The number of people failing to find a job for a long time is in decline, new figures show.Social Democratic (SPÖ) Labour Minister Rudolf Hundstorfer said today (Mon) that 5,037 of all of last months jobseekers had been out of work for more than a year. The minister pointed out that this number was 30.2 […]
Neo-Nazi posters removed
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A special police unit is investigating after posters called for the release of an arrested fascist were erected at a busy road.Large banners with German slogans that can be translated as “Freedom for Gottfried Küssel!” and “Let our comrade free!” were eliminated after motorists driving along the B37 near Krems, Lower Austria, informed local police […]
League title within Bulls’ roar again
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Rapid Vienna fans were left frustrated as their team suffered a bitter home defeat against Red Bull Salzburg (RBS) yesterday (Sun).Neither of the teams who clashed in front of 17,500 supporters among them former Rapid star Erwin Hoffer, Austrian national team coach Dietmar Constantini and ORF presenter Armin Assinger at the sold-out Gerhard […]
DHL centre opens at VIA
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A subsidiary company of Deutsche Post AG has opened a logistics and competence centre in Austria.German postal services provider Deutsche Post said today (Mon) its express mail branch DHLs Global Forwarding department started operating a cold warehouse at Vienna International Airport (VIA).Deutsche Post explained DHL will store temperature-sensitive products at the site but also work […]
Eight in 10 rule out ÖVP win
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A vast majority think that the Peoples Party (ÖVP) has no chance to come first in the next elections.Research group Karmasin questioned 500 Austrians for political magazine profil. The agency said today (Mon) that 48 per cent of interviewed citizens think the conservative party “will rather not” come out on top in the next federal […]
Incest monster Josef Fritzl’s house of horror is to be torn down this week.The house on the Ybbsstrasse in Amstetten, Austria, became a world-wide symbol of evil when it was revealed that perverted Fritzl had kept his daughter Elisabeth there as a sex slave for 24-years in a secret dungeon under the family home.The liquidator […]
London Array order for Voestalpine
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An industrial company based in the Upper Austrian city of Linz has been assigned to deliver 20,000 tons of steel for a new offshore wind farm in the United Kingdom.Voestalpine AG said today (Fri) it was contracted to produce and deliver sheet metal objects weighing 20,000 tons altogether for German technology company Siemens AG which […]
Skiing deaths down sharply
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Significantly fewer people lost their lives on slopes in the Austrian mountains in the past winter holiday period.The Austrian Committee for Alpine Safety (KfAS) said today (Fri) 33 skiers and snowboarders were killed. With 48 people, most of last winters victims died on prepared pistes. The organisation added that 96 people lost their lives on […]
The head of a railway company which plans to challenge Federal Railways (ÖBB) from December has said that his firms trains will have facilities for smokers.Stefan Wehinger, chief of Westbahn which will operate 13 times a day between Vienna and Salzburg, said today (Fri) that wagons will be equipped with “smoker cabins.”Speaking to the Kurier […]
Writers are outraged by news that Viennas libraries plan to get rid of hundreds of thousands of books.The IG Autoren, a group of authors, said in an open letter published today (Fri) it feared that the libraries will ban less popular works “which do not match the mainstream of the bestseller literature business.”A spokesman for […]