Roma people to give Madonna gold plaque
The self-proclaimed king of the Roma said Tuesday he wants to give Madonna a gold plaque to thank the singer for criticising discrimination. BUCAREST, January 5, 2010 (AFP) – The self-proclaimed king of the Roma said Tuesday he wants to give Madonna a gold plaque to thank the singer for criticising discrimination against his people. […]
Cummins Environmental Challenge Yields Benefits for Local Communities
COLUMBUS, Ind.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Employees of Cummins Inc. (NYSE:CMI) brought power to a rural village in India, cleared a stream of silt and sediment in the United Kingdom and increased recycling by 50 percent in a low-income Minneapolis neighborhood, all as part of a companywide effort to commemorate the Company’s 90th anniversary in 2009. “The response by […]
Top 10 Teams That Didn’t Win The World Cup
The 1986 champions entered the 2006 edition in Germany as one of the front-runners and began the tournament at a searing pace. They squeaked past the Elephants of Cote d’Ivoire before hitting Serbia & Montenegro for six in one of the most devastating displays of attacking football that the World Cup had ever seen. With […]
Cummins Environmental Challenge Yields Benefits for Local Communities
COLUMBUS, Ind.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Employees of Cummins Inc. (NYSE:CMI) brought power to a rural village in India, cleared a stream of silt and sediment in the United Kingdom and increased recycling by 50 percent in a low-income Minneapolis neighborhood, all as part of a companywide effort to commemorate the Company’s 90th anniversary in 2009. “The response by […]
Bukovina: Romania’s Centre of Spirituality
The northern province of Moldova – known as Bukovina – is an ethnological and religious enclave intended to symbolize Christianity’s triumph against the paganism. Many of the Bukovina monasteries were built by the Moldavian voivodes as a token of gratitude to God after each victory in battles against the Turks. The unique beauty of their […]
Woman in Romania slightly paralyzed after getting flu vaccine
Bucharest, January 26 (MIA) – A 30-years-old woman of Arad came to the hospital with slight paralysis of the legs after being vaccinated with Cantgrip against A/H1N1. The situation was confirmed by doctors of the Public Health Directorate Arad. No new flu cases have been registered in Romania for the last few days, officials said […]
Renault et les delocalisations
Retour sur le projet de production de la Clio 4 a Bursa, en Turquie. Et pourquoi cela annonce un mouvement bien plus vaste de depart de l’industrie de la France, voir de l’Europe occidental. Il y a une quinzaine de jours, le quotidien Les echos pretendait savoir que Renault allait produire la quasi-integralite des Clio […]
Death toll mounts amid freezing weather in Central and Eastern Europe
The death toll in Central and Eastern Europe has mounted as plummeting temperatures claimed lives, especially among the poor and homeless, and disrupted road and rail transport. In the Czech Republic, six people have died of exposure in the freezing cold. Romania’s death toll was reported to be 22 by January 26 2010. Snowdrifts blocked […]
Nato not on Moldova’s agenda, interim president says
At their January 27 2010 meeting in Chisinau, Romania’s president Traian Basescu, left, presented Moldova’s acting president Mihai Ghimpu with a Romanian state award. Moldova was not going to apply to join Nato, the country’s interim president Mihai Ghimpu said, according to a report by Russian Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper quoted by Bulgarian news agency Focus […]
Evenimentul Zilei: Snowstorms close national roads in Romania
Bucharest. Many national roads in Romania are closed and the traffic along many district roads takes place in winter conditions, Evenimentul Zilei daily writes. A snowstorm and snow in the county of Buzau impede the traffic on all national and district roads. The police advise motorists to get information about the condition of the roads […]
