Indian carmaker Tata Motors plans to export its low cost model Nano, the cheapest car in the world, to several countries, among which Romania. The company has recently finalized a study which showed the car can be adapted to fit the needs of new markets like Romania, Turkey, Brasil, Thailand, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

US magazine Wired has recently published a piece about cyber crime in Romania and about a network of online scammers stemming from the city of Ramnicu Valcea. The magazine has sent its reporter Yudhijit Bhattacharjee to investigate the story on site in Romania and report about the people said to be involved in the online scamming chain. Bhattacharjee has also talked to two police officers who investigate the network.

The rate of new employments in Romanian companies dropped by 75 percent on the year in 2009, because of the economic crisis, while dismissals septupled, according to a survey by consultancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. Furthermore, the crisis brought resignations down from 18.3 percent in 2008 to 8 percent in 2009, according to the PwC Saratoga Romania 2010 survey.

The National Military Circle downtown Bucharest will host the opening concert of the second edition of the Old Music Season, on Friday, February 4. The concert will begin at 19,00 hours in the Byzantine Room with a performance of harpsichord player Erich Turk.

The Czech Center of Bucharest will organize a mute film festival called “No silence, please”, which will feature screenings of early cinema masterpieces , accompanied by live music. The program will begin at 20,00 hours on Thursday, February 3, with the Czech movie “Extas” made in 1933 by director Gustav Machatý - the world’s first film that contains a nudity scene. The film will be accompanied by a live guitar performance from Hanno Hofer, Nightloosers band leader.

The retailers in the AFI Palace Cotroceni shopping center cashed in EUR 164 million in total sales last year, according to Mediafax newswire. 33 retailers out of 280 have been replaced in the shopping center during the first year of activity, said Visel. The shopping center was opened in November 2009 and has an average traffic of 50,000 people a day during week days and around 80,000 during the week-end.

The Henri Coanda international airport in Bucharest saw a 10 percent higher traffic last year, to 4.9 million passengers. The number of aircraft movements on the airport also grew by 6 percent lats year on the previous, to almost 77,000 landings and takeoffs.

Romania's foreign exchange reserves rose to EUR 32.69 billion in January, after the International Monetary Fund released a seventh installment of a EUR 13 billion stand-by loan, central bank data showed Tuesday. At the end of December 2010, the reserves were at EUR 32.43 billion.

Romanian company Televoice, which owns the Evolio brand, will launch in February this year a PC tablet called EvoTab, running on the Android operating system, the company has announced. The tablet can be pre-ordered form the producer's website . It will become available in retail chains from February 15, at a price of RON 750 (around EUR 176).

The International Monetary Fund has asked Romania to discard regulated prices for the production of electricity and natural gas and to draw up a new calculation formula in this respect.

Indian carmaker Tata Motors plans to export its low cost model Nano, the cheapest car in the world, to several countries, among which Romania. The company has recently finalized a study which showed the car can be adapted to fit the needs of new markets like Romania, Turkey, Brasil, Thailand, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

US magazine Wired has recently published a piece about cyber crime in Romania and about a network of online scammers stemming from the city of Ramnicu Valcea. The magazine has sent its reporter Yudhijit Bhattacharjee to investigate the story on site in Romania and report about the people said to be involved in the online scamming chain. Bhattacharjee has also talked to two police officers who investigate the network.

The rate of new employments in Romanian companies dropped by 75 percent on the year in 2009, because of the economic crisis, while dismissals septupled, according to a survey by consultancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. Furthermore, the crisis brought resignations down from 18.3 percent in 2008 to 8 percent in 2009, according to the PwC Saratoga Romania 2010 survey.

The National Military Circle downtown Bucharest will host the opening concert of the second edition of the Old Music Season, on Friday, February 4. The concert will begin at 19,00 hours in the Byzantine Room with a performance of harpsichord player Erich Turk.

The Czech Center of Bucharest will organize a mute film festival called “No silence, please”, which will feature screenings of early cinema masterpieces , accompanied by live music. The program will begin at 20,00 hours on Thursday, February 3, with the Czech movie “Extas” made in 1933 by director Gustav Machatý - the world’s first film that contains a nudity scene. The film will be accompanied by a live guitar performance from Hanno Hofer, Nightloosers band leader.

The retailers in the AFI Palace Cotroceni shopping center cashed in EUR 164 million in total sales last year, according to Mediafax newswire. 33 retailers out of 280 have been replaced in the shopping center during the first year of activity, said Visel. The shopping center was opened in November 2009 and has an average traffic of 50,000 people a day during week days and around 80,000 during the week-end.

The Henri Coanda international airport in Bucharest saw a 10 percent higher traffic last year, to 4.9 million passengers. The number of aircraft movements on the airport also grew by 6 percent lats year on the previous, to almost 77,000 landings and takeoffs.

Romania's foreign exchange reserves rose to EUR 32.69 billion in January, after the International Monetary Fund released a seventh installment of a EUR 13 billion stand-by loan, central bank data showed Tuesday. At the end of December 2010, the reserves were at EUR 32.43 billion.

Romanian company Televoice, which owns the Evolio brand, will launch in February this year a PC tablet called EvoTab, running on the Android operating system, the company has announced. The tablet can be pre-ordered form the producer's website . It will become available in retail chains from February 15, at a price of RON 750 (around EUR 176).

The International Monetary Fund has asked Romania to discard regulated prices for the production of electricity and natural gas and to draw up a new calculation formula in this respect.