Positive News about Romania
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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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Romanian short movie wins the grand prize at the FilmFest International Shortfilm Festival in Dresda
“First Night” movie directed by Andrei Tanase has won the grand prize at the Dresda-Filmfest International Shortfilm festival. The movie presents a special moment in the life of a young man. The movie shows the fragility of the masculine identity. The movie stars Alfredo Minea, Cristiana Luca, Mimi Branescu and Elvira Deatcu. The movie was…
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Romania wins the ICE Hockey U18 World Championship
The Romanian hockey team has won the 2017 IIHF ICE Hockey U18 World Championship after beating South Korea. The competition took place in Gangneung, South Korea. The Romanian team, coached by Cornel Chirita has managed to beat South Korea with 2-1 (1-1,1-0,0-0_ thanks to Reszegh Zsolt with the help of Eduard Casaneanu and Dosa Csaba. In…
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Romania wins the European Karate Championships
Romania has won 13 gold medals, 10 silver medals and 7 bronze medals at the European Karate Championship. The competition is organized in Cluj-Napoca this year and Romania has managed to win the European Championship, after already winning 30 medals. Romania has lost the championship last year to Italy. 1,846 sportsmen from 26 countries participate…
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Romanian woman wins US chess championship
Romanian chess player Sabina-Francesca Foisor has won on Sunday the USA Women Chess Championship. The competition took place in Saint Louis, Missouri. She has earned 8 points out of 11. She has managed to beat Nazi Paikidze with 7 points and Irina Krush with 6,5 points. Sabina Foisor was born in 1989 in Timisoara, Romania.…
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