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Romanian man gets 5 years for fatal beating of American basketball player [Feb 23, 2012] BUCHAREST, Romania ? A court in Romania has given a five-year prison sentence to the man accused of fatally beating American basketball player Chauncey Hardy in a bar last year. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian court gives 5 years prison to man who fatally beat American basketball player [Feb 23, 2012] BUCHAREST, Romania - A court in Romania has given a five-year prison sentence to the man accused of fatally beating American basketball player Chauncey Hardy in a bar last year. [via YahooNews] More >>

Man jailed for fatally beating basketball player [Feb 23, 2012] A court in Romania has given a five-year prison sentence to the man accused of fatally beating American basketball player Chauncey Hardy in a bar last year. The court sentenced Ionut Adrian Tanasoaia late Wednesday. The ruling can be appealed. Prosecutors said Tanasoaia punched Hardy on Oct. 9 in a bar in the southern town of Giurgiu, where the American was playing for the local team. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania ruling party up in polls after government change [Feb 22, 2012] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's ruling Democrat-Liberal Party has regained some ground after a government change earlier this month but the main opposition group would still win a parliamentary majority, an opinion poll showed on Monday. [via YahooNews] More >>

IMF mission chief meets Romania's new premier [Feb 22, 2012] The International Monetary Fund chief to Romania has held talks with the country's new prime minister, weeks after his predecessor resigned following weeks of protests over IMF-imposed austerity measures. [via YahooNews] More >>

Trucks Congest Danube Bridge on Bulgarian-Romanian Border [Feb 22, 2012] An 8-kilometer long line of freight trucks had formed Wednesday morning on the Danube Bridge connecting Bulgaria and Romania. The news was reported by the Bulgarian Main Directorate Border Police, saying the reason is the slow processing of all vehicles from the Romanian border authorities. All other cross-border points with Romania ? the land ones of Kardam and Durankulak, and the river ones ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian OMV Petrom 2011 Net Profit Jumps 72% To RON3.76 Billion - Mediafax [Feb 22, 2012] ("Romanian OMV Petrom 2011 Net Profit Jumps 72% To RON3.76B - Mediafax," published at 0804 GMT, misstated profit amount in the second paragraph. The correct version follows:) [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania to axe more than 1,000 railway jobs [Feb 22, 2012] (BUCHAREST ) - Romania is to axe more than 1,000 railway jobs under reforms agreed with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund, the CFR Calatori railway said Tuesday. [via YahooNews] More >>

EU to freeze $4.6 billion of funds to Romania [Feb 21, 2012] BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) ? A government spokesman says European Union will freeze ?3.5 billion ($4.64 billion) after auditors found irregularities in programs aimed at helping disadvantaged groups such as Gypsies. [via YahooNews] More >>

EU halts part of its aid to Romania: government [Feb 21, 2012] (BUCHAREST ) - The European Commission has frozen funding to Romania aimed at developing human resources amid concerns over irregularities, a Romanian government spokesman said on Tuesday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania?s Transelectrica Sued Over Wind-Park Grid Connection [Feb 21, 2012] Romania ?s Eolica Dobrogea SRL sued the country?s energy regulator, ANRE, and power-grid operator Transelectrica SA (TEL) , over refusing to connect a wind-park to the national grid, Transelectrica said in a statement to the Bucharest Stock Exchange late yesterday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania nightclub blasts injure 17 [Feb 21, 2012] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Two explosions injured 17 people at a nightclub in the northern Romanian town of Sighetu Marmatiei, emergency services said Sunday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania's president bets on Putin plan [Feb 20, 2012] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - The president of a former communist country in economic turmoil anoints a security service chief as his successor. Sound familiar? Romania's Traian Basescu has named old ally Mihai Razvan Ungureanu prime minister and he is now the likely party candidate for the presidency when Basescu's term expires in 2014, senior party members said, a move that would echo Boris Yeltsin's ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Romanian PM announces gov't resignation [Feb 20, 2012] BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) ? The Romanian prime minister on Monday announced the immediate resignation of himself and his government, saying he wanted to protect the stability of the country. Emil Boc said he was resigning "to ease the social situation" ? referring to weeks of protests in Romania over austerity measures that he introduced in 2010. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania ruling party up in polls after government change [Feb 20, 2012] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's ruling Democrat-Liberal Party has regained some ground after a government change earlier this month but the main opposition group would still win a parliamentary majority, an opinion poll showed on Monday. Emil Boc resigned as premier on February 6 following weeks of protests against an IMF-approved regime of spending cuts and tax increases and was quickly ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Leave a Reply [Feb 19, 2012] ABB has recently streamlined its local organization in Romania, according to a press release. [via YahooNews] More >>

Romania nightclub blasts injure 17 [Feb 19, 2012] BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Two explosions injured 17 people at a nightclub in the northern Romanian town of Sighetu Marmatiei, emergency services said Sunday. The first explosion ripped through the club in the early hours of Sunday, injuring seven. A second blast at the building several hours later injured another ten people, said Cornel Babut, spokesman for the local Maramures emergency office ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Former Sacramentan beaten in Romania [Feb 18, 2012] Former Sacramento resident Robert Taylor, a tourist visiting his new wife in Romania, has alerted the U.S. Embassy that he was beaten and kicked by members of a contract police force who yelled anti-American epithets. [via YahooNews] More >>

New Russian Ambassador in Bucharest said the significant role of Romania in the region [Feb 18, 2012] State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania, Bogdan Aurescu met 17 February with the new Ambassador of the Russian Federation Oleg Mal?ginovym in Bucharest on the occasion of the presentation of credentials. [via YahooNews] More >>

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