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New car sales off to good start in 2010 Print E-mail
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
There were 20,950 new cars sold in January - a year on year increase of 10.3 per cent and a month on month increase of 7.9 per cent - Statistik Austria reported yesterday (Mon). The agency said VW ha...
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Teak Holz to expand supervisory board Print E-mail
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
The firm said the expansion of the board from three to four members came after a demand from shareholder Klaus Hennerbichler, who has 1,585,965 shares or an interest of more than five per cent in the ...
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Tennis stars jail dad Print E-mail
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
Judges are to give their verdict on tennis star Jelena Dokic's troubled father's appeal against his 15 months prison sentence today (Wednesday).
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Herbal undies cure cellulite claim Print E-mail
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
Advantage Organic in New Delhi craft the special pants using extracts from healing neem trees, basil leaves and threads of pure silver. Neem - a type of mahogany known as the Divine Tree in India - h...
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Mobilkom Austria's Belarusian subsidiary gets UMTS licence Print E-mail
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
Austrian telecommunications firm Mobilkom Austria today (Tues) announced its Belarusian subsidiary Velcom had been granted a 9.5 million-Euro country-wide universal mobile telecommunication system (UM...
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Credit crunch squeezes diesel sales Print E-mail
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
Christoph Capek, general manager of the Federal Mineral Oil Industry Association (FVMI), said today (Tues) diesel sales were down 3.9 per cent year on year to seven billion litres in 2009 as businesse...
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Savings accounts pay practically no interest Print E-mail
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
AK consumer-protection expert Michaela Kollmann said today (Tues) that a recent AK "Mystery-Shopping-Test" at nine banks had shown that savings accounts at the banks were paying an average o...
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Anton Zeilinger gets Wolf Prize for Physics Print E-mail
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
Vienna University physicist Anton Zeilinger has won the "Wolf Prize 2010 for Physics" along with two other scientists, the university announced today (Tues).
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OMV in €500mn bond issue Print E-mail
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
A spokeswoman for the firm declined to provide any more information, but confirmed Bloomberg financial website's report on the bond issue. The website reported that Barclays Capital, Raiffeisen Zentr...
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Robbers flee as victim fights back Print E-mail
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
General News 2010-02-02 A gang of robbers fled empty-handed after their 40-year-old female victim smashed one of them over the head with a torch.
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Passengers try to take more than 40,000 banned items onto flights Print E-mail
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
Airport staff in Austria reported more than forty thousand instances of people trying to take banned items onto flights last year, the Interior Ministry has said.
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Greens to decide on presidential candidate this month Print E-mail
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
The Greens are to decide on whether or not to nominate a presidential candidate this month, party leader Eva Glawischnig revealed today (Tues).
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Wifo backs higher energy taxes Print E-mail
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
Institute for Economic Research (Wifo) official Margit Schratzenstaller said yesterday (Mon) the group supported the use of higher taxes if efforts to consolidate the budget through capping expenditur...
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One in four part-time workers might lose job, AMS head warns Print E-mail
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
Austrian Labour Market Service (AMS) boss Johannes Kopf made the claim, adding he had little hope for the job prospects of some workers in part-time schemes. Around 35,000 people were working in part...
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Woman caught seven times over limit Print E-mail
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
Officers had picked her up yesterday (Mon) evening after she was spotted by other drivers careering down a Styrian highway ploughing into road signs. Police said today the woman, who did not have a d...
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Linz ditches Hannover 96 offer to rejoin Austria Vienna Print E-mail
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
Former national team striker Roland Linz has revealed he has rejected an offer from a German Bundesliga club as his return to Austria Vienna was confirmed last night (Mon).
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Research reveals eight in ten Austrian journalists use social networks Print E-mail
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
PR agency ikp said 82 per cent of the 500 journalists they had spoken with had said they would use services such as Xing or Twitter. Recent research showed that 69 per cent of Austrians online use soc...
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Readers sceptical about body scanners, poll shows Print E-mail
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
The Austrian Times can disclose that 43.2 per cent of readers taking part in its most recent survey said they doubted setting up the controversial machines at European airports would make travel safer...
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Tilda Swinton to return to Vienna for 'Blood Countess' movie Print E-mail
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
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European Markets Rise, Led By Miners - European Commentary Print E-mail
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
(RTTNews) - The European markets rose for the third day on Tuesday, as mining stocks rallied on firmer metals prices and the Reserve Bank of Australia's unexpected decision to keep interest rates on ...
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