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Journey into the heart of a Swiss glacier

This content was published on Jan 27, 2016 Explore the Plaine Morte glacier with a group of scientists and adventurers.

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Publishers oppose advertising alliance

This content was published on Jan 26, 2016 The Swiss Media Association on Tuesday presented a study showing that it would endanger media diversity in Switzerland. The study is based on 30 interviews with experts and parliamentarians. It found that the venture overly distorts competition within the advertising market and that the SBC’s participation is in conflict with its public service mandate. The…

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Ticino initiative prioritising locals for jobs declared valid

This content was published on Jan 26, 2016 Baptised “Primi i nostri” or “Ours first”, the initiative seeks to ensure that Ticino natives get preference when competing for jobs against foreigners with the same qualifications. The objective is to ostensibly prevent companies from undercutting local wages by employing cross-border workers from neighbouring Italy on lower salaries. In April 2014, the initiative was handed…

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Swiss watch, other exports decline in 2015

This content was published on Jan 26, 2016 According to figures released by the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry on Tuesday, revenue from exports fell just under the benchmark CHF22 billion ($21.7 billion) barrier that the industry managed to surpass in 2014. Demand from Hong Kong – the top importer of Swiss watches in terms of value – fell by almost 23%,…

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Down Under’s ‘unlucky’ hand with people power

This content was published on Jan 25, 2016 First there is nothing, then there is nothing and finally I see a signpost – in the middle of nowhere. We have been travelling for many hours through the vast Nullarbor plain between South and Western Australia, two of the six states constituting the Commonwealth. ”Welcome to the lucky country,” wrote a friend of mine…

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Frozen Iranian funds freed up from Swiss banks

This content was published on Jan 24, 2016 CHF12 million ($11.8 million) had been stopped from leaving Switzerland after being frozen between 2007 and 2012, as part of a sanctions programme against Iran to attempt to force the country not to develop and build an atomic bomb. After decades of negotiation, many United Nations (UN) sanctions were eased in January 2016 after a…

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Bitcoin bites back at Davos doubters

This content was published on Jan 23, 2016 Reports of bitcoin’s demise have been greatly exaggerated at Davos, according to the Swiss bitcoin sector.

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No sleep for the wicked

This content was published on Jan 23, 2016 Maybe I missed the point because I stayed up all night to read it. Arianna Huffington, founder of the Huffington Post, gets it. She’s even written a book on the subject. “I think that Davos is an incredibly sleep deprived part of the world right now,” she said at a fringe meeting. The problem with…

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No breakthrough in Davos on Horizon 2020

This content was published on Jan 23, 2016 Since the February 2014 vote to re-introduce quotas for EU citizens to live and work in Switzerland, the Swiss presence in the science research programme Horizon 2020 has been under threat. Switzerland managed to just about hang on to its place in the programme, but it has until the end of the year before this…

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