Internal: Archive

Too much food going to waste

This content was published on Dec 23, 2012 There are estimates, but no reliable figures for how much food actually goes to waste in Switzerland. Claudio Beretta, a research associate at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and president of the group foodwaste.ch, devoted his master’s thesis to an examination of 43 companies in the food industry and a review of international…

Traditional wooden toys versus computer games

This content was published on Dec 22, 2012

Musical youth

This content was published on Dec 22, 2012 The styles of music and the musicians involved, the changes within society, the art and youth scene, the development of cities in terms of “youth culture” as well as technical achievements and alternative forms of distribution serve as versatile backgrounds for the 1980s. This was a decade when change, initiated by sections of the youth…

Wage discrepancies continue between sexes

This content was published on Dec 21, 2012 In the private sector, women earned an average of 23.6 per cent less than men in 2010, compared with 25 per cent less in 2008. The totals for part-time positions were adjusted to be comparable with full-time positions. In part, the differences in monthly income in the private sector were attributed to structural factors, including…

Nuclear watchdog calls for Mühleberg measures

This content was published on Dec 21, 2012 These include replacing the structure that stabilises the crack in the core shroud, Ensi said on Friday. However, for the next five years the watchdog considered the structural integrity of the core shroud – the cylinder surrounding the nuclear reactor core – to be guaranteed. A longer-term prognosis was subject to uncertainties, it said. In…

Shadow banking avoids regulation

This content was published on Dec 21, 2012

Banks seek strategic salve for burned fingers

This content was published on Dec 21, 2012 Both banks have streamlined further to minimize the risk of damaging the Swiss economy. Credit Suisse could afford to keep its riskier operations going but the Libor scam and a rogue trading scandal have forced UBS to ditch many activities – along with thousands of staff. UBS’s reputation has suffered enormously after reeling from one…

Cantonal bank employees charged in New York

This content was published on Dec 20, 2012 The bank employees, two current and one former, were charged with helping American clients evade more than $420 million (SFr382 million) in taxes. All three live in Switzerland and have been charged but not arrested, according to the US prosecutor’s office. The Cantonal Bank of Zurich is the largest of Switzerland’s regional-owned cantonal banks. This…

UBS fined for Libor rigging, traders charged

This content was published on Dec 20, 2012 On a black day for Switzerland’s biggest bank, UBS announced on Wednesday its branch in Japan had entered a plea to one count of wire fraud relating to the manipulation of benchmark interest rates, including the Yen Libor. The Libor interest rate, short for London interbank offered rate, is used to price financial contracts around…

Tapping into Switzerland’s future water resources

This content was published on Dec 19, 2012 Throughout the world the lives of millions of people are blighted by polluted water, the consumption of which can even lead to death. The situation in Switzerland could not be more different. Be it for flushing the toilet, cleaning streets, or watering fields, laboratory tests confirm that Swiss water is of the highest quality. It…

Internal: Archive

Popular Stories

Most Discussed

Internal: Archive

More

Too much food going to waste

More

Traditional wooden toys versus computer games

More

Musical youth

More

Wage discrepancies continue between sexes

More

Nuclear watchdog calls for Mühleberg measures

More

Shadow banking avoids regulation

More

Banks seek strategic salve for burned fingers

More

Cantonal bank employees charged in New York

More

UBS fined for Libor rigging, traders charged

More

Tapping into Switzerland’s future water resources

Popular Stories

Most Discussed