The Sports and Friends association and Hospice Casa Sperantei will organize a fundraising party on Thursday, September 30, at the Fourteen Bar in Bucharest, starting 20,30 hours. The Sport and Friends team, which will run for the Hospice Casa Sperantei cause at the Bucharest City Marathon on October 17, will raise funds from entry tickets and raffle tickets and donate them to the charity.

Art production foundation and Japan Tobacco International Romania will organize a new edition of the JTI Meetings (Intalnirile JTI) cultural event in October, when a choreography show featuring Sylvie Guillem and Russell Maliphant will take place at the National Theater in Bucharest.

Romanian investor Dinu Patriciuis still the richest man in Romania, with an estimated wealth of around EUR 2.3 billion, according to the recently – released Forbes TOP 500 Romanian billionaires. Patriciu also owns the media group which runs the Forbes magazine in Romania.

Hidroelectrica will invest EUR 110 million in modernizing its systems in Bicaz – Stejaru, hoping to sign an agreement to cover the required financing by the end of the year, while also starting the revamping works.

Heating and hot water products company Ariston Thermo Romania hopes to reach EUR 33 million in turnover for 2010, almost double the turnover it posted last year, the company has announced.

CB Richard Ellis Romania intermediated office lease contracts of around EUR 26 million in the first half of the year, with the total leased area reaching 28,600 sqm.

Romanian-born writer Herta Muller, winner of the Nobel Prize for Litterature in 2009, will be in Romania on Monday and Tuesday, September 27 and 28, where she was invited by the Humanitas Fiction publishing house and by the Goethe Institute.

The New York state Governor takes into account the opening of an investments office in Romania, similarly to the one the New York state had opened in Turkey. David A. Paterson, the New York state governor, told Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc, who was on a visit to the US, that he was considering opening a NY investments office in Romania.

Around 150,000 local volunteers cleaned Romania last Saturday, within the Let's Do It Romania local program. The volunteers collected 200,000 bags of garbage from out of town areas in Romania. Sponsorships for the project, some EUR 30,000 in total, covered the cost of bags, gloves for the volunteers, as well as the free transport of the garbage.

*Duster orders double. Romanians queue up to get the car – in Ziarul Financiar
*President accuses Police of undermining state authority – in Ziarul Financiar
*IMF approves another EUR 900 million but state pledge on debt remains uncovered – in Ziarul Financiar
*90% of the telecom market stays in the hands of five companies – in Ziarul Financiar
*Tarom tries to shake off the old brand label with EUR 500,000 – in Ziarul Financiar

The Sports and Friends association and Hospice Casa Sperantei will organize a fundraising party on Thursday, September 30, at the Fourteen Bar in Bucharest, starting 20,30 hours. The Sport and Friends team, which will run for the Hospice Casa Sperantei cause at the Bucharest City Marathon on October 17, will raise funds from entry tickets and raffle tickets and donate them to the charity.

Art production foundation and Japan Tobacco International Romania will organize a new edition of the JTI Meetings (Intalnirile JTI) cultural event in October, when a choreography show featuring Sylvie Guillem and Russell Maliphant will take place at the National Theater in Bucharest.

Romanian investor Dinu Patriciuis still the richest man in Romania, with an estimated wealth of around EUR 2.3 billion, according to the recently – released Forbes TOP 500 Romanian billionaires. Patriciu also owns the media group which runs the Forbes magazine in Romania.

Hidroelectrica will invest EUR 110 million in modernizing its systems in Bicaz – Stejaru, hoping to sign an agreement to cover the required financing by the end of the year, while also starting the revamping works.

Heating and hot water products company Ariston Thermo Romania hopes to reach EUR 33 million in turnover for 2010, almost double the turnover it posted last year, the company has announced.

CB Richard Ellis Romania intermediated office lease contracts of around EUR 26 million in the first half of the year, with the total leased area reaching 28,600 sqm.

Romanian-born writer Herta Muller, winner of the Nobel Prize for Litterature in 2009, will be in Romania on Monday and Tuesday, September 27 and 28, where she was invited by the Humanitas Fiction publishing house and by the Goethe Institute.

The New York state Governor takes into account the opening of an investments office in Romania, similarly to the one the New York state had opened in Turkey. David A. Paterson, the New York state governor, told Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc, who was on a visit to the US, that he was considering opening a NY investments office in Romania.

Around 150,000 local volunteers cleaned Romania last Saturday, within the Let's Do It Romania local program. The volunteers collected 200,000 bags of garbage from out of town areas in Romania. Sponsorships for the project, some EUR 30,000 in total, covered the cost of bags, gloves for the volunteers, as well as the free transport of the garbage.

*Duster orders double. Romanians queue up to get the car – in Ziarul Financiar
*President accuses Police of undermining state authority – in Ziarul Financiar
*IMF approves another EUR 900 million but state pledge on debt remains uncovered – in Ziarul Financiar
*90% of the telecom market stays in the hands of five companies – in Ziarul Financiar
*Tarom tries to shake off the old brand label with EUR 500,000 – in Ziarul Financiar