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THE city of Bacau used to be known as one of the poorest places in Romania. Workers laboured in factories or on farmland just to earn a pittance.

Actor Ethan Hawke will be back to Bucharest June 26 for the premiere performance in Romania of his latest film, Before Midnight, which opened in the US last April.

Romanian singer Alexandra Stan, who became known to international audiences with songs like Mr. Saxobeat and Lollipop, says she was beaten by her manager after an argument about the artist's revenues.

Sibiu Mayor Klaus Iohannis and Constantin Chiriac, the director of the International Theatre Festival in Sibiu , inaugurated the city's Walk of Fame on Saturday evening.

Demand for the Ford's 1.0 litre EcoBoost three-cylinder engine is only set to increase - the company projects that the award-winning lump will account for 300,000 of the 480,000 EcoBoost equipped vehicles it's hoping to produce annually by 2015.

Romania's Bucharest Court has approved the request to enter insolvency filed by Belgian developer Belrom through the Bel Rom Sapte company, for its Promenada Mall in Focsani, eastern Romania.Bel Rom Sapte's own insolvency request comes after several other companies have... The first thing you need to do is choose a news reader, if you already don't ... (more)

The presidents of Hungary, Austria, Romania and Bulgaria have urged Azerbaijan to support the proposed Nabucco West natural gas pipeline over a rival project.

Representatives of 24 county PRM organisations participated Saturday in an extraordinary meeting of the National Council, which decided to revoke from office the president of the party, Corneliu Vadim Tudor and the leadership of PRM.

The Danube will remain at high levels for two-three weeks, following the high water flows to be registered on the sector on Romania's territory, Minister Delegate for Waters and Forestry Lucia Varga announced.

According to official sources cited by Mediafax, Iulian Buga, a career diplomat, Romania's former ambassador to Ireland is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' proposal for ambassador to the United States of America tendered to President Traian Basescu.

Stephen and Carol Farrington announce the engagement of their daughter, Catherine M. Farrington of Brattleboro, to Mihnea Tudoreanu of Northampton, Mass.

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Ion Victor Antonescu was a Romanian soldier, authoritarian politician and convicted war criminal .

BMI's Romania Defence and Security Report report examines the transition of Romania's defence posture as a former Warsaw Pact nation into an active participant in NATO.

Six years after he was thrown off a high-profile bribery trial and sacked from his job, Czech High State Prosecutor Ivo Istvan is now on the verge of toppling the government with the Czech Republic's biggest ever sleaze case.

What started out as a prank on the controversial singer, rapper and video director Wanlov da Kubolor by the Romanian police turned out to be an embarrassing 30mins of his life when he was arrested and detained for failing to put on footwear.

A new bridge opened Friday between Bulgaria and Romania, the second on the 500-kilometer stretch of the Danube River that forms the common border between the Balkan neighbors, is touted as a key to boosting growth in one of Europe's poorest regions.

A new bridge opened Friday between Bulgaria and Romania, the second on the 500-kilometer stretch of the Danube River that forms the common border between the Balkan neighbors, is touted as a key to boosting growth in one of Europe's poorest regions.

Luxembourg/ Paris, - GlobeCast and SES announced today that they are providing services to Orange Romania for the launch of a high quality satellite Direct-to-Home TV package this month.

Fourteen, attentively selected feature films, documentaries or cartoons and short-films from 12 countries, 12 of them shown for the first time in Romania will be presented at the second edition of the Pelicam International Festival of Films about Environment and People, due in Tulcea over June 14-16.