HTI on road to recovery as WBAG switch nears

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Internationally operating technology group HTI High Tech Industries AG (HTI) managed to reduce its losses as the firm gets ready to enter the Vienna Stock Exchange’s (WBAG) Prime Market.The Linz-based company is currently quoted on the WBAG’s Mid Market. Its stocks will be traded on the Prime Market of the WBAG on 1 May. One […]

Salzburg sets up free WLAN

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Political decision-makers in other Austrian tourism hotspots may be pressed to act after Salzburg’s officials introduced free wireless local area network (WLAN) internet access.City officials said today (Thurs) residents and holidaymakers can enter the World Wide Web (WWW) free of charge with their laptops, notebooks, tablets, PCs and smartphones at three popular places in the […]

Tractor-driving farmer falls down embankment

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A farmer was hospitalised after he suffered an accident with his tractor yesterday (Weds).The 48-year-old man was driving his tractor up a pass road near Taxenbach in Salzburg’s Pinzgau region when the vehicle and the manure tank it was towing overturned on a bend.The farmer sustained undisclosed injuries when the tractor and the trailer plunged […]

Verbund turnover shoots up

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Business

Verbund AG has achieved a better turnover and higher earnings.The company – Austria’s busiest energy provider – said today (Thurs) its turnover rose by 13.8 per cent to 917.7 million Euros from the first quarter of last year to the same period of 2011. The firm added that earnings before interest and taxes (Ebit) jumped […]

Builders find WWI grenades

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Two hand grenades have been discovered during construction works in Vienna.Shocked workers called the police when they found the missiles at a building site in Vienna-Margareten yesterday (Weds).Police officers consulted explosives experts of the interior ministry for assistance. The specialists defused the World War One (WWI) grenades. No one was injured.Around 28 tons of unexploded […]

Salzburg man dies under axed tree

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A 44-year-old woodworker was killed by a falling tree yesterday (Weds).The incident occurred during woodcutting activities at a forestry estate outside Leogang, Salzburg, police said today. The man was pronounced dead by an emergency doctor when the medic reached the scene of the accident.Earlier this month, a 21-year-old worker died in woodland near Bad Gastein, […]

Raiffeisen confirms Pröll talks

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A Raiffeisen manager has fuelled speculations that former People’s Party (ÖVP) boss Josef Pröll could join the finance industry giant.Erwin Hameseder, head of Raiffeisenlandesbank Lower Austria-Vienna, said today (Weds) representatives of the bank discussed future options with the agricultural economist.Pröll retired from all his political functions – vice chancellor, finance minister and party leader – […]

Girl may make full recovery after dog attack

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A two-year-old girl underwent surgery after she was bitten in the face by a dog.The child was attacked by a friend’s Border Collie at a garden party in Dornbirn, Vorarlberg, yesterday (Tues). The canine reportedly bit the kid when she tried to catch a tennis ball herself and that others had thrown into the air.The […]

American clocked at 280 kph

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Police seized the licence of a motorist who was caught bombing along at 280 kilometres per hour (kph) on a motorway in Upper Austria.The US American citizen was also issued with an undisclosed fine for breaching the 130 kph speed limit on the A1 western motorway near Oberwand in his Aston Martin sports car on […]

Ruby to hit slopes in Tyrol

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An exotic dancer who has been in the centre of the sex scandal involving Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will go skiing in Austria tomorrow (Thurs).A spokesman for Karima El Mahrough – better known as Ruby the Heart Stealer – said today that the 18-year-old will hit the slopes in the Tyrolean winter sports resort […]