Romanian bank Banca Transilvania has plans to get listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange (WBAG), online newspaper Romanian Times has reported.The news platform reports today (Fri) that the possible move will be discussed at a shareholders meeting on 28 April.The institute has been traded on the Bucharest Stock Exchange since 1997.The European Bank for Reconstruction […]
Real estate developer Warimpex fell deeply into the red last year, company bosses announced today (Weds).Franz Jurkowitsch, head of the Vienna-based firm that focuses on hotel development in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), said it had lost 71.77 million Euros in 2009 compared to losses of 3.41 million Euros in the previous year.Jurkowitsch said that […]
Raiffeisen Internationals (RI) Romanian subsidiary suffered 75 per cent year on year losses in 2009, it has been announced.Online newspaper Romanian Times has reported today (Weds) that Raiffeisen Bank Romania had a net profit of 40 million Euros last year. The institute also reported losses of two million Euros in the last quarter of 2009.The […]
A Lower Austrian ski tourer was rescued with a rope via helicopter after falling 250 metres at a steep snow-covered area in the Dachstein region today (Tues).The injured 42-year-old woman was hospitalised in Schladming, Styria, rescue operation group ÖAMTC said.Local officials said the woman who was on a ski tour with her husband […]
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 […]
A workers head was nearly crushed at his workplace when it got stuck between the rear axle of a truck and a jack, police said.The worker, 19, from Fürstenfeld district, was standing in a pit below a truck on which he was working when the incident occurred in Styrias Hartberg district yesterday (Tues).The mans screams […]
Customers would be the most affected party if the government decides to set up a new tax for insurance companies, a top branch representative has warned.Günter Geyer, Vienna Insurance Group (VIG) chairman and head of the federal insurance companies association, said today (Weds): “Eighty per cent of the money managed by insurance companies belongs to […]
A 70-year-old German skier died yesterday (Weds) after skiing off piste and hitting a tree at the Bergeralm ski area in Tyrols Innsbruck-Land district, police said.The accident occurred at around 2pm. Rescuers were unable to help the man, who died on the spot owing to severe head and chest injuries.
Six apprentices have been working at a hotel on Wörther Lake in Carinthia without heating or warm water in their rooms, according to the provincial Labour Chamber (AK).AK added that none of them had received any training as receptionists, cooks or waiters and a 16-year-old female apprentice had to prepare washing water in a water […]
A 23-year-old skier from the Netherlands was hospitalised with head injuries after crashing on a piste at a Tyrolean resort yesterday (Weds).Police in Sölden said the man fell over on the difficult “black slope” after losing control of his skis and landed on his head and shoulders on the icy piste. He was knocked out […]