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Details of Luxor massacre compensation deal announced

This content was published on Sep 15, 2000 Fifty-eight tourists, including 36 Swiss, were shot dead by Islamic extremists outside a temple in the Egyptian town of Luxor on November 17. The Swiss justice ministry said on Friday the Luxor Commission had made a final ruling on eligibility for payouts based on the principles of liability. The money from the fund is supposed…

Government-sponsored heroin programme: last resort for worst cases

This content was published on Sep 15, 2000 The number of places open to addicts who can enter the federal government’s heroin prescription programme has risen to 1,200. The figure represents an increase of 400 from two years ago when the programme was still considered a scientific experiment. The figure emerged from the annual report of the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health…

Gehrig leads race to be Central bank boss

This content was published on Sep 15, 2000 Gehrig leads race for Central bank boss The proposal now goes to the government for approval. A final decision is expected in the next few weeks. The 40-member bank council also nominated the chief executive of the Swiss Bankers’ Association, Niklaus Blatter, to join the SNB’s three-member directorate. Gehrig is one of two vice-presidents at…

700 Swiss jobs rescued at Adtranz

This content was published on Sep 15, 2000 Adtranz announced on Friday that it had signed an accord with Dutch investment and redevelopment group, Business Creation, to keep the plants open and to try and save all jobs at the sites. It said the actual number of jobs would depend on the size of contracts obtained from the Swiss Federal Railways. Under the…

Ascom shareholders support single share structure

This content was published on Sep 15, 2000 Only four months after decisively rejecting the change, shareholders on Friday voted by a 90 per cent majority for the proposal. The idea had been put forward by the financier, Ernst Müller-Möhl, who died in a plane crash in May, and the issue was pursued by his heirs. Müller-Möhl controlled almost 20 per cent of…

Heineken sets sights on Swiss brewer

This content was published on Sep 15, 2000 At a news conference in Amsterdam, Heineken’s chief executive, Karel Vuursteen, declined to elaborate on the status of the talks. However, he did say that Heineken wasn’t the only contender. Hurlimann-Feldschlösschen says there is great interest both at home and abroad and expects a sale by the end of the year. Analysts say Swiss Eichhof…

Production and import prices remain stable

This content was published on Sep 15, 2000 The latest figures from the federal statistics office show that the producer price index increased by 0.1 per cent while that for imported goods fell by 0.1 per cent. The short-term decline in oil prices steadied prices in August but recent rises will feed into September’s figures. Year on year, the index is up 2.4…

Behind the scenes at the Beau Rivage

This content was published on Sep 14, 2000 Doorman, Alberto Grigolin retired last month after 42 years service. He says things were very different when he began his career in the fifties. “The clientele has changed. Those were the days when the Orient Express ran from London to Istanbul and stopped in Lausanne. We collected the baggage from the station. “People didn’t travel…

Cars will remain dominant means of transport for next 20 years

This content was published on Sep 14, 2000 The study, commissioned by the transport ministry, says that transport in 2020 will not have changed much compared to today. Most cars will still use a combustion engine, and while their petrol consumption is expected to fall, it will remain well above the much-touted three litres per 100 kilometres, the experts say. About 100 specialists…

Swiss divers reach new heights

This content was published on Sep 14, 2000 The seven men and women, all members of the ADN diving club in Geneva, set a first record on June 7, when they entered the Gyazumbha II Lake, lying at an altitude of 5,170 metres in the Nepalese Himalayas. Two days later, two members of the team, Dominique Neuenschwander and Michel-Albert Chamot, set a new…

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