Villagers home alone as Romania speeds up
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BOZIENI, Romania  - In the picturesque hilltop village of Bozieni in southern Romania, once home to 100 families, Ecaterina Serban is the last remaining resident.
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Romanian police are investigating how one of their cars was stolen in broad daylight from outside their national headquarters.
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Nick Thorpe meets Romania's traditional farmers who now face extinction after the country's entry into the EU.
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A cyclist rides passed the Teleajen oil refinery, near Ploiesti, Romania, 60 kilometers north of Bucharest, Sunday Oct. 24 2004. Oil producers in Romania have again raised the price of fuels this weekend due
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BUCHAREST, Feb 7 (IPS) - Petrosani, a town of about 50,000, presents a stark  picture today of what the abrupt replacement of state socialism  by unbridled capitalism can do.
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An earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale rattled eastern Romania's Vrancea region and was also felt in the country's capital Bucharest, the national seismological institute and an AFP correspondent at ...
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Flat-rate income tax gains ground among ex-communist countries in eastern Europe, with Romania the latest to adopt it.
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Nearly 17 years after Romania's communist regime collapsed, the first of an estimated 1.3 million files amassed by its secret police are finally about to become public, and already the nation is convulsed by revelations of how citizens were forced into betraying friends and colleagues.
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Romanian television has an unlikely hit on its hands, a sitcom with a cast of racy characters who sit in a country pub and get laughs discussing the fine points of the bureaucracy and regulations of the ...
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29 November 2004 -- Exit polls suggest that Romania&#39;s ruling Social Democratic Party leads parliamentary voting but will come up short of a majority that would allow it to form a government single-handedly.
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The number of households with five or more people has fallen by half since '70, while living solo is more popular.
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The 17 children of Ruvin Avshalomov tell the story of this Azeri mountain village, where houses have grown more chic and life a lot more quiet in the years since the Soviet break-up.
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Hundreds of retirees took to the streets Tuesday in cities around Romania to demand that pensions be raised to at least 45 percent of the average national salary and other benefits.
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CLUJ, Romania  - The tiny village of Jucu in  northwestern Romania, which will host a new factory making  Nokia mobile phones, currently earns its livelihood from  farming vegetables such as peppers, tomatoes and eggplants.
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BUCHAREST, Jan 28 (IPS) - A simple architectural solution could ease housing  and environmental problems in Romania and beyond.
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A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.8 shook Romania late Wednesday, the Earth Physics Institute said. Authorities said there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
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Hundreds of thousands of Moldovans have left their country over the past decade in search of better lives.