The Romanian Association for Aeronautics (ARCA) has launched the first Romanian rocket, Helen 2, which had been placed onboard of a ship in the Constanta area in the Black Sea. The rocket was supposed to be launched last year but the mission failed because of unfavorable weather.

Romanian writer Norman Manea will be on a tour in Spain in the first part of October, where he will meet Spanish writer Antonio Muñoz Molina. The tour is organized by the Romanian Cultural Institute in Madrid (ICR).

Romania climbed to the fifth position in the third quarter of 2010 in a spam sending country top, from the eighth position in the previous quarter, IT security solution provider Panda Security said in a report. According to the report, in the third quarter of 2010, the first ten worst spammers sent 55 percent of the total unwanted messages.

Romanian unionists affiliated with education union federations FEN and ‘Spiru Haret’ will stage protests outside the Presidential Palace on October 5, the World Teachers’ Day. Spiru Haret union leader Gheorghe Isvoranu said unionists protest over salary cuts and the country's education bill which makes the wage cut measure permanent, although the Constitutional Court said it should be temporary.

*IMF: Romania needs EUR 38 billion next year – in Ziarul Financiar
*Kazakhs now want state's shares in Petromidia – in Ziarul Financiar
*EUR 10,000 from the state for young people who want to start businesses – in Ziarul Financiar
*Hornbach opens the Prisma store by the end of the year – in Ziarul Financiar
*IMF money move BNR's reserves up to EUR 32.6 billion in September – in Gandul

Romanians have sent money back home from 170 countries in the world, according to Western Union. The remittances are higher in the countries where the Romanian communities are bigger – in Europe, in the US and even in the Persian Golf.

Bogdan Speteanu is the new general manager of BCR Leasing non-banking financial institution. Speteanu has previously worked as program director with Erste Group in Vienna. He has replaced Thomas Tolazzi.

Local private health care service operator Gral Medical posted EUR 9 million revenues in the first eight months of the year, exceeding its expectations for the entire 2010, the company has announced.

Cristian Sas is the new chief operating officer (COO) of the Anima Specialty Medical Services division with A&D Pharma group. Sas was previously project manager with Allianz-Tiriac insurance company, after holding management positions for 9 years with Polisano and Centrul Medical Unirea private health care services providers.

The number of foreign tourists who entered Romania was 8.9 percent higher in August compared with the same month a year before, while the number of tourists accommodated was down 15.2 percent on the year, the National Statistics Institute said Monday.

The Romanian Association for Aeronautics (ARCA) has launched the first Romanian rocket, Helen 2, which had been placed onboard of a ship in the Constanta area in the Black Sea. The rocket was supposed to be launched last year but the mission failed because of unfavorable weather.

Romanian writer Norman Manea will be on a tour in Spain in the first part of October, where he will meet Spanish writer Antonio Muñoz Molina. The tour is organized by the Romanian Cultural Institute in Madrid (ICR).

Romania climbed to the fifth position in the third quarter of 2010 in a spam sending country top, from the eighth position in the previous quarter, IT security solution provider Panda Security said in a report. According to the report, in the third quarter of 2010, the first ten worst spammers sent 55 percent of the total unwanted messages.

Romanian unionists affiliated with education union federations FEN and ‘Spiru Haret’ will stage protests outside the Presidential Palace on October 5, the World Teachers’ Day. Spiru Haret union leader Gheorghe Isvoranu said unionists protest over salary cuts and the country's education bill which makes the wage cut measure permanent, although the Constitutional Court said it should be temporary.

*IMF: Romania needs EUR 38 billion next year – in Ziarul Financiar
*Kazakhs now want state's shares in Petromidia – in Ziarul Financiar
*EUR 10,000 from the state for young people who want to start businesses – in Ziarul Financiar
*Hornbach opens the Prisma store by the end of the year – in Ziarul Financiar
*IMF money move BNR's reserves up to EUR 32.6 billion in September – in Gandul

Romanians have sent money back home from 170 countries in the world, according to Western Union. The remittances are higher in the countries where the Romanian communities are bigger – in Europe, in the US and even in the Persian Golf.

Bogdan Speteanu is the new general manager of BCR Leasing non-banking financial institution. Speteanu has previously worked as program director with Erste Group in Vienna. He has replaced Thomas Tolazzi.

Local private health care service operator Gral Medical posted EUR 9 million revenues in the first eight months of the year, exceeding its expectations for the entire 2010, the company has announced.

Cristian Sas is the new chief operating officer (COO) of the Anima Specialty Medical Services division with A&D Pharma group. Sas was previously project manager with Allianz-Tiriac insurance company, after holding management positions for 9 years with Polisano and Centrul Medical Unirea private health care services providers.

The number of foreign tourists who entered Romania was 8.9 percent higher in August compared with the same month a year before, while the number of tourists accommodated was down 15.2 percent on the year, the National Statistics Institute said Monday.