Positive News about Romania

  • Simona Halep wins Rogers Cup

    Simona Halep wins Rogers Cup

    Simona Halep won the Rogers Cup yesterday, July 31. Simona has beaten Madison Keys, from US, in two sets (7-6,6-3). She has previously beat Daria Gavrilova from Australia (6-2,6-3), Karolina Pliskova from Czeck Republik (3-6,6-1,6-1), Angelique Kerber, from Germany with 6-0,3-6,6-2. Simona Halep will also play the doubles competition at the Rogers cup, together with Monica Niculescu.…

  • Bucharest International Air Show has delighted the public this weekend

    Bucharest International Air Show has delighted the public this weekend

    Bucharest International air show and general Aviation exhibition took place this weekend with teams from Romania, Spain, Ukraine, Czech republic, USA, Greece, Bulgaria, Austria and Lithuania showing off their skills. The teams have performed aerial acrobatics and flying demonstrations. Guests could also visit diverse airplanes.   https://www.facebook.com/BucharestInternationalAirShow/videos   Special guests include: Spain Special Air Forces…

  • Dancing groups from nine countries participate today at the International Folklore Festival in Bistrita

    Dancing groups from nine countries participate today at the International Folklore Festival in Bistrita

    The ” Nunta Zamfirei” ( The wedding of Zamfira) International Folklore Festival will be held until today, July 31st in Bistrita city. The event gathered artists from nine countries. The festival promotes traditions, traditional dances and traditional dress from different countries. Over 2oo dancers are going to perform today. Dancing groups came from Argentina, Turkey, Serbia, Canary…

  • Ruxandra Draghia-Akli to manage the EU department of research and innovation

    Ruxandra Draghia-Akli, a Romanian researcher will manage the department for research and Innovation as the new deputy director-general of the European Commission from September 1, 2016. She will work together with other three deputy general Directors: Charlina Vitcheva, Mario Campolargo and Carlos Alegria. Ruxandra Draghia-Akli currently works for the European Commission’s department of research and innovation and…

  • Documentary on famous road”Transalpina- the road of the kings” to be launched in September

      Transalpina road will have its own movie,called ” Transalpina-road of the kings”. Dumitru Budrala, the director will introduce the viewers into the unknown history of this road. The movie will be launched in September. So why would a road be the subject of a movie? According to the director, this road has been used…

  • Largest flying dinosaur in the world to be exhibited at Antipa museum

    Largest flying dinosaur in the world to be exhibited at Antipa museum

    Hatzegopteryx, the largest flying dinosaur in the world will be exhibited at the Grigore Antipa National museum of natural history on July 28. The dinosaur has wings that measure 12 metres and a skull that is 3 metres long. It is the largest known pterosaur and was a predator of a small to medium game.…

  • Three men rescue woman from drowning

    Three men rescue woman from drowning

    A woman was saved from drowning by three men on Monday. The men were in the area of Sasar river, in Baia Mare city, when they saw the woman floating in the water. They went fast and took her out of the water and helped by a SMURD team they managed to save her. The…

  • Team led by Romanian professor discovers super-hard metal ‘four times tougher than titanium’

    Team led by Romanian professor discovers super-hard metal ‘four times tougher than titanium’

      A team led by professor Emilia Morosan from Rice University, Houston have managed to create an alloy that is stronger than pure titanium. The team has melted titanium and gold and merged them. The alloy is the hardest metallic substance that is compatible with live tissues, is four times harder than pure titanium and…

  • Ten medals for Romanian students at the International Pluridisciplinary Olympiad in Russia

    Ten medals for Romanian students at the International Pluridisciplinary Olympiad in Russia

      Romanian students were awarded at four subjects at the Tuymaada  International Pluridisciplinary Olympiad in Yakutsk, Russia. The students have managed to win tow gold medals, seven silver medals, a bronze medal and one mention at Mathematics, Informatics, Physics and Chemistry. At Informatics Andrei Costin Oncescu has won the gold medal , Alexandru Petrescu and…

  • Monica Niculescu and Yanina Wickmayer win Washington tennis competition

    Monica Niculescu and Yanina Wickmayer win Washington tennis competition

    Monica Niculescu, from Romania and Yanina Wickmayer from Belgium, have won the Citi Open Washington Doubles. The pair has managed to beat Shuko Aoyama and Risa Ozaki from Japan with 6-4,6-3. The game lasted an hour and 15 minutes and it was interrupted by rain in the first set with a score of 2-1 for the Romanian-Belgium…