Tag: Romania
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Cristina Neagu wins title of World Handball Player of the Year 2015
Cristina Neagu was voted world Handball player of the year 2015. A group of experts from the International Handball Federation has selected 10 best handball players in the world and the media and the fans chose Cristina Neagu as the best female handball player and Mikkel Hansen as the best male handball player. The International…
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The largest rose garden opens today in Arad county
The largest rose garden in the country opens today. The garden will have over 2,000 varieties of roses and it is the largest collection of roses in Romania. The garden is part of Eutopia Gardens network and is located on DN7 road, 10 kilometres from Arad, near Mandruloc. The park is 25 hectares…
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International book festival now open in six Romanian cities
Bookfest, the biggest international book market in Romania is now open in Bucharest, Timisoara, Cluj-Napoca, Iasi, Targu Mures and Brasov. Children are also expected to join the event, as they can participate in many workshops and competition and win books. The festival will be open between June 1-5 and because the first day of Summer…
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Romanian pianist honoured by a British royal college
Alexandra Dariescu is the first Romanian pianist to be named the Honorary Associate Artist of Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. The Romanian pianist, along with other prestigious musical talents, such as Tom Harrold, Mikhail Nemtsov, Kathryn Rudge and Le Yu will be ambassadors of the Music College starting from September. Alexandra Dariescu, from Iasi…
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British cartoon breaks stereotypes about Transylvania
Romanians are probably used to see and hear about Transylvania in many movies. However, every time it is mentioned it is the same story- vampires, castles and horror tales that surround this “mysterious place”. Most cartoons also have reinforced this stereotype ( see the now famous movie Transylvania). This probably made people believe that Transylvania…
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Classical music concert held for raising money to build telemedicine centre
The event wanted to draw attention to the fact that in Romania there are 400,000 epilepsy sufferers, however the number of people registered with this illness is much smaller than this. Neurologist doctor Bogdan Florea said for TVR that people living with this epilepsy are stigmatised by society. Moreover individuals have to travel hundreds of…
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Romanian students win silver and bronze medals at International Robot Challenge competition
A silver and a bronze medal have been secured by three students from the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers in Bucharest at the Robot Challenge international competition. Ionut Cristian Dobre, Maria Circiumaru and Mihai Craciunescu formed a team called HBFS (Harder Bette Faster Stronger) and were supervised by professor Stefan Mocanu. Stefan Mocanu has stated…
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1200 people planted 30,000 trees this weekend in 3 counties
On the 26th of March a national tree planting took place in 3 counties. The planting has been organized by the Crestem Romania Impreuna Association (We raise Romania together)together with the environment ministry, Brasov and Covasna council, Transilvania Brasov university, the Ardeal metropolitan church and the arhiepiscopate of Arges and Muscel. Over 1200 people…
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Romanian students win 41 NASA competition awards
Romanian students from several high schools from Bucharest, Constanta, Medias, Brasov, Ovidiu,Ploiesti, Calarasi have won several prizes and honourable mentions at the NASA Space Settlement Contest. Over 3,000 students participate in this competition every year. This year entries came from : Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czech Rebublic, India, Ireland, Japan, Malayasia, Mexico, Montenegro, Venezuela, Nepal, Pakistan, Romania,…
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Vlad Darie wins Vienna World Poker Tour
Vlad Darie, from Satu Mare, has been crowned the 2016 partypoker WPT Vienna champion. The competition gathered 215 participants and in the end, six finalists were set to play on Sunday in Vienna. Vlad Darie has managed to beat chip lead Zoltan Gal. With a total prize of 680,000 euro, Vlad Darie has taken the…
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