Tag: Romania

  • Romanian mushrooms now popular in European restaurants thanks to a family from Oradea

       Romanian mushrooms are appreciated now all over Europe thanks to Alexandru Chis from Oradea. Alexandru Chis has started his mushroom business in 2012 when his business started to fail because of the financial crisis.  He began by selling mushroom in Romania but now he is selling only 35 percent of what he produces and…

  • Romanian hairstylist wins Paris International Hairdesign competition

    Romanian hairstylist wins Paris International Hairdesign competition

       Romina Sabou has won the grand prize of the Haute Coiffure Trophy yesterday. The competition took place at Carousel Du Louvre in Paris and gathered over 600 hairstylists from different countries.Only 10 competitors have qualified for the finals and Romina Sabou secured herself the first prize, thus becoming the best hairstylist in the world. …

  • 22 year old Romanian inventor awarded by Forbes magazine

      Cornel Amariei, an engineer and inventor of Lumen, a device that helps blind people travel independently, has been nominated by Forbes magazine as the top 30 under 30 most promising young people from Europe. Amariei, at age 22 was included in the Industry category and was also chosen as the leader of the best…

  • “I expected the worst but I found a wonderful country”, says Irish mayor who visited Romania

    Andrew McGuiness, previous mayor of Irish city Kilkenny has visited Romania and was pleasantly surprised. McGuiness was invited as a musician at the Celtic Festival in Beclean town that took place last year in June. As he was a guest, he did not stay in a hotel but he was invited to stay at a Romanian…

  • Romanian oil awarded European Superior Taste Award

    Felicia Tulai produces one of the best oils in Europe as the Superior Taste Award confirms it. The award was given for the Luna Solai oil by the International Taste and Quality Institute based in Brussels, Belgium. The International Taste and Quality Institute is the leading Independent chefs and Sommeliers based organisation. The products are…

  • Brasov hospital, one of the cleanest in Europe

    One of the cleanest hospitals in Europe can be found in Romania. More precisely, in Brasov city. Sf. Constantin Hospital has been designated as the laureate of the European Hand Hygiene Excellence Award 2013, within the WHO First Global Patient Safety Challenge: Clean care is safer care. The hospital has also a partnership with a…

  • Romanian team wins Robotics competition held in South Korea

    The robotics team Autovortex Romania has won the gold medal at the Robotics festival First Tech Challenge which took place in Seul, South Korea, last week. The Romanian team was composed of Ducu Andrei, Edi Diaconescu and Rares Badici from National Informatics college Tudor Vianu, Diana Zlotea, student at the International American School, Ion Rares student…

  • An owl colony takes over a commune in Romania

    The little commune of Slobozia hosts 100 owls, from which 60 live in the mayor’s yard. The owls have started coming in the area in the last 10 years when the winter began. According to digi24.ro the Ornithological Association comes every year to count them and photograph them. The mayor believes that the owls come…

  • Romanian female firefighters win World Police Fire and Games competition

    Two Romanian female fire fighters have won the World Police and Fire Games competition that gathers every year over 5,000 police officers from all over the world. The athletes compete in around 67 sports and have to go through 40 rounds. Adriana Paraschiv and Daniela Soare from ISU Banat have won the canoe and the athletics competition.  According…

  • Romanian nun adopts and raises 12 orphan girls

        Mother Serafima has raised all by herself 12 young orphan girls since they were infants. The orthodox nun lives in Marcus Monastery in Brasov county. In this place twelve girls grew up in a familial home built by the nun. From the begining since the monastery was built the nun wanted to do…