A 23-year-old Romanian faces legal consequences for driving his car into an Alpine authority official.The 67-year-old Austrian ordered the young man to stop as he was travelling on a cycling path outside Inzing near Innsbruck in Tyrol on Sunday afternoon. The Romanian however hit his accelerator, knocked the man down and drove off.He was tracked […]
The Austrian foreign affairs ministry has warned about travelling to Syria.The ministry said yesterday (Mon) Austrians were recommended not to go to the Western Asian country “if not absolutely necessary.”Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in the states biggest cities to call for democracy in the past few days.The Austrian foreign ministry […]
VW emission feud sparks legal action
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Porsche Austria Holding GmbH (PH) has vowed to take the Austrian Traffic Club (VCÖ) to court as political leaders and non-government organisations (NGO) unite behind the traffic research group.PH announced it will sue VCÖ for providing allegedly incorrect data concerning carbon emission rates of Volkswagen (VW) models. PH, which is based in Salzburg, is part […]
More building sector businesses go bust
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The number of construction industry companies opting for controlled insolvency is on the rise, figures presented today (Tues) show.The Austrian Creditors Protection Association of 1870 (KSV 1870) said 204 building firms went bust in the first three months of this year, around 31 per cent more than in the same time span of 2010.Only some […]
TA rebuffed by Serbia
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All eyes are on Telekom Austria (TA) after the Serbian government rejected a first takeover offer.TA announced last week it was ready to transfer “between 800 million and 950 million Euros” for a 51 per cent stake in Serbian telecommunications provider Telekom Srbija. No other firm handed in an official offer after rivals from France, […]
A vast majority of Austrians claim to engage in recycling their garbage, it was revealed today (Tues).A study carried out by the European Commission (EC) shows that 97 per cent of Austrians say they recycle some of their household waste. This share helps Austria to a joint first place among the 27 member states of […]
Voestalpine ups research expenditure
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Linz-based steel industry firm Voestalpine AG has decided to increase its research budget.The company announced today (Tues) it will pour 120 million Euros into firm-internal research projects in the 2011/2012 business year which starts this Friday (1 April), around 10 per cent more than in the current business year. Voestalpine pointed out that it has […]
Pensioner’s legs stuck in motor hoe
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Surgeons at a Viennese clinic are fighting to save a mans legs after a dramatic gardening accident.Both of the 75-year-old pensioners legs got jammed in the motor hoe as he was working in his garden in Laa an der Thaya, Lower Austria, yesterday morning (Mon).The mans wife called an ambulance, before a local doctor decided […]
A woman suffered serious burns when a pan of boiling oil caught fire yesterday (Mon).The 22-year-old wanted to prepare schnitzels for herself and a male friend, 22, at his apartment in Villach, Carinthia. She sustained burns on both her hands and face when she threw the burning pan on the balcony. The woman is recovering […]
Truck stopped over safety concerns
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A lorry driver was reprimanded for ignoring cargo safety rules.Police in the province of Salzburg said today (Tues) that tree trunks on the trailer of the truck from the German state of Bavaria were not secured with lashing straps or chains.Traffic police officers issued a report to provincial prosecutors after stopping the driver in Eugendorf […]