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Swiss claim success with new cancer treatment

This content was published on Nov 15, 2000 The institute said on Tuesday it had decided to accelerate the development of the treatment after obtaining successful results in four years of clinical tests. It said it had used the technique on 60 patients since 1996, and was able to stop the growth of tumors in 95 per cent of cases. The treatment has…

Swiss labour market in danger of drying up

This content was published on Nov 15, 2000 It said both factors were signs that the labour market was drying up. The statistics office said the number of people in employment has risen by 0.4 per cent for the second quarter of this year to 3.88 million, but said the rise was lower than in the same period last year (0.8 per cent)…

Fact or fiction: a bizarre story from Baden

This content was published on Nov 14, 2000 The museum is called “Musée Bizarre” and Willi, who owns and operates it, has turned the former factory building into a home for the fantastic, grotesque, imaginative, ironic and purely fictive. Willi uses the Pilzbarth story as a platform to get across a couple of messages to visitors. One has to do with the eagerness…

Swiss to push for cuts in greenhouse gas emissions

This content was published on Nov 13, 2000 The Swiss delegation, led by the environment minister, Moritz Leuenberger, will urge the developed world to set the example. From November 13 to 24, signatories to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change will meet to discuss ways of implementing the Kyoto Protocol. That agreement, signed in 1997, lays down targets for the reduction of…

Working group set up to deal with dangerous dogs

This content was published on Nov 13, 2000 The announcement comes just days after the first death in Switzerland directly caused by a dog. A 33-year-old Brazilian woman drowned on Friday after jumping into a river in Zurich to escape a Doberman, which was attacking her. The director of the federal office, Hans Wyss, confirmed reports in the “SonntagsBlick” newspaper that a working…

Ogi attends memorial service for Valais flood victims

This content was published on Nov 13, 2000 Ogi offered words of encouragement to local people and expressed the government’s gratitude for the solidarity and support shown by the country as a whole. He praised local authorities, the rescue services and volunteers who poured into the canton to search for the dead and help the reconstruction. Ogi said life was slowly returning to…

Swiss top social responsibility league

This content was published on Nov 10, 2000 Of 12,000 people questioned in 12 countries, 44 per cent said they were prepared to pay more for products which conferred social benefits, or whose manufacture did not harm the environment. When it came to putting these convictions into practice, the study found the Swiss were twice as likely as their European neighbours to behave…

Solidarity Chain sets new donation record

This content was published on Nov 10, 2000 “It is an unrivalled achievement,” the Corporation’s Solidarity Chain said in a statement. The amount raised surpasses the Solidarity Chain’s previous record of SFr49 million raised last year for victims of the war in Kosovo. The money collected for the affected regions of canton Valais, Ticino and the Italian region of Val d’Aosta showed Swiss…

Swiss ban blood donors from Britain

This content was published on Nov 9, 2000 The ban was confirmed on Thursday by the director of the blood transfusion service of the Swiss Red Cross, Rudolf Schwabe. “The measure is not based on a real threat now,” he said, “but it is a precaution for the future.” Nearly 80 people in Britain have died from so-called new-variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), probably…

A sea of tranquillity and philosophy

This content was published on Nov 9, 2000 Sils Maria lies sprawled atop the Maloja Pass in Graubünden’s Engadine region. Here, a large stretch of lake, a sprinkling of villages and the sheer rock face of bare mountains towering over the expanse make for a very unique landscape. In a letter Nietzsche once referred to it as being “heroic and idyllic”. This is…

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