Romanians have sent money back home from 170 countries in the world, according to Western Union. The remittances are higher in the countries where the Romanian communities are bigger – in Europe, in the US and even in the Persian Golf.

The Romanian Central Bank governor Mugur Isarescu believes Romania no longer needs a new financial agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

*IMF: Romania needs EUR 38 billion next year – in Ziarul Financiar
*Kazakhs now want state's shares in Petromidia – in Ziarul Financiar
*EUR 10,000 from the state for young people who want to start businesses – in Ziarul Financiar
*Hornbach opens the Prisma store by the end of the year – in Ziarul Financiar
*IMF money move BNR's reserves up to EUR 32.6 billion in September – in Gandul

The Nobel Prize – which will announce its 2010 winners from October 4 – went to only three Romanian

A new edition of the Spanish Movie Days will take place in Bucharest from October 8 at Cinema Studio in Bucharest. Movie lovers will be able to watch 11 Spanish and South American movies during the week long festival.

MONDAY, October 4

09,00 hours Time Management – conference at the Novotel Hotel, 37 B Calea

A recent article published by Reuters newswire points out to a trend that has been catching in Romania: local company owners prefer to incorporate their business in neighboring Bulgaria, where the Government has implemented measures which help companies weather the crisis, rather than continuing to pay taxes in their home country.

Romanian foreign exchange (forex) reserves rose by EUR 1 billion on the month to EUR 32.58 billion in September, boosted by money from the International Monetary Fund and the European Commission, the Romanian Central Bank (BNR) said Friday. End-August, hard currency reserves reached EUR 31.55 billion.

The White Horse is a very traditional style British pub in Dorobanti which started in 1997, one of the originals on the night life scene in Bucharest. As you walk in off the street past the red telephone box you enter the ground floor bar area which has a very solid dark wooden, island bar design in the middle of the floor.

The construction of the new terminal building of the Bucharest Henri Coanda International Airport (the Otopeni airport) will be finalized in November and the terminal will be put in use in March 2011, along with Romania's accession to the Schengen Area. Investments in the airport's new terminal amount to EUR 60 million and construction works are executed by Italian company Astaldi.

Zoltan Boszormenyi, a Romania-born writer and the founder of the Luxten company will be launching his most recent book, 'Trupul molatic al noptii' (The remiss frame of the night) on Tuesday, October 5, at the Dalles gallery in Bucharest, from 18,00 hours. The book launch will be followed by an autograph session and a cocktail.

“I started taking pictures of everyday life, like a tragy-comedy. I was hoping to be able to gather these images in a book twenty years later” – remembers architect Andrei Pandele.