Refugees, mainly from Afghanistan, arrive in Bavaria. (Photo by Falk Heller/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) MUNICH — Spende, reads the sign leaning against a tent outside Munich’s main train station. Donations. Items needed for the hundreds of thousands of refugees who have been pouring into Germany in recent months. Germany, the final destination — the refugees hope — of long, arduous, often heartbreaking journeys from Afghanistan, Somalia and, in greatest numbers, Syria. Bottled Read more [...]

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Bavaria’s Transport Minister Joachim Herrmann and Jochen Eickholt, CEO of Siemens Mobility Division, opened the Siemens Service Center for Locomotives in Munich-Allach. Constructed in the space of just a year, the Rail Service Center boasts a 2000-square-meter sheltered service hall where preventive and corrective maintenance will be carried out on locomotives. The development marks the first time that Siemens has bundled locomotive production and maintenance at a single location. Munich is an Read more [...]

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Excitement brews for German beer festival By Nyein Ei Ei Htwe   |   Wednesday, 07 October 2015 Hailing from Munich, Germany, the traditionally beer-drenched festival Oktoberfest will be held in Yangon for the fourth time on October 9 and 10 at Inya Lake Hotel. Guests will enjoy free-flow Royal Bavarian beer in the company of special guest Prince Luitpold of Bavaria. Festival-goers enjoy the draught beverages at last year’s Oktoberfest in Yangon. Photos: AFP Christian-Ludwig Read more [...]

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said his country’s ability to absorb refugees is limited, citing an “underlying nervousness” in the nation amid the biggest influx since World War II.Dealing with some 10,000 arrivals a week is “impossible,” and Germany can’t continue to take in the same number of refugees in a week that France accepts in a year, Schaeuble said on a panel at Sciences Po university in Paris on Tuesday.“We have a very nervous and fragile situation in Germany,” Read more [...]

Don’t get your lederhosen in a twist: Hofbräuhaus is coming.Local franchisee Kevin Townsell had hoped to have a local version of Bavaria’s famed 400-year-old beer hall open by this year, but those plans have been delayed. He is now targeting a 2017 opening.The holdup is due to major power and sewer lines buried under the Canalside site of the project, which runs along Scott Street between Main and Washington Streets.Townsell and Benderson Development have been working with National Grid, National Read more [...]

Don’t get your lederhosen in a twist: Hofbräuhaus is coming.Local franchisee Kevin Townsell had hoped to have a local version of Bavaria’s famed 400-year-old beer hall open by this year, but those plans have been delayed. He is now targeting a 2017 opening.The holdup is due to major power and sewer lines buried under the Canalside site of the project, which runs along Scott Street between Main and Washington streets.Townsell and Benderson Development have been working with National Grid, National Read more [...]

Migrants arrive at the railway station in Munich, southern Germany, on September 12, 2015. Arriving by the thousands, refugees stream in to the swamped southern German city of Munich, the entry point to their “Eldorado” which officials say is starting to burst from the influx. On Saturday alone “at least 10,000 people” were expected at the train station in the Bavarian capital, said Eva Hinglein, spokesperson for the Upper Bavaria district. AFP PHOTO / PHILIPP Read more [...]