Tag: Romanian

  • Romanian restaurant owner keept customers safe during Paris tragedy

    L’Amarre restaurant owner Nicolas Sfintescu has managed to save 20 people during the Paris shootings. His restaurant was one of the places that was attacked by terrorists during the fatal night of 13 November and five of his customers died. According to BBC, when he heard the first shoting he asked customers to hide under…

  • Romanian inventor wins gold at Geneva Inventions Saloon

    Remi Radulescu from Timisoara, Romania has won a gold medal for his invention -a mechanical tool that turns off gas in case of an earthquake. During his lifetime, the inventor has received over 40 awards for his inventions. The mechanical, tool he invented this year is cheap to produce and it is better than the…

  • Romanian police officers decorated in Spain

    National police officers from Spain and Romanian police officers will be decorated by the Spanish Ministry of Internal Affairs for successfully capturing a Spanish criminal suspect. According to migreat.es in the last few weeks Romania and Spain got together to solve a case that involved a Spanish criminal called Sergio Morate, who ran to Romania.…

  • Students build a car faster than Ferrari

    Romanian students from Gheorghe Asachi university, from Iasi, Romania have built a car called Orange Devil. The car will participate in the “Formula Student” international competition held in Gyor, Hungary. The competition will be held between 20-23 August and is one of the most important events dedicated to students who build cars. Ciprian Ciofu, professor…

  • Romanian fireman wins gold at 2015 World Police and Fire Games

    Fireman Iulian Pitulac, 31, from Vrancea has won the gold medal in the Martial Arts competition at World Police and Fire Games held this year in North Virginia, U.S.A. The event gathered 17,000 sportsmen from all over the world. Iulian Pitulac, who works for the Emergency Inspectorate in Vrancea, is the only Romanian competitior that…

  • Romanian students win gold, silver and bronze at the European Informatics Olympics

    Romanian students have won four medals at the Central European Informatics Olympics.  Alexandru Velea, from Cluj-Napoca won the gold, Rares-Darius Buhai from Bistrita and Valentin-Marius Harsan won silver. Andrei Popa, from Vaslui, the youngest of all, has managed to secure a bronze medal. 44 students from different countries have participated in the Central European Informatics Olympics,…

  • Anda Gansca chosen as one of Inc’s 30 under 30 list

    Anda Gansca, 26, a Romanian entrepeneur was recently chosen as one of Inc’s 2015′ 30 under 30 list. This list prouds itself in being able to predict future succesful personalities. Some of their famous predictions include Facebook’s Mark Zuckeberg and Elizabeth Holmes of Theranod, a health industry leader in USA. Anca Gansca, which is founder…

  • Top ten false facts we believe about Transylvania

    Transylvania, the land of vampires, surrounded by mysterious dark mountains covered in fog, where werewolves wait in the shadows for their future victims… This is what we think when Transylvania is mentioned in the media. Probably most of us would not choose it as a touristic destination because some of us might think it’s fictional…

  • Amalia Tataran wins Bronze medal at European U23 fencing championships

    Romanian fencing competitor Amalia Tataran has secured the Bronze medal on Saturday at the European fencing competitions for under 23, which took place in Vincenza, Italy. After defeating Polish competitor Anna Mroszczack with a 15-20 score, and Russian competitor Iulia Liceagina, she lost in semifinals to Russian Victoria Kuzmenkova. Other Romanian competitors such as Cezara Constantin…

  • Romanian engineer wins gold at the International exhbition of Inventions of Geneva

    Corneliu Birtok Baneasa has won the gold medal at the International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva for an invention called “Good Fill”. The invention is a system that fills the cars with windshield fluid in the gas station. The Romanian engineer has also been awarded with special mentions by the delegations of Iran and the…