Friday, February 6, 2009

World’s neatest row of trees to be planted on banks of Dambovita

by Craig Turp February 6, 2009 Bucharest

 The Dambovita Center (above) will – if it ever gets built – be the most impressive real estate development ever to go up in Bucharest. The usual mix of hotel, shopping centre, offices, apartments and, ahem, big wheel, if the end product looks half as good as the artist’s impressions, then it will be a [...]

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Dangerous Criminal ‘Not Released’

by Craig Turp February 6, 2009 Romania

 The Romanian justice system was last night reeling from the revelation that a judge had refused to release a dangerous criminal in exchange for a large cash bribe. “This is scandalous,” said Ion Ionescu, head of Romania’s Justice Department. “This kind of thing gives Romanian judges a bad name. We can’t have people thinking we’re [...]

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