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Vienna gets tough on car parking

Austrian motoring organisation
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Vienna Central station development

Commuters in Vienna face disrupted journeys for at least the next five years as the city
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Vienna U-bahn crime patrols

More than 10,000 people have been stopped and questioned by the Vienna police force during its special patrols on the city
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Upgrading Vienna

Vienna will soon become a technological dinosaur if it does not embrace modern forms of communication, such as free wireless internet access, says
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Seeing Vienna at a jog

Tourists are famous for their whistle-stop tours of cities, but Vienna
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Stadthalle Hotel gets zero carbon footprint

A Vienna hotel claims to be the first in the city, and possibly the first such in the world, to have a zero carbon footprint
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Spanish Riding School reduces losses

The Austrian Times reports that Vienna
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Protests again Vienna Boys Choir new concert hall

The world-famous 500-year old Vienna Boys Choir has filed court charges against a group opposing the building of its new concert hall, says the Austrian Times. The proposed new 380-seater concert hall...
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Swapping old bikes for new

The Austrian Times reports that Vienna city council is to increase the numbers available in its new-for-old bicycle recycling scheme, under which Vienna residents are able to trade in an old bike for...
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MVienna chosen for Michael Jackson tribute concert

On 26 September Vienna will host the only official worldwide tribute concert to the late Michael Jackson, who died on 25 June. Talking to US talk show host Larry King, Jackson
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SPO plans for provincial elections

American political strategist and former Yale academic Stan Greenberg, who advised former president Bill Clinton and Tony Blair among others, is to bring his expertise to Vienna
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Pollution in Vienna

Vienna had the second highest level of toxic fine dust air pollution in Austria in 2008. The World Health Organisation (WHO) associates fine-dust pollution with 2,400 premature deaths, 55,00 asthma at...
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Crime gangs target Vienna cars

The sharp rise in car crime in Vienna is being blamed on organized crime gangs from eastern Europe, in particular Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Croatia and the Czech Republic, says the Austrian T...
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Vienna gets elite anti-crime force

The Austrian Times reports that Vienna
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Albertina flooding

Almost 1,000 priceless works of art, including works by Michelangelo and Rubens, have had to be transported from Vienna
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Record for hard drugs capture

The Austrian Times reports that the Viennese police have so far this year confiscated record amounts of hard drugs. To the end of May the police had confiscated 65.2 kilos of drugs such as cocaine and...
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Vienna tops EU energy price list

Vienna has some of the highest energy prices in the European Union. A recent report released by Austrian energy watchdog Energie Control (E-Control) compared prices in the 15 capitals of all EU member...
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No cars in Bike City

Vienna City Council has announced plans for a new
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Vienna airport traffic slumps

Vienna International Airport (VIA) has announced a dramatic fall in passenger numbers for the first quarter of 2009. Overall, the number of passengers from January to March fell 14.8 per cent to 3,660...
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Mercer puts Vienna top

Vienna has the best standard of living in the world, according to the Mercer 2009 Quality of Living Survey, released on 28 April, which analyses 215 cities worldwide. Up from second place in 2008, Vi...
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Fritzl in Vienna jail.

It is reported that Josef Fritzl, recently sentenced to life in jail for the 24-year imprisonment of his daughter, has been moved to Vienna
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Parking by mobile phone.

The Austrian Times reports that in March over one million parking permits in Vienna were bought via mobile phones for the first time. The service has been available in Vienna since the end of 2003,...
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Salt grotto opens in Vienna.

An artificial salt grotto, reputed to have beneficial effects for people suffering from respiratory and skin disorders, has opened in Vienna
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More money for Vienna jobs.

The Vienna city council in conjunction with the capital
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Multicultural project competition in Vienna.

A competition for projects promoting multiculturalism and intercultural education has been set up by Vienna
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Promoting Vienna in Europe.

The Vienna Tourist Board has launched a
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Otto Wagner art nouveau map of Vienna.

The Vienna Architecture Centre has produced a special tourist map of the Austrian capital highlighting buildings designed by Otto Wagner (1841-1918), one of the great pioneers of Viennese art nouveau....
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