Positive News about Romania
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Over 5,000 people dressed in Romanian traditional clothes for special event
Over 5,000 people dressed in traditional clothes have participated at an event that celebrated the Romanian traditional clothes in Nasaud area. People gathered from Bucharest, Oltenia and Somes Valley. Under the coordination of Nea Marin, people gathered together to dance in the town stadium. Several dances, such as Roata de la Runc, Alunelu and Pintenii…
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Romanian students win 8 medals at International Physics Olympiad
Romanian students have won 8 medals at the International Physics Olympiad 2016 held in Hong Kong. The students have won two gold medals, two silver medals and four bronze medals. The students are all studying at the International Informatics high school in Bucharest. The winners are Dan Stefan Eniceicu and Tudor Costel Cretu. In 2014 they…
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14,000 people participate in Bucharest half marathon
Over 14,000 people have participated on Sunday at an International semi marathon organized in Bucharest. Not only professionals participated, but also amateurs and even children. The longest route was of 21 kilometres, the individual route was 10 kilometres and the popular route was 3,6 kilometres. The sports competition also was open to sports people with…
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Festival of lights celebrated in Bucharest
700 scouts have gathered together on Saturday in Carol park, Bucharest to celebrate the Festival of Lights. The Romanian Scouts have prepared all sorts of activities for children and adults. The activities included juggling, face painting, origami, dance, shadow theatre and making soap balloons. Children were also able to hang their wishes on a Wish…
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Extreme sports competition held in Alba Iulia
Over 100 people from 20 counties participated in an extreme sports competition in Alba Iulia this weekend. The event was organised at the Alba Iulia skatepark and it had people competing on BMX, skateboard, roller blades and scooters. The event called ” Bastion Session” had many prizes in money. The participants delighted the audience with…
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Romanian climber conquers Ama Dablam mountain peak
Torok Zsolt from Arad city has managed to conquer one of the toughest mountain peaks in the world, Ama Dablam in Himalaya. The alpinist, together with Teo Vlad and Marius Gane, has set the Romanian flag as soon as he reached the peak. According to mediafax, Torok Zsolt said ” Teo Vlad, Marius Gane and…
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Romanian documentary wins Cannes award
” Toto and his sisters” documentary film has won the Prix France Culture Cinema 2016 award within the Cannes film festival. The movie directed by Alexander Nanau was awarded by Radio France Culture on May 14 at the Pavillion Unifrance in Cannes. The documentary has competed with other four nominated movies: Janis Joplin directed…
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Two Romanian students invented a sensory glove to help people with paralysis
Two Romanian students have created an intelligent glove that will help with the rehabilitation of people that suffer from paralysis. The two sixteen year olds, Miruna Alexandra Ojoga and Ana-Maria Tudorache have represented the Alexandru Proca centre for the Initiation of Young people in Scientific research within the Developing and Research National Institute for Electrical…
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Five Romanian movies compete at Cannes film festival
Several Romanian movies participate this year at Cannes festival, which started on May 11. ” Bacalaureat”, directed by Cristian Mungiu, “Sieranevada” directed by Cristi Puiu, “Dogs” directed by Bogdan Mirica, “4.15 p.m. end of the world”, directed by Catalin Rotaru and Gabi Virginia Sarga, which will compete in the shorts category and ” All rivers run…
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Painting by Romanian painter sold for 2,59 million dollars
” Self-Portrait as Vincent Van Gogh” painting by Romanian artist Adrian Ghenie sold with 2,59 milion dollars on Wednesday at Sotheby’s The Contemporary Art Evening Auction in New York. Other paintings that sold on the day were ” Untitled ( New York City)” by Cy Twombly, for 36,65 million dollars and ” Two studies for Self portrait” by…
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