Bucharest

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In an interview to AGERPRES under the 'MY CITY, BUCHAREST' project, pianist Dan Grigore says he would pick today's Bucharest with the old memories, adding that the history of the city is a living book that has to be read and understood.

Linguist Rodica Zafiu says, in an interview for AGERPRES, that her passion for Bucharest is mostly a very subjective search, of the time past and lost.

The pair made up of Romanian tennisman Horia Tecau and Dutchman Jean-Julien Rojer has won the doubles' event of the 590,230-dollar ATP tournament in Shenzhen (China), after disposing of Australians Sam Groth/Chris Guccione in the final by 6-4, 7-6 (4).

Great singer Corina Chiriac, one of the grand ladies of Romanian pop singing, gladly remembers a still sweet Bucharest in her childhood where men would wear felt top hats and greet the ladies, who would still wear muffs, with ''sărut mâna!'' [kiss your hand!].

If you have some values, you will have them everywhere, and if you have no values and believe in nothing when you're in the Victoria Palace (e.n. - seat of the Government), you will have no values and believe in nothing when you're in the Cotroceni Palace (e.n.

The lead vocalist of Vunk, Cornel Ilie, is a walking enthusiast. This way he doesn't get stuck in traffic, he jokes. He knows the streets in which he grew up "like the back of his hand", but also other areas of Bucharest that are dear to him, that he has wound up on so many times... step by step.

Presidential candidate of the People's Movement Party (PMP) Elena Udrea has announced the party is seeking another way of unveiling the political programme of its candidate following Udrea's cancellation of the launch of her presidential bid initially scheduled for Sunday at the Palace Hall of Bucharest.

Epee fencer Ana-Maria Branza, Olympic vice champion and several times European and world champion, shared her childhood between Bucharest and Craiova (southwestern Romania) as she built a name in national and international sports. She maintains, however, that the Capital still has a major part in her life, especially as it has many interesting places she still has to discover.

The relations between Romania and the People's Republic of China are excellent in all fields, not only when it comes to culture, Romanian Deputy Prime Minister Gabriel Oprea said on Thursday at Victoria Palace (government headquarters) during the meeting with China's Vice Prime Minister Zhang Gaoli.