The National Military Circle downtown Bucharest will host the opening concert of the second edition of the Old Music Season, on Friday, February 4. The concert will begin at 19,00 hours in the Byzantine Room with a performance of harpsichord player Erich Turk.

The Czech Center of Bucharest will organize a mute film festival called “No silence, please”, which will feature screenings of early cinema masterpieces , accompanied by live music. The program will begin at 20,00 hours on Thursday, February 3, with the Czech movie “Extas” made in 1933 by director Gustav Machatý - the world’s first film that contains a nudity scene. The film will be accompanied by a live guitar performance from Hanno Hofer, Nightloosers band leader.

The retailers in the AFI Palace Cotroceni shopping center cashed in EUR 164 million in total sales last year, according to Mediafax newswire. 33 retailers out of 280 have been replaced in the shopping center during the first year of activity, said Visel. The shopping center was opened in November 2009 and has an average traffic of 50,000 people a day during week days and around 80,000 during the week-end.

The Henri Coanda international airport in Bucharest saw a 10 percent higher traffic last year, to 4.9 million passengers. The number of aircraft movements on the airport also grew by 6 percent lats year on the previous, to almost 77,000 landings and takeoffs.

Romania's foreign exchange reserves rose to EUR 32.69 billion in January, after the International Monetary Fund released a seventh installment of a EUR 13 billion stand-by loan, central bank data showed Tuesday. At the end of December 2010, the reserves were at EUR 32.43 billion.

Romanian company Televoice, which owns the Evolio brand, will launch in February this year a PC tablet called EvoTab, running on the Android operating system, the company has announced. The tablet can be pre-ordered form the producer's website . It will become available in retail chains from February 15, at a price of RON 750 (around EUR 176).

The International Monetary Fund has asked Romania to discard regulated prices for the production of electricity and natural gas and to draw up a new calculation formula in this respect.

US company IBM company could open a new research center in Targu Mures, central Romania, the company's 11th worldwide center. IBM executive director Spiros Teleoglou and IBM Research executive director Christos J. Georgiou paid a visit to Targu Mures last week and talked about this possibility with the city hall representatives.

Sushi- the Japanese word meaning ''sour''- was a dish invented in Japan in the Muromachi period around the mid 1300's, and in those times it was made from fermented fish. The Sushi we eat today, which is internationally recognised and enjoyed, was created in the Edo period in the early 1800's by a man called Hanaya Yohei as a fast food. I would thank him personally if he were still alive! Sushi is a personal favourite which I developed a taste for whilst living in the Far East.

"The King's Speech", an Oscar-nominated movie directed by Tom Hooper will be screened in Romanian cinemas from February 11. "The King's Speech" has already won a Golden Globe Award for the best performance by an actor in a motion picture -Colin Firth- and has been nominated to 12 Oscar Awards.

The National Military Circle downtown Bucharest will host the opening concert of the second edition of the Old Music Season, on Friday, February 4. The concert will begin at 19,00 hours in the Byzantine Room with a performance of harpsichord player Erich Turk.

The Czech Center of Bucharest will organize a mute film festival called “No silence, please”, which will feature screenings of early cinema masterpieces , accompanied by live music. The program will begin at 20,00 hours on Thursday, February 3, with the Czech movie “Extas” made in 1933 by director Gustav Machatý - the world’s first film that contains a nudity scene. The film will be accompanied by a live guitar performance from Hanno Hofer, Nightloosers band leader.

The retailers in the AFI Palace Cotroceni shopping center cashed in EUR 164 million in total sales last year, according to Mediafax newswire. 33 retailers out of 280 have been replaced in the shopping center during the first year of activity, said Visel. The shopping center was opened in November 2009 and has an average traffic of 50,000 people a day during week days and around 80,000 during the week-end.

The Henri Coanda international airport in Bucharest saw a 10 percent higher traffic last year, to 4.9 million passengers. The number of aircraft movements on the airport also grew by 6 percent lats year on the previous, to almost 77,000 landings and takeoffs.

Romania's foreign exchange reserves rose to EUR 32.69 billion in January, after the International Monetary Fund released a seventh installment of a EUR 13 billion stand-by loan, central bank data showed Tuesday. At the end of December 2010, the reserves were at EUR 32.43 billion.

Romanian company Televoice, which owns the Evolio brand, will launch in February this year a PC tablet called EvoTab, running on the Android operating system, the company has announced. The tablet can be pre-ordered form the producer's website . It will become available in retail chains from February 15, at a price of RON 750 (around EUR 176).

The International Monetary Fund has asked Romania to discard regulated prices for the production of electricity and natural gas and to draw up a new calculation formula in this respect.

US company IBM company could open a new research center in Targu Mures, central Romania, the company's 11th worldwide center. IBM executive director Spiros Teleoglou and IBM Research executive director Christos J. Georgiou paid a visit to Targu Mures last week and talked about this possibility with the city hall representatives.

Sushi- the Japanese word meaning ''sour''- was a dish invented in Japan in the Muromachi period around the mid 1300's, and in those times it was made from fermented fish. The Sushi we eat today, which is internationally recognised and enjoyed, was created in the Edo period in the early 1800's by a man called Hanaya Yohei as a fast food. I would thank him personally if he were still alive! Sushi is a personal favourite which I developed a taste for whilst living in the Far East.

"The King's Speech", an Oscar-nominated movie directed by Tom Hooper will be screened in Romanian cinemas from February 11. "The King's Speech" has already won a Golden Globe Award for the best performance by an actor in a motion picture -Colin Firth- and has been nominated to 12 Oscar Awards.