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How to be a beach bum in a landlocked country

This content was published on Jul 18, 2015 From Lake Geneva to Lake Constance, from the Rhone to the Rhine – the summer heat is driving the Swiss into the water.

How robots improve surgery

This content was published on Jul 17, 2015

Fukushima team studies Swiss nuclear experience

This content was published on Jul 16, 2015 “Almost five years after the explosions in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, 110,000 people still can’t return to live in their homes,” Masao Uchibori, mayor of the prefecture of Fukushima since November, told swissinfo.ch in Solothurn. “The inhabitants of zones with raised levels of radioactivity can’t lead a normal life.” While most foreign reports…

Aid to Ethiopia to be increased to CHF10 million

This content was published on Jul 16, 2015 The agreement, which enters into force immediately, was signed in Addis Ababa on Wednesday by the head of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Manuel Sager, and the Ethiopian minister for finance and economic development, Ahmed Shide. The cabinet approved the framework agreement on July 1. Expanded longer-term cooperation is part of the…

Industry view: Six months without the euro peg

This content was published on Jul 15, 2015 In a surprise move on January 15, 2015 the SNB scrapped the minimum exchange rate with the euro of CHF1.20 that it had introduced in September 2011. The SNB concluded that enforcing and maintaining a minimum exchange rate against the euro was no longer justified as the euro had depreciated considerably against the US dollar…

Solar Impulse 2 grounded in Hawaii until April 2016

This content was published on Jul 15, 2015 The most difficult leg of the journey from Nagoya to Hawaii which lasted five days and nights have taken their toll on Solar Impulse’s batteries. “Irreversible damage to certain parts of the batteries will require repairs which will take several months,” said a statement from the Solar Impulse team. For optimal energy management the plane…

Former HSBC boss regrets problems at Swiss arm

This content was published on Jul 15, 2015 Stephen Green appeared in front of a panel of lawmakers in the UK on Tuesday. The House of Lords economic affairs committee heard from Green that “with the benefit of hindsight, it would have been better to have drilled into the detail much earlier”. The bank’s Swiss private bank was built up by its acquisition…

Clock ticking on LafargeHolcim integration

This content was published on Jul 15, 2015 Eric Olsen, the new chief executive of the merged LafargeHolcim cement producing giant, has outlined his vision for the next 1,000 days.

CERN discovers pentaquarks after 50-year hunt

This content was published on Jul 14, 2015 Quarks are the tiny ingredients of sub-atomic particles such as protons and neutrons, which are made of three quarks. The less common and more unstable mesons, particles found in cosmic rays, have four. A five-quark version, or pentaquark, has been sought, but never found, ever since Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig theorised the existence of…

Syz benefits as another foreign bank exits Switzerland

This content was published on Jul 14, 2015 Swiss private bank Syz has acquired the Geneva wealth management operations of the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC).

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