Category: Good News
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Romanian student wins US art competition
Filip Saitis, a student at Christian Life high school in USA has won the 2017 Wisconsin Art competition. US Congresman Paul Ryan has awarded the student on April 1st during a ceremony in Elkhorn. The ceremony has brought together students, friends, families and art teachers. Filip Saitis’s artwork is called Expunged. Paul Ryan stated that Filip should be…
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Cluj commuters who cycle to work to be rewarded
Next week cyclists in Cluj will be rewarded with a healthy breakfast and a free bike service at a special pit stop. The organizers hope to promote a healthy lifestyle and to encourage sports. According to a study that was taken last year, more and more people have started to bike to work. 93,8% of…
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Timisoara doctors save woman’s life by performing successful brain aneurysm surgery
A team of doctors from Timisoara has managed to save a woman that suffered a stroke using a revolutionary method. The doctors have used this method for the first time in Romania. The family of the woman noticed that the woman could not speak anymore and could not move her left hand. The family, who lives…
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Romanian researchers win gold medal at Geneva Inventions Exhibition
A group of Romanian researchers have won the Gold medal at the International Exhibition of Inventions in Geneva. The award was given for inventing a method to obtain an antibacterial cream that is based on marjoram extract and birch. The product helps heal infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus. The product also works well with inflamations…
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Priest donates his salary to buy food for homeless people
A priest has given up his wage in order to help poor people. Gabriel Radu-Ichim is a priest from Bacau and is well known for building a wooden church from his own money. Now, at Easter time, he decided to give up his priest salary so he can buy food for poor people and homeless…
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Romania donates 96 school buses to Moldova
Romania will donate 96 microbuses to schools in Moldova. A recent contract was signed in March 22 between the two countries in which Romanian will provide asistance in education. The purpose of the buses is to help children in rural areas to reach their schools. The buses have a 16+1 capacity and they are able…
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Monica Niculescu and Su-Wei Hsieh win Ladies Open Biel Bienne tennis competition
Romanian tennis player Monica Niculescu and Su-Wei Hsieh from Taiwan have won the doubles at the WTA competition in Biel Bienne in Swtizerland. The competition has prizes worth 226.750 dollars. The couple has managed to beat Timea Bacsinsky and Martina Hingis from Switzerland with 5-7,6-3,10-7. The players have won 280 WTA points and 12,300 dollars.…
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Romanian woman wins silver medal in the North Pole marathon
A Romanian woman has managed to win the silver medal at a North Pole Marathon competition. Simona Dumitrescu is actually also the first woman to race in such a marathon. Simona managed to beat marathon champion Kit Ching Yiu from Hong Kong with 6.35.41 hours and she was beaten by Frederique Laurent from France with…
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Romanian law students win 3rd place at International Law competition in Hong Kong
Four law students from Bucharest have won the third place at an international law competition in Hong Kong. This is the largest competition of its kind in the world. The four law students have managed to beat Harvard and Stanford students. Thanks to the award that they have won, the students were already offered scholarships…
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Top 11 Romanian Easter Traditions
Romanians’s easter holiday follows the Orthodox calendar, which is usually different from the date when other Christian churches celebrate. Although in western coutnries, Easter seems to have lost much of its importance, Easter is viewed as important as Christmas in Romania. Families gather together, eat special foods and they go to church. There are also…
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