There was more tragic news for Romania’s news agencies and television news stations today when a girl in Arad who sneezed several times in succession was found by doctors not to have swine flu.
“We’ve been hoping for a local outbreak of swine flu all week,” said Adelin Petrisor, top reporter at Realitatea TV. “We have [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2009’
Swine flu tragedy hits Arad
Romania in mourning as search for earthquake injured ‘called off’
By Phil Quake
News agencies and television channels across Romania last night officially called off their three-day search for people injured in last Saturday’s minor yet tragic earthquake.
“It really is a tragedy,” said Catalin-Radu Tanase, top news reporter at Romania’s most popular TV station, Pro TV. “We have sent reporters all over the country to find [...]
Government forgets what parks are for
Over the past week or two banners have gone up all over the city declaring Bucharest a greener and happier place. Capitala creste verde is the slogan, or such like. Romanian-speakers can read more about it here.
So it’s all the more confusing that the city council last week decided to banish bikes and roller-skaters from [...]
More broadsides at the international press
It’s becoming a habit and we must stop it, but when something like this pops up in Google Reader (as it did today, though the article was first published on March 31st) we just can’t help ourselves…
Ostensibly a travel piece on the Danube Delta for the Australian daily WA Today, it is yet another paean [...]
More words of wisdom from the Independent on Sunday
According the now legendarily bad City Slickers: Bucharest published by the Independent on Sunday (IoS) at the weekend, Romania’s prime minister is Calin Popescu Tariceanu, a man who of course has not been PM since December and who is no longer even the leader of his own party.
According to the IoS, Bucharest Arc de Triumf dates [...]