Tag: code yellow

  • August 18, 2024

    August 18, 2024

    WEATHER The weather remains extremely hot in almost the entire Romanian territory where meteorologists have issued a series of code yellow, orange and red alerts for extremely high temperatures and thermal discomfort. The most affected is the Timis County in western Romania, for which a code red alert has been issued. Temperatures there are expected to reach 39 degrees Celsius and the Temperature-Humidity index to go over the 80 unit threshold. An orange code alert has been issued for another ten counties in the country’s west and south, including the capital city Bucharest where the highs of the day are expected to reach 38 degrees Celsius. The noon reading in Bucharest was 31 degrees.

     

    PARIS An icon of the French cinematography, Alain Delon, died today at his home in Douchy surrounded by his three children and his family. The actor was a star of the golden era of the French cinematography, and shot to fame with the parts he played in ‘The Samurai’ and ‘Borsalino’. Once described as the most beautiful man in the movies, Alain Delon starred in some of the best French productions of the 60s, such as ‘The Leopard’ and ‘Rocco and his Brothers’. From the 1990s his film appearances grew rare and although he appeared in more than 90 films during the course of his career, he won only one Cesar Award in 1985 for ‘Our story’ by Bertrand Blier. ‘Le Parisien’ called Delon ‘a legend of the cinema’ while ‘Liberation’ described him as ‘a leading figure of cinema, the actor with crazy charisma’. Alain Delon’s last major public appearance was to receive an honorary Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival in 2019, when he delivered an emotional speech in which he appeared to bid farewell to cinema and his fans.

     

    ATHENS The Romanian firefighters who had joined the efforts of putting out fires in Greece were given a new assignment on Saturday; they are monitoring two regions in Attica. According to a press release by the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations (IGSU), 16 firefighters with four fire engines have been deployed to Agia Kiriaki, while another 15-strong rescue team is getting ready to intervene in Rafina. Both teams are accompanied by Greek liaison officers, and according to IGSU, they are in stand-by, ready to intervene under the coordination of their Greek counterparts. The regions where the two Romanian teams have been deployed are known for being at higher risk of wildfires at this time of the year. Greece has applied for help from the European Union and is in a state of high alert after wildfires went out of control and have affected over 10 thousand hectares.

     

    BOOKFAIR The Gaudeamus book fair staged by our radio station is going on in Sibiu, central Romania. On the fair’s last day, on Sunday, people were invited to visit its 15 pavilions located in the city’s historical center known as the Big Square, and check on the huge offer of books, games, music and other educational materials. The fair is being attended by the most renowned publishing houses in the country. Besides its varied and huge book offer displayed on over 40 stands, the fair also included a series of editorial events, book launches and autograph shows, which are also available online at gaudeamus.ro.

     

    EXAMS Next week will be seeing the written exams of the second round of the Baccalaureate in Romania. On Monday students are to take exams in the Romanian language and Literature and in the following days in mathematics and history according to their chosen profile. The first results are to be listed on August 26th and the final ones after all applications have been solved, on August 30th. Over 33,600 students are to take their exams in this second round. Most of them, two thirds, are this year’s graduates. Over 78% of the students passed the baccalaureate exams in its summer session. The Ministry of Education plans to allow students to see their exam papers shortly after the grading so that they may decide whether to challenge results.

    (bill)

  • March 29, 2018

    March 29, 2018

    WEATHER Weather is getting slightly warmer across Romania, so much so that temperature readings are getting closer to the season’s values for the most part of the country, save for the northwest and the far western part of the territory, where the skies are overcast and rainfalls have been reported, while temperature readings stand at unseasonably cold values for this time of the year. Sleet and snowfalls have been reported for high-altitude regions. The wind blows slightly to moderately, temporarily intensifying in the mountain regions, in the northwest and center, while fog has been forecast for the lower areas in the south and east. The highs of the day range from nine to seventeen degrees Celsius. The noon reading in Bucharest stood at 9 degrees Celsius. Hydrologists have renewed their code yellow and orange alerts for flooding, in place until Friday afternoon, for 12 rivers in the south, southwest, center and northeast. In the wake of the heavy rainfalls in the past days, some of the segments of the Danube have been placed under the incidence of a series of code yellow and orange alerts for flooding, in place until the beginning of April.





    KOREA South Korea’s president Moon Jae-in is to meet north-Korean leader Kim Jong-un on April 27th. The meeting was announced after officials from South and North Korea had held talks in the border village of Panmunjom. Kim Jong-un has reiterated his pledge to scrap his country’s nuclear programme during a surprising visit that he paid to China this week. South-Korean government has said this is going to be the most important topic of discussion because there is concern the north-Korean leader is not ready to give up his arsenal so easily. The meeting will try to pave the way for the possible meeting between US president Donald Trump and the north-Korean leader.





    ORDINANCE The government in Bucharest is today tackling an emergency ordinance, which brings fresh amendments to the Fiscal Code. One of these amendments is allowing companies to choose between the profit tax and turnover if they are under the one million euros threshold. According to Public Finance Minister Eugen Teodorovici, another amendment deals with reimbursing the environment tax for applicants who can produce their personal numeric code. The amendments also include a decision to raise from 2% to 3.5% the income tax share for natural persons, which could be earmarked for the NGOs.





    PROTESTS Trade unions from Romania’s healthcare system on Thursday picketed the Labour Ministry in Bucharest. The protest today comes after the similar actions medical personnel mounted in front of the field ministry on Tuesday. The protesters have called for pay rises beginning March 1st for the entire medical and social assistance employees. They have also asked the authorities to stop keeping the bonus ceiling at 30% at the same time allowing the employees to offset the losses they suffered after new payment regulations had come into effect on January 1st. According to Health Minister Sorina Pintea, the executive’s agenda today also includes bonus regulations for the medical personnel. The minister has explained the personnel will benefit from bonuses according to their skill levels. Against the background of severely underfunded medical services, Romania has for years seen a massive exodus of doctors and nurses who left for better jobs abroad.





    BNR Romania’s Central bank had to raise the reference interest rate twice due to accelerated inflation rate with major effects over the economic environment, Central Bank governor Mugur Isarescu said on Thursday before the Senate’s economic committee. According to him, the current account deficit has increased more than in other countries in the region and the pressure on the national currency has been higher. Data released by the National Institute for Statistics show that the annual inflation rate showing the evolution of consumption prices in the past year reached 4.72% in February, a record high since 2013. At the same time the Central Bank has recently raised for the second time this year the reference interest rate from 2% to 2.25% a year.



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