April 2009

Swine flu tragedy hits Arad

by Craig Turp April 30, 2009 Media

 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 [...]

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Romania in mourning as search for earthquake injured ‘called off’

by Craig Turp April 28, 2009 Media

 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 [...]

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Government forgets what parks are for

by Craig Turp April 27, 2009 Bucharest

 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 [...]

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More broadsides at the international press

by Craig Turp April 22, 2009 Media

 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 [...]

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More words of wisdom from the Independent on Sunday

by Craig Turp April 21, 2009 Media

 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 [...]

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What a coincidence!

by Craig Turp April 19, 2009 Media

 There’s a short guide to Bucharest in the Independent on Sunday today. You can read it here. Much of the text will, we think, be reasonably familiar to regular visitors to the Bucharest pages of In Your Pocket or the print edition of Bucharest In Your Pocket. We say (about the Village Museum) You should [...]

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Order of the Brown Nose (OBN)

by Craig Turp April 17, 2009 Romania

 An idea shamelessy stolen from Private Eye. “The Generosity of Maria Basescu began when she was young, when she gave up her career as an economist to bring up her children while her husband, a maritime officer, was away at sea.” Just part of Cristian Oprea’s hard hitting profile of President Traian Basescu’s wife in [...]

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