A group of Moldovan youth launched the project MoonShot, which will give to everyone the possibility to send a message to the Moon. The project presentation took place in the Moldova ICT Excellence Center "Tekwill" on Monday.

The Moldovan Parliament has approved, in a final reading, the new “Code of Audiovisual Services in the Republic of Moldova”, better known under the name of “Audiovisual Code”. Adopted on Thursday, the Code includes a number of new provisions on the principles of audiovisual communications.

The Salcuta company from the name-sake village in the Stefan-Voda raion was declared winner of the 2018 Grand Prix in the field of winemaking.

A delegation of Moldovan athletes and coaches departed to Buenos Aires on Wednesday for participation in the Summer Youth Olympics 2018, which will take place in Argentina on October 6 through 18.

The Euro TV channel is changing its name into Televiziunea Centrala - the Central Television.

The 4th Olympic ECO Fest will take place in the territory of the Chisinau park "Valea Morilor" on Saturday. It is organized by the National Olympic and Sports Committee (NOSC) and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sciences of Moldova.

One can taste for free wines, presented in the Chisinau main square on the Wine Day on October 6-7, only after buying of a “Ticket of Taster”, which costs 150 lei if bought beforehand and 200 lei – if bought at the very event.

The European Heritage Days (EHD) will be held on September 24 through 28 in 64 localities of 20 raions of Moldova, announced Minister of Education, Culture and Research Monica Babuc.

An improvised township where children can learn about traffic rules has opened in the town of Rezina on Friday on funds, provided by the Federal Government of Germany. The opening ceremony was attended by German consul in Moldova Julia Konrad, Chairwoman of the Rezina Raion Eleonora Graur and head of the General Police Inspectorate Alexandru Pinzari.

A new school year has started in all Moldovan educational institutions on Monday. Solemn gatherings were held to mark this day in country schools and lyceums this morning. Many such gatherings were attended by republic heads, MPs, ministers, politicians.

On Monday – the Moldova Independence Day, the republic rulers laid flowers to the Stefan cel Mare monument under the indignant whistles of protesters, kept by police away from the monument.

“My Soul Bessarabia” is the name of the collection of Moldovan poetry published in Toronto city by Maria Tonu, a citizen of Moldova, in English and Romanian. The book presentation was held in the Onisifor Ghibu Library of Chisinau on Thursday evening. Arcadie Suceveanu, Chairman of the Moldovan Writers’ Union, said at the ceremony that the anthology covers the Moldovan literature with a broad spectrum of the representatives of various generations. Literature writer Leo Butnaru welcomed the publication and voiced confidence that it will present the Moldovan poetry to people living on other continents.

The 16th annual painting camp opened on August 9 in the village of Parcova, the Edinet Raion, where six artists from Moldova and Romania will bring together.

A youth festival on the occasion of the International Youth Day will be held in Chisinau on August 11.

The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to the Republic of Moldova, H.E. Mr. Zhang Yinghong, has handed in to 9 Moldovan students official notifications on their enrolment into Chinese universities and on granting Chinese governmental stipends to them.

A Chisinau court has fined the Guteks Company for advertising carpets with sexual and sexist overtones on a Facebook page. The claim has been considered at the request of the Competitive Council, which filed a legal claim for bringing the company to responsibility.

More than 100 Moldova citizens, living abroad, together with Moldovan economic agents transferred about 200 thousand lei for the reconstruction of a school in the village of Aliatu - the Taraclia Raion’s only educational institution working in the Romanian language.
According to the pro-Romanian unionist association Unirea – ODIP, which is the initiator of the repair works, during three months six classrooms have been repaired, as well as the classroom for music lessons, two laboratories (physics and biology) and the school library.

The multifunctional sport and cultural complex “Chisinau-Arena” will be built by a Turkish company “Summa”, announced Minister of Economy and Infrastructure Chiril Gaburici. He reminded that almost 70 ha of land in the Chisinau suburb was allocated for the building, 10 ha of which are designed for the very arena.

Director of the Bureau for Ties with Diaspora Olga Coptu wrote about her resignation on Facebook.

The Moldova National Library has for the first time organized a Day of Japanese Culture on Tuesday, holding a whole range of activities for this.