Positive News about Romania
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New law to allow village locals to transform their kitchen in a restaurant
Starting next year, village residents will be able to invite tourists to dinner. A new law allows people to register their kitchens as local gastronomy points. This means tourists will be able to enjoy authentic traditional meals. There are many villages that do not have restaurants and tourists do not have a place to eat.…
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Romania wins the European Table Tennis Championships
Romania has won the European Table Tennis championships today after beating Germany. It has been 12 years since Romania has won the gold at the championships. Germany however has won four titles until now. Romania has had a good evolution throughout the competition, winning all the games. They have beaten Netherlands, Luxemburgh, Czeck republick, Russia…
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Avram Iancu breaks a record and swims across the Danube
Avram Iancu has finished his swimming marathon across the Danube. Thus he has become the first man who has swam accross the river from the spring to the river mouth without any help. Avram has swam 2,860 kilometres and he has finished his marathon in Sulina where he was welcomed by the locals. The sports…
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Good news for worried parents: Free 24 hours medical consultation service set up for children
A free medical consultation service by phone was set up for parents in Romania. The service is available for all parents who do are not able to call their child’s doctor and they do not want to wait in the emergency room. If parents are not sure about vaccinations, fever and dehydration they can call…
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Several Romanian universities included in The Times Higher Education World University Rankings
The Grigore T. Popa Pharmacy and Medicine from Iasi has been included in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. Currently the university has over 2,500 foreign students from 87 countries. The ranking was created for 2017-2018 and includes 1,000 universities from 77 countries. currently there are 20,000 universities in the world. The ranking also…
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Tourist saves dog trapped in the mountains
A tourist has saved a dog that was blocked between the rocks. The tourist was visiting Stan Valley, in Fagaras mountains when he saw the dog. The dog was not able to return by itself and it was in danger. The man crossed all obstacles, picked up the dog and carried it in his arms…
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Catalina Ponor and Marian Dragulescu win gold and silver medals at gymnastics championship
Romanian gymnasts Catalina Ponor and Marian Dragulescu have won the gold and silver medals at the Szombathely competition in Hungary. Catalina Ponor has won the gold medal for jump and she has also won the silver medal for the floor exercise. Marian Dragulescu has managed to do a perfect jump for which he received…
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This young man is the youngest Master degree holder in the world
A young boy from Sibiu has become the youngest person ever to receive the distinction of Haute Ecole d’Ingenieurs. Petru Rogojan has started studying web design when he was only 10 years old. He attended the Swiss Webacademy. Although the child was rejected at first due to the fact that he was too young,…
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Horia Tecau and Julien Rojer have won the US Open!
Horia Tecau and Julien Rojer have won the doubles category at the US Open today. The team has managed to beat Feliciano Lopez and Marc Lopez with 6-4, 6-3 Horia Tecau will also play today in the semifinals of the mixt doubles where he will play with Coco Wandeweghe and will play against Martina…
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This Romanian village has an unusual number of foster parents
There is a special village in Timis county. The Murani village where 40 locals have become professional maternal assistants. The assistants’ role is to care for abandonded children and 68 children have basically been adopted. For people to become professional maternal assistants they need to go to a course and there are also certain…