The annual children’s summer university is on tour in the Austrian capital from today. From today until August 30th there will be exhibitions, lectures and experiments on offer for children in parks in ten of Vienna’s districts. The first lecture to take place is called ‘Being foreign – what does that mean?’ A spokesperson from […]
The Austrian traffic club (VCÖ) has once again named vienna’s Westbahnhof train station Austria’s number one station. For the second year in a row the station was named Austria’s best station. Linz Station came number two on the list. Most improved prize went to Salzburg Hauptbahnhof. The least popular were the stations Attnang-Puchheim, Bregenz and […]
Organisers of the Vienna Chess Open have announced there has been a real boom in the number of people applying to take part. The event takes place for the 18th time at Vienna City Hall from August 17th to August 25th. Johann Pöcksteiner, from the Vienna Chess Association said: “Players will not only find optimal […]
The Radisson Blu-Hotel, one of Vienna’s luxury five star hotels located on the exclusive Parkring is to close at the end of the year. The building is to be renovated. The hotel has been open for 28 years and will close on December 31st at 15.00. Hotel manager Helmut Sommer said: “The number of overnight […]
An emergency helicopter operated by the OAMTC has been hit by a 9mm gun shot in Vienna, Austria. A replacement machine had to be brought into operation after one of the rotors was shot through on the helicopter Christophorus 9. Ralph Schüller, from the OAMTC said: “A 9mm shot went right through one of the […]
Ice cream vendors and beer garden owners are hoping the weather cools down as they report drops in visitor numbers as people opt to stay at home to escape the heat. At the other end of the spectrum electronic goods retailers and mineral water producers are doing good business in the heat. When temperatures reach […]
Following in the footsteps of Car2Go and Carsharing.at a new car sharing operator has opened in Vienna. Flinkster, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn, has opened its Vienna headquarters at Vienna’s Westbahnhof Train Station. Further locations in 18 other districts of Vienna are set to follow. The basic price for rental is 1 Euro per hour […]
By Matthias Loinig Saturday evening saw the annual SPÖ ‘Kanzlerfest’ take place in the Austrian capital of Vienna. The gala took place at the Altmannsdorfer Garten Hotel in the Vienna district of Meidling. Despite it being the holiday season and record breaking temperatures of up to 40 degrees, 2,000 guests attended the gala. Werner Faymann […]
By Rob Hyde Following widespread protest at the deportation of the “abbey asylum seekers”, Vienna state prosecution has announced that 3 are human traffickers. The prosecution says that Azhar I., Ali S. and Sabtain S., whose surnames have been withheld for legal reasons, managed to smuggle around 1,000 people from Pakistan to Austria, France and […]
By Rob Hyde Caritas has slammed Austria’s move to deport 8 Pakistani asylum seekers who have been living in an abbey. The catholic charity’s general secretary said authorities have made a “completely incorrect” assessment of how dangerous Pakistan is. The Pakistani men were moved in March 2013 from the Votivkirche church in Vienna to the […]