Radio Romania International: WINNERS of the contest “ Myths and Reality in Bistrita Nasaud county”

GRAND PRIZE

Oleh Dorozhovets – Ukraine
Jose Luis Corcuera – Spain

1st PRIZE

Fritz Andorf – Germany
Constantin Kulacov – Poland
Natalia Zabolotna – Ukraine
René Pigeard – France
Ivana Janjic - Serbia
Maria Halmaghi – Germany
Rania Suleiman An-Naggar – Egypt
Agide Melloni – Italy
Susan Manson- the USA
Jorge Guerrrero – Argentina

2nd PRIZE

Anne Haegelen and Christian Ghibaudo- France
Hermann Heyne-Pietschmann – Germany
Narcisa Gabriela Bolbos and Viorel Nicolae Drăgan- the USA
Alexei Veselkov- Russia
Zhang Shifeng - China
Bob Placek – the USA
Luca Zazzeri- Italy
Manuel Pavon Sandoval – Spain

3rd PRIZE

Igor and Marina Mokrov - Russia
Michel Minouflet and Huguette Simmonds- France
Vasile Constantinescu – Canada
Alexandr Veselkov - Kazakhstan
Xi'Enchong, din China, Hugo Longhi - Argentina
Hector Goikoetxea - Uruguay
Lazo Arsovski- FYROM- Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Giovani Sergi and Giuseppe Torre - Italy
Sohami Zahra- Morocco
Khalaf Allah Hussein El-Merini, Belkiri Rihda and Khelil Abdel-Kader- Algeria

45 RUNNERS-UP

Eduard Bogoe - USA
Constantin Popescu -Australia
Bogdan and Daniela Itu - Spain
Rodica Istrate and Lucia Teszler- Italy
Victor Focşa - Ukraine
Andrei Gurkovski - Belarus
Liudmila Dementieva and Victor Varzin- Russia
Sergey Koleşov – Ukraine
Aldas Mazetis - Lithuania
Mohamed Bouzeboudja, Rabie Hamzaoui and Farid Boumechaal – Algeria
Amady Faye- Senegal
Francois Devynk and Gilles Gautier –France
Xue Sanyang, Wu Xuan, Han Keqin, Huang Liqiang and Wang Li - China
Hugo de Boom – Belgium
Prasanta Kumar Padmapati and Umesh Yadav Kumar – India
Mohammed Idrees Chana – Kenya
Asghar Shah – Pakistan
Henrique Jose Dantas Felinto - Brazilia
Salvador Lavin Carral and Javier Robledilli Jaen- Spain
Isabella Gregorio, Ciro Formisano, Alessia Porreca, Rossella Buccili, Daniela Verdelli and Silvestro Mallardi -Italy
El-Ihsani Bouchib, Abdel-Hamis Khrifi, Ahmad Boualfa and Bouabid Labiad – Morocco
Mohamed Goumidi – Algeria
Abou Bakr Abdoulmagd and Ahmad Abdo Said –Egypt
Ziad Salim Akil and Ahmad Ghunaimat – Jordan

(Resource: Radio Romania International)

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Radio Romania International: THE DANUBE DELTA Contest

The Delta is one of the most scenic regions in Romania and Europe, boasting a varied flora and fauna. It was formed between the three arms of the Danube: Chilia, Sulina and Sf. Gheorghe. Sulina is the easternmost town of Romania, located in the Danube Delta.

Radio Romania International (RRI) invite you to listen to RRI’s programmes and access the website at www.rri.ro to find out the correct answers to these questions; thus you can be the lucky winner of the contest. RRI will be waiting for your answers by September 30th 2008, the post date.

The Danube Delta was declared a Biosphere Reserve in August 1990; previously parts of the Delta had been declared nature reserves. Letea forest, with its strangely-shaped oak trees which grow on sandy soil, was declared a nature reserve in 1938. In 1972 it was the Rosca-Buhaiova area that was declared a nature reserve due to the pelican colony that had settled there.
The Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve, which is included in the UNESCO heritage list, also comprises the Razim-Sinoe lagoons, and it spans 580 thousand hectares.
This year, there will be two Grand Prizes, each consisting of a 9 day stay for 2 people with full boarding for next summer at a time that will be agreed on by winners and sponsors. The winners of the grand prizes will be accommodated in several locations in Tulcea county and the Danube Delta, including floating hotels. The contest is sponsored by the Cormoran Compound in Uzlina (www.cormoran.ro), Eurodelta Travel (www.eurodelta.ro), Finesse Travel & Explore (www.finesse.ro) and the Delta Hotel in Tulcea (www.deltahotelro.com) . As usual, travel fares from your country of origin to Romania and back as well as visa expenses (if the case may be) are not covered by RRI. Apart from the two grand prizes, you will have the opportunity to win lots of smaller prizes related to the Delta and Tulcea county, offered by our partners.
In the Danube Delta you can find the largest reeded area on the planet that covers 1,560 square kilometers, and 331 bird species, 9 of which have been declared unique species. The Delta is home to the largest pelican population in Europe (almost 8 thousand pelicans), to 60% of the world’s Pygmy Cormorant population and to 50% of the world’s Red-breasted Goose population.
In the Delta you can also discover rare birds such as the White-tailed Eagle or the Saker Falcon. Of the more than 300 bird species, 70 have come from other continents. Some of the Delta’s attractions are: the Dalmatian Pelican, the 'Eurasian' Spoonbill, the Great Egret, the Little Egret, the Mute Swan, the Whooper Swan, the Black-winged Stilt and the Ruddy Shelduck.
The questions:
* When did the Danube Delta become a biosphere reserve?

* What are the arms of the Danube that form the Delta before it flows into the Black Sea?

* What is the easternmost town in Romania, which is located in the Danube Delta?

* Name three species of birds that are common in the Danube Delta.

Along with the answers to these questions, please tell RRI what made you participate in this contest, and, if you want to, what source of information you used in the contest, other than RRI’s programmes.
You can write to us at the following address:
Radio Romania International, 60-64 General Berthelot Street, sector 1, Bucharest, PO Box 111, postal code: 010165.
You can fax RRI at: 0040213190562, or you can send your answers by e-mail at engl@rri.ro or eng@rri.ro. Remember to send your answers by September 30th 2008, post date. The winners will be announced at the end of October 2008.

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Radio Romania International: THE FASCINATION OF RADIO LISTENING Contest

Radio Romania International (RRI) are inviting you to write an essay on the topic “Why are you listening to the radio? Why are you listening to RRI? and send it by snail mail, fax, e-mail or you can fill in the form attached to the contest announcement on our website. Depending on how interesting, complex and though-provoking your essays are, you can win an interesting prize.

There will be many substantial prizes and smaller prizes consisting in arts objects related to Romania and the Romanian culture and also to the public radio. This contest is taking place the very year when, on November 1st, Radio Romania celebrates 80 years of Romanian broadcasting.

Furthermore, the most interesting essays will be quoted in RRI’s Sunday’s programs aired on November 2nd, more precisely on Listeners’ Day.

The contest is sponsored by SC Rombat SA from Bistrita, in northern Romania, and is being supported by the Agency for Government Strategies.

Media partners are SC Publicatiile “Flacara” SA and the Romanian International station -TVRI.

Please also state the reason why you decided to participate in this new contest. RRI address is: Radio Romania International, General Berthelot street, 60-64, sector 1, Bucharest, PO Box 111, zip code 010165, fax 00 40 21 319 05 62, e-mail: engl@rri.ro. RRI will be waiting for your answers by October 15th 2008, post date. The winners will be announced in late October 2008.

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Radio Prague Competition 2008 Winner

This year's Radio Prague Competition asked you to answer the following question:
Which Czech sportsperson or team has particularly impressed you?
The deadline was June 13 , 2008 and Radio Prague received a great many entries. Two finalists were selected from the mailbags received by each of Radio Pague’s six language sections, along with eight other particularly interesting entries. All ten will receive a special prize.

The overall winner of the 2008 Radio Prague competition is Jörg Teuschl from Germany,
The first prize, a week-long stay for two in Prague, is sponsored by OREA HOTELS, one of the biggest hotel chains in the Czech Republic.

English section finalists:
Yukiko Maki, Japan.
MacDonald Greg, Canada

Other winners:
Roy Kitson, Great Britain
Ashraful Islam, Bangladesh
Nobuya Kato, Japan
Avinash Premraj, India
Tom Blaha, USA
Alon K. Raab, USA
Mark Schiefelbein, USA, and
Li Ming, China.

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