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.

The oil painting the Ox Cart ('Carul cu Boi') by the Romanian painter Nicolae Grigorescu (1838-1907) was sold for EUR 155,000, at the auction organized by Artmark at the Bucharest Opera House. The painting's start price was EUR 100,000.

Sergiu Celibidache was a famous Romanian conductor and composer who is best known for his high artistic standards as well as his meticulous rehearsal style. He always conducted from memory and he only made a couple of studio recordings, believing that recordings represented “the negation of music”.

Calendar of events during the period October 1-3 in Bucharest: Ozzy Osbourne and Fatboy Slim concerts, autumn fair, Toulouse Lautrec concert, harvest festival, Christian Staymaer concert

*Central Bank governor warns: populism is the road to hell for Romania – in Ziarul Financiar
*Kazachs take Romanian state on board in Petromidia shareholding structure – in Ziarul Financiar
*Ford: local production helps us in the image department. We stay at 10% of the market – in Ziarul Financiar
*Fiscal authority eyes those whose wealth grows by more than EUR 50,000 a year – in Ziarul Financiar
*Horia Manda wants acquisitions between EUR 5 and EUR 20 million with a new fund he brings to Romania – in Ziarul Financiar

The Romanian authorities Thursday rejoined the shareholder structure of oil refinery Rompetrol Rafinare (RRC.RO on the Bucharest Stock Exchange) with a 44.69 percent stake, after the latter failed to redeem in cash a EUR 540 million convertible hybrid held by the government on account of a historic debt. Rompetrol Rafinare decided to convert most of the hybrid into shares instead, the oil company said in a statement.

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.

The oil painting the Ox Cart ('Carul cu Boi') by the Romanian painter Nicolae Grigorescu (1838-1907) was sold for EUR 155,000, at the auction organized by Artmark at the Bucharest Opera House. The painting's start price was EUR 100,000.

Sergiu Celibidache was a famous Romanian conductor and composer who is best known for his high artistic standards as well as his meticulous rehearsal style. He always conducted from memory and he only made a couple of studio recordings, believing that recordings represented “the negation of music”.

Calendar of events during the period October 1-3 in Bucharest: Ozzy Osbourne and Fatboy Slim concerts, autumn fair, Toulouse Lautrec concert, harvest festival, Christian Staymaer concert

*Central Bank governor warns: populism is the road to hell for Romania – in Ziarul Financiar
*Kazachs take Romanian state on board in Petromidia shareholding structure – in Ziarul Financiar
*Ford: local production helps us in the image department. We stay at 10% of the market – in Ziarul Financiar
*Fiscal authority eyes those whose wealth grows by more than EUR 50,000 a year – in Ziarul Financiar
*Horia Manda wants acquisitions between EUR 5 and EUR 20 million with a new fund he brings to Romania – in Ziarul Financiar

The Romanian authorities Thursday rejoined the shareholder structure of oil refinery Rompetrol Rafinare (RRC.RO on the Bucharest Stock Exchange) with a 44.69 percent stake, after the latter failed to redeem in cash a EUR 540 million convertible hybrid held by the government on account of a historic debt. Rompetrol Rafinare decided to convert most of the hybrid into shares instead, the oil company said in a statement.