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Telecom.IT: Vodafone expands 4G coverage in Bucharest and 9 large cities
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Vodafone announced on Thursday the expansion of its 4G coverage with data download speeds up to 100 Mbps in Bucharest for 27% of the people especially in the central and northern areas, in commercial centers and office buildings. The 4 G coverage can be found in 9 other towns: Arad (90.3%), Bacau (98.5%), ...
Tablet Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 available for Romanian users
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
The new tablet Galaxy Note 8.0 from Samsung is also available in Romania as of this month, after being officially presented at Mobile World Congress in April, Samsung Electronics Romania announced on Tuesday. The eight inch tablet offers functions adapted to an active life style , including multi-window options, access to many love applications and a new generation ...
Real estate: Public notaries increase lowest apartment value by 40% this year
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
The table according to which notaries calculate the lowest taxes for apartment transactions in Bucharest was established at values 40% higher than in 2012, although apartment prices have dropped constantly in the last years, Mediafax ...
Infrastructure : Victor Ponta: Contract with Bechtel terminated as soon as negotiations completed
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
The contract with Bechtel will be terminated as soon as negotiations with company representatives are completed, Prime Minister Victor Ponta said on Friday in Constanta (221 km south-east of Bucharest).The Prime Minister said that it is crucial to find a contractor to step in and complete the works left unfinished by the US-based investor.'There is a real possibility to ...
Tarom debuts service to Dublin on May 1, enhances connectivity to Amsterdam and Frankfurt
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Romanian flagship carrier Tarom debuts on May 1 the service to Dublin and will also enhance the frequency of its flights on the Amsterdam and Frankfurt routes, given that the occupancy rate is above expectations, the company informed.The Bucharest to Dublin flights will be operated three times a week, on Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday (departure at 21:30, arrival at 23:30), while the ...
Transport minister: We must talk about flat road tax, possibility to travel free of charge on motorways
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Transport Minister Relu Fenechiu said on Monday that he is considering both introducing a flat road tax disc for the use of motorways and the possibility to travel on motorways free of charge.According to him, in Europe there are three models of motorway tolls. Thus, there is the Nordic model, adopted by Germany, the Netherlands and the Nordic countries, where motorways are free of ...
M4 and M5 underground lines and Sebes-Turda motorway stretch to be financed from structural funds
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Two projects on investing in infrastructure, which are estimated at more than two billion euros, will be financed from structural funds, following the consent of the European Commission, said the Ministry of Transports (MT).'The European Commission on Tuesday, April 30, 2013, approved the inclusion of two investment projects, which refer to building the M4 and M5 underground lines as ...
Calafat-Vidin bridge, 99 pct complete, as far as Romania is concerned
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
The Calafat-Vidin bridge over the Danube, linking Romania and Bulgaria together, is 99 per cent complete as far as Romania is concerned, according to Romania's Transport Minister Relu Fenechiu.'There are just some connections left for us to do that can be done only after the Bulgarian colleagues come with power and wires,' Fenechiu told a press conference.He said that the ...
Tourism : Statistics: More than 1.35 million tourists in accommodation units in Romania in Q1 2013
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
More than 1.35 million tourists were recorded in accommodation units in Romania in the first quarter of this year, up by 8.2 percent compared with the same period last year, show provisional data made public on Monday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).In quarter I 2013, the arrivals of the Romanian tourists in the establishments of tourists' reception with functions of ...
Agriculture : Beekeepers ask authorities to adopt firm position in forbidding use pesticides in melliferous crops
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Romanian beekeepers ask authorities to adopt a firm position in forbidding the use of last generation pesticides in melliferous crops, such as the sunflower, rape and corn crops, in the context in which at the latest meeting they had with representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture there was no clear position stated.From data made available by the Romanian officials, Romania doesn't ...
Real Estate: Number of building permits for residential buildings, up by 43.1 pct in March
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
The number of building permits issued in March 2013 for residential buildings rose by 43.1 per cent compared to February 2013, with Q1 of this year having seen almost the same number of building permits issued for residential buildings (6,873 permits) compared to Q1 2012 (6,875 permits), according to the data released by the National Statistics Institute (INS).Compared to Q1 2012, in ...
Infrastructure : EC preliminary approval for SOP-T inclusion of Sebes - Turda and Dumbrava-Deva motorway sections
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
The European Commission (EC) gave its provisional assent for the Sebes-Turda and Dumbrava-Deva supplementary highway sections to be included - depending on their technical preparedness stage - in the Sectoral Operational Program Transport (SOP-T) in order to reduce the risk of losing European financing by the end of the fiscal period, informs a release issued on Friday by the Ministry of ...
Tarom resumes direct flights from Iasi to London, Turin and Bologna
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
The Tarom National Company of Romanian Air Transports on April 27 will resume the direct flights from Iasi (eastern Romania) to London, Turin and Bologna, said representatives of the above-mentioned company in a release.The price of a journey Iasi-London-Iasi starts from 164 euros, all charges included, for a flight when buying the return ticket online. They will fly on Tuesdays and ...
Fenechiu: M5 metro mainline construction funding from European funds could start this year
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
The European Commission (EC) gave its verbal approval to funding the M5 metro mainline of Bucharest from European funds and the funding could start even this year if all the conditionalities are met, Romanian Transports Minister Relu Fenchiu said in Brussels on Thursday, after a meeting with European Commissioner for Regional Policy Johannes Hahn.The Romanian governmental official ...
Healthcare: Dr. Raed Arafat: Long range plan needed in radioptherapy
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Projects in the field of emergency medical care and radiotherapy treatment for cancer patients are among the long-term needs of the Romanian health system, Secretary of State for Health Raed Arafat said in an interview with Agerpres.According to Dr. Arafat, the Ministry of Health is in talks with the World Bank for the procurement of imaging and radiation therapy equipment. At the end of ...
Agriculture: Priority sectors in agriculture: vegetal production and raising dairy cows
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
The priority sectors of agricultural development this year and during the period 2014-2020 are vegetal production and raising dairy cows, said , at Agraria International Fair (in Cluj-Napoca, 426 km north west of Bucharest) - the largest such fair in Transylvania, the Agriculture Minister, Daniel Constantin.Minister Daniel Constantin announced that the young farm families and subsistence ...
AgriMin Constantin campaigning for protective brand for Romanian products
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Agriculture Minister Daniel Constantin on Monday said he wants a protective country brand for Romanian products traded on the domestic and the international markets.'Given what has happened this year, and I mean here the horsemeat scandal and the internal one related aflatoxin in milk, we have decided to create a brand and we are currently about to identify the best solution so that a country brand may ...
Cars: Imports of used cars up 50 pct in Q1 2013
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Imports of used cars rose 50 percent in the first quarter of the year, up to 53,000 units compared with the same period in 2012, according to a survey on the auto.ro website.According to the abovementioned source, the number of second-hand cars imported in Romania surged by 50 percent (53,000 units) in the first three months of this year, from 35,300 units imported in the same period in 2012.The top ...
Ford Romania: Demand for EcoBoost engines up three times in Europe
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
The demand for EcoBoost engines in Europe has increased three times in the latest years, the Ford company estimating a demand up to 450,000 units in 2015, Ian Pearson, the head of the engine production department at the plant in Craiova (southern Romania) announced on Monday. The production of Ford EcoBoost engines in Craiova amounts at present to 1,000 units per day, with production volumes for the ...
Telecom.IT: Samsung new Galaxy S4 has reached Romania
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Samsung Romania launched the new Galaxy S4 in the local market. It is a top smart phone made by the South Korean producer with sales estimated at 25-30%, higher than for the present Galaxy S3. “We may have sales of ...