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International Human Rights Day focuses on awareness

This content was published on Dec 10, 2000 One of the group’s board members, Maya Doetzkies, told swissinfo that not enough people in Switzerland realise that human rights are very much a domestic issue. “A lot of people think violations of human rights happen only in other countries”, she says, “but we also have a lot of work to do here in Switzerland…

ABB lands Mexican electricity contract

This content was published on Dec 7, 2000 ABB, which has its headquarters in canton Aargau, will be responsible for the planning, construction and financing of an electricity transmission system in Mexico. The 750 km high-voltage system includes advanced fibre optic links and integrated control systems, and will help meet Mexico’s steadily increasing demand for energy. The power transmission system is intended to…

Roche and Aventis unveil anti-cancer offensive

This content was published on Dec 6, 2000 The deal, announced on Wednesday, aims to accelerate the study of two powerful anti-cancer drugs to improve early cancer treatment. In a statement from its headquarters in Basel, Roche said the accord would promote studies combining its Herceptin drug with the Taxotere drug, which was discovered, developed and marketed globally by Aventis. Roche’s Herceptin was…

Development aid brings big rewards to Swiss economy

This content was published on Dec 5, 2000 The study, commissioned by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, found that for every franc spent abroad, Switzerland receives back between SFr1.40 and SFr1.60. Thus in 1998 Switzerland recouped an income of around SFr2 billion ($1.2 billion) from a development aid budget of SFr1.3 billion. The Geneva and Neuchatel university study found that Switzerland’s…

Serono announces major new advance in infertility treatment

This content was published on Dec 5, 2000 Serono says the two new products are based entirely on recombinant DNA material while its main competitors still use urine-based products. Analysts say they should give the company the edge over its rivals. Serono will launch “Luveris” in Europe following the European Commission’s decision to grant it full marketing authorisation. Luveris is the world’s first…

Switzerland marks 40 years of European space research

This content was published on Dec 5, 2000 The celebrations in Lausanne coincided with the launch of a book: “Switzerland, Europe and Space: an Adventure and a Necessity”. The launch marked the 40th anniversary of the Meyrin Accord, signed at CERN, the European nuclear research centre just outside Geneva, following a space conference organised by the then Swiss Foreign Minister, Max Petitpierre. “The…

Novartis claims breakthrough in battle against leukaemia

This content was published on Dec 4, 2000 Announcing the study’s findings in California last weekend, Novartis, said that of 532 patients who had been given the experimental drug, “Glivec”, 30 per cent showed no traces of the disease. “We are extremely encouraged by the growing body of scientific evidence on our investigational agent, Glivec, and its potential role in treating certain forms…

Swiss wins Japanese Bonsai competition

This content was published on Dec 1, 2000 Pius Notter, who lives in canton Aargau, scooped the prize with a 120-centimetre-high Bonsai. He grew the tree from a 400-year-old mountain pine, which had been damaged in a rockslide. Notter, who has been growing Bonsais for 24 years, beat off competition from 600 other ornamental tree growers to win the category for the best…

Ogi attends German parliament session

This content was published on Nov 29, 2000 Ogi, who arrived in Germany on Tuesday, was due to tour Berlin later in the day and view construction projects in the new German capital. He was also scheduled to meet the federal president, Johannes Rau, before wrapping up his visit. On Tuesday, Ogi, who is also defence minister, held talks with his German counterpart,…

The dedicated followers of fashion of the academic world

This content was published on Nov 29, 2000 At the invitation of the Council of Swiss Scientific Academies, researchers from Switzerland and abroad are looking at the topic of “megatrends”. The term is academic shorthand for the snowballing nature of a particular research breakthrough. Important new findings in any scientific discipline, from medicine through sociology to zoology, can lead researchers in other areas…

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