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Bosnian group learns about Swiss police work

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Zurich opera back in the black

This content was published on Dec 8, 1999 Despite pessimistic predictions about its financial future, Zurich’s opera is back in the black, making a profit of SFr148,000 ($95,000) in the past financial year. The management, presenting the results of the 1998/99 season, said on Wednesday that the profit was largely due to more arts and culture subsidies and increased sponsorship contracts. While the…

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Credit Suisse unit indicted by Japan prosecutors

This content was published on Dec 8, 1999 In the strongest action ever against a foreign financial firm doing business in Japan, Tokyo prosecutors said on Wednesday they had indicted the London headquarters of Credit Suisse Financial Products (CSFP) for violation of the nation’s banking laws. But CSFP denied having obstructed an audit. The prosecutors also indicted Shinji Yamada, former head of CSFP’s…

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Switzerland ratifies U.N. genocide convention

This content was published on Dec 8, 1999 The Swiss parliament has ratified the U.N. genocide convention, which has already been ratified by 129 other nations and is one of the most broadly-accepted international conventions. The House of Representatives on Wednesday voted unanimously to adopt the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. It was approved by the U.N.…

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Lawyer for Swiss-American boy plans to sue authorities

This content was published on Dec 8, 1999 (AP) — A lawyer for Raoul Wüthrich, a Swiss-American boy jailed on suspicion of incest and freed when a judge dismissed the charges, has served papers indicating the 11-year-old’s family plans to sue authorities in Colorado over his arrest. Vincent Todd, the Wüthrich family’s Lakewood attorney, said Tuesday that he filed copies of a notice…

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Parliament to finalise new dormant account legislation

This content was published on Dec 7, 1999 The Swiss parliament is facing the task of finalising new legislation that once and for all will make clear how dormant accounts are to be handled. The urgency of the matter has been underlined by the newly-published Volcker report. The report by the Independent Committee of Eminent Persons – a panel chaired by former U.S.…

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Prominent Jewish leader welcomes Volcker report findings

This content was published on Dec 6, 1999 A prominent leader of Switzerland’s Jewish community, Sigi Feigel, welcomed the report of the Volcker committee, saying it clearly highlights the banks’ “incorrectness” during the Holocaust era. But Feigel also praised the banks’ cooperation in the probe for dormant accounts, noting that the institutions had clearly changed their attitude. The report was compiled by the…

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Film director Tanner celebrates 70th birthday

This content was published on Dec 6, 1999 Swiss film director Alain Tanner, who is considered one of the fathers of what is often described as the “new Swiss film,” celebrates his 70th birthday on Monday. Apart from Jean-Luc Godard, who is mostly regarded as French, Tanner is internationally probably the best-known Swiss film maker. And even though Tanner has won only few…

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The main Swiss news stories of the week

This content was published on Dec 3, 1999

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Berne museum stages “sound and art”

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Bosnian group learns about Swiss police work

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Zurich opera back in the black

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Credit Suisse unit indicted by Japan prosecutors

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Switzerland ratifies U.N. genocide convention

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Lawyer for Swiss-American boy plans to sue authorities

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Parliament to finalise new dormant account legislation

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Prominent Jewish leader welcomes Volcker report findings

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