Hristo Yankov, Pavel Baev, Kalin Asenov, Zlatomir Mihaylov.
Four Bulgarian nationals died in a heavy car crash in Romania Thursday night, authorities reported.
The accident took place just after midnight on a road in southwest Romania near the village of Tatarasht.
Police say the Bulgarian driver attempted overtake and hit headlong with another car, causing the tragedy.
Names of Victims are: Hristo Yankov, Pavel Baev, Kalin Asenov, Zlatomir Mihaylov.
Doctors say the lives of the people traveling in the Romanian car are out of danger.
BIPAI's pediatric AIDS center in Romania grows up
HOUSTON -- (December 6, 2007) -- A center that opened in Romania in 2001 to help young children with HIV/AIDS survive for longer periods is now adapting to its success with an expanded focus of caring for the adult needs of these individuals.
This week, formal ceremonies were held to dedicate the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative's Romanian Clinical Center of Excellence. The center is a joint program of the Infectious Diseases Hospital Constanta, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital.
"We are adapting to changing needs," said Dr. Mark Kline, president of BIPAI, professor of pediatrics at BCM and chief of the retrovirology clinic at Texas Children's. "We are dealing with issues today that we couldn't have imagined a decade ago. At the time, we were just concerned with keeping the children alive for another month, another year. And today, we find that the HIV care is a relatively minor part of what we are doing. We are much more involved with primary medical and psychosocial needs."
BIPAI opened the state-of-the-art Romanian-American Children's Center in 2001, with funding support from the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word and Abbott Laboratories, to provide outpatient care to the hundreds of HIV-infected children in the area. At the time, the situation was grim, with children dying at a high rate.
As a result of the center, the mortality rate dropped from 15 percent in 2001 to 1 percent in 2006.
Now many of those children are in their late teens and early 20s, with different issues to face. Kline said the decision was made to transition the program, rather than transition the patients away from the center to an adult program.
"We're choosing to expand our own range of services to accommodate the entire age range from infancy to adulthood," Kline said. "We will continue to provide medical and psychosocial services to these individuals, but we're also going to tackle issues like housing and job training, education and subjects surrounding marriage and family."
The Center of Excellence will provide services under the same roof, including programs in infectious diseases, pulmonary diseases, gynecology and dental care; psychosocial and vocational counseling, social assistance, family planning and support groups; and education for healthy independent living.
The Center also will educate and train health professionals and develop a research department.
Sustaining funding for the Center of Excellence is provided by the Abbott Fund.
Kline was joined at the dedication ceremonies by BIPAI vice-presidents Nancy Calles, Michael Mizwa, David Jones and Sebastian Wanless; Ana Maria Schweitzer, executive director of BIPAI's Baylor-Black Sea Foundation; Dr. Sorin Rugina, manager of the Constanta Infectious Diseases Hospital; and Dr. Suzan Ibram, an official with the Public Health Authority of Constanta, as well as other government officials, members of the BIPAI team, BCM and Texas Children's representatives.
A special guest at the dedication was Dr. Gabriel Anabwani, executive director of the Botswana Baylor Children's Center of Excellence. The Romanian clinic served as a model for the Botswana clinic, which opened in 2002. BIPAI now operates seven centers of excellence in Africa, along with the Romanian center.
Kline and the BIPAI team also participated in the dedication of a new housing complex that includes the Flower House, a program that houses and teaches independent living skills to abandoned or orphaned HIV-infected adolescents, and the Baylor Habitat House, three studio apartments for those who are now independent adults.
The 8GB Sony Ericsson W960i Now in Romania
The long-awaited high-end UMTS handset, is finally available in Romania, as of today. W960i combines the qualities of an excellent phone with the ones of a high performance media player into one good-looking device that can satisfy any user’s communication and entertainment needs.
With its 8GB on-board memory, the W960i candybar proudly stands beside Apple’s iPhone and Nokia’s N81 and N95 models, providing the same huge storing capacity, enough for no less than 8,000 songs. The handset has a 2.6 inch color TFT Touchscreen, ideal for videos, games and web navigation (with the pre-installed Opera Mini browser). A 3.2 Megapixel camera with auto-focus is included to offer users good quality photos, comparable with the ones taken with some phones from Sony Ericsson’s Cyber-shot line. Morever, with the phone’s MMS and email capabilities, photos can be shared imediately with friends or family.
Sony Ericsson W960i is 3G and Wi-Fi enabled, thus providing excellent Internet capabilities. Being a music phone, W960i is equipped with a Walkman Touch player, FM radio and two headsets (one of them being the latest Bluetooth HBH-DS220). The handset can provide a total playing time of up to 27 hours.
“Market enthusiasm for the Walkman phone range has far outshone even our own expectations”, says Miles Flint, Sony Ericsson President. “With lifetime global sales standing at over 26.5 million Walkman phones and users really understanding the benefits of ‘music on your mobile’, the time is right to release the next album! This means Walkman phones that make it quicker and easier to transfer or download music, plus innovative ways of searching through all of those tracks. It’s also about thinking beyond music, to games, videos and the Web.”
Sony Ericsson W960i’s availability is great news for the Romanian mobile market, as it’s a phone that stands out and can compete with any other high-end multimedia handset. Its price is unknown yet, but it will be revealed pretty soon.
CEZ Romania announces massive layoffs at Electrica Oltenia
CEZ Romania, the local arm of the Czech energy group CEZ, owning in Romania the electricity distributor Electrica Oltenia since 2005, is to send home 300 employees next year with a view to restructure the company, president Jan Veskrna said today.
He said the company, whose workforce accounts for some 3,000 people, has way too many employees compared to other firms involved in similar businesses in the other EU countries and ruled out any economic motivation for these layoffs.
Veskrna said the other foreign companies operating in the power sector in
CEZ Romania voiced in late July this year its interest to get involved in the building process of reactors no. 3 and 4 in
Networx expands into Romania
The Bulgarian alternative telco Networx is reported to have established a presence in neighbouring Romania. Basing itself in the city of Giurgiu, it will offer triple play services as in its home market. Networx was founded in 2000 and claims to be the largest provider in Northeast Bulgaria. It launched Networx-TV, an analogue TV solution employing FTTB technology, in September this year. It also introduced IPTV and web-TV services in the same month. According to the company, it invested over $2 million (€1.36 million) on its infrastructure in 2006.
Romania's booming IT sector
Romania looms as the next offshore tech powerhouse with its low costs, language proficiency, burgeoning infrastructure, and engineering skills
Could Romania be the next India for IT talent? Business-technology leaders in the former eastern European country hope so.
A delegation of business and technology executives from 26 Romanian companies recently exhibited at an outsourcing expo in New York to rally business from U.S. and international companies looking for offshore tech help.
Dozens of U.S. and other companies already are working with Romanian developers, including Microsoft, whose RAV AntiVirus software was developed by GeCAD Group, a coalition of five Romanian software and IT-services firms.
The average annual income for software developers in Romania is about $6,000, says Constin Lianu, general director for export promotion at the Romanian Ministry of Economy and Commerce, almost double the $3,300 average per-capita income. Software pros working for multinationals can bring in much higher paychecks. Developers working for Oracle earn the equivalent of $15,000 to $35,000 U.S., says Edund Fabian, senior development manager of Oracle’s European Development Center, which opened last year in Bucharest and employs about 300, including Fabian, who leads a development team of 10. Romania has about 45,000 software developers, and 8,000 graduates enter the field annually.
There are about 45,000 software developers in Romania and 8,000 graduates enter the field annually, Lianu says. The government is intent on expanding the ranks of IT pros, providing perks such as payroll tax exemptions. Romania is a relatively poor country, but that’s changing, Fabian says. Long plagued by political corruption, it’s cleaning up its act and is expected to join the European Union in 2007, he says. Even under Communist rule, Romanians were known for engineering skills, but in recent years many professionals left to work elsewhere. Fabian, who is 30, himself is one of the increasing number of IT pros returning. He spent seven years working in software development jobs in Ireland and The Netherlands.
Accessible Technology
To help nurture the growth of its technology industry, Romania is also developing its IT infrastructure, with broadband rollouts in rural areas and a multimillion-dollar program to subsidize the purchases of PCs for families.
Besides the cheaper labor costs, one of the biggest advantages Romania has is its multilingual workforce. Most Romanian IT professionals speak English, and many also speak French, German, Swedish, Finnish, Greek, Danish and other languages.
Disaster-recovery-software company Neverfail Group Ltd. was struck by workers’ language abilities when it chose to open a tech-support office in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, says Martin Procter, a product and services director at Neverfail. The center employs 18 IT pros who provide tech support for the company’s software. Neverfail, which also has a support center in Scotland, had investigated opening a support center in India, “which won on cost,” Procter says. However, in the end, Romanians’ strong “understanding of English” and other multilingual skills won over India’s lower costs. Procter says, “We were looking for clever young people” who had good tech skills but were not yet “programmed” or trained for a particular industry, business, or company.
Indo-Romanian trade to increase one billion dollars by 2008: Envoy
India and Romania have set a target of one billion dollars in bilateral trade in the next two years, said Romanian Ambassador Vasile Sofineti at a meeting with the economic delegation from Romania organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) here on Tuesday. Trade has witnessed a quantum growth to around 450 million dollars in 2005, an increase of 69 percent over the previous year. This should become possible by collaborating with incredible India, Sofineti added. Chairman and Managing Director, Inapex Ltd, V K Mathur said India- Romania trade, which stagnated during 1999- 2001, is again on the upswing. In 2004, trade between the two countries grew by an impressive 103 percent as compared to 2003. Some of the items with good potential are drugs and pharmaceuticals, iron ore, machinery and instruments, iron and steel and inorganic chemicals. "We have the capabilities and capacities to diversify our trade basket to include non-traditional niche products." Many Indian companies such as Ranbaxy, Viraj Group, Ashmita Constructions have set up businesses in Romania, he said. "Till now, about 20 Indian companies have registered in Romania." Mathur said there is no dearth of new avenues in which Romanian businesses can cooperate with their Indian counterparts for trade and investment in India. New areas where both the countries can work together for mutual benefit include new frontiers such as information technology, entertainment, biotechnology and bioinformatics. There are new opportunities for investment in India in sectors as diverse as tourism and infrastructure, petrochemicals and aviation, mining and oil exploration, he said. The special economic zones recently set up in several Indian states provide internationally competitive business environment. "The Romanian industry can seriously consider the opportunities to invest in these zones and benefit from the preferential policies of the Indian government." Counselor Asia Division, Ministry of Economy and Commerce, Romania, Mr. Dorin Refca said India is considered among the top four strategic partners in Asia. The relationship between the two countries has been further strengthened with the recent visit of Traian Basescu, President of Romania in October this year. "Quite a lot of events are lined up next year in order to enhance trade between the two countries," Dorin said. Vice President, UGIR 1903, Elena Laslu said that the organization looks forward to make an agreement with CII. "We have many associations for industrial sectors in Romania to help our Indian counterparts." The meeting was followed by business to business meetings between the 16 member Romanian business delegation and members of the Indian industry. (ANI)
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