Production stopped at Ford’s Otosan Company in southern Romania
Ford’s Otosan Factory stopped production at its facility in Romania’s southern city of Craiova on Thursday following a breakdown at the hot water supplier in the city. Work was partially carried out on Wednesday as the car manufacturer hoped for a quick solution to the incident. In a statement on Wednesday, the Electrocentrale Company in Craiova said its supplies would be reduced following problems at one of its boilers while expressing the hope of solving the issue by Thursday evening, RRA reported.
New public holiday in Romania
Romania will celebrate a National Day of Religious Liberties on May 16. Romania’s government was expected to make a decision on the issue at its meeting on Thursday. Public holidays in Romania include New Years’Day (January 1-2), Epiphany (January 6), St John the Baptist’s Day (January 7), Day of Unification of Romanian Principalities (January 24), Labour Day (May 1), Good Friday, Easter, Easter Monday (April/May), Children’s Day (June 1), St Mary the Great (August 15), St. Andrew’s Day (November 30), Romania’s National Day (December 1), and Christmas Day (December 25-26).
John Malkovich is back in Romania
Famous American theatre and movie star John Malkovich returned in Romania’s western city of Timișoara after three highly succesful performances at Timișoara National Theatre last year when he appeared in The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer as Jack Unterweger, a convicted murderer sentenced to life in prison. This time, Malkovich will be the “Infamous Ramirez Hoffman”, a one-man show based on the novel of Chilean writer Roberto Bolano. A John Malkovich premiere sparked protests in Bulgaria last week after angry protesters were irritated with the way Bulgarians were portrayed in George Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man.
Alexandru Danga
