Calendar of events in Bucharest, between November 26 and 28: Goran Bregovic concert, Baby Expo, Garlic Fair, Nouage Live Remix, Nik Baertsch concert

Hospice Casa Sperantei will organize the 10th edition of the Edelweiss Ball on Saturday, November 27, at the Athene Palace Hilton, from 19.00 hours. The fund raising event will be centered on the theme 'Around the world'.

Romania has no reason to halt its external payments, said Mugur Isarescu (in picture), the Romanian Central Bank Governor, in response to the recent statement by International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The IMF official recently said Romania, along with other countries, could face insolvency.

Ion Barladeanu, the main character of the documentary 'The World According to Ion B', which has recently received an Emmy Award, is still living in a room in a basement of a block in Bucharest and has not enjoyed the success the documentary about him has received, writes the Romanian media.

The average unemployment aid in Romania next year will be 10 percent lower than this year, down to EUR 111 from the current EUR 122, while unemployment aid for young graduates will be kept at EUR 70.

Romanian lender Banca Transilvania has postponed its plan to sell shares on the Vienna Stock Exchange until next year because of legal problems with shareholder SIF Banat- Crisana, Chief Executive Officer Robert C. Rekkers said, quoted by Bloomberg

An area of 90,000 hectares in the protected natural site Nordul Gorjului, in Western Romania, will be protected through a project worth EUR 4.9 million, part of the European program Natura 2000. The area includes 45 natural reservations, among which best known are Cheile Sohodorului (in picture) and Cheile Tismanei.

A Saint Nicholas fair will take place between December 3 and 5 at the Romanian Peasant's Museum in Bucharest (3 Kisellef Blvd.) The fair will feature traditional Romanian food, traditionally made toys, other Romanian traditional products.

Baby Expo, a fair dedicated to moms, newborns and young parents, will take place between November 26 and 28 at Sala Polivalenta in Bucharest. Entry tickets to the event are RON 10/adult.

Carola Grindea was a famous Romanian-born piano teacher and the founder of two renowned music institutions: the European Piano Teachers Association and the International Society for the Study of Tension in Performance. She developed a therapeutic method, called Grindea technique, a pre-performance tool to help release tension and achieve mental focus.

Calendar of events in Bucharest, between November 26 and 28: Goran Bregovic concert, Baby Expo, Garlic Fair, Nouage Live Remix, Nik Baertsch concert

Hospice Casa Sperantei will organize the 10th edition of the Edelweiss Ball on Saturday, November 27, at the Athene Palace Hilton, from 19.00 hours. The fund raising event will be centered on the theme 'Around the world'.

Romania has no reason to halt its external payments, said Mugur Isarescu (in picture), the Romanian Central Bank Governor, in response to the recent statement by International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The IMF official recently said Romania, along with other countries, could face insolvency.

Ion Barladeanu, the main character of the documentary 'The World According to Ion B', which has recently received an Emmy Award, is still living in a room in a basement of a block in Bucharest and has not enjoyed the success the documentary about him has received, writes the Romanian media.

The average unemployment aid in Romania next year will be 10 percent lower than this year, down to EUR 111 from the current EUR 122, while unemployment aid for young graduates will be kept at EUR 70.

Romanian lender Banca Transilvania has postponed its plan to sell shares on the Vienna Stock Exchange until next year because of legal problems with shareholder SIF Banat- Crisana, Chief Executive Officer Robert C. Rekkers said, quoted by Bloomberg

An area of 90,000 hectares in the protected natural site Nordul Gorjului, in Western Romania, will be protected through a project worth EUR 4.9 million, part of the European program Natura 2000. The area includes 45 natural reservations, among which best known are Cheile Sohodorului (in picture) and Cheile Tismanei.

A Saint Nicholas fair will take place between December 3 and 5 at the Romanian Peasant's Museum in Bucharest (3 Kisellef Blvd.) The fair will feature traditional Romanian food, traditionally made toys, other Romanian traditional products.

Baby Expo, a fair dedicated to moms, newborns and young parents, will take place between November 26 and 28 at Sala Polivalenta in Bucharest. Entry tickets to the event are RON 10/adult.

Carola Grindea was a famous Romanian-born piano teacher and the founder of two renowned music institutions: the European Piano Teachers Association and the International Society for the Study of Tension in Performance. She developed a therapeutic method, called Grindea technique, a pre-performance tool to help release tension and achieve mental focus.