Category: Good News
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Timisoara to plant 3 trees for each tree damaged during the storms
Timisoara city was badly affected by a very strong storm on September 17. Eight people have died and 27 were injured. According to Romania Insider trucks were overturned due to the strong winds that had a speed of 100 km/hour. As well. the storm has damaged 3,500 trees and unfortunately these need now to be…
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Romania wins gold and silver at the Invictus Archery games
The Romanian archery team formed of Ionut Butoi, Dorin Petrut and Nicusor-Augustin pegulescu have won the gold medal in the archery finals at the Invictus Games in Toronto. As well, Ionut Butoi has also won the silver medal in the archery competition. Ionut Butoi has been wounded in Afghanistan due to an explosive. His…
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Romania wins gold medal at the World Rowing Championships
Romania has won the gold medal at the double canoe category at the World Championships. The competition takes place in Sarasota, USA this year. The Romanian team was formed of Ionela-Livia Lehaci and Gianina-Elena Beleaga. The team finished the competition in 6 minutes, 55 seconds 880/10000. They have managed to beat the favourite teams of…
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Laurentiu Serban wins the bronze medal at the Invictus games
Romania has won its first medal at the Invictus games in Toronto. Laurentiu Serban has won the bronze medals at the 1500 metres competition. Laurentiu Serban is the capten of the Invictus Romania team. He was wounded in Afganistan in 2006 while he was helping his colleagues go out of a car. He was hurt…
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Romania wins two gold medals and three bronze medals at the European Aerobics Championships
Romania has won two gold medals and three bronze medals at the European Championships of Aerobics. The competition was held this year in Ancona, Italy. Romanians have won two medals in the trio category- gold for Romania 2 for Andreea Bgati, Marian Brotei and Gabriel Bocser who got 22,472 points and bronze for Romania 1…
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Romania wins 45 medals at the European Weightlifting Championships
Romania has managed to win 46 medals at the European Weightlifting Championships. The competition addressed people under 17 and under 15 and it was held in Kosovo. Paul Ionita has won one medal bronze, one silver medal at the 142 kg. category and a silver one at the 254 category. In five days Romanians have…
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Alexandra Marcu conquers the highest peak in Ecuador
Alexandra Marcu, a Romanian climber has climbed tthe Chimborazo peak (6,268 metres), the highest mountain in Ecuador. The climber had a very difficult trek and the temperature was quite low. Alexandra Marcu saidt was It was an extremely difficult climb, with hours of climbing on a very steep slope and extremely low temperatures, but I…
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Primary school students to travel for free in Brasov
The local council in Brasov has decided that all primary school students to travel by bus for free. Until now only children that lived more than two bus stations distance from the school were able to travel by bus for free. Moreover, until now, all students until the age of five were able to travel…
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Romanian woman donates 400,000 euros to hospital
Dr. Ioan Cantacuzino hospital in Bucharest has received a 400,000 euro donation from a Romanian woman. According to the hospital representatives, the hospital has a new surgery room thanks to an Romanian living in the UK. One of the surgery rooms of the hospital was completely renovated thanks to Sanda Carciog-Rizescu, a lady living in…
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Local community celebrates 930 year old oak tree
The oldest oak tree in Romania with an age of 930 years old was celebrated on September 23 by the local community. The oak tree, also called ” The Old man of the Carpathians” was celebrated in Mercheasa village. The celebrations included a running marathon, a traditional market fair, a workshop and a nature documentary…
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