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Romania’s junior women’s eight team (JW8+) won the third gold medal for the country at the 2013 World Rowing Junior Championships at Trakai, Lithuania. Gianina-Elena Beleaga, Andrea-Maria Sticea, Antonia Cerbu, Roxana Parascanu, Ana-Maria Boca, Elena Turta, Cristina-Georgiana Popescu, Denisa Tilvescu and Georgiana Danciu ended the race first, having clocked in at 6:27.70, ahead of Germany (6:31.03) and Italy (6:32.59). Romania’s medal tally before the last finals on Sunday was two gold medals and two silver medals. Its junior men’s eight team advanced to the final of the event.AGERPRES More in this category: 12-08 12:59   Sapanta commune hosts Romania Roots
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The Romanian Senate is contemplating the possibility to introduce an “Internet passport” in absence of which access to certain types of audio and video content would be denied. Concretely, the Romanian Upper House is considering the introduction of an “Internet pass” as a way to limit the access of minors to inappropriate audiovisual web content. The pass, in the form of a card, would only state the owner’s age and could be used as a permit to access certain types of audio-visual content based on a PIN code. The Senate’s proposal comes in response to the call of the European
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Romanian economy increased 1.9% in real terms in Q1 2013 compared to the same period of the year before, while the advance from Q4 2012 was 0.6%, shows provisional data released on Thursday by the National Statistics Institute (INS). “The Gross Domestic Product estimated for Q1 2013 was 154.233 billion lei in current prices, according to seasonally adjusted figures, marking a 0.6% advance in real terms from Q4 2012 and of 1.9% from Q1 2012, respectively. Expressed as raw series, the GDP grew 2.2% in Q1 compared to the same period last year, while the growth from Q4 2012 expressed
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Romania’s stable population was 20,121,641 people, on October 20, 2011, of whom 10,333,064 women (51.4 percent) show the final results of the Population and Housing Census – 2011, published on Thursday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS). According to INS, compared to the situation found out at the previous census, the stable population decreased by 1,559,300 persons, of whom 779,200 women, mainly due to external migration. Statistics show that 1,883,400 people were living in Bucharest. Population distribution by area of residence show that 10,859,000 people were living in cities and municipalities, accounting for 54.0 percent of the total stable
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George Enescu international Festival is expanding this year when Creative Bucharest, a new and ambitious cultural project happens along, over September 1-28. The Festival invites Romanian non-governmental companies, culture institutions and artists to join this cultural project, and present their works, initiatives or events and exhibit them in the most visible places in Bucharest.  Their projects are to promote themes inspired by the Festival and the values that contribute to a public space and inspire people to open themselves and form a community of good, freedom, responsibility, solidarity, beauty, respect, involvement, participation, creativity, openness, courage, tenacity, cooperation, honesty, correctness, fairness,
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Environment Minister Rovana Plumb said, on Wednesday, that she has a close collaboration with Prince Charles and his team, as concerns the protection and promotion of the Carpathian mountains region of Romania. “The ministry is involved in drafting a strategy on Carpathian mountains and on promotion of ecotourism. I work in partnership with the team of Prince Charles, who promotes all what means Romania and the Carpathian mountains zone “, said Rovana Plumb, on the occasion of the International Tourism Conference, hosted by the Parliament House in Bucharest. Rovana Plumb pointed out that the ministry she heads will work with
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The Huffington Post lists the Castle of Huniads in Hunedoara, western Romania among the top fairy tale castles of the world. The list includes castles like Neuschwanstein Castle (Germany), Eltz Cstle (Germany), Lichtenstein Castle, Bodiam Castle in Sussex, England, Hohenschwangau Castle (Germany), Leslie Castle (Scotland), Castel of Hooe Common (UK),The Castel of Wales (UK).  The Castle of Huniads is a former Middle Age stronghold of the 14th century, which Iancu de Hunedoara, prince of Transylvania and governor of Hungary (1407-1456) turned into a castle, in the 15th century, and it is one of the most important Gothic architecture monument in
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Researchers of the Babes Bolyai University in Cluj Napoca (central west) found the Crested Pterosaurus, a species of dinosaurs which has been never signaled in Romania, before, and this in Alba County (northwest of Bucharest), Professor Vlad Codrea announced, during the International Conference on Recent Preoccupations in Research, Conservation and Capitalization of Cultural Patrimony that the Mures County Museum organizes in Targu Mures. Prof. Codrea stressed that the discovery happened after the enlargement of the researches in the Hateg, Alba County, more exactly in the perimeter between Sebes, Alba Iulia and Vurpar, where many dinosaurs fossils have been found. During
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According to June 2013 opinions of company managers, during June – August 2013, compared with the three previous months, growth should be expected in construction and retail trade and moderate growth in manufacturing and services, in keeping with the balance indicator, the National Statistics Institute (INS) reported in Friday in a press release. In the June 2013 business tendency survey, managers from manufacturing forecast for the next three months moderate growth of production volume (balance +11 per cent). Regarding the production estimation, some of activities should register growth namely the manufacturing of tobacco products (balance +34 per cent), the manufacturing
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Romania’s junior team has won six medals – two gold and four silver ones – at the 17th edition of the Junior Balkan Mathematical Olympiad, held in Turkey (Antalya) June 21 to 26, with Romania topping the unofficial ranking of participating nations, the Ministry of National Education informs in a press release for AGERPRES. The gold medals were won by Laurentiu Ioan Ploscaru (a 9th grader/ the “Alexandru Lahovari” National College in Ramnicu Valcea) and Andrei Teodor Andronache (a 9th grader/ the International Computer Science High School of Bucharest). The two standout pupils repeated their last year’s performance when they
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