Upper Austrian fruit and vegetable producer efko is considering cooperating with a Bulgarian company as an increase in turnover is expected for this year.Company chief Gerald Hackl said today (Thurs) turnover rose by 16 per cent year on year to 118.3 million Euros in 2009, adding that another three-per-cent increase was expected for 2010.Hackl said […]
Austrian building top dog Strabag said construction of a Croatian port would be finished by 2013.The Vienna-based company has been engaged in building the new Gazenica port in the Dalmatian city of Zadar since May 2009.Firm officials said today (Thurs) it had also been assigned to lead procedures in the second stage of the project […]
By John Morris in Washignton DCInnovation was the buzz word at this years SAE World Conference at Detroit, 13-15th April 2010 which saw a very strong Austrian presence through main congress sponsors AVL and MAGNA, the Austrian automotive suppliers. US company FORD announced a joint venture with the Styrian company MAGNA to produce the battery […]
A fire broke out at the Russian Embassy in Vienna this morning (Thurs), it has been announced.Officials at the Landstraße district fire department said no one was injured by the blaze around 7am.Firemen quickly managed to extinguish the fire which broke out for unclear reasons.Experts are now set to investigate the site to find out […]
An 83-year-old woman punched and bit two policemen as she faced being banned from the roads in Styrias Bruck an der Mur district yesterday (Thurs).The pensioner who failed to present a driving licence during a routine traffic check on the B116 main road near Kapfenberg, lashed out at the officers when they asked her to […]
Bakery staff were given suspended sentences yesterday (Weds) after they sold a bottle of mineral water filled with detergent last year.David D. is still recovering from taking one gulp from the bottle he bought at the shop in Grafenschachen in Burgenlands Oberwart district last November.The bakerys 40-year-old boss told judges at Eisenstadts provincial court that […]
Five teenage would-be muggers did a runner after their judo champion victim proved his skills when they tried taking his mobile.The gang fled as the boy, 15, punched one of the attackers in the face in the after-school incident in Graz yesterday (Weds).The unharmed teenager then went to the next police station to report the […]
Volksbank bosses have denied reports the bank faces nationalisation as losses soared dramatically last year.Volksbank AG (ÖVAG) chief Gerald Wenzel said the search for a strategic partner was ongoing in the banks bid to pay back the millions of state aid it received over the past few months to get through the economic crisis.Wenzel refused […]
An American neurologist wants to scan the brain of incest beast Josef Fritzl, it has emerged.Kent Kiehl is quoted in Austrian press today (Thurs) as saying: “I want to clarify why criminals can torture, rape and kill without showing any sympathy for their victims.”The New Mexico-based expert has examined the brains of 1,200 murderers who […]
A drug-addicted doctor who provided drug addicts in therapy with cocaine walked free from a Vienna court yesterday (Weds).Judge Patrick Aulebauer heard how suspended doc Peter A. supplied his patients with drugs before he was banned for life from the Doctors Chamber.Asked by the judge why he harmed his patients medical progress – who are […]