The Austrian branch of US American computer software and technology giant Microsoft has revealed plans to move into new headquarter offices.Microsoft Austria currently resides in an office complex in Vienna-Meidling. The firm said today (Weds) it wanted to relocate to a building in Favoriten districts Wienerberg area this autumn. The firm said the new location […]
A Tyrolean has been sentenced to jail for molesting a young British holidaymaker.The man worked as a driver of a private shuttle service offered by hotel managers to their guests in the town of Alpbach.A 15-year-old teenager from Manchester accused the man of fondling her breasts while she played table tennis with a friend at […]
Vienna Archbishop Christoph Cardinal Schönborn said today (Mon) he shared the concern of Eisenstadt Bishop Paul Ibys concern about mandatory celibacy for Roman Catholic priests.”The concern that Bishop Iby expressed is shared by all of us (Austrian bishops), and I am happy to be in a Church in which there is freedom of speech and […]
Opinion leaders and business chiefs from all over the world will take part in an international conference on technologies of the future in Vienna next week.The Austrian Economic Chamber (WKO) announced British bestselling author Ray Hammond as well as members of leading think tanks and company bosses are set to speak at “TECH FORCE 2010” […]
Pop star Pink will not attend the this year’s Life Ball, organisers of the Vienna AIDS charity event said today (Mon), dismissing claims made by newspaper Österreich.Gery Keszler, head organiser of the 17 July bash, said: “It pains me that four months before the Life Ball society reporting is reducing the importance of our most […]
Organisers of the International AIDS Conference to be held in Vienna later this year said the events focus would be on marginalised groups with the disease like drug addicts in Eastern Europe (EE).Michel Sidibe, head of UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, said yesterday (Weds) that the conference would be held “for people […]