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Living and working with autism

This content was published on Jul 8, 2013 Susan Misicka talks to Thomas Stephens about an encounter with an IT specialist with Asperger syndrome. Gerhard Gaudard works for a company that specialises in recruiting people with an autism disorder.

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This content was published on Jul 8, 2013 swissinfo.ch – beyond the clichés – now also on your TV swissinfo.ch on your TV. Viewers worldwide can now access swissinfo.ch on their television. The app can be activated through the app portal on the TV. Free download.

US tax spat worries cantonal banks

This content was published on Jul 8, 2013 At the beginning of July the Swiss government said that it would give special permission to banks to cooperate with the United States justice authorities, as a means of helping them avoid criminal charges that would threaten their existance. This would involve banks asking for authorisation to hand over bank data to the US on…

Swiss solar projects soak up American rays

This content was published on Jul 7, 2013 Two Swiss solar vehicles have spent recent months touring the United States raising awareness of the potential of renewable energy.

Court verdict seals bank client data transfer

This content was published on Jul 5, 2013 The Federal Court threw out two test complaints from bank clients on Friday, paving the way for the handover of information relating to 96 requests made by the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) through the double taxation agreement (DTA) mechanism between the two countries. The final verdict followed a Federal Administrative Court ruling last…

Chinese probe forces baby milk price cut

This content was published on Jul 4, 2013 Demand for Western formulas in China has rocketed since tainted local supplies caused the deaths of infants in 2008. But the Chinese authorities suspected that foreign firms were taking unfair advantage of the surge in interest for their products. Vevey-based Nestlé responded to the probe by announcing a range of price cuts to its Wyeth…

Study says CO2 emissions need more drastic cuts

This content was published on Jul 3, 2013 Most countries have accepted that greenhouse gas emissions should be stabilised so that the average global temperature rises by no more than two degrees in comparison with the beginning of industrialisation. However, in their study published in the specialist journal Nature the experts, from Bern University’s Oeschger Centre for Climate Research, say such phenomena as…

Politicians feel heat over Swiss accounts

This content was published on Jul 3, 2013 Pierre Condamin-Gerbier, a former executive of the Swiss private bank Reyl et Cie, told a French parliamentary commission on Wednesday that he had sent a list of well-known political figures with a Swiss bank account to the French justice department. Condamin-Gerbier, one of the principal witnesses in the enquiry into secret Swiss bank accounts owned…

Cabinet approves bank data transfer solution

This content was published on Jul 3, 2013 The cabinet agreed on parameters for granting authorisation on a case-by-case basis on Wednesday in an attempt to draw a line under the long-running tax evasion dispute with the US that has affected relations over the past four years. The new procedure is a compromise on the part of Swiss Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf whose…

‘Immigration leads to a healthier state’

This content was published on Jul 2, 2013 The research, carried out by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), showed that the fiscal impact of immigration is almost neutral in most cases, with Luxembourg and Switzerland proving to be positive exceptions. The 2013 International Migration Outlook estimated that migrants boosted Swiss tax coffers by CHF6.5 billion ($6.85 billion), equivalent to 1.9…

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