Two young men who injured more than a dozen people with an air-powered gun in Vienna in the past weeks will be kept in custody. Crime officials in the city said yesterday (Mon) the friends, both aged 20, would remain in detention for another two weeks when judges would decide over whether they would be […]
Five times more students will start courses at Austria’s universities when the semester starts next week than in 1970, statistics have shown. Official data presented by Statistik Austria on Wednesday revealed that more than 265,000 people will study at the country’s universities and colleges in the upcoming semester. This is a strong increase compared to […]
More than 20,000 Euros are promised for information exposing a sniper who is currently creating fear in Vienna. The single perpetrator or gang has injured 14 people since 25 August at different locations in numerous districts. In three more cases, cars were damaged. The most recent attack was registered on 16 September. Now the Federal […]
Employee representatives are outraged as a cable TV and internet connection provider registered 90 workers with the Labour Market Service (AMS). Vienna-based UPC confirmed yesterday (Weds) that the staff could be dismissed. The firm argued it was in the middle of a “phase of restructuring”. UPC currently employs 1,000 staff, down from 1,100 last year. […]
Lawmakers have presented a new awareness campaign to further increase kids’ safety in cars as the number of unprotected young passengers is in decline. Social Democratic (SPÖ) Traffic Minister Doris Bures announced yesterday (Weds) 5,526 drivers were reprimanded or fined for failing to buckle up children in their vehicles last year, down sharply from 2007 […]
Austrian tourism officials have revealed plans to increase their focus on Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Around 10 per cent of vacationers choosing Austria come from the region, up from just four per cent 15 years ago. Now the Austrian Tourism Marketing Agency (ÖW) announced it would launch a new promotion campaign in countries like […]
Bosses of Austria’s strongest right-wing faction are struggling to settle an intense party-internal dispute which experts say poses a risk to its grasp for power. Freedom Party (FPÖ) leader Heinz-Christian Strache and Norbert Hofer, Strache’s deputy, recently announced that member of the parliament (MP) Werner Königshofer will be expelled over a string of controversial claims. […]
President of the Austria for Africa Association John Morris looks at the crisis in Africa and asks what can be done in this special report. Like me, do you look at Africa and feel De je vu? History seems to be repeating itself in East Africa: drought, famine, civil wars, excessively high unemployment, more than […]
The number of requests for political asylum in Austria by people from North Africa has increased in the wake of the unrest in the region, new figures show. Official statistics presented today (Tues) reveal that 23 Libyans asked for asylum in Austria between January and June of this year. Only two refugees from the civil […]
Hackers nicked significantly more data from a subsidiary of Austrian broadcaster ORF than officials initially admitted, it has emerged. A spokesman for GIS, the ORF’s radio and TV fee agency, announced today (Tues) 214,000 customer data sets were stolen in the attack last week. He added that 96,000 of the data featured clients’ bank account […]