Austrian lift systems producer Doppelmayr has received the biggest assignment in its 118-year history.The Wolfurt-based company said today (Mon) its US American subsidiary DCC Doppelmayr Cable Car (DCC) was part of a consortium contracted to build a cable liner in the Californian city of Oakland.Doppelmayr said work would be completed in 2014, adding that the […]
Around 6,000 immigrants have opened accounts at Erste Bank in the past three years following a groundbreaking project targeting foreigners.Peter Thier, a spokesman for the institute, said today (Fri): “Our pilot project worked so well that we decided to keep and expand it.”He explained five clerks speaking Serbian, Croatian and Turkish worked in branches in […]
Viennas political leaders have been harshly attacked for their decision to ask homeless people to pay for staying at city-funded lodgings.Social Democratic (SPÖ) councillor Sonja Wehsely said today (Weds) homeless people would have to cough up four Euros for every night they spend at the capitals subsidised emergency shelters from November.The councillor whose party […]
A celebrated Austrian film director will turn a convicted murderers life story into a movie, it has emerged.Robert Dornhelm is reportedly already engaged in pre-production preparations for a TV film project with the working title “The Amanda Knox Story”.The film set to be screened next year will be based on the life of […]
A German Bundesliga team already employing two Austrians have set their sights on another fellow countryman the green keeper of the Salzburg town where they held their pre-season training camp this summer.Mainz 05 coach Thomas Tuchel has complained for weeks about the state of the pitch at the clubs home ground. Now a German […]
Social Democratic (SPÖ) Vienna financial affairs councillor Renate Brauner has rubbished rumours she was set to enter Vienna International Airports (VIA) board.Speculations Brauner would leave politics to become a member of the board of Flughafen Wien AG, the company managing VIA, have lingered on for weeks as decision-makers at the airport have come under pressure […]
Vienna International Airport (VIA) decision-makers are under fire after details of an Audit Office (RH) investigation into the delayed construction of a new terminal were revealed.Viennese daily Kurier reports today (Mon) that bosses at Flughafen Wien AG the firm which manages the airport failed to react instantly when first technical difficulties with submitted […]
Vienna police have announced plans to cooperate with the citys hotels more closely in a bid to tackle crime.Police official Walter Hladik said today (Fri) they would get in touch with all four and five star resorts in eight of capitals 23 districts to create tighter connections in an attempt to cut down the number […]
Remorseful thieves returned an Austrian familys pet dog after making off with their caravan, it has emerged.Corinna G. from Baden, Lower Austria, said today (Fri) she had driven to the Italian city of Pisa earlier this week after being informed that family canine “Micky” had been found leashed to a fence at the campsite where […]
Social Democratic (SPÖ) Education Minister Claudia Schmied is in hot water for splashing out more than 350,000 Euros on ads in a Viennese tabloid in less than two years.A parliamentary request by Freedom Party (FPÖ) MP Walter Rosenkranz forced the education ministry to announce that it had spent 365,271.56 Euros on “information campaigns” in free […]