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Flu vaccines divide medical community

This content was published on Nov 2, 2012 “It is very difficult to convince staff – be it in homes for the elderly or hospitals – that they should get themselves vaccinated out of a spirit of collective duty,” explains Claire-Anne Siegrist, the president of the Federal Commission for Vaccinations. A study led by Geneva’s teaching hospitals last year showed that many care…

Big discovery from a small research institute

This content was published on Nov 2, 2012 Although it has only been in operation since 2000, the Institute of Research in Biomedicine (IRB) has already become a centre of international importance in the field of biomedical research. It has over 300 publications to its credit in academic journals, including Science and Nature. A visitor arriving at the institute for the first…

Lonza job losses hit small town

This content was published on Oct 31, 2012 With 2,700 employees in Visp, which is home to slightly more than 7,000 people, Lonza is the region’s biggest employer. The reduction in staff numbers over two years will mainly be achieved through internal transfers, natural attrition, early retirements and the non-renewal of temporary contracts, Lonza said. A redundancy deal is being made available to…

“Shining example for the entire Islamic world”

This content was published on Oct 31, 2012 This change of direction is fuelled in part by the strength of the Turkish economy. A decade ago, Turkey was almost bankrupt. Today it belongs to the world’s top 15 economic powers. swissinfo.ch asked Spillmann how the Turkish economy was affecting its foreign policy as well as Erdogan’s leadership. swissinfo.ch: How sustainable is Turkey’s enormous…

Swiss businesses ready to enter Turkey

This content was published on Oct 31, 2012 Turkey is Europe’s sixth largest economy, yet it is often considered with ambivalence in Switzerland. On the one hand it is a beautiful and cheap vacation destination, with Istanbul as the cultural highlight of rich western Turkey. On the other it is the eastern Anatolian poorhouse of the country, where the buying power is barely…

Papers see UBS move as “unavoidable”

This content was published on Oct 31, 2012 Despite regretting the job losses – 10,000 positions are being cut, 2,500 of which in Switzerland – all newspapers agreed Ermotti was steering UBS in the right direction. “The penny has dropped” was the headline of the editorial in tabloid Blick. “The decision hurts, but it is right, unavoidable.” Talking about “a black day for…

Unions alarmed at massive UBS jobs cull

This content was published on Oct 30, 2012 Most of the redundancies will be felt in London, and to a lesser degree in New York, but some 2,500 jobs will go in Switzerland – more than 10 per cent of the total workforce in the bank’s home country. The Swiss Bank Employees Association gave a cautious welcome to news that UBS is slimming…

Swiss tourism cautiously upbeat

This content was published on Oct 30, 2012 The BAK Basel economic research institute forecasts a drop of 0.9 per cent in hotel overnights in the upcoming winter season, which runs from November to April. Stays by foreign tourists are likely to decline by 1.8 per cent, but this will be partly compensated by an increase in the number of Swiss tourists. Preliminary…

UBS announces up to 10,000 job cuts

This content was published on Oct 30, 2012 Switzerland’s biggest bank said that as part of the cost-cutting drive it “is likely to have a headcount of around 54,000” by 2015, down from its current 64,000 employees among 57 countries. Up to 2,500 employees would be affected in Switzerland, with the rest of the cuts taking place in Britain and the United States.…

Schools struggle with talented children

This content was published on Oct 30, 2012 Margherita learnt to read when she was four; Amos is six and has memorised the names of all the dinosaurs and distances between planets. They are so-called high-potential children: they have IQs above 125, an advanced use of language, excellent memories, are very curious and have a level of comprehension that is more like that…

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