Austria

Yesterday Austrias Chancellor Werner Faymann declared that Mongolia is an important partner in Asia. The reason for such a statement was the visit of Mongolias premier minister Suchbaatar Batbold.

Faymann and Batbold were talking about economical and democracy political issues. Faymann said that the bilateral relations between Austria and Mongolia are brillant. There are cultural and scientific cooperations.

Austrian construction company Strabag SE won two assignments in Saudi Arabia together worth 40 million Euros, it has been announced.
The firm said today (Tues) it will build two warehouses and a coking plant in the industrial port city of Jubail.
Strabag – Austria’s biggest construction company – has been active in the Arabian region through its subsidy DYWIDAG for more than 35 years.

Generali Bank reported yesterday (Mon) that it had new leadership following a meeting of its supervisory board.
It said that Susanne Althaler, 50, and Johann Berger, 60, would replace Roman Sigmund, 55, and Herbert Hofbauer, 59, as the bank’s two board members.
Supervisory board chairman Luciano Cirina said the bank had entered a phase of consolidation after years of expansion and the transition made a change of management appropriate.

Vienna was the linchpin of a Mafia money-laundering operation by Italian telecom firms between 2005 and 2007, it emerged yesterday (Mon).
News magazine Profil reported that the firms used Vienna banks to launder two billion Euros for the Italian mobsters.

Salzburg energy drink producer Red Bull has denied that it is interested in entering the German digital radio market as reported by German newspaper Hamburger Abendblatt.

Personnel leasing firm Stranz based in Fernitz in Styria’s Graz-Umgebung district entered bankruptcy proceedings yesterday (Mon).
The Alpine Land Creditors Association said the firm had debts amounting to 1.1 million Euros and that the bankruptcy would affect 67 employees and five creditors.

An all-night underground service to operate on Friday and Saturday nights and begin this summer has been welcomed by Vienna’s taxis, restaurants and tourist board.
Vienna Tourism Office chief Norbert Kettner said yesterday (Mon): "That is a real gift for us." He explained that the all-night service would give the city the character of a metropolis and enhance its image as a dynamic city.

While the cost of hotel rooms in Vienna have soared, prices in 34 of the 50 most popular European citieshave declined year on year.
International online hotel rating platform Trivago announced today (Tues) the average price for a hotel room in Vienna went up by two per cent this month to 116 Euros compared to March 2009.
The average price of hotel rooms in Europe meanwhile stayed constant at 102 Euros from February to March 2010, the platform added.

Vorarlbergs Green politican Harald Walser was never happy with Barbara Rosenkranz being the candidate of the Freedom party for the next Federal President election. Now he even demands a cancellation of her candidateship.

The number of working women, 40 per cent of whom work part time, has risen, according to Social Democratic (SPÖ) Labour Minister Rudolf Hundstorfer.
He said yesterday (Sun): "In the past 10 years, the number of female employees has risen by 17 per cent or 234,886 to 1,587,961."
He also noted female unemployment had risen more slowly than male unemployment since the beginning of the recession.