Women’s Run Vienna a boost for health and tourism industry

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Sports

Around 20,000 women are expected to take part in the 23rd Frauenlauf women’s run at Vienna’s Prater park next month.A new record was set last year as more than 18,000 registered participants took part.The tourism industry is expecting a boost from the 30 May event too since runners from 70 different countries led to soaring […]

Austrian culture festival opens in Osijek

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Culture

A three-day event promoting Austrian culture opened at the Archaeological Museum of Osijek, Croatia, yesterday (Thurs).Organizers of the Austrian Cultural Forum Festival are the Croatian-Austrian Association in Osijek, the Austrian Cultural Forum and their partners in both countries. They said the event’s purpose was to promote artistic dialogue between Croatia and Austria.Croatian Times quotes Jan […]

‘Nanny’ Fran Drescher to attend Vienna cancer fundraiser

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Lifestyle

American actress Fran Drescher (“The Nanny”) will attend the 10 April cancer fund-raising gala “Dancer against Cancer” at the Vienna Hofburg, it was announced today (Weds).Drescher, who attended the 2009 Life Ball in Vienna, will arrive in Vienna on 9 April and attend a cocktail party that evening. It is not known how long she […]

Fans to decide about Donauinselfest line-up

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Travel

Music fans are being given the chance to decide about a part of the line-up at the biggest free of charge music festival in Europe.Organisers of the Vienna Donauinselfest said people can select 26 bands to perform on six of the event’s dozen stages on the festival’s website, www.donauinselfest.atThe “Rock The Island Talent Contest” voting […]

Charlie Chaplin’s granddaughter to attend Vienna fashion event

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Culture

British model Kiera Sunshine Chaplin will attend the event on 15 March at Vienna’s Museum Quarter at which the Vienna Awards for Fashion & Lifestyle will be announced, it emerged yesterday (Weds).Chaplin, the granddaughter of late actor Charlie Chaplin, will receive a Special Lifestyle Icon award at the event.Marjan Firouz, who is handling public relations […]

Top TV figures for scandal-free Opera Ball

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Lifestyle

The live coverage of last night’s (Thurs) Opera Ball has given the ORF top market shares.The national broadcaster announced today up to 1.6 million people watched its broadcasting of the ball’s opening ceremony, adding that an average 1.43 million tuned in for the programme. ORF bosses said these figures mean a market share of 58 […]