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Banca Transilvania (BT) bank has become the first banking institution in the world and in Romania implicitly to benefit from Sun Oracle database integrated system, the bank announced in a release on Tuesday.The integrated system Exadata Database Machine ...

The individuals' loan payments to the banks more than 30 days overdue totalled 2.7 billion lei (629 million euros) on Nov. 30, 2009, up by 5.83 percent from October, while the number of the debtors having fallen behind with the payments stood at 655 ...

In a private ophthalmologic clinic in Oradea (north-west of Bucharest), for the first time in Romania, Dr. Norbert Czumbel, on Thursday, performed an artificial cornea transplant, on a 51-year-old patient, using an AlphaCor cornea made to replace sacrif ...

Romanian Mircea Lucescu, the Ukrainian Shakhtar Donetsk football club, winner of UEFA Cup last year, ranks 5th in the classification of the world's best football club coaches in 2009, hierarchy established by the The International Federation of Foot ...

The Minister of Labour, Family and Social Protection Mihai Seitan intends to harden the conditions for those who file for a disability pension.'We will harden the conditions for those who seek to be awarded a disability pension', The Minister sa ...

The two budget-finance commissions on Sunday morning, after an 18-hour long debate, passed the draft law of the state budget for 2010 by a vote of 28 and the social security budget by a vote of 39.Initially the social security budget had been rejected.V ...

The industrial output prices were up by 0.6 percent in November from October 2009 and by 2.6 percent on November 2008, the National Institute of Statistics announced in a release to Agerpres on Tuesday.The industrial output prices - both in the domestic ...

Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc on Tuesday asked the PD-L (Liberal Democratic Party) Senators to back up the budget law and also to urge the adoption of fiscal responsibility law, of law on local administration reform and of the one related to the smal ...

Secretary of State with the Health Ministry Adrian Streinu Cercel (MD PhD) said on Tuesday that a number of 5,870 A/H1N1 (swine) flu cases were registered so far, of which 120 were confirmed in the past 24 hours, and 66 deaths.Referring to the evolution ...

The Danube water levels in the Giurgiu Port rose 16 centimeters in the past 24 hours, reaching 506 cm, and the upward trend will continue.According to Giurgiu Port representatives, the Danube on Tuesday reached the level of 506 cm, after having recorded ...

2010 is a year that need to be dedicated to reform, a year when the Romanians must identify with their aspirations, 'join in solidarity with each other and with the country,' said President Traian Basescu in the Year New message he conveyed to t ...

Days of heavy rains and melting snow on the Western Carpathians slopes have flooded nearly 1,400 hectares of farmland, dozens of farms and several county and village roads in the western Arad county.Tens of houses and backyards were under water in the c ...

The Romanian Photographer Artists Association (RPAA) is organising the first national edition of a Festival called The Month of the Romanian Photography to begin in Oradea (northwest of the capital) on Monday, Jan. 4.'We have planned to organise the ...

The public community service for driving licences and registration numbers with the Bucharest Prefect's Institution begins assigning the three-digit number plates on Monday, Jan. 4.The official set of numbers and letters will be of the type  - ...

Several sectors of the economy such as the processing industry, retail trade, services and construction will see moderate or major shrinkages respectively over Dec. 2009 - Feb. 2010 compared to this Sept. - Nov., the National Institute of Statistics quo ...

The draft budget for 2010 has many pitfalls for companies, Maria Grapini, president of the Light Industry Employers Federation on Monday told Agerpres.'We do not know if the minimum tax will be scrapped or not. The tax break on the reinvested profit ...

About 70,000-80,000 positions in the public system will be restructured in 2010, Minister of Labour Mihai Seitan told a private television station on Monday.The official made it clear that the number of the budget employees who will be to jobless was no ...

Bucharest prosecutors and policemen, accompanied by a few hundred gendarmes, recovered 35 weapons - AK 47, TT pistols and a machine gun - which came from the January theft that was committed in a military unit in the village of Ciorogarla, Ilfov County ...

The consolidated budget execution over the first 11 months of 2009 registered an estimated deficit of 29.7 billion lei, accounting for 6 percent of the GDP compared to a deficit of 36.5 billion lei, as stipulated annual objective, according to the revis ...

Liberal Deputy Diana Tusa on Tuesday, in a press release, mentions the promise made by Premier Boc on October 31 referring to the price of electric power and its evolution in January 2010.According to Mrs Tusa, Premier Emil Boc said back then that ' ...