Burgenland police warned people today (Mon) against purchasing smuggled Asian chainsaws being sold on the street by Eastern Europeans, mostly Romanians, as STIHL products.The saws, produced in Asia and smuggled into Europe by sea, sell for 25 Euros at home but are being hawked in Austria at a price of 300 Euros under a fake […]
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A Mon Chéri praline left on the windscreen of a Styrian female mayors car last Saturday was not poisonous, provincial authorities said today (Fri).In an earlier incident, another Mon Chéri praline left on the windscreen of Mayor Hannes Hirtzbergers car in Spitz, Lower Austria, on 9 February 2008 was laced with strychnine. He became brain […]
Businessmen in better mood
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The mood among businessmen in Austrias retail trade sector has improved, according to consulting firm KMU Forschung Austria.Georg Toifl, the head of its retail trade division, said today (Fri): “We are experiencing a trend reversal.”He said business would continue to pick up in the second quarter of 2010 but warned against “euphoria” since investment was […]
A Lower Austrian teenager broke his leg when he fell 15 metres out of a window he had opened because he felt sick.Officials in Klosterneuburg said today (Thurs) Christian V. had left his classroom at the BR/BRG Buchbergergasse to go to the toilet. On his way there, he opened a window in the hallway for […]
Raiffeisen Romania suffers massive losses
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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 […]
Tyrolean police are hunting for a driver who managed to escape by foot after a wild road chase on Saturday.Cops in the province said today (Mon) the man had caused a trail of destruction after he fled from a police check point at high speed near Innsbruck.He then crashed through a road block going around […]
Family-owned German clothing chain Peek & Cloppenburg (P&C) said today (Weds) it would continue expanding in Austria.The firm recently opened a 5,000 square metre store at the Tyrol shopping centre in Innsbruck and today opened a 6,700 square metre store at Shopping City Süd (SCS) in Vienna-Vösendorf. P&C is planning to open one at Viennas […]
Police in Austria registered almost 100 tip offs by people in the case of Madeleine McCann who went missing at a Portuguese holiday resort in 2007.Alexander Marakovits, a spokesman for the Federal Crime Office (BK), said today (Tues) almost 100 people got in touch with authorities claiming to have evidence. He stressed investigators checked all […]
Vienna Archbishop Christoph Cardinal Schönborn said today (Fri) he could rule out voting for the Freedom Partys (FPÖ) presidential election candidate Barbara Rosenkranz.Schönborn said: “Someone who questions the National Socialism prohibition law and fails to make clear statements regarding the Holocaust is not an option for me personally.”Rosenkranz, who represents the ultra-conservative wing of right-wing […]
Paper industry workers get a raise
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Austria’s paper industry workers are to get a pay rise.The social partners have agreed a new contract for paper processing industry workers, the umbrella association of paper industry firms said today (Fri).The contract, retroactive to 1 March, will give workers currently on the minimum wage a 1.25 per cent salary increase and others a 1.15 […]