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  • Alternative dogs festival held to encourage dog adoption

    The festival of alternative dogs was held yesterday, 24th of August in Vlaha village, Cluj county. The festival is bilingual ( Romanian and English) and was dedicated to alternative dogs. Alternative dogs means dogs without pedigree, dogs with or without owner, former stray dogs, dogs with three legs or other types of disability. There were…

  • Foster children participate in non formal education workshops thanks to the “Be ready for tomorrow” project

    Children from Gulliver and Tavi Bucur foster centers, Sibiu city, Romania, will participate in six non formal education workshops thanks to the project “Be ready for tomorrow!” The money for this project was raised through a half marathon charity event that took place in May, 2014. The project has three themes ” Friends and entourage”,”…

  • 100 year old Romanian Second World War Veteran celebrated by the locals

    Nicolae Ionita, a 100 year old veteran has been celebrated by the Buzau garrison’s military men thanks to the “Maresal Alexandru Averescu” Foundation. Nicolae Ionita was born on the 9th of August in Boldesti in 1914 and has fought in the Second World War in Basarabia and in the Chinisau and Balta area in the…

  • Gold for the Romanian team at the International Astrophysics Olympiad

    The Romanian team has won six gold medals at the International Astrophysics Olympiad which was organised in Suceava, Romania, between 1st-11th of August, 2014. Second place was taken by Iran, which won four gold medals, Singapore with two medals and Serbia and India with one medal. Denis Turcu has won the best score and the…

  • Romanian team wins world title in 1,000 m race at World Championships

      Romanian kayak/canoe team has won the gold medal and world title on Sunday, 10th of August, 2014 in the C-2 1,000 meters canoeing race at the 2014 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Moscow. Liviu Dumitrescu and Victor Mihalachi have managed to win the race in 3 minutes, 28 seconds and 340/1000.  The second place…

  • Bucharest organizes its first international handball competition

      Bucharest will organise the fist edition of an international Women Handball Competition between 21st  to 24th of August. The competition called Bucharest Trophy will be held as a pre-season international women’s handball tournament for clubs. Several teams from Romania, Russia, Germany, Denmark and Montenegro will participate and the competition will be held at Sala…

  • Bucharest installs intelligent recycling stations

    Bucharest has recently inaugurated two intelligent recycling stations that will be able to collect directly from the population. These systems were created by the Green Group together with Carrefour Romania and costed around 250,000 euros. The stations can be found nearby Carrefour Baneasa and Carrefour Vitantis. Bucharest residents will be able to recycle plastic bottles,…

  • 500 wild horses from the Danube Delta saved by a charity

      About 500 wild horses that live in the Romanian Danube Delta were recently saved from killing by the Four Paws charity. The horses which live in Letea, a biosphere reserve under protection of UNESCO World Heritage were deemed to be a problem by the authorities due to an increasing population which might cause issues to vegetation.…

  • South Korea and Romania work together to develop the IT industry

    South Korea and Romania will work together in a few IT projects over the next three years. South Korea has opened an information technology research center recently in Bucharest and agreed to a deal which brings together the South Korean Ministry of Science, ICT and the Future Planning and Romania’s Ministry of Communications and Information…

  • Microsoft awards Romanian teenager for inventing guiding glasses for the blind

    photograph by Daniel Guta, Adevarul. Cristi Dragomir, a 17 year old teenager has recently been awarded by Microsoft for inventing a type of eyeglasses that will help blind people navigate. According to Romanian newspaper Adevarul, the competition was organised by Microsoft on a national scale with the purpose of creating the best software to solve…