Romanian writer Filip Florian will hold a reading session and present his debut novel at the International Literature Festival in Edinburgh on Thursday, August 19, according to Polirom publishing house.

An agricultural-themed TV station will be launched in Romania, after it has received the approval from the Romanian Audiovisual Council (can). The TV station, called Agro Channel, will be launched by the end of the year by Valtec Media Broadcasting SRL and will be headed by Bogdan Tudor, who also owns 10 percent of the shares. The other two shareholders are Narcis Somesfalean and Adrian Nedelcu.

US company Energiz Renewable has started a joint venture with Canadian company World Renewable Energy Group's local subsidiary (WREG) for several projects in Romania, pending on receiving government grants and finding private financing, romania-insider.com has learned. The company wants to built two solar panels factories in Romania, an investment of USD 64 million, according to Edward T. Whelan, head of Energiz Renewable, quoted by Romanian media.

A photography exhibition with works by Austrian photographer Inge Morath, who studied in Bucharest in the 30s and traveled to Romania after that will be on display at the Romanian Peasant's Museum in Bucharest from September 2nd. The exhibition, called 'My Romanian diary', will run until October 17. 133 of Inge Morath's photographic works will be on display.

The long – awaited iPhone 4 is now available for sale in Romania through two online stores, Pcfun.ro and eMag.ro.

The Romanian Competition Council has applied a EUR 1.2 million fine to several private pensions administration companies which were accused in 2007 of having agreed to equally share the participants in two funds, although they were supposed to be allocated randomly.

Banks give out loans to local authorities at 13% interest rate – in Ziarul Financiar, TV sales grow by 10 percent in Q2 – in Ziarul Financiar, The new ANI law- all the MP's wealth, made public again – in Ziarul Financiar, Cernavoda- Constanta highway and Bucharest – Constanta railway, ready next year – on Wall-street.ro

Two expat investors, Emmanuel Damanakis of Skepsis Advertising and Konstantinos Kapetanopoulos have taken the license to open the first Haagen Dazs Cafes in Romania, according to Romanian daily Ziarul Financiar. The first such store will be opened in Baneasa Shopping City.

Evguenia Stoichkova is the new operations director for Coca-Cola in Romania, Bulgaria, the Republic of Moldova and Albania. She has replaced Dragos Militaru, who has left the company to join UPC.

Passenger traffic went up by 10 percent on the Otopeni airport in the first six months of the year, while the smaller Baneasa airport saw a traffic increase of only three percent. The two airports together welcomed 3.1 million passengers in the first half of the year. Traffic estimation for the entire year point to 6.7 million passengers.

Romanian writer Filip Florian will hold a reading session and present his debut novel at the International Literature Festival in Edinburgh on Thursday, August 19, according to Polirom publishing house.

An agricultural-themed TV station will be launched in Romania, after it has received the approval from the Romanian Audiovisual Council (can). The TV station, called Agro Channel, will be launched by the end of the year by Valtec Media Broadcasting SRL and will be headed by Bogdan Tudor, who also owns 10 percent of the shares. The other two shareholders are Narcis Somesfalean and Adrian Nedelcu.

US company Energiz Renewable has started a joint venture with Canadian company World Renewable Energy Group's local subsidiary (WREG) for several projects in Romania, pending on receiving government grants and finding private financing, romania-insider.com has learned. The company wants to built two solar panels factories in Romania, an investment of USD 64 million, according to Edward T. Whelan, head of Energiz Renewable, quoted by Romanian media.

A photography exhibition with works by Austrian photographer Inge Morath, who studied in Bucharest in the 30s and traveled to Romania after that will be on display at the Romanian Peasant's Museum in Bucharest from September 2nd. The exhibition, called 'My Romanian diary', will run until October 17. 133 of Inge Morath's photographic works will be on display.

The long – awaited iPhone 4 is now available for sale in Romania through two online stores, Pcfun.ro and eMag.ro.

The Romanian Competition Council has applied a EUR 1.2 million fine to several private pensions administration companies which were accused in 2007 of having agreed to equally share the participants in two funds, although they were supposed to be allocated randomly.

Banks give out loans to local authorities at 13% interest rate – in Ziarul Financiar, TV sales grow by 10 percent in Q2 – in Ziarul Financiar, The new ANI law- all the MP's wealth, made public again – in Ziarul Financiar, Cernavoda- Constanta highway and Bucharest – Constanta railway, ready next year – on Wall-street.ro

Two expat investors, Emmanuel Damanakis of Skepsis Advertising and Konstantinos Kapetanopoulos have taken the license to open the first Haagen Dazs Cafes in Romania, according to Romanian daily Ziarul Financiar. The first such store will be opened in Baneasa Shopping City.

Evguenia Stoichkova is the new operations director for Coca-Cola in Romania, Bulgaria, the Republic of Moldova and Albania. She has replaced Dragos Militaru, who has left the company to join UPC.

Passenger traffic went up by 10 percent on the Otopeni airport in the first six months of the year, while the smaller Baneasa airport saw a traffic increase of only three percent. The two airports together welcomed 3.1 million passengers in the first half of the year. Traffic estimation for the entire year point to 6.7 million passengers.