Luigi Restaurant Cooks Up Delicious Delights For Winter Season

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General News

Brothers Luigi and Leo Doci who own the renowned Luigi restaurant chain will be cooking up a storm in Semmering this winter. These two top restaurateurs will be providing catering services through the “Luigi Gastronomy” branch of their company to make the winter season even more delicious in the town of Semmering in Lower Austria, […]

Carnuntum Experience: 13 days of celebrations

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Culture

The Carnuntum Experience in Bruck an der Leitha is celebrating a fest – for 19 days food, wine and the region is being celebrated. The wine growing region is around 1000 hectares in size and between August 14th and September 1st there are 70 different events everything from White Wine Fashion, a party all in […]

Help an Austrian initiative to support survivors of the cyclone Mahasen

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Culture

The cyclone Mahasen hit the Southeastern coast region of Bangladesh and Burma yesterday (Thurs). The Austrian non-profit initiative HOPE’87 is currently doing its best to ensure the supply of the evacuated people from the affected regions. Cyclones, which are tropical thunderstorms in the Indian Ocean and in parts of the Pacific, are very common in […]

Teachers to get hands on training on farms

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Education

Future teachers will get their knowledge directly from farms. Students of teacher training colleges will learn practical things about how modern agriculture works. They will be able to teach their future students. The project “School on Farms” has already been established. Future teachers will now go to farms in order to fill gaps in their […]

Halloween means pumpkin fun for Viennas elephants

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Vienna Schönbrunn zoo will be celebrating Halloween as part of their golden autumn festival running from 20 October to 1 November. On offer for visitors will be the opportunity for kids to build Halloween decorations, organic products will be on sale and special workshops are also being arranged for the kids. In the zoo’s elephant […]

Fast food and clean homes to blame for allergy increase

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Lifestyle

Paediatricians at Vienna’s Medical University have raised the alarm about an increase of a third in the number of child allergy sufferers – blaming fast food and excessive hygiene. The experts say that the allergies are a growing problem for children and even food allergies are on the increase, as well as the more common […]

Gastein congress tackles fat tax question

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New statistics released last month reveal every fifth child between the age of 11 and 13 in Austria is overweight, five per cent are obese. These figures represent a 40 per cent increase over the last 16 years. If these trends continue they will reach epidemic levels. The Austrian Green Party is pressing for higher […]

Minister wants rethink over GM foods after rat death study

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Politics

Austria’s minister for agriculture and the environment has called on the European Commission to review its approval process for genetically modified (GM) food after a controversial French study linked a kind of GM corn to higher health risks in rats. French scientists said that rats fed on Monsanto’s GM corn or exposed to its top-selling […]

Austrian docs cure boys eating phobia

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General News

A young boy who has been unable to eat or drink anything for five years due to a severe phobia has finally taken his first sips thanks to Austrian doctors. English lad Daniel Harrison, 5, would not let anything pass his lips – even though there is nothing physically stopping him. According to the Daily […]

Austrian McDonalds killer on trial

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A court case has started in Germany after a disagreement at a McDonalds in Münich an which a man was killed after being punched by an Austrian. The German businessman Giacomo A., 41, had been attacked by the unemployed Austrian David M.,25, at the McDonalds on 30th July last year. It was as the businessman […]