International Business News - Austria http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Police say three people are suspected of spraying swastikas and Nazi slogans on buildings and road signs in southern Austria. Police said Sunday that the suspected vandals acted overnight in the small town of Bad St. Leonhard in Carinthia province. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080720/3-suspected-in-austria-swastika-graffiti.htm Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:38:07 EDT Austrian authorities have ordered a new round of medical and psychiatric tests to determine whether a suspected Nazi is healthy enough to be extradited to Croatia to stand trial for alleged atrocities. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080719/austria-new-evaluation-of-health-of-nazi-suspect.htm Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:41:44 EDT Austria's Justice Ministry says two nurses convicted in 1991 of killing at least 20 elderly patients at a Vienna hospital will be released from prison next month. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080717/murdering-nurses-to-be-freed-in-austria.htm Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:17:35 EDT Austrian inflation rose to 3.9 percent in June in Austria--the highest it has been since April 1993, officials said. Austria's national statistics agency blamed soaring energy expenses and stubbornly high food costs for the jump in the consumer price index. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080716/austrian-inflation-highest-since-93.htm Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:22:08 EDT Prosecutors for the first time questioned the woman allegedly held captive for 24 years by her father, and video of the interviews will be shown in court at the father's trial later this year, Austrian media reported Friday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/89650-austria-captive-daughter.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080711/prosecutors-question-austrian-incest-victim.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080711/prosecutors-question-austrian-incest-victim.htm Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:02:23 EDT Austria's parliament is tightening smoking restrictions in food and drink establishments. The law passed Wednesday requires restaurants and bars larger than 861 square feet (80 square meters) to create separate smoking sections. It prohibits minors and pregnant women from working in spaces where they are exposed to smoke. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080709/austria-parliament-tightens-smoking-restrictions.htm Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:23:34 EDT Questioning of an incest victim held in a cellar for 24 years is set to start later this month and will involve a doctor to determine how one of the seven babies she had with her father died, a prosecutor said Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080708/questioning-of-fritzl-incest-victim-due.htm Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:24:49 EDT At least 1,400 truckers are clogging up the main highways around the Austrian capital to protest skyrocketing gas prices and high taxes and tolls. The trucks are crawling along the main arteries into Vienna at a snail's pace, causing delays for commuters. About a dozen trucks were also expected to tour Vienna's famous downtown ring promenade later Monday morning to draw attention to their cause. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080707/truckers-protest-high-gas-prices-taxes-in-austria.htm Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:19:44 EDT Austria's vice chancellor and leader of the conservative People's Party said Monday that he will recommend an early election, indicating that the days of the country's "grand coalition" government are over. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080707/austria-party-leader-wants-new-election.htm Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:43:33 EDT Nine people, including a prominent executive who fled to France in an attempt to elude justice, were convicted Friday of criminal charges in a major Austrian bank fraud case linked to the 2005 collapse of New York-based commodities brokerage Refco Inc. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/86219-austria-bawag-trial.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080705/9-convicted-in-austria-fraud-case.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080705/9-convicted-in-austria-fraud-case.htm Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:24:04 EDT Nine people, including a prominent executive who fled to France in an attempt to elude justice, were convicted Friday of criminal charges in a major Austrian bank fraud case linked to the 2005 collapse of New York-based commodities brokerage Refco Inc. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/85915-austria-bawag-trial.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080704/9-convicted-in-austria-fraud-case.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080704/9-convicted-in-austria-fraud-case.htm Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:20:28 EDT Austria's chancellor on Wednesday played down reports that Austrian Airlines Group will be privatized further because of soaring jet fuel prices. Alfred Gusenbauer told the Council of Ministers that the government won't dump its 43 percent stake in the national flag carrier because of budgetary concerns. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080702/austrian-chancellor-denies-airline-selloff-talk.htm Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:30:51 EDT Police searched Wednesday for a man suspected of killing his brother, sister and their spouses in the same Vienna suburb where a kidnap victim was held for 8 1/2 years. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080702/austria-cops-seek-suspect-in-familys-deaths.htm Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:13:47 EDT The Vienna Stock Exchange is taking an 81 percent controlling stake in the Ljubljana Stock Exchange in neighboring Slovenia. Officials announcing the deal Friday said the Vienna bourse outbid Greece's Hellenic Exchange to acquire the stake. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080620/vienna-bourse-acquires-slovenia-exchange.htm Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:39:44 EDT Relatives of 155 people who died when fire raged through a crowded alpine cable car in 2000 will share euro13.9 million (US$21.5 million) in compensation, Austrian authorities announced Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080617/austria-21m-settlement-in-cable-car-deaths.htm Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:51:43 EDT Austrian tourism officials are debating plans to build a "Sound of Music" museum devoted to the popular musical and film. The von Trapp family featured in the 1965 movie and Broadway musical lived in Salzburg before fleeing Austria at the start of World War II. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080605/austria-debating-sound-of-music-museum.htm Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:44:37 EDT Television was once her only window on the world. Now Natascha Kampusch--still adjusting to life after spending 8 1/2 years captive in an underground cell--is starting an improbable career as a TV talk show host. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/57593-austria-ex-hostage-host.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080529/austrian-dungeon-girl-starts-tv-career.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080529/austrian-dungeon-girl-starts-tv-career.htm Thu, 29 May 2008 13:32:24 EDT Arnold Schwarzenegger and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart soon may be immortalized in wax in their homeland. An official with Madame Tussauds says the famed wax museum is considering Vienna's Prater amusement park as the location for its newest European attraction. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080520/madame-tussauds-eyeing-vienna-for-new-was-museum.htm Tue, 20 May 2008 11:16:19 EDT Investigators discovered the bodies of five people Wednesday after a man turned up at a Vienna police station saying he had killed his wife and daughter, authorities said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080514/slain-family-found-after-austrian-man-turns-himself-in.htm Wed, 14 May 2008 06:41:15 EDT Police in the Austrian capital are questioning a 39-year-old man who has said he killed his wife and 7-year-old daughter. Authorities are also trying to determine if he killed his parents and father-in-law who also have been found dead. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080514/austrian-police-question-man-in-deaths-5-relatives.htm Wed, 14 May 2008 03:05:22 EDT