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Healthcare: Headache, back and dental pain, most common plagues of Romanian medium earners
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Romanians are mostly affected by headache (79 percent), back and dental pain (68 percent and 38 percent, respectively), followed by rheumatic and joint pain, menstrual and muscle pain, and pain caused by blows, found a GfK survey.On a scale of 1 to 10, the interviewed placed the intensity of the pain around 5 and 6 on average, while 8 percent of the respondents plagued by headache said it had been at ...
Tourism: Karolyi Castle in Carei, a magnet for foreign tourists in 2012
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
The number of people who visited, in 2012, Satu Mare County Museum (north-west of the country, at the border with Hungary) increased by over 60 percent compared to the previous year, following the opening of Carei based Karolyi castle, restored under a European project, and due to some exhibitions of major interest.Director of Satu Mare County Museum Liviu Marta said in a press ...
Infrastructure: Project on Danube's Romanian-Bulgarian stretch navigation to be completed by 2015
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
A project aimed to provide the navigation conditions on the Danube River's joint Romanian-Bulgarian stretch based on 400 million euros in European Union funding will be completed in mid-2015 as part of the sustainable development of the transportat on the joint stretch, which could get as much as 1.2 billion euros in funding, State Secretary at the Romanian Transport Ministry Valentin Preda said on ...
Cars: Dacia makes No. 400,000 Duster model at Mioveni plant
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Romanian automotive maker Dacia on Thursday announced it has manufactured its No. 400,000 Duster model at the Mioveni-based plant (southern Romania), with the 4x4 model to be delivered to a client from France.According to a car maker's press release, the No. 400,000 Dacia Duster vehicle is a platinum-grey Laureate 4x4 version, equipped with 1,5 dCi 110 hp engine and it will be delivered to a client in France, the ...
Local automotive market dips 0.1 pct in January 2013
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Local automotive supplies (cars plus commercial vehicles) stood this January at 4,218 units, down 0.1 percent from the similar period of the year before, shows data released on Monday by the Association of Automotive Manufacturers and Importers (APIA).Car sales fell 4.1 percent to 3,334 units in the period considered. According to APIA, sales are further sustained by acquisitions made by ...
Agriculture minister: EUR 5 ml in support for Romania's organic production this year
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Romania's organic production will get this year five million euros in support, with the money coming from the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF), Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Daniel Constantin told a press conference last week.'So far, Romania has supported organic production with EUR 3 ml worth of payments from the European agricultural guarantee funds, and the amount for ...
Contracts of over 5 billion euros for boosting agricultural productivity
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
The Agency of Payments for Rural Development and Fisheries (APDRP) completed by February 15, funding contracts under the National Rural Development Programme (PNDR) for 64,850 investments in rural areas, for which beneficiaries receive non-repayable funds in total amount of 5.184 billion euros, representatives of APDRP announced in a press release remitted on Friday.Investments proposed for funding ...
Romanian agriculture needs money to reduce agricultural imports
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Agriculture needs as much European money as possible to significantly reduce the imports in this sector, Agriculture and Rural Development Ministry's Secretary of State Achim Irimescu told a specialist press conference at the end of last week. 'The zootechnical sector must be encouraged the most, as it is a value added sector, the revenues are lower in the cereal sector. In 2013, we must spend 1.3 billion euros ...
Romania to open two centers for promotion of wines and food products in Germany
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Romanian wines and food products will be promoted on the German market with support from the Department of Foreign Trade in the Ministry of Economy, which plans to open, this year, two such promotion centers in the cities of Ulm and Munich.'We plan to open in Ulm, with support of the largest distributor and contractor of wines in Germany, which trades over 2,200 varieties, a regional center to promote the Romanian ...
Statistics: production of drinking milk, down 5.2pct in 2012
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Production of drinking milk decreased in 2012 by 5.2 percent (11,475 tonnes) compared to the previous year, having totaled 208,981 tonnes, according to the data released on Friday by the National Statistics Institute (INS). Moreover, butter production decreased in 2012 as well, by 162 tonnes (-1.7 percent), to 9,292 tonnes.According to the INS, last year brought increases in the cheese production, ...
OSIM: 27 plant protection certificates, released in first half of 2011
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
A number of 27 certificates for the protection of plants were released in the first half of 2011 by the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks (OSIM), in the conditions in which starting with July 1, 2011, the protection of plant varieties was taken over by the State Institute for Soil Testing and Registration, according to law no 226/2002, republished.According to Andra Musatescu Law & Industrial Property ...
Telecom.IT : Romanian games market hopeful of 20 pct turnover rise
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
The local videogames market hit 20 million euros in 2012 and estimates for this year see it growing 20 percent, said representatives of ComputerGames.ro, Romania's No. 1 games website.According to a company release, the turnover of ComputerGames.ro was last year 1.8 million euros, threefold the 500,000 euros registered in 2011. Of the total figure, 90 percent comes from the sale of ...
Trade : GfK: Romania's market for technical consumer goods advances 2pct in 2012, to 1.4 billion euros
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Sales of digital photo cameras, smart phones and media tablets increased significantly in Romania in 2012, leading to a 2-percent increase in the country's market for technical consumer goods, worth 1.4 billion euros, according to findings of GfK Temax Romania.Ten percent higher was the extra value recorded by the Romanian Technical Consumer Goods (TCG) market in the fourth quarter of 2012, putting ...
CARS: New vehicle registrations down 6.47 pct in Jan
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
The number of new vehicle registrations declined 6.47 percent in Jan. 2013, down to 6,269 units, with a decline of 10.15 percent, above the monthly average, being reported in the car segment, according to data published on Friday by the Department for Driving Licenses Regime and Vehicle Registration (DRPCIV). In Jan. 2013, the best selling car brand was Dacia, with 1,264 units (5.77 percent rise ...
Turnover in motor vehicle, motorcycle trade decreases by 5.2pct in 2012
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
The turnover in motor vehicle and motorcycle trade decreased in 2012 compared to the previous year, both in unadjusted terms and in terms adjusted for the number of business days and seasonality, by 5.2 percent and 4.6 percent respectively, according to the National Institute of Statistics (INS) .The turnover of market services provided to population went down last year compared to 2011, both ...
Environment stamps to be different contingent on fuel
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Environment stamp tax could be different for the gasoline vehicles than the diesel oil ones, considering that the diesel oil engines give off more polluting particles, Environment Minister Rovana Plumb told a news conference, on Thursday.'At the moment, a proposal for a different calculation formula (for the environment stamp tax - editor's note) for the petroleum and diesel engines is examined. (...) ...
Tourism: As many as 80pct of Romanians research online before buying holiday package
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
More than three quarters (80 percent) of the Romanians buying holiday packages choose firstly to research online the offers of travel agencies, shows an analysis on online consumer behavior of tourist packages and services, conducted by SEO monitor.According to the analysis, tourist products and services are so sought-after online in Romania that only 1 percent of buyers get informed offline about the ...
Spa tourism, promotion of legends, key to attracting higher number of foreign tourists to Romania
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
The Romanian tourism continues to have a low share in Romania's GDP, Minister-delegate for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Tourism and Business Milieu Maria Grapini told a specialist conference. For this reason, she added, higher attention must be given to the development of the spa tourism and the promotion of the Romanian legends, for example. 'There are several things in the tourism domain that ...
Infrastructure : Minister Sova plans to propose Bechtel complete cease of contractual ties
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Minister delegate for infrastructure projects Dan Sova plans to propose the complete stop of contractual relations with Bechtel road constructor, with payment of all debts and arrears for 2012, amounting to some 50 million euros.'I am sorry, but my firm intention is to propose Bechtel Company the complete stop of our contractual relations, with payment of the amassed debts amounting somewhere to 50 ...
Bulgaria-Romania Danube Bridge 2 to Open on Day of Europe
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
The second bridge between Bulgaria and Romania, known as Danube Bridge 2, will be officially opened on May 9, the Day of Europe. The news was announced by Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, who inspected the bridge and traveled its entire length by car. Transport Minister, Ivaylo Moskovski, was also ...