As many as 285 public parks will be built in Romania nationwide, as the Government has approved the allocation of more than EUR 50 million euros off the Environment Fund to this end, according to Borbely Laszlo, the Minister of the Environment and Forestry.

Telecom company Vodafone Romania has launched an option for the Chinese community in Romania, allowing customers to talk for 200 minutes to any Chinese network every month. The offer is valid for both pre-paid and post-paid Vodafone accounts.

Romania’s National Anticorruption Department has detained a total 97 border police and customs workers at border crossing points in western Romania suspected of corruption and smuggling. The Bucharest Court of Appeals has so far ruled in favor of the preventive arrest of 86 suspects and has yet to rule on arrest warrants for the rest.

Romanian anticorruption prosecutors on Wednesday indicted National Customs Authority head Radu Traian Marginean on charges of corruption, people close to the matter told Mediafax newswire. Marginean was heard by prosecutors Wednesday in a case of influence peddling at the Halmeu customs, northwestern Romania. He was appointed National Customs Authority head in February 2009 and is also fiscal authority ANAF vice-president.

Car traffic will be shut down for the following nine months on Splaiul Independentei in Bucharest, between the Central Biology Institute and Piatra Craiului St., according to the Bucharest Municipality.

Romanian actor Victor Rebengiuc will get the second star on the Romanian Walk of Fame, downtown Bucharest, an event meant to celebrate his 78th birthday. The event will take place this Thursday, February 10, in Time Square, near Cocor store, at 14,00 hours. One the same day, the Romanian Peasant's Museum will also organize a ceremony to celebrate Rebengius’s birthday with the screening of “Morometii” directed by Stere Gulea. Romanian cinema representatives are expected to attend the event.

Citroen Romania has launched C-Zero, an electric car model, on the Romanian market. The model is priced at EUR 36,600. This is the first electric car officially available in Romania and will be in stock in the following weeks. C-Zero will be sold in its top version, High Line, which includes MP3 radio CD, computer, ESP, USB port, blue tooth, among others.

Romania was the country the most affected by the crisis last year, with the pessimism of local consumers placing it on the last spot in Europe in a recent GfK study on consumption in 2010.

About 30 border police and customs workers have been detained Tuesday morning and taken in for questioning after a massive sting operation by anticorruption authorities that involved five customs points in western Romania, people close to the investigation told Mediafax newswire.

The restructuring of Romania's mining sector will continue until 2018 and no mines will be closed during this interval...

As many as 285 public parks will be built in Romania nationwide, as the Government has approved the allocation of more than EUR 50 million euros off the Environment Fund to this end, according to Borbely Laszlo, the Minister of the Environment and Forestry.

Telecom company Vodafone Romania has launched an option for the Chinese community in Romania, allowing customers to talk for 200 minutes to any Chinese network every month. The offer is valid for both pre-paid and post-paid Vodafone accounts.

Romania’s National Anticorruption Department has detained a total 97 border police and customs workers at border crossing points in western Romania suspected of corruption and smuggling. The Bucharest Court of Appeals has so far ruled in favor of the preventive arrest of 86 suspects and has yet to rule on arrest warrants for the rest.

Romanian anticorruption prosecutors on Wednesday indicted National Customs Authority head Radu Traian Marginean on charges of corruption, people close to the matter told Mediafax newswire. Marginean was heard by prosecutors Wednesday in a case of influence peddling at the Halmeu customs, northwestern Romania. He was appointed National Customs Authority head in February 2009 and is also fiscal authority ANAF vice-president.

Car traffic will be shut down for the following nine months on Splaiul Independentei in Bucharest, between the Central Biology Institute and Piatra Craiului St., according to the Bucharest Municipality.

Romanian actor Victor Rebengiuc will get the second star on the Romanian Walk of Fame, downtown Bucharest, an event meant to celebrate his 78th birthday. The event will take place this Thursday, February 10, in Time Square, near Cocor store, at 14,00 hours. One the same day, the Romanian Peasant's Museum will also organize a ceremony to celebrate Rebengius’s birthday with the screening of “Morometii” directed by Stere Gulea. Romanian cinema representatives are expected to attend the event.

Citroen Romania has launched C-Zero, an electric car model, on the Romanian market. The model is priced at EUR 36,600. This is the first electric car officially available in Romania and will be in stock in the following weeks. C-Zero will be sold in its top version, High Line, which includes MP3 radio CD, computer, ESP, USB port, blue tooth, among others.

Romania was the country the most affected by the crisis last year, with the pessimism of local consumers placing it on the last spot in Europe in a recent GfK study on consumption in 2010.

About 30 border police and customs workers have been detained Tuesday morning and taken in for questioning after a massive sting operation by anticorruption authorities that involved five customs points in western Romania, people close to the investigation told Mediafax newswire.

The restructuring of Romania's mining sector will continue until 2018 and no mines will be closed during this interval...