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Swiss Re expands business interests in China

This content was published on Jul 3, 2000 The Zurich-based company has bought a minority stake in China Insurance International Holdings, which has just floated on the stock market. Swiss Re has acquired a 9.9 per cent stake in the company for SFr 25 million. CIIH’s parent company, China Insurance Group, is one of the four biggest insurance companies in China’s state run…

Ticino castles to get UNESCO heritage status

This content was published on Jul 3, 2000 A final decision will not be made until a UNESCO conference later this year in Cairns, Australia. But the president of the organisation’s Swiss committee, Francesca Gemnetti, has confirmed a newspaper report that the Bellinzona application had been unanimously approved by UNESCO’s heritage office at a meeting in Paris. Castelgrande and the Montebello and Sasso…

New political offensive against “McDonaldisation” of countryside

This content was published on Jul 3, 2000 The non-partisan foundation wants the federal parliament to adopt a new environmental strategy before it’s too late. It says existing regulations are inadequate and landscape protection should be given higher priority. The foundation’s director, Raimund Rodewald, says there is too much built-up land. “Too much territory is being lost to construction and the expansion of…

Trade union dissidents slam leadership

This content was published on Jul 2, 2000 Over 40 branch secretaries from the union have sent an open letter to the leadership, accusing it of being too closely tied to construction employers and middle class politicians. They say that the union has failed to stop job losses of 20 per cent in the industry. A long-standing salary conflict in the construction industry,…

Crans Montana Forum ends with gloomy prognosis

This content was published on Jul 2, 2000 During the closing session, the vice-president of the World Bank, Jean-François Rischard, said that in the next 20 years a demographic explosion and the impact of the new technologies would transform the world. But poverty will take on ever more gigantic proportions, he warned, as food and energy resources become scarce. He said that as…

This week in business

This content was published on Jul 1, 2000 Among the other top events this week:– Monday, the Swiss industrial sector recorded a 12 per cent increase in production over the first quarter of the year, compared to the same period last year, according to a report from the Federal Statistics Office.– Tuesday, the planned takeover of the semiconductor equipment company, Esec, by Unaxis…

The return of the lynx

This content was published on Jul 1, 2000 Imogen Foulkes goes in search of this controversial, but elusive creature. Why did the lynx die out in Switzerland a hundred years ago, and why should it come back? Find out the answers to these and many more questions about this alpine predator by listening to our audio feature; “In search of the lynx”. Discover…

Samantha Tonkin receives a lesson in “celebrity” from Hedi Olden

This content was published on Jul 1, 2000 The singer and artist, Hedi Olden (her stage name), is the heart of the chalet, the friendliest and trendiest place to be. Hedi experienced her musical hey day in the sixties, recording ballads and jazz numbers. Hedi married into the Donizetti music family, and together with her husband, ran the Hotel Olden for 37 years.…

Parliamentary report criticises cantons

This content was published on Jun 30, 2000 The committee is calling on the government to intervene with the cantons so that they guarantee free access to the domestic market without discrimination. The report was commissioned to find out the liberalisation effects of the federal law on the domestic market. Introduced in January 1996, the law was part of a package of measures…

UN makes overtures to Bretton Woods institutions

This content was published on Jun 30, 2000 Malloch Brown kicked off his visit by thanking the foreign minister, Joseph Deiss, for Switzerland’s continuing financial to the UNDP: this year Berne handed over 52 million francs to assist development programmes around the world. His trip coincided with the UN development summit in Geneva, where the general assembly acknowledged it had failed miserably to…

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