Parents of first-formers are bracing themselves to spend hundreds of Euros in the coming weeks, a poll has shown. Public opinion agency Integral announced today (Weds) people whose kids started school next month were expecting to fork out 400 Euros on various goods such as writing utensils and schoolbags. The agency pointed out that a […]
Budget freeze ‘to affect AKH’
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Vienna Medical University (MedUni) head Wolfgang Schütz has warned of a negative impact on services provided to residents of the Vienna region and patients at Austria’s largest clinic if the government refuses to increase its subsidies. The Republic of Austria has supported Vienna’s General Hospital (AKH) with 270 million Euros since 2010. Schütz said today […]
Ring backs East Africa drought aid
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A tradition-rich bakery has decided to support an Austrian relief organisation’s operation in East Africa. Millions of residents of Somalia and other countries of the impoverished area need water, food and logistical support as the region experiences one of the worst droughts in history. Now bakery chain Ring announced it will transfer one Euro to […]
Free entry with free card in Salzburg
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The travel desk has had a reminder for anybody hoping to finally start to enjoy the summer weather which has arrived very late this year that the free “Seenland Card” is still available and valid until the end of September. The card can be picked up for free at all of the following locations by […]
The Austrian Post will start testing domestic drop off boxes to receive packages when the receiver is not at home. The boxes will be placed close to the existing postboxes. If a package receiver is not at home, he will get a notification and a code card with which to operate the drop off box. […]
A female police officer accidentally killed a homeless man by shoving him down a flight of stairs. On Monday night, workers of the charity DOWAS for homeless people in Bregenz, Vorarlberg called the police after trying to eject a drunk homeless woman from the charity’s emergency night shelter, DOWAS boss Michael Dittrich said. When the […]
Walter Anzboeck, the liquidator of Josef Fritzl’s estate said the cellar of the house where Fritzl imprisoned and repeatedly raped his daughter for 24 years will be filled up with concrete. Anzboeck said the move was to ensure the space could never be entered again. He said in a statement on Friday that concrete will […]
The US website Daily FX Market News and Analysis reported today that Austria may well be the next victim of the Euro zone debt crisis. This has to do with Eastern and Central European countries having taken a good part of their debt in Swiss Francs to take advantage of Switzerland’s low interest rates. Daily […]
The two-year-old son of an Italian family visiting a church in Spitz was hit by the 200 pound holy water cauldron and was seriously injured. Police said that during the family’s visit to the parish church in Spitz in the Krems district of Lower Austria on Wednesday noon the little boy pulled himself up on […]
Crane manufacturer Palfinger AG has said it plans to get busier in Russia and China as its turnover and profit increased in the first half of this year. The Salzburg-based company announced today (Weds) its turnover shot up by 39.3 per cent from the first six months of 2010 to the same period of 2011 […]