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Tourism : THE CAPACITY OF TOURIST ACCOMMODATION INCREASED BY 5.5% COMPARED TO THE SAME DATE OF THE PREVIOUS YEAR
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
* Almost 40pct of accommodation places in Romania were, on July 31, 2015, in 3-star hotels which represent more than half (51.1pct) of the hotels countrywide, according to the data released on Tuesday by the National Institute of Statistics ...
Healthcare: Interferon-free treatment included on the compensated and free of charge drugs list
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
The Government decided on Tuesday, through a resolution, to introduce some new molecules on the compensated and free of charge drugs list, among which those for the Interferon-free treatment of the chronic hepatitis C and liver cirrhosis C, the Government's Press Office ...
U.S. AMBASSADOR HANS KLEMM’S REMARKS AT WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT CANCER ADVOCACY NETWORK (WE CAN) BREAST AND CERVICAL CANCER ADVOCACY, EDUCATION AND OUTREACH SUMMIT
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
October 22, 2015 Distinguished guests, members of parliament, thank you for asking me to speak here today. The U.S. Embassy congratulates the Women’s Empowerment Cancer Advocacy Network, (WE CAN), on the organization of its Seventh Breast and Cervical Cancer Advocacy, Education and Outreach Summit. I salute WE CAN for gathering a wide range of stakeholders, including survivors, advocates, medical ...
Real Estate: Office spaces in Bucharest rented for 8,000 to 10,000 new employees in the first nine months of 2015
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Companies rented, in the first nine months of 2015, office spaces in Bucharest for 8,000 to 10,000 new employees, according to a study released on ...
Significant differences in price on the real estate market
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
The real estate market is recording significant differences in price, in some cases of more than one million euros between the homes in distant neighborhoods and the new, luxury ones built in exclusive areas, according to an analysis by a real estate ...
Telecom.IT : Romania telecom market returns to growth
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Romania's telecom market is returning back to growth supported especially by internet, Romanian telecommunications authority Ancom's president Catalin Marinescu said during the ZF Digital conference held by local paper Ziarul Financiar. Growth of internet services comes from high quality services and the stimulation of the demand side, Marinescu declared. He also observed the development of other areas such as money transfer, energy, and the ...
Romania telcos port 2.3 mln numbers in seven years
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Romania's telecommunications authority Ancom announced that a total of 2.327 million telephone numbers changed operators, without changing users since number portability was introduced 7 years ago. Of ...
Agriculture: Romsilva: 6.1 million cubic metres of wood from state-owned forests harvested in the first three quarters of 2015
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
The "Romsilva" National Forest Company (RNP) harvested in the first three quarters of the current year 6.1 million cubic metres of wood from state-owned forests, down almost 3 percent from the 6.283 million cubic metres harvested in the same period of 2014, shows data released by RNP Romsilva ...
Greenpeace: Illegal logging in Romania has recorded in 2013-2014 an approximate value of 52.1 million euro
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
The damage caused by the illegal logging in Romania has recorded in 2013-2014 an approximate value of 52.1 million euro (approximately 231 million lei), and 79pct of the sum has been quantified in the central and northwestern counties of Cluj, Alba and Maramures, where the largest amounts of wood have disappeared, a report by Greenpeace Romania, published on Monday, ...
Cars: The sales of new electric and hybrids cars in Romania reached 332 units nine months into 2015
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
The sales of new electric and hybrids cars in Romania reached 332 units nine months into this year, up by 111pct year on year, show the statistics of the Association of Automotive Manufacturers and Importers ...
Infrastructure: Airport Henri Coanda, 43rd in the EU according to the passengers traffic in 2014
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
The international airport Henry Coanda Bucuresti was situated last year 43rd in the EU after the number of passengers who transit it annually, show the data presented on Wednesday by the European Office for Statistics (Eurostat). The biggest airport in Romania served 8,26 million passengers in 2014 going up by 8.9% against 2013. Out of these, 6,4 million passengers arrived or left to destinations in the EU, 1.4 million with international destinations outside EU and 497,000 ...
Timisoara International Airport recorded in the first nine months of 2015 an increase of passengers by 32pct
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
The Timisoara International Airport (AIT) recorded in the first nine months of the year an increase of both the number of passengers and the air traffic, by 32pct and 16pct respectively, as compared to the similar period of 2014. According to a release by the Traian Vuia International Airport of Timisoara, in January - September 2015, 539,287 passengers have passed through the Timisoara airport, and in the same period of 2015 some 711,769 passengers were ...
Wizz Air to launch new flights from Cluj-Napoca starting 2016 summer
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Low-cost air travel company Wizz Air will introduce four new international flights starting July 2016 from Cluj-Napoca to cities in Spain, Germany, Denmark and the UK, Mediafax news agency informs, quoted by http://business-review.eu/. The company will also expand its fleet at the Cluj-Napoca “Avram Iancu” Airport with a fifth Airbus A320 aircraft. “Starting July 2016, four new flights operated from ...
Trade: Eurocommerce: the authorities should not intervene through quotas on the shelves
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
The Romanian authorities should not intervene by imposing a quota of products on the shelves, and the restriction of the opening hours would be a step backwards for the consumers, stated on Tuesday the general manager of Eurocommerce, Christian Verschueren. ‘It is good to offer to the consumers Romanian products, but it is even better to let the matter be settled by the market’ Veschueren said, at a conference MEDIAFAX Talks about ...
Romania’s beer market enters positive trend with 3.8 pct volume growth during H1 2015
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
According to data released by the Romanian Brewers Association, the beer market in Romania has felt a positive boost during the first half of the year, with a 3.8 percent increase in volume, reaching 7.6 million hl, http://business-review.eu/ reports. “After two consecutive years of declining consumption, ...
Telecom.IT: ANCOM: Romania delayed the process of digital television reception
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Romania delayed the process of providing digital television reception and until the end of the year a new task book will be under public debate with a view to bidding in 2016, stated at the International Digital Forum, Bogdan Iana, executive manager of the National Authority for the Administration and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM). ‘We have tried to do as much as possible in this transition from analogic to digital. UHF stopped on 17th ...
Telecom watchdog releases real internet download speeds provided by operators in the first nine months
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
In the first 9 months of this year, telecom operator Orange Romania offered real average download speeds of 27.83 Mbps indoors and 39.21 Mbps outdoors, RCS & RDS had speeds of 2.62 Mbps indoors and 2.85 Mbps outdoors, Telekom Romania Mobile Communications offered 10.25 Mbps indoors and 13.45 Mbps outdoors and Vodafone Romania provided 15.78 Mbps indoors and 26.77 Mbps outdoors, according to the Netograf.ro, the application for testing ...
Healthcare: CNAS signed a contract cost-volume-result for the treatment without interferon
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
The National House of Health Insurance (CNAS) signed a contract cost-volume-result for the treatment without interferon of cronic hepatitis C and hepatitis cirosis C on the basis of which pacients with phibrosis F4 will benefit from the treatment, the specialty consultative commissions of the ministry of health going to elaborate criteria to include interferonless treatment. According to a press release by CNAS the medicine will be prescribed for the pacients who meet the ...
Romania receveid less than it contributed Horizon 2020 medical research programmes
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Romania has contributed 9.7pct of the necessary funds to the medical research programmes within the framework of Horizon 2020, Societal Challenges 1, but has received back 8.4pct, Ruxandra Draghia-Akli, Director of the Health Directorate at the Research DG of the European Commission told Agerpres on Friday. According to data presented by Draghia-Akli at a conference held at the Romanian Academy, countries such as the Netherlands have attracted three times ...
Agriculture: The law of irrigations was passed in the Deputies’ chamber
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
The deputies passed last week a draft law regarding some measures for the organisation of the land improvement activity, the so-called law of irrigations, through which over one billion euro will be allocated between 2016 -2020 for the improvement of the national irrigation system. The draft was adopted by 307 votes for and one vote against. According to the minister of agriculture Daniel Constantin, through the legislative draft, the number of ...