*15% increase in salaries for state employees will cost state EUR 1.4 billion – in Ziarul Financiar
*Atenor Group builds office building in Pipera with its own funds – in Ziarul Financiar
*The high prices of gold puts pressure on jewelry trade – in Ziarul Financiar
*Developers finalized 3,000 new apartments in Titan, the Bucharest neighbourhoods with the biggest investments in residential – in Ziarul Financiar

Movies in Bucharest this week-end: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Europolis, You Again, movies coming up the following weeks.

Romania's Finance Ministry on Thursday sold three-year foreign currency bonds worth EUR 1.3 billion, above the planned amount, at an average yield of 4.8 percent a year.

CliniClowns Romania raised over EUR 30,000 in its charity dinner gala last night in Bucharest. Two dishes, prepared by chefs Joseph Hadad andHenk Savelberg were auctioned at the gala.

Calendar of events in Bucharest, between November 26 and 28: Goran Bregovic concert, Baby Expo, Garlic Fair, Nouage Live Remix, Nik Baertsch concert

Hospice Casa Sperantei will organize the 10th edition of the Edelweiss Ball on Saturday, November 27, at the Athene Palace Hilton, from 19.00 hours. The fund raising event will be centered on the theme 'Around the world'.

Romania has no reason to halt its external payments, said Mugur Isarescu (in picture), the Romanian Central Bank Governor, in response to the recent statement by International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The IMF official recently said Romania, along with other countries, could face insolvency.

Ion Barladeanu, the main character of the documentary 'The World According to Ion B', which has recently received an Emmy Award, is still living in a room in a basement of a block in Bucharest and has not enjoyed the success the documentary about him has received, writes the Romanian media.

The average unemployment aid in Romania next year will be 10 percent lower than this year, down to EUR 111 from the current EUR 122, while unemployment aid for young graduates will be kept at EUR 70.

Romanian lender Banca Transilvania has postponed its plan to sell shares on the Vienna Stock Exchange until next year because of legal problems with shareholder SIF Banat- Crisana, Chief Executive Officer Robert C. Rekkers said, quoted by Bloomberg

*15% increase in salaries for state employees will cost state EUR 1.4 billion – in Ziarul Financiar
*Atenor Group builds office building in Pipera with its own funds – in Ziarul Financiar
*The high prices of gold puts pressure on jewelry trade – in Ziarul Financiar
*Developers finalized 3,000 new apartments in Titan, the Bucharest neighbourhoods with the biggest investments in residential – in Ziarul Financiar

Movies in Bucharest this week-end: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Europolis, You Again, movies coming up the following weeks.

Romania's Finance Ministry on Thursday sold three-year foreign currency bonds worth EUR 1.3 billion, above the planned amount, at an average yield of 4.8 percent a year.

CliniClowns Romania raised over EUR 30,000 in its charity dinner gala last night in Bucharest. Two dishes, prepared by chefs Joseph Hadad andHenk Savelberg were auctioned at the gala.

Calendar of events in Bucharest, between November 26 and 28: Goran Bregovic concert, Baby Expo, Garlic Fair, Nouage Live Remix, Nik Baertsch concert

Hospice Casa Sperantei will organize the 10th edition of the Edelweiss Ball on Saturday, November 27, at the Athene Palace Hilton, from 19.00 hours. The fund raising event will be centered on the theme 'Around the world'.

Romania has no reason to halt its external payments, said Mugur Isarescu (in picture), the Romanian Central Bank Governor, in response to the recent statement by International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The IMF official recently said Romania, along with other countries, could face insolvency.

Ion Barladeanu, the main character of the documentary 'The World According to Ion B', which has recently received an Emmy Award, is still living in a room in a basement of a block in Bucharest and has not enjoyed the success the documentary about him has received, writes the Romanian media.

The average unemployment aid in Romania next year will be 10 percent lower than this year, down to EUR 111 from the current EUR 122, while unemployment aid for young graduates will be kept at EUR 70.

Romanian lender Banca Transilvania has postponed its plan to sell shares on the Vienna Stock Exchange until next year because of legal problems with shareholder SIF Banat- Crisana, Chief Executive Officer Robert C. Rekkers said, quoted by Bloomberg