Brasov County

7% drop in energy output

Primary energy resources dropped 18.4% in the first ten months of 2009, and electricity resources dropped 12.5% YOY over the same period. Domestic output amounted to 17,159 thousand TOE (Ton of oil equivalent), down 6.9% YOY,...

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Transavia Now €100-Million Business

ROMANIA - A profile of the owner of the country's top poultry company. Ioan Popa, aged 52, is founder and majority shareholder of Romania's largest poultry processor, Transavia. He says he has never had partners and business...

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News: Photo of the Week: iPhone in Romania

This week’s featured photo is from our iPhones Around the World gallery, and shows an iPhone overlooking the city of Brasov in Romania. To share your photos and to be considered for our Photo of the Week, you simply need to...

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Ski resorts in Eastern Europe are best value this year

Cash-strapped skiers and snowboarders should look east for value this year. According to new research by the Post Office the best-value destinations are Romania and Bulgaria. The Post Office looked... The latest deals from more...

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Money woes threaten Romanian protected areas

Brasov, Romania: Dwindling resources and bureaucratic hurdles are threatening to destroy Romania’s protected area system – home to some of Europe’s largest remaining natural forests. The protected area system, which on paper...

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(01.10.2009 15:31) gen2875w - Nearly one hundred of Moldovan students left without accommodation...

Nearly one hundred of Moldovan students enrolled at the University Transilvania in Brasov city, Romania, were left without accommodation in the university campus. Currently the Moldovan students are accommodated in the reading...

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The Wild Side: Where Tasty Morsels Fear to Tread

Uwe Gerig/Deutsche Press Agency, via Corbis A full-grown brown bear at the private ‘Libearty’ bear reservation in the Carpathians near Zarnesti, Romania. For although such beasts are not, these days, a problem for most of us...

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Cigarettes smuggled inside coffins

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sun Sep 20, 2009 8:51 AM EDT Nearly 2,000 cigarette packs have been smuggled inside coffins, the customs police in Brasov have discovered. During a control at a company in Covasna county in central...

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Let's Go

By Jayne Traendly, Stars and Stripes Stripes European Travel, September 3, 2009 Elephant Parade No, they aren’t hallucinations. There really are elephants in downtown Amsterdam. Until the end of October, more than 100 of the...

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A Shortage of Cash and Ideas

page 1 of 2 by Marius Dragomir It’s been a tough year for Eastern European media. But complacency and a lack of vision have played just as big a role in their woes as the recession. On 26 June, Gazeta de Transilvania, one of...

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