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Saturday, November 21, 2009 11:40 PM

Romania

Type: Country

Name: Romania

population: 21,377,430

First Reported 14 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 9 Documents (in Politics)

Romania ponders new president ahead of poll

Romania is gearing up for perhaps its most important vote since the fall of Communism in 1989.The first round of the presidential election sees the incumbant Traian Basescu just ahead in the polls currently attracting around 30 percent of electorate.He ... [EuroNews - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Romania, Mircea Geoana, Crin Antonescu, Traian Basescu

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 3 Documents

UPDATE 1-PREVIEW-Romanian crisis hinges on presidential vote

BUCHAREST, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Romania holds a closely fought presidential election on Sunday that investors hope will resolve a government crisis that is holding up IMF aid and revive momentum for political and economic reforms.Opinion polls show centrist ... [FinanzNachrichten.de - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Romania, Crin Antonescu, International Monetary Fund, Mircea Geoana

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 5 Documents

International Monetary Fund

Renewed bank re-assurances for Romania despite stalled bailout-mandated reforms

Nine European banks with subsidiaries in Romania have reaffirmed their commitment to "maintain their exposure to the country and ensure adequate capital levels" at their subsidiaries, the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have ... [Sofia Echo - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Romania, International Monetary Fund, Eurobank EFG, Volksbank

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents

Research and Markets: Romania Oil Refineries Market Report: Analysis of the Largest in Terms of Operating Capacity in Southeastern Europe

Research and Markets: : Analysis of the Largest in Terms of Operating Capacity in Southeastern Europe DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/de7603/romania_oil_refine) has announced the addition of the ... [Business Wire UK - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Oil Refineries Ltd., Romania, Refinery

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents

Comment on Top Gear does Romania by mickdeene

Many thanks for comments,will keep away from the sunglasses ... [Cars UK - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Romania

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents

Reforms at stake in Romanian election

By Radu MarinasRomania's presidential election may decide whether the European Union's second poorest state will embark on real reforms and could shake up a political class whose bickering has stalled progress and hurt the economy. If opinion polls prove ... [Kuwait Times - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Romania, Crin Antonescu, Mircea Geoana, Corruption, Traian Basescu

First Reported 23 hours ago - Updated 23 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Health)

Unthinkable? Pricing drugs humanely

Another nasty decision for Nice this week, as the health service's rationing agency turned down Nexavar, which treats liver cancer. Everyone agrees it provides extra months, but it will not be administered – except to the rich – as it fails to provide ... [Guardian.co.uk - 23 hours ago]

Entities: Nexavar, Liver Cancer, Romania

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents

Carpatair increases its fleet with 3 Fokker 70 aircraft

Configured in 72-seat capacity, the new aircraft will operate both from the airline's hub in Timisoara but also on direct flights from Bucharest and other Romanian airports. ... [Just 4 Airlines - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Fokker 70, Carpatair, Timisoara

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents

Army fights swine flu with onions

Moldova's army is feeding its soldiers onions and garlic to help them ward off swine flu.Defense Ministry chief doctor Colonel Sergiu Vasislita says about 0.9 ounces (25 grams) of onions and 0.5 ounces (15 grams) of garlic will be added to each soldier's ... [Metro.co.uk - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Swine Flu, Moldova, Clove, Immune System, Remediation

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Construction sector in Europe continues to decline

The construction industry in Europe has marked another month of general retreat, both on annual and monthly basis, Bulgarian daily Dnevnik reported on November 19 2009, citing Eurostat statistics.The only marginal improvement observed in the construction ... [Sofia Echo - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Bulgaria, Continuance, Romania

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Still Scaling the Wall

György Dragomán was 3 when his father taught him to protect the family's privacy by lying to neighbors and teachers who were often informants for the Hungarian regime. 'From then on I lived a double life,' says the 36-year-old author, 'telling one thing ... [MSNBC Newsweek - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Imre Kertész, Romania, Herta Müller, Crime

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

A Thought About Not-Quite-ASCII Top Level Domains

ICANN has opened their new fast track process for 'countries and territories that use languages based on scripts other than Latin' to get domain names that identify the country or territory in its own language. It's not clear to me what the policy is ... [CircleID - 11/20/2009]

Entities: American Standard Code for Information Interchange, ICANN, Serbia

Quotes

...'I think what is at stake is the rulerule of law', she told the BBC. "Over the last few years we have seen a lot of attacks against anti-corruption bodies and attempts to change the anti-corruption framework. There have been attempts by parliament to block investigations. What is important is the position of the candidates in relation to these issues." In its Corruption Perceptions Index for 2009, Transparency International ranked Romania the most corrupt EU country, along with Bulgaria and Greece

Romania set for presidential vote [BBC - 5 hours ago]

...Pricop, editor in chief of the Nine O Clock newspaper, told Al Jazeera that Romania is currently the most corrupt country in the European Union. "This is why the World Bank and the European Commission need a new government to discuss loan schedules and repayments .... though Romania is probably going to apply of a new loan in March next year" , Pricop said. With the presidential vote too close to call, what kind of government will emerge is unclear...

Romania holds presidential vote [Al Jazeera - 7 hours ago]

...'For me, life is tough,' Liliana confirmed. "The leu doesn't have the value it used to. Now, you can go to the stores and you can buy anything, but there's no money. Back then, we had money, but there was nothing to buy." Mariana Paveliu, a French teacher at the school where I work, said that the food rations and lack of consumer goods weren't the biggest problem back then...

Romanians reflect on life during communist era [Deutsche Welle - 14 hours ago]

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Blogs

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Naspers Could Be The Next Owner Of ICQ (And Why... [TechCrunch - 13 hours ago] Last week, it was reported that AOL – amid restructuring efforts in the lead-up to the imminent Time Warner spin-off and IPO – was putting its instant messaging ...
Unthinkable? Pricing drugs humanely [Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - 23 hours ago] Another nasty decision for Nice this week, as the health service's rationing agency turned down Nexavar, which treats liver cancer. Everyone agrees it provides extra ...
WHO: Update 75 [H5N1 - 11/20/2009] WHO has published Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 - update 75. Excerpt:The situation remains similar since the last update. In temperate regions* of the northern hemisphere, ...
FACTBOX-Global interest rates in 2009 [Economy-Finance - 11/20/2009] (Updates with Turkish rate cut) LONDON, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Australia's central bank raised interest ratesfor a second month running last month, by a quarter ...
The CIA Like Nice Things Too [Torture] [Gawker - 11/19/2009] A new CIA secret prison has been found. In a luxury horseriding center in Lithuania. Hey, just because you're detaining people illegally and torturing them doesn't ...

Audio/Video

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Romanian revolt: Bloody uprising [Russia Today - YouTube - 11/20/2009]
(TRAILER) Romanian revolt: Bloody uprising [Russia Today - YouTube - 11/20/2009]
ORIGINS OF THE GREEKS & MESSAGE TO ALBA... [Mefeedia Video Tag : geneti - 11/13/2009]
ORIGINS OF THE GREEKS & MESSAGE TO ALBA... [Mefeedia Video Tag : biolo - 11/13/2009]
After the Wall Tumbled [Slate Magazine - 11/09/2009]

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