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Communications Minister, Dan Nica: Romania will broadcast digital television programmes by year-end
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Romania will broadcast digital television programmes until the end of this year and the Communications and Information Society Ministry (MCSI) will make all efforts to complete this measure, Communications Minister Dan Nica said on Wednesday.'We must have digital television in Romania and we shall have it. It is an obligation. We are paying great efforts so that by the end of the year we have digital television programmes in Romania, as it will ...
PM Ponta wants free Internet in schools, public institutions
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Wednesday asked Minister of Communications and Information Society Dan Nica to draw up a project aimed at providing free Internet access to all educational units and public institutions.'It is rare with me, but I want to congratulate Minister Nica for the tender for the 4G licences. The fact at such time of downturn the Romanian state wins 682 million euros and we become the first country in Central and Eastern Europe to ...
Vodafone first digital flower shop in Romania
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Vodafone launches the first digital flower show in subway, in Romania, which allows online purchasing of a bouquet of flowers and its dispatch to someone you love anywhere in the country, the company informs on Wednesday.The digital flower shop will be available both in Victoria Square subway station (M2), up to November 30, 2012, or directly on www.florariadigitala.ro website.Payment of the flower bouquets will be made by SMS, included in ...
Telecom.IT : Sony Romania: We want 20% of premium tablet market
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
The management of Sony Romania wants to obtain this year a share of 20% of premium tablets market estimated at 70,000 units, according to Lucian Radulescu, the manager of Sony Romania and Moldova. The company launched tablet Xperia S, of which Sony intends to sell 3,000 pieces until the end of the year. “We launched the new tablet both in the classic retail and online. We estimate that ...
Real estate: DTZ Echinox: 2012 the most difficult crisis year
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
The year 2012 has been the most difficult since the beginning of crisis because of domestic and foreign factors affecting the Romanian market, according to Mihnea Serbanescu, the general manager of the real estate consulting company DTZ Echinox, which estimates this year business comparable to 2011. DTZ Echinox concluded affairs of 12 million lei in 2011, on the rise from 11.6 million lei in 2010. “Our consultants have ...
Healthcare : Nearly 90 million euros invested in Romania over past three years in private oncology centres
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
In Romania, where cancer patients are spending nearly 40 million euros to get treatment abroad, the local private initiative has taken off strongly, weekly Capital reports.Private operators have noticed the need for a local alternative and invested nearly 90 million euros over the past three years in oncology centres, where they allegedly provide the same treatment as abroad.Financial hardship, the lack of an alternative as well as poor prevention are ...
In Romania over 80 percent of Alzheimer's patients are not diagnosed
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Over 80 percent of the Alzheimer‘s patients in Romania are not diagnosed, according to the Alzheimer Romanian Society. Thus, of the 250 thousand people suffering from this disease, only 35 thousand are diagnosed and the number of people requesting treatment for this form of dementia is on the increase.Alzheimer's disease is included in a programme of the National Health Insurance House, which ensures access to therapy according to a protocol that ...
Trade : Mineral water market up by 8 percent
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Mineral water companies fully benefited from the heat waves in summer but also from the 'consumers' health-awareness,' as the mineral water production witnessed an 8 percent increase in the first eight months of 2012 compared to the same period of last year, reads Ziarul Financiar newspaper.The representatives of Romaqua Group, one of the major mineral water producers, estimate the total mineral water market at about 350 million euros and say that the three brands of ...
ICDA therapy supplements on great demand abroad
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
The Institute of Research and Development in Apiculture (ICDA) will conclude this year the production of pharmaceutical drugs and dietary supplements based on apitherapy, an investment stemming from their own resources back in 2000. 'I believe this year we will be able to expand our production capacity, an investment we started some time ago only with our own sources. It is vital that we receive export demand from Turkey, Greece and France for our therapy ...
Agriculture : French study re-launches GMO controversy
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Rats fed a lifetime diet of Monsanto's genetically modified corn or exposed to its top-selling weedkiller Roundup suffered tumours and multiple organ damage, says a French study. The French government immediately asked the country's health watchdog to investigate the findings further and called on European authorities to "take all necessary measures to protect human health", including an "emergency suspension" of imports of the ...
Romania's food trade deficit narrows 43.4 pct in H1
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
The Romanian agri-foodstuffs trade deficit narrowed 43.4 percent in H1, 2012 down to 406.67 million euros compared to 718.92 million euros in the similar period of 2011, according to data revealed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADR).Romania's exports of agri-food products to the European Union member states and to the states outside the community exceeded 1.74 billion euros until the end of June 2012, for a quantity of 3.478 million tons, with ...
APIA: 106 euros, subsidy per hectare in 2012
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
The value of the state subsidy for one hectare of farm land, for 2012, is 106 euros, with a financial package accounting for 41.6 percent of all the funds allocated to agriculture, Raluca Daminescu, representative of the Agency of Payments and Assistance in Agriculture (APIA), told a specialist conference.'The absorption of the European funds run by APIA, starting in 2007, was 98.5 percent on average for a value of 3.16 billion euros, money that was ...
Statistics: Romania's cattle population, down by nearly 50,000 head in one year
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Romania's total cattle population dropped by 49,785 head, or 2.4 percent, June 1, 2011 - June 1, 2012, according to data released by the National Statistics Institute (INS) on Friday.The largest decrease was reported for bovines less than one year old, which fell by 41,494 head, from 508,856 head as of June 30, 2011, to 467,362 head, as of June 30, 2012.The total cattle population was standing at 2,063,081 head as of June 30, 2012, compared ...
Tourism: Danube Delta promoted in Israel
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
The Chamber of Commerce and Industry Romania-Israel wants to promote the Danube Delta in Israel as the first action in this plan is set next year.'The Danube Delta cannot be found as tourism offer in Israel. Unfortunately, no political authority in Romania takes into account the fact that this area can be the favourite tourism destination for Israel. Romania is known in Israel only for Brasov and Sinaia. As the Danube Delta is completely anonymous in Israel, we want ...
1.8 million lei investment in TUI TravelCenter image
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
The investment paid for TUI TravelCenter image has reached 1.8 million lei by now and has covered a large range of actions, from rebranding Eurolines agencies in TUI TravelCenter to opening new working points and marketing actions specific to tourism industry. According to a release sent to Agerpres, the partnership between Eurolines and TUI Travel PLC has been a year long on Thursday, a period in which the number of agencies under TUI TravelCenter has ...
Infrastructure : The Romanian Naval Authority has a new operational structure
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
An order from the minister of transports issued on September 19 said that the Romanian Naval Authority (ANR) reorganized its activity on new operational bases, making it a priority to meet its established strategic targets, to develop the safety standards of navigation in the Romanian ports and in the territorial navigable waters, to strengthen its financial-economic discipline and to optimize costs. The structure of its operational territorial bodies was also ...
Cars: Romania's car market sees second-steepest fall in EU in August
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Romania's car market recorded a 42.3% plunge in August, and only Greece recorded a steeper contraction (minus 46.7%) in the EU, show the statistics released by the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association /ACEA/.Last month Romania saw the registration of 5,044 cars, compared with 8,747 in August 2011. The 42.3% fall in August comes after a decline of 29.4% in July.In the European Union as many as 688,168 cars were registered in August 2012, down ...
Cars: Romania's second-hand car market advanced 147pct over summer
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
The number of second-hand car registrations this summer in Romania surged by 147 percent from the previous summer.The number of first-time registrations of second-hand cars surged by 147 percent over the three summer months, from 18,687 units last summer to 46,217 units this summer. The number of re-registrations declined 10 percent over the same period, to 89,547 units, from 99,819 units in 2011, according to data with the Driving Licences and Car Registration ...
July 2012 turnover of motor vehicle and motorcycle trade down 6.6 pct y-o-y
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
The turnover of trade in motor vehicles and motorcycles was 6.6 pct lower in July 2012 compared to the similar period of the year before expressed as gross series, and 6.5 pct lower, respectively, as series adjusted to the number of workdays and seasonality, the National Statistics Institute (INS) announced. In the period of reference, the turnover of consumer services went down 1.2 pct in unadjusted terms and 1.6 pct expressed as series adjusted to the number of ...
B-Max production goes up in Ford plant in Craiova
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Ford the second top carmaker on the local market put out over 2,000 B-Max cars in Craiova (south), in August this year, the Ziarul financiar writes.The production growth happens in the context that the US carmaker switched from 50 cars a day in July to 200 in Aug, and to 500 in this Sept.Stays the pace at 500 cars a day, the Craiova-based Ford subsidiary could attain almost 10,000 cars, worth over 150 million euros a month. Over ...