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Public transport strike disrupts Geneva

This content was published on Nov 19, 2014 A strike by Geneva tram and bus drivers over planned budget and job cuts has paralysed public transport. Industrial action is uncommon in Switzerland – the last public transport strike in Geneva was in 1982.

Banking industry ‘promotes dishonest behaviour’

This content was published on Nov 19, 2014 The study, whose results were published in the journal Nature, involved 200 bankers, of which 128 worked for an unnamed large international bank. They were divided into two groups. One group of bankers was reminded of their profession and associated behaviour through a series of subtle questions. The other group was encouraged to think about…

WEF protestors withdraw from ‘irrelevant’ Davos

This content was published on Nov 19, 2014 Berne Declaration and Greenpeace Switzerland have jointly announced that they will deliver one final Public Eye award in January before exiting the fringes of the event for good. For the past ten years, the awards have been bestowed on multinational firms accused of environmental or human rights abuses. Some of the world’s largest companies have…

CERN scientists discover two new subatomic particles

This content was published on Nov 19, 2014 An experiment using the Large Hadron Collider at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) found the new particles, which were predicted to exist, and are both baryons made from three quarks (elementary particles) bound together by a strong force. In a statement on Wednesday, CERN officials said the discovery could shed more light on…

Following Rosetta’s progress from Bern

This content was published on Nov 19, 2014 swissinfo's Veronica DeVore was with scientists in Bern as they witnessed the first-ever landing of a robot on a comet.

Banking down, fashion up, say business students

This content was published on Nov 18, 2014 Released on Tuesday by business advisory firm Deloitte, the report called “Talent in Banking 2014”External link surveyed about 700,000 business students worldwide, including 4,424 in Switzerland. “Over one-third of students do not think banks are particularly innovative or dynamic, so perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise that banks have lost ground compared to the…

Digitising Venice’s huge archives

This content was published on Nov 18, 2014 Making old manuscripts available to researchers around the world is a big challenge. Swiss researchers are developing new tools to help scan and read the archives from Venice’s history.

Financial eyes on Switzerland ahead of gold vote

This content was published on Nov 18, 2014 Bullion traders and central banks are all watching to see if Swiss voters will give a boost to gold as a commodity and currency support.

Swiss HSBC faces dual French-Belgium threat

This content was published on Nov 17, 2014 HSBC private bank said on Friday that it had been asked to pay a €50 million (CHF60 million, $63 million) bond as French investigators probe the unit’s activities between 2006 and 2007. On Monday, a Belgian investigating judge charged the Geneva-based branch with massive fiscal fraud, money laundering and forming a criminal organisation to the…

Mapping Switzerland’s danger spots

This content was published on Nov 17, 2014 A wall above the property apparently collapsed after days of heavy rainfall, and toppled down the slope, taking mud, stones and other debris with it, before hitting the building. Police say two women in their thirties were killed. It follows the deaths a week before of a mother and her child in a separate landslide…

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