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Just the ticket
Keeping a printing tradition alive
More and more train tickets are printed by computers; the traditional card ticket is today rarely used. The Aeschbacher company in Worb near Bern still cuts these and prints them with lead type. [...]
Corporate taxes
Swiss set to tackle divisive fiscal reform
Murder questions
Papers rue failings of house arrest system
Corporate taxes
Swiss set to tackle divisive fiscal reform
Under pressure from the European Union the Swiss government has outlined plans to scrap controversial tax privileges for international firms. But the reform risks undermining the complex federal fiscal system and leading to a major drop in revenue. [...]
Chinese readers react
Profit at the expense of moral values
Safe and sound
Red Cross hostages freed in Yemen
Swiss banking woes
Minister says end to US tax dispute in sight
Swiss Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf says a resolution may be not far off to end a long-running dispute with the United States over Swiss banks accused of helping wealthy Americans evade billions of dollars of taxes. [...]
Changes at the top
Surprise shake-up marks Glencore Xstrata meeting
Formula for success
Chinese parents drive baby milk powder boom
Gymnastics coach
'It’s a great feeling to fly, to twist, to rotate'
Although his profession is teaching business, Reto Marthaler’s passion is gymnastics. He spends hundreds of hours per year organising local and regional boys’ programmes. The sport is on his mind “every day, every hour, every second”. [...]
Nadja Räss
Breaking the mould as a Swiss yodeller
Stem cell research
Cord blood – sound investment or pricey frill?
Umbilical cord blood holds precious stem cells. At some Swiss hospitals, mothers can donate their baby's supply to research. But some labs have privatised the practice, and not everyone is sure it’s worth the cost. (SRF/swissinfo.ch) [...]
Cancer discovery
New imaging gives insight into tumours’ travels
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In depth
Bon voyage!
Government beefs up travel advice services
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The Swiss government has extended travel advice to countries such as Greece and Britain (Keystone)
Swiss tourists will now have the option of being notified by government text message if the security situation in the country they are visiting changes, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
A new online platform, dubbed Itineris, will enable tourists travelling abroad to register their personal data and itinerary with the foreign ministry in a move which the government hopes will make searches for missing persons easier.
Also new, and in response to a spike in the number of inquiries from people worried about travelling to Greece or to Britain for the Olympic Games next month, the foreign ministry also announced that it would now publish travel advice for western Europe.
So far, the foreign ministry has added Spain, Portugal, Greece and Britain to its travel advisories list, and will add more western European countries at a later date.
The ministry also plans to release a travel advice smartphone app and since the beginning of this year has been updating travellers on social networking website Twitter.
Swiss have rights – and obligations – abroad
Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter wants to stop Swiss venturing with impunity into high-risk parts of the world at a time when international crises abound. [...]
Swiss hostages are free
A Swiss couple held captive by the Taliban in Pakistan since July 2011 have been freed. [...]
Helping them home
Switzerland: We look after our own
Every year some 30,000 Swiss leave their homeland to try their luck elsewhere. For those for whom the dream of a better life doesn’t come true, Swiss law obliges the government to ensure they are financially looked after. [...]
