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Valais floods bring industry to a halt

This content was published on Oct 16, 2000 Swiss aluminium firm, Algroup, and chemical company, Lonza, halted production at sites which were badly hit by storms. Floods made several areas impassable, and severed rail and road connections. “The Lonza site in Visp has no water damage but we evacuated the factory out of precaution and production has been diminished since Friday,” said Stephane…

Survivor located in devastated village in Valais

This content was published on Oct 16, 2000 Police said rescuers with sniffer dogs located the woman under two metres of debris, after the search resumed on Monday in the mountain village of Gondo, which was devastated by a mudslide two days ago. Her discovery has rekindled hopes that some of the 13 people missing from Gondo may still be alive. The woman…

Canton Valais: Floods ease after weekend disaster

This content was published on Oct 16, 2000 A cantonal police spokesman said the woman was found in a car which had been washed away by floodwaters near Martigny on the road leading to the Great St-Bernard pass. Rescue work resumed in the devastated mountain village of Gondo, close to the Italian border, where 13 people are still missing after Saturday’s mudslide. No…

Rescue workers find third victim

This content was published on Oct 16, 2000 The 70-year-old woman was one of two people reported missing after a mudslide on Sunday destroyed four houses at Neubrück above the town of Visp. Her body was recovered on Monday, 70 kilometres away, near Dorenaz where it had been carried downstream by the swollen river Rhone. Meanwhile rescue efforts are continuing in the mountain…

Switzerland and Boston look to develop science links

This content was published on Oct 14, 2000 The Swiss House for Advanced Research and Education, or SHARE, is the world’s first consulate to be devoted to science and research, a kind of academic embassy. It is a sign that Switzerland is trying to put educational links at the very centre of its diplomacy. Nearby are Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of…

Dreifuss puts emphasis on drug prevention

This content was published on Oct 12, 2000 Dreifuss addressed delegates on Thursday at a ministerial conference on drug abuse, being held in the Portuguese town of Sintra. “Ruth Dreifuss emphasised the continued and extreme use of force by the authorities when dealing with trade in illicit substances,” the director of the Swiss Federal Health Office, Thomas Zeltner, told swissinfo from Sintra. He…

Swiss view Friday the 13th with trepidation

This content was published on Oct 12, 2000 A survey of 639 people published this week in Switzerland found that a substantial number associated Friday the 13th and the full moon with extraordinary occurrences. The full moon was seen as more ominous than the infamous Friday – a fifth of respondents said they had previously had strange experiences during a full moon. Of…

Forecast raised for SEZ

This content was published on Oct 12, 2000 The group, based in Zurich, expects sales in 2000 of around SFr190 million ($109 million), up from a previous forecast of SFr160-170 million. It has also upped its forecast for 2001, saying sales should be about SFr10 million higher at SFr260 million. Sales over the first nine months of this year more than tripled, coming…

Polar research is a hot topic for Swiss scientists

This content was published on Oct 11, 2000 Polar research may leave the general public cold or at least raise the question: why is land-locked Switzerland involved in such research at all? The Swiss Committee on Polar Research is holding a symposium with the aim of answering that question and explaining more about the work of Switzerland’s scientists. The disciplines represented at the…

Roche says provisions cover US vitamin deal

This content was published on Oct 11, 2000 The costs relate to a settlement agreed by Roche and five European and Japanese vitamin firms, which were charged with price fixing in the vitamin market. A Roche spokesman confirmed that the companies had agreed on the sum of $255 million to compensate states and indirect purchasers of vitamins. As part of the agreement, Roche…

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