Category: Good News

  • Romanian invents smartphone case that transforms WiFi signals and phone movements into electricity

      A young man from Cluj has invented a smartphone case that can charge a phone without needing an electricity socket. The project is called ArKase and was created by Razvan Marcus. His idea came during his commute to university from Hunedoara, when he noticed that his smartphone battery never resisted the five hour trip. He noticed that…

  • Fun sledge competition to be organised in Cluj this February

      Saturday 6th of February, the Feleacu Winter Games, in Cluj county will open for the first time. During the event people are invited to come and compete with sledges built out of carton and to be as creative as they can with their sledge. The fastest and most creative sledge will receive an award.…

  • Local people donate money to help local cart salesman

    Thousands of people gathered together this weekend to help Robert Lukacs, a young man who works in the center of Cluj selling diverse products from a cart. The local people got together to help him change the cart and to help him get a home. Thousands of people queued for hours to buy products from…

  • So what happened to the first Romanian who arrived to the UK after work restrictions lifted? You would be surprised!

    You might remember the whole scandal about Romanian immigrants coming to the UK by the millions after the work restrictions had lifted off. You also might remember that the media ran to the airport to find how many Romanians would come on the 1st of January 2014. And who is the one Romanian who moved…

  • People run 21 kilometres in honour of Union Day

    20 people ran 21 kilometres on the 24th of January, from Galati to vama Girgiulesti in Moldova Republic only for the purpose of dancing the Unification Hora called “Hora Unirii” across the border. The activity was called “Let’s join hands” and people got together to run in spite of the really cold weather. It was -14…

  • Hobbit style houses built in Romania

      At 20 km from Buzau, at Berca, a pretty little village is being built and it is quite similar to the hobbits ‘houses in the Lord of the Rings. The five houses have unusual characteristics, the windows are actually car windscreens and the roof is built in such a way that grass will grow…

  • Romanian film festival takes place in Strasbourg in January-February

      The fourth edition of the Romanian film Festival „4ème Quinzaine du Cinéma Roumain” takes place until 16th of February in Strasbourg and will present six movies from Romania and Moldavia that were filmed between 1987-2015. The festival will present documentaries, comedies, historical movies, love themed movies and political movies. Director Leontina Vatamanu and producer Virgiliu Margineanu…

  • Mergea and Bopana qualify to doubles at ATP World Tour finals

    Florin Mergea and Rohan Bopanna, the Romanian-Indian tennis player team has qualified on Friday to the last 16th stage in Melbourne, after defeating Lukas Dlouhy/Jiri Vesely (Czech Republic) 6-3, 6-2 in 58 minutes. The pair will receive a check of 40,000 Australian dollars and 180 ATP points and in the next stage they will play against…

  • Warm welcome for Dakar competitor, Mani Gyenes

    Emanuel Gyenes, a motorcyclist who has gained the 14th place in the Dakar rally, 2016 has received a very warm welcome when returning to his workplace in Satu Mare, receving a 48 kg cake that represented the mountains of South America. Emanuel is very proud of his achievement, even though 14th place does not seem…

  • Romanians come back home to open successful businesses

      A part of Romanians who emigrated a few years in order to have a better life have returned in the country and have opened successful businesses. According to stirileprotv.ro Romanians have put aside thousands of euro and now they open businesses such as producing candles. This example comes from an individual called Gabriel Hognogi,40…