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Prime Minister Victor Ponta announced on Thursday a raise of the minimum gross wage to 1,200 lei in 2016, following an advance to 1,050 lei in July this year. (current exchange rate 1 leu = 0.225 euros).

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The monthly average net nominal earnings were 1,743 lei in November in Romania, up 38 lei from October, a release of the National Institute of Statistics (INS) informed AGERPRES on Monday.

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Hidroelectrica recorded, after the first 11 months of 2014, a record profit of 1.073 billion lei, up by 28% from the same period of last year, when the company posted a profit of 841 million lei, a company's release informs on Monday.

The Romanian national airline TAROM has earmarked investments of 59.31 million lei (1 leu = 0.2272 euro) in its 2014 revenue and expenditure budget published in the Official Journal.

The document includes a forecast of a 116.8 million lei estimated losses.

The Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History in Bucharest opened an exhibition of live tropical butterfly exhibition on Sunday; a museum's release informed AGERPRES that the rare 'Butterfly World' event will stage exotic species from southeastern Asia, Central and South America, and equatorial Africa until the end of August.