Regional Development and Tourism Ministry will collaborate with Facebook in promoting Romania as a tourist destination on the social media website, the ministry has announced. Tourism minister Elena Udrea and Black Chandlee, VP and Commercial director with Facebook for the EMEA region, held a joint press conference to detail the collaboration on Tuesday, November 2, from 10,00 hours. The ministry will work with Facebook representatives to establish an integrated social media and new media strategy, organize training sessions for ministry employees and for representatives of the tourism industry in Romania.

The Turkish capital markets surveillance body (SPK) has started an investigation into fund manager Mark Mobius of Franklin Templeton over alleged market manipulation following requests from Turkish investors, senior SPK officials said on Monday, quoted by Reuters newswire.

A supersonic jet fighter aircraft MiG 21 Lancer crashed Monday near Campia Turzii, central Romania, and the two members...

Airline company Carpatair has flown in 200 foreign tourists who spent their Halloween in Transylvania, the firm has announced. The German and Italian tourists bought tickets as part of Carpatair's promotional sale. Foreigners visited mainly the Bran and Sighisoara areas.

Somali pirates Friday night seized Panama-flagged tanker MV Polar, which has 24 sailors aboard, of whom one is Romanian, European Union naval force Atalanta said Saturday.

Romania hasn’t met the end-September performance criteria on general government arrears and it will ask the International Monetary Fund for a new waiver of non-observance, IMF mission chief Jeffrey Franks said Friday. This will be the sixth waiver of non-observance on government arrears since Romania signed a EUR 13 billion loan agreement with the IMF in 2009.

Two days after a non-confidence vote failed to receive the needed number of votes in the Romanian Parliament, the Romanian opposition social democrats and liberals on Friday submitted a new no-confidence motion in Parliament against the Government. The Cabinet has sought the lawmakers’ vote of confidence to pass the education reform into law.

Ovidiu Rom's Halloween Charity Ball this year, which took place on October 30 at the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, brought together business people and public figures who dressed up for the 50s and raised money to send poor children to kindergarden. The Ovidiu Rom charity raised over EUR 500,000 at this charitable event, enough to keep 1,200 poor children in kindergarden for a year. See a photo gallery from the event below.

The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, the three-hour long documentary directed by Andrei Ujica won the Best East European Documentary Award at the 14th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival in Jihlava, the Czech Republic.

The new law on the education which the Government has recently assumed responsibility for allows teaching history and geography in the mother tongue for all the national minorities, not only for the Hungarian one, said Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc.

The Romanian Regional Development and Tourism Ministry will collaborate with Facebook in promoting Romania as a tourist destination on the social media website, the ministry has announced. Tourism minister Elena Udrea and Black Chandlee, VP and Commercial director with Facebook for the EMEA region, held a joint press conference to detail the collaboration on Tuesday, November 2, from 10,00 hours. The ministry will work with Facebook representatives to establish an integrated social media and new media strategy, organize training sessions for ministry employees and for representatives of the tourism industry in Romania.

The Turkish capital markets surveillance body (SPK) has started an investigation into fund manager Mark Mobius of Franklin Templeton over alleged market manipulation following requests from Turkish investors, senior SPK officials said on Monday, quoted by Reuters newswire.

A supersonic jet fighter aircraft MiG 21 Lancer crashed Monday near Campia Turzii, central Romania, and the two members...

Airline company Carpatair has flown in 200 foreign tourists who spent their Halloween in Transylvania, the firm has announced. The German and Italian tourists bought tickets as part of Carpatair's promotional sale. Foreigners visited mainly the Bran and Sighisoara areas.

Somali pirates Friday night seized Panama-flagged tanker MV Polar, which has 24 sailors aboard, of whom one is Romanian, European Union naval force Atalanta said Saturday.

Romania hasn’t met the end-September performance criteria on general government arrears and it will ask the International Monetary Fund for a new waiver of non-observance, IMF mission chief Jeffrey Franks said Friday. This will be the sixth waiver of non-observance on government arrears since Romania signed a EUR 13 billion loan agreement with the IMF in 2009.

Two days after a non-confidence vote failed to receive the needed number of votes in the Romanian Parliament, the Romanian opposition social democrats and liberals on Friday submitted a new no-confidence motion in Parliament against the Government. The Cabinet has sought the lawmakers’ vote of confidence to pass the education reform into law.