Austria

THE night Ludwig van Beethoven’s monumental Ninth Symphony rang out in a Vienna concert hall for the first time almost exactly two centuries ago, the great German composer was anxious for all to go we...

He is cutting up the book that laid the ideological foundations for Nazism letter by letter and reforming them into recipes

Austrian tycoon Hans-Peter Haselsteiner said he is ready to contribute as much as 25 million euros (S$36.45 million) to Signa group’s insolvent development unit to allow a more orderly restructuring.

Two key divisions of Signa, the troubled European property company, are filing for insolvency, the company said on Thursday (Dec 28).

The redesign of Adolf Hitler’s birth house will go ahead as planned, starting on Oct 2 this year, Austria’s interior ministry said on Monday (Aug 21), after a documentary aired new claims about the la...

ABU Dhabi and Austria’s OMV are exploring a combination of Borouge and Borealis to create a chemicals and plastics company worth more than US$30 billion, people familiar with the matter said.

Vienna became the weakest housing market among major European capitals, posting a double-digit decline that surpassed even hard-hit Stockholm, according to the inaugural Bloomberg City Tracker. 

ONE of the world’s oldest newspapers still in print, Austria’s Wiener Zeitung, will primarily move online, after a decision on Thursday (Apr 27) by the country’s parliament.

It takes as long to train to be a puppeteer at the world-famous Salzburg Marionette Theatre as it does to become a doctor.