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Romania vs Canada Prediction and Betting Tips | September 5th 2025
Romania will face Canada at the National Arena on Friday in a friendly clash between the two nations. The home side have had mixed results in their World Cup qualifying campaign so far and will look to use Friday's game to reset ahead of their...

KHNP-led consortium begins refurbishment of Romania's nuclear reactor
Published: 04 Sep. 2025, 15:11 This image, provided by Korea's state-run Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power on Sept. 4, shows a groundbreaking ceremony at Romania's Cernavoda nuclear power plant. [KOREA HYDRO & NUCLEAR POWER] A global consortium led by...

Digitain strengthens presence in Romania with KingCasino deal
Digitain, a leading sportsbook and iGaming solutions provider, announced its latest partnership with KingCasino, marking another step in its Romanian growth journey. This partnership also strengthens Digitain’s footprint across Eastern Europe,...

Start Her Journey: New program launched in Romania to support early-stage women entrepreneurs
Impact Hub Bucharest and Raiffeisen Bank Romania have launched Start Her Journey, a three-month program designed to support young women entrepreneurs at the beginning of their business careers. The initiative comes as new research shows that 47%...

Survey: 43% of Romanians believe EU should play greater role in protecting citizens from crises
A total of 67% of Romanians believe that the country has benefited from EU membership. The main reasons are that the EU offers Romanians new job opportunities (39%), it improves the citizens' standard of living (26%), and contributes to economic...

Romanian government pledges lower electricity prices through new measures
Romania’s governing coalition has agreed on five measures aimed at reducing electricity prices, which will be adopted by the government through a memorandum, energy minister Bogdan Ivan announced on September 2, according to Agerpres. The measures...

Romanian startups exempted from mandatory conversion of shareholder and investor loans
Romanian startups will no longer be subject to the government’s proposed requirement to automatically convert shareholder or investor loans into equity, following a last-minute amendment, Ziarul Financiar reported. The measure, part of a broader...

Romanian PM insists on 10% workforce cut in local administration
Romanian prime minister Ilie Bolojan explained why he insists on cutting the number of employees in the local administration, currently 129,000, by roughly 10% (13,000) under the local administration reform to be agreed upon by the ruling...

Digitain Strengthens Romanian Market Presence Through KingCasino Partnership
Reading Time: 2 minutes Digitain has entered a new partnership with KingCasino, further solidifying its active role and growing presence in the Romanian market. Digitain, the leading sportsbook and iGaming solutions provider, proudly announces its...

Apocalypse now? Why tech billionaires are suddenly hoarding doomsday mega-bunkers: ‘Don’t take the stripper poles out’
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...

Are ultra-processed foods really so unhealthy? What the science says
In the early 2000s, Brazilian nutrition researcher Carlos Monteiro made a puzzling discovery that led to an epiphany. While trawling survey data on household spending to try to understand why rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes were rising so...

Bibliometric Analysis of Research Articles on Embedded Internet of Health Things (IoHT) Fall Detection in the Elderly Published from 2006 to 2025
Introduction Falls represent one of the most significant health risks for the elderly population worldwide, often resulting in severe injuries, hospitalization, and even fatalities.1 According to global health statistics, approximately 30% of...

Education unions to boycott new school year opening and protest austerity measures in Romania
Romania’s main education unions announced they will boycott the start of the school year on September 8 and stage protests in Bucharest against austerity measures introduced under Law 141/2025, legislated in July. The budgetary impact of the...

PPC launches first Power BOX fast charging station in Romania
The PPC Group has unveiled its first Power BOX in Romania, a fast-charging station for electric vehicles powered entirely by renewable energy from a photovoltaic park. The solution is available free of charge to all electric vehicle users, the...

Bucharest Exchange-listed group Simtel appoints new chief financial officer
Simtel (BVB: SMTL), an engineering and technology group listed on the Main Market of the Bucharest Stock Exchange and one of the leading players in the renewable energy sector in Romania, announced the appointment of Mihai Velicu as group chief...

Romania a vital partner for Taiwan
In recent years, Taiwan’s relationship with Romania has been steadily developing, with parliamentary diplomacy playing a particularly visible role. Rather than formal treaties or high-level summits, it has been the sustained work of legislators...

MAGA’s health wrecking ball is heading for Europe
As US health policy becomes increasingly isolationist, Europe is losing input from American experts and researchers. However, the greatest danger is a virus called ideology. The Trump administration has been a wrecking ball for health policy as we...

Former Mercedes exec Katrin Adt appointed CEO of Renault's Romanian-born brand Dacia
Katrin Adt will take over as CEO of the car brand Dacia, succeeding Denis Le Vot, who is leaving the company, Renault Group announced. Previously VP at Mercedes, she will also be a member of the group's Leadership Team. As part of the new...

Romanian Language Day is also the day of our identity as a Romanian nation, President of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova
0 Romanian Language Day, celebrated on August 31, is rightly also the day of our identity as a Romanian people, because language embodies Romanian history, culture, traditions, and thinking in the mother tongue. The statement was made by Ion...

Teachers in Romania threaten to boycott the start of the new school year
0 Romanian education unionists have repeatedly warned that they will boycott the start of the school year on September 8. Teachers are dissatisfied with government measures and have announced that they will picket the executive headquarters and...