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Watch industry issues take shape in Richemont job cuts

This content was published on Feb 22, 2016 Richemont is the first large Swiss watchmaker to react to problems in the industry by cutting jobs. So far, it is only suppliers to the industry that have announced job cuts. The firm employs 30,000 people around the world, 9,000 in Switzerland. The company, which is based in Geneva, owns numerous luxury brands such as…

Mountain lodging goes the extra mile

This content was published on Feb 21, 2016

‘Democracy is developing little by little in Tunisia’

This content was published on Feb 20, 2016 The 20-year old from Djerba is a fresh voice of the Swiss Abroad community. swissinfo.ch gives the floor to leading members of the newly-founded online youth parliament. swissinfo.ch: What do you want to achieve as a member of the new youth parliament of the Swiss abroad – first of all in Switzerland, and second in…

New therapy targets incurable thyroid cancer

This content was published on Feb 19, 2016 The new method is aimed at medullary thyroid carcinoma, which is currently untreatable with available therapies. The investigators used a protein similar to gastrin, which is a hormone produced by the body, and marked it with a radioactive substance. The substance can attach itself to the surface of tumour cells and then destroy them in…

Swiss cross-border shopping up 6%

This content was published on Feb 18, 2016 Swiss shoppers who couldn’t resist seizing bargains across the borders have risen by 6 percent from two years earlier, a study found.

Debt reduction to continue despite surplus

This content was published on Feb 18, 2016 Swiss government coffers have once again ended the year much fuller than expected.

Swiss watch brands struggle to crack Indian market

This content was published on Feb 18, 2016 Dr. Reddy (first name withheld on request) is on a horological hunting expedition. He is browsing the latest collection of Swiss watches in a luxury watch shop in the southern city of Hyderabad. His watch collection includes timepieces that range from a couple of thousand Swiss francs to just over CHF10,000 ($10,238). “I own two…

Swiss transport card could threaten data privacy

This content was published on Feb 17, 2016 The SwissPassExternal link is a red plastic card that carries a microchip containing a travel pass of some kind, such as a half-price subscription or a national pass allowing the holder to travel on most public transport in the country for a set fee. The card is scanned by ticket inspectors on buses and trains,…

Employment service for refugees

This content was published on Feb 17, 2016

NGOs highlight Burkina gold ‘legal void’

This content was published on Feb 16, 2016 Swiss non-governmental organisations have criticised the extraction and importing of gold from Burkina Faso, which they say leads to abusive practices. Swiss gold refiner Metalor rejects the accusations.

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