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Tourism: About 160,000 foreign tourists on Danube cruises in 2013
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
159,000 foreign tourists came on Danube cruises this year and spent 16 million euro in Romania, according to the authorities and operators present at the International Travel Conference of the Danube organized in Bucharest over December 3-5. Gerhard Skoff, the chairman of the Danube Tourism Commission said that 33% of river cruise ...
Telecom.IT: Half of IT market in Romania works with Microsoft technology
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Half of the IT market in Romania works with Microsoft technology, which means over 400,000 firms said Marius Filipas, in charge of Microsoft Romania servers.Asked what Microsoft brings new in the Romanian market in 2014, Marius Filipas announced that new products will be launched for the cloud area.“We will continue to launch new products in the Romanian market, especially in the cloud area for business needs,” he ...
Tourism: Number of tourists, up 1.2% to 650,500, in October
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
The number of Romanian and foreign tourists who arrived in October 2013 in Romania's tourist accommodation structures totaled 650,500 people, having increased by 1.2% from October 2012, according to the data released on Monday by the National Statistics Institute /INS/.The arrivals of Romanian tourists in the relevant accommodation structures represented in October 75.6% of total arrivals, whilst foreign tourists accounted for 24.4% of ...
I want us to open Romania to Asia from tourist standpoint (Min. Grapini)
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Minister-Delegate for SMEs, Business Milieu and Tourism Maria Grapini told a Friday's meeting with tour operators in Cluj County (north-west) that Romania must look more intensely to Asia and to draw tourists from that area, mainly Chinese and Japanese ones.'I want us to open up to Asia. Here, we have to work very well with the [travel] agencies, because we have too few incoming agencies and more outgoing ones to Asia. During the ...
Telecom.IT: Third generation broadband covers 90pct of Romania's territory
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
The internet broadband currently covers 90 percent of Romania's territory, while 64 percent of those not using the internet generally say they do not need this service, National Communications Administrative and Regulatory Authority (ANCOM) Director Gheorghe Rusen told a specialist conference on Monday.'The broadband cover in Romania is of the third generation and is present in 90 percent of the territory. We also have 4G cover, high ...
Romania ranks 4th in Europe in terms of growth showed by telecom services
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Telecommunication services showed important growth this year at European level, Romania ranking 4th in this field, programme director in Telecommunications at IDC UK, John Gole, told a specialized conference on Monday.'Estimates show that the telecom services grew in 2013, Romania ranking 4th in Europe, in the context in which the rest of the countries are facing a contraction in expenses in this industry. With Russia being the single ...
More than 73 pct of households in urban area had access to the Internet in 2013
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
More than 73.2 percent of the households in the urban area in Romania had access to the Internet in 2013, the types of connections used to access the Internet at home being in 95.3 percent of the cases the fixed broadband connections, according to a release of the National Institute of Statistics (INS), referring to the results of a poll into the population's access to information and communication technology in 2013.In 2013, in the ...
The 50,000 programmers in Romania produce 500 m euros per year, very little
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
The Romanian software industry, being represented by 500,000 programmers, produces 500 million euros annually, which is very little, Andrei Pitis, the head of the Employers' Association of the Software and Services Industry (ANIS).'Romania, with its 50,000 programmers, produces 500 million euros per year, which is very little. Thus, the Romanian software industry could produce up to two billion ...
Facebook has 6.6 mln users in Romania, most of them in Bucharest
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
The number of Romanian users of Facebook social network has reached 6.6 million, of whom 95.03% have set their hometown, show the data quantified by facebrands.ro, a website monitoring the Facebook pages created locally.According to the cited source, most users of the services made available by the social portal come from Bucharest, with around 1.4 million people (22.3 % of total), followed by those in Cluj- Napoca (240,040 people, ...
Healthcare: Nearly 10,000 moms choose annually to have stem cells harvested when giving birth to a child
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Nearly 10,000 moms choose annually in Romania to have stem cells harvested when giving birth to a child, according to Bogdan Ivanescu, the President of the Romanian Association of Accredited Stem Cells Banks (ARBACS), as saying in an interview to AGERPRES.The Romanian market will probably remain with no more than 5 or 6 stem cells banks compared with 17 banks at present, said Ivanescu.'We are pleased with the Romanian ...
Gov't approves unblocking of more than 1,000 jobs in the healthcare system
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Wednesday announced that the government approved the unblocking of more than 1,000 jobs in the healthcare system.'Today (i.e. Wednesday) we are going to approve the unblocking of more than 1,000 jobs in the healthcare system. All the money from the reserve fund, 200 million lei, will be thus transferred to the healthcare system. I hope that the amendments that you agreed upon with the trade unions for 2014 ...
Nicolaescu: Social health insurance system, not suited for Romania
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Health Minister Eugen Nicolaescu on Monday said that the social health insurance was not suitable for Romania, maintaining that he would give it up.'The social health insurance system is not suited for Romania. What was made in 1998, in my opinion, and I obviously took it over in 2006, but I believe at that time the society was not ready yet to make a change after it had been introduced in '98. There are countries that have given it up. ...
Romania would need 12-14 billion euros to get sanitary infrastructure tied up
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Health Minister Eugen Nicolaescu said Romania would need 12-14 billion euros for the medical infrastructure to get tied up.'For what infrastructure means we would need about 100,000 beds, they must be placed in some buildings observing certain rules to be able to be accredited, having certain medical equipment and appliances, and we know this, we have done such things and, according to the latest calculations we have made over several ...
Agriculture : Romania to export to China around 500,000 cattle, 4 - 5 mln sheep
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Romania will be able to export to China around 500,000 cattle and 4 - 5 million sheep since the number of the relevant head increased as high as 14 million, Agriculture Minister Daniel Constantin said on Tuesday.'In terms of cattle, there are commitments of 500,000 head in the next 5 to 7 or 10 years, and in terms of sheep we have a huge potential for export of 4 - 5 million head, because the numbers have increased a great deal, to 14 ...
Romania needs 1 billion euros for irrigations and 2.4 billion for building Siret-Baragan Canal
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Romania needs investments worth one billion euros for the setting up and upgrading of its main infrastructure for irrigations only and another 2.4 billion euros for building the Siret-Baragan Canal and bringing water to the farms, Secretary of State with the Ministry of Agriculture, Daniel Botanoiu, stated on Tuesday, at the workshop for agriculture held in the framework of the China - Central and Eastern European Economic and Trade ...
Infrastrcture: Bulgaria, Romania Make 1st Steps for New Danube Bridge
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Bulgaria and Romania have started negotiations to build a new bridge on the Danube river, between the cities of Silistra and Calarasi. The news was reported Tuesday by "Standard" daily, citing own sources from the Council of Ministers.The information comes on the heels of a meeting between Bulgarian Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski with Romanian counterpart Victor ...
Romania's railways and ports to be developed in partnership with China
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Romania's railways and ports are two sectors to be developed in partnership with China, Romania's Transport Minister Ramona Manescu said Tuesday. She added that the Black Sea Constanta port is a strategic facility of Romania's and a magnet for foreign investors.'The Constanta Port is a strategic facility of national interest in Romania and also a facility that attracts foreign investors. We have two logistics platforms we want to ...
Romania to start talks with Chinese partners on high-speed Vienna-Bucharest-Constanta railway
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
The technical talks with the Chinese partners on building a high-speed railway to link Vienna to Bucharest and the Black Sea port of Constant will start on Dec. 10, with the project being put at 11 billion euros, Romanian Transport Minister Ramona Manescu told a news conference on Tuesday.'It is very clear that the need for development in Romania is much greater than the possibilities for financing from the European funds, and that is ...
3 billion euros in EU funding for road infrastructure in next programming period 2014-2020
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Romania will have at its disposal 3 billion euros for road infrastructure in the next financial programming of the EU, Minister-Delegate for Infrastructure Projects of National Interest and Foreign Investments Dan Sova told Tuesday's transport workshop within the China - Central and Eastern Europe Economic and Commercial Forum, currently held in Bucharest. 'In the next programming period ...
Sova: Romania has not managed to complete concession projects; I am positive we shall manage this time
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Romania has not managed from 1990 to 2013 to complete any concession or public-private partnership for a motorway sector, but now we must prove we can complete the three projects initiated with the support and involvement of the international financial institutions, Minister Delegate for National Interest Infrastructure Projects and Foreign Investments Dan Sova said on Tuesday at the China-Central and East European Countries Economic and Trade ...