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Dacia tops exports, new cars registration chart

Michael Leidig

In the same time, exports of new cars increased by 4.4 percent in comparison to the same period in 2011, reaching 122.557 units. The exports of commercial vehicles dropped by 24.5 percent to some 7,092 units. The drop was prompted by the cancellation of the production of Transit Connect car manufactured by Ford at Craiova (South), which will be soon replaced with the B-max model. Dacia Duster continues to lead in the exports demands, with some 11,477 sold in May and a total of 59,754 units exported in the first five months of the year, followed by the Sandero model (6,867 units in May and 27,689 in 2012) and Logan (3,720 units sold in May). The Duster totals 49 percent of the cars exported by Romania while Logan doubled its exports as against last year with 18.209 sold (9,893 in 2011). Dacia tops the sells chart of new cars in Romania in the first five months of the year, followed by Volkswagen, Skoda, Renault, Ford and Hyundai.

Tragic Ski Girl Dies
A 10-year-old British schoolgirl has died after skiing into a tree at high speed during a family holiday tragedy in the Austrian Alps.

Peak Performance
Police chiefs in Hamburg, Germany, are celebrating after new crime figures showed there wasn't a single bank robbery in the city last year.

Chinese Fakeaway
Chinese property developers who've been thwarted in a bid to buy up an entire Austrian village have settled on the next best thing - an entire life-sized replica.

Austrian children help Romanian kids
A charity project run by the middle school in Hippach has been recognised with an award for its social work by officials in Tyrol.

Mother kills disabled daughter because she couldnt take care of her any longer
A Romanian woman killed her 8 year-old disabled daughter on Wednesday (yesterday)because she couldn't pay for her care, Libertatea newspaper reports.

Policeman accused of sex with the son of his girlfriend
A Policeman from Vulcan, Western Romania is currently being investigated for having sex with a minor, the son of his girlfriend, Cancan newspaper informs today (Thurs).

Serial killer survivor walks away alive after fall
An 85 year-old woman who survived the most cruel and notorious serial killer in Romania some 40 years ago, recently fell from the first floor of her apartment building and she walked away safe and sound, Cancan newspaper reports today (Thurs).

The son of Qatar Airlines BA beaten up in Romania
The son of the Board of Administration of Qatar Airlines Akbar Al Baker, was beaten up over the weekend at the launching party of a posh club in Mamaia, at the Romanian Black Sea shore, Cancan newspaper reports.

Majority starts president’s suspension procedures
A day after the Social Liberal Union (USL) legislators dismissed with a large majority of votes the two Speakers of the Parliament, the Union started today the procedures for the suspension and possible impeachment of President Traian Basescu. This is the second time when the Parliament asks for Basescu’s suspension.

Some 177 Roma repatriated by French authorities to Romania
Some 177 Romanian citizens of Roma origin were repatriated on Tuesday night from Lille, France, Romania TV news channel informs today (Weds).