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Unions campaign against Sunday trading

This content was published on Sep 30, 2005 A nationwide vote is set to take place on November 27 on whether to allow shops at major railway stations and airports to open 365 days a year. In January a coalition of trade unions, consumer organisations, shopkeepers and churches handed in more than 80,000 signatures to the federal authorities to try to overturn a…

Dusty sniffs out cause of fires

This content was published on Sep 30, 2005 Dusty, a four-year-old springer spaniel, showed off his skills recently by picking out, from five charcoaled carpets, the one that had been treated with a drop of fuel. Sniffer dogs are already used for detecting drugs, explosives, corpses, smuggled food and for tracking. Fire investigation dogs are trained to locate a variety of flammable liquids…

Liberty Global captures Cablecom

This content was published on Sep 30, 2005 The move comes only a day after Cablecom announced plans to go public on the SWX stock exchange in Zurich on October 13. A spokesman at the bourse confirmed that the initial public offering (IPO) had been cancelled. Liberty Global, based in Denver, Colorado, said it was buying 100 per cent of Cablecom for SFr2.8…

UBS sell-off set to create new energy giant

This content was published on Sep 30, 2005 The buyers are a Swiss-led power consortium of French electricity group EDF, the Lausanne-based group EOS and Atel’s Swiss minority shareholders. UBS, Switzerland’s largest bank, is selling 281,535 bearer shares in Motor-Columbus at SFr4,600 a share. The sale price means a pre-tax gain for UBS of around SFr350 million. A consortium of Atel’s Swiss minority…

Environmentalists sound alarm over dioxin dump

This content was published on Sep 29, 2005 The environmental group warned on Thursday that dioxin deposited at the site could pose a health risk for planned clean-up operations. Greenpeace said Basel-based chemical companies had dumped a considerable amount of dioxin at the Bonfol site near the French border between 1961 and 1975. The organisation is now calling for a review of the…

Elderly should not pay more for health cover

This content was published on Sep 29, 2005 The poll also found that a majority of Swiss are in favour of a single health insurer for the whole country in order to reduce spiralling costs. The annual health barometer, published on Thursday, was based on interviews with more than 1,200 people. Almost three-quarters of those interviewed said they were against making the elderly…

Cablecom fixes price band for bourse entry

This content was published on Sep 29, 2005 The company, which provides television, telephone and broadband services, said it hopes to raise more than SFr2 billion when it goes public on October 13. The shares of Cablecom – a fast-growing competitor to Switzerland’s largest telecoms operator, Swisscom – are to be listed on the SWX stock exchange in Zurich. The initial public offering…

Manufactur: Rong Dob

This content was published on Sep 29, 2005

Technology helps Swiss keep competitive edge

This content was published on Sep 28, 2005 Released on Wednesday, The Global Competitiveness Report 2005-2006 finds that Finland remains the most competitive economy in the world, followed by the United States and Sweden. “Switzerland’s greatest competitive strength is its capacity for technological innovation, with high company spending on research and development and high levels of collaboration between industry and the university community,”…

Artists unite to protect cultural diversity

This content was published on Sep 28, 2005 The coalition aims to put pressure on political authorities to prevent cultural activities and products from being treated as simple commodities. “In a free world trade environment individual states cannot protect their cultural products,” said Mathias Knauer, filmmaker and co-founder of the association. He added that, according to the logic of free trade, subsidies would…

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