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Healthcare: Second Palestinian-Romanian International Medical Congress organised în Ramallah
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Major General Nidal Abu Dukhan, commander of the Palestinian national security forces, said on Thursday in Ramallah that Palestine is interested collaborating with Romania, especially in the area of training for special emergency interventions in extreme situations, such as hostage taking, but also in first-aid classes for disasters. Abu Dukhan proposed that the theoretical stage of the specialist training be conducted in Palestine, and physical training in ...
Five hospitals will get radiotherapy equipment to treat cancer patients
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
The Constanta, Galati and Baia Mare county hospitals, the Bucharest Oncology Institute and the Elias Emergency University Hospital will get radiotherapy equipment, to treat cancer patients. On Thursday, the Government hosted the signing ceremony for the equipping of the five facilities with complete radiotherapy systems. The contracts were signed by Romanian Health Minister Florian Bodog and Jaroslaw Lange, a representative of Elekta Limited UK, the supplier ...
Telecom. IT: Brussels thinks interconnection prices are high and investigates ANCOM suggestion to maintain them at 2014 level
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
The European Commission began a thorough investigation on the suggestion made by ANCOM to maintain interconnection prices at the level established in 2014, based on old data, a press release issued by the European Executive shows. Brussels points out that the level of those prices in Romania remains high compared to that of other countries and the Romanian authority has not justified its proposal. The reduction of those prices, which means lower prices for people who ...
Trade: Online sale increase in Romania
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Specialists’ estimates on Romanian online trade for the following years show an increase tendency in the sale volume. In the last years the balance of online sales started to grow in Romania. Interest shifted gradually from electronic and household appliances, clothes and footwear to pet shops, gifts, flowers and even food. One of the main reasons for which sales shift to online belongs to social and technological factors: ...
Black Friday 2017 in Romania: 7th year
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Black Friday 2017 in Romania has already started among many online retailers which decided to begin the purchase fever since the end of October. The “sale feast”, now at the 7th edition, promises to exceed the organizers’ expectations. Imported from the US in 2011 by online retailers Flanco and eMAG, Black Friday was successful among Romanians, a fact proved by a study made by the online marketing agency Today’s which, following ...
Real Estate: CTP reaches 700,000 sqm of industrial spaces in Q4 2017
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
The real estate developer CTP had a portfolio growth of 73 percent and reached more than 700,000 square meters of industrial spaces in Romania in the last quarter of 2017, business-review.eu reports. The company has a total market value of EUR 364 million and over 180,000 square meters GLA in Romania were built by CTP. Strategic clients from 7 parks owned by CTP signed new leasing agreements in the first three quarters of 2017. The vacancy rate of the ...
Eurostat: In Romania, 96 percent of the population was owning their dwelling in 2016
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Romania is number one in the European Union in terms of the share of the population owning their dwelling, 96 percent in 2016 as against an EU average of 69.3 percent, according to data released on Thursday by the European Statistical Office (Eurostat). In 2016, there were more owners than tenants in every EU member state. The highest share of the population owning their dwelling was registered in Romania (where 96.0 percent were owners), ahead of ...
Almost 600 000 real estate sales in the first ten months of 2017
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Real estate sales in the first ten months of this year stood at 512,935 units, with the bulk of the deals - 65,963 in Bucharest, the National Cadastre and Property Advertising Agency said in a release on Monday. In October 2017 nationwide building sales amounted to 61,863. Most building sales over the entire 10-month reporting period were registered in Bucharest - 65,963; Cluj - 34,802 and Ilfov - 30,022. At the opposite end the counties with the fewest ...
Owners of historic buildings in Romania exempt from tax on building
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Owners of buildings classified as historic monuments will be exempt from paying tax on these buildings from next year, reports Profit.ro quoted ...
Bucharest and Prague, first in the region for attracting new retailers
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Bucharest and Prague ranked first in the region for attracting new retailers in 2016, according to a study concluded by real estate consultancy firm CBRE, romania-insider.com ...
Vlad Tanase (NNDKP): Real estate investors struggling to find mid-sized projects in Romania
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Real estate investors are constantly looking at Romania but the “issue we see is that at this moment there are few projects that can be acquired”, according to Vlad Tanase, partner at law firm NNDKP, business-review.eu informs. “We have clients interested in buying commercial centers and realized there are few projects on sale. On offices, some projects are for sale, but the opportunities for investments are few – either too ...
Coldwell Banker : Romanian suburbs deliver over half of the new apartments
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Over a half (54 percent) of the new apartments delivered in 2016 in the seven biggest residential markets in Romania (Bucharest, Cluj – Napoca, Timisoara, Iasi, Constanta, Sibiu and Brasov) were in the suburbs of the big cities, according to a report of the real estate company Coldwell Banker Romania based on the data of the National Institute of Statistics (INS). Out of the 27,273 apartments finished last year in the seven biggest ...
Real estate developer Zacaria announces the expansion of its industrial park in Oradea
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Real estate developer Zacaria announces the expansion of Western Industrial Park in Oradea with a new warehouse of more than 6300 m2, already commissioned by a German investor in the process of opening its first subsidiary in Romania a press release sent to ACTMedia informs. Zacaria, with a portfolio of approximately 300.000 m2 of industrial warehouses and office spaces in multiple Romanian cities, announces the expansion of Western Industrial ...
Healthcare: Memorandum signed for the construction of five regional hospitals in Timisoara, Targu Mures, Constanta, Braila-Galati and Brasov
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
The Government okayed on last Wednesday, through a memorandum, the necessary procedures for the construction of five regional hospitals in Timisoara, Targu Mures, Constanta, Braila-Galati and Brasov. According to a Government's release, steps will be taken to identify financing solutions for the construction of the five regional hospitals, by meeting the annual deficit targets, and, if governmental loans are needed, these will be taken by complying with the ...
In Romania, a quarter of the population suffers from obesity
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
At least a quarter of Romania's population is affected by obesity, Deputy Dean of the Medicine and Pharmacy University of Targu-Mures, associate professor Dr. Monica Tarcea told Wednesday the Dietitian National Conference titled "Child Obesity - Updates, Prevention and Treatment Perspectives'. "In Romania, a quarter of the population suffers from obesity, these are the official data, but the percentage is a lot higher, as many people do not report to the ...
Trade: The e-commerce market will reach 2.3 - 2.4 bln euro at the end of 2017
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Romania's e-commerce market will reach 2.3 - 2.4 bln euro at the end of the year, whereas the global online trade will top 1.87 trillion dollars, up 17 percent from the previous year, an expert survey by eCommerce Foundation shows. "Romania's e-commerce market is on a continuously upward trend. For 2017 we estimate that we are headed for 2.3 - 2.4 billion euro for e-tail alone. We are periodically looking at new projects in the eCommerce Awards competition ...
GfK study: Romanians the biggest internet users for shopping
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Romanians are the biggest users of internet for shopping, exceeding the global level, as the prices comparison of different shops are a more frequent practice for 45 percent among the surveyed, showing the high attention for the best quality-price ratio of the products, and for 46 percent of Romanians the mobile became the most important shopping instrument, according to GfK study FutureBuy 2017, business-review.eu informs. The search for products ...
Cars: Dacia new car registrations increased by almost 12 pc in October on French market
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
The number of Dacia car registrations in France recorded an annual growth rate of 11.6 percent in October, to 8,487 units, the French Carmakers Committee (CCFA) shows, quoted by romaniajournal.ro. At the same time, in the first ten months of this year, Dacia new car registrations on the French market saw an increase of 5.4 percent, to 97,739 units, compared with January – October 2016. Among French manufacturers, PSA Group ...
UniCredit Leasing and Toyota Romania launch program to buy hybrid cars
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Toyota and UniCredit Leasing have launched a financing program to help customers buy hybrid cars in the local market, romania-insider.com informs. Hybrid cars represent almost half of the total number of cars the Japanese producer sells in the country, Toyota Romania General Manager Edit Corcoman-Tarcolea said. Toyota’s hybrid cars include city cars (Yaris Hybrid), compact cars ...
Bucharest: The new S-Class Coupé and the new S-Class Cabriolet are ready for orders
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Starting October 2017, the new Mercedes-Benz S 450 4MATIC Coupé, S 560 Coupé and S 560 4MATIC Coupé, respectively the new Mercedes-AMG S 63 4MATIC+ Coupé, Mercedes-AMG S 65 Coupé and Mercedes-AMG S 65 Cabriolet are up for orders, with the first deliveries to be made in 2018, a press release sent to ACTMedia informs. The prices range from 105,023.45 EUR (VAT included) for S 450 4MATIC Coupé version (combined CO? emissions: 208 g/km, ...