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Early support for wider smoking ban

This content was published on Aug 17, 2012 The poll, commissioned by the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, shows nearly 60 per cent of respondents backing the Lung League’s initiative (see graphic). Voters decide on the issue on September 23. However Claude Longchamp, political scientist and head of the leading GfS Bern research and polling institute, expects increasing opposition against the initiative, particularly in certain…

UBS chairman denies tax evasion claims

This content was published on Aug 17, 2012 “UBS does not help any of its clients avoid their tax obligations,” Weber said. “Anyone in violation will be severely sanctioned,” he added. “I have zero tolerance on this point.” The interview follows recent allegations that UBS employees were aiding their clients in transferring funds out of Swiss banks and into accounts in Asia in…

“Swiss history has also been made elsewhere”

This content was published on Aug 16, 2012 A systematic approach would paint a fuller picture of Swiss émigrés, including the multitude of reasons for going abroad over the past century and the influences on them of their chosen states. While today about 700,000 Swiss live abroad, no reliable figures existed before the second half of the 20th century. For Leo Schelbert, a…

Archivist serves up expat history on a platter

This content was published on Aug 16, 2012 Stored in the attic of the OSA headquarters in Bern, historian Florian Baccaunaud is examining the final bunch of records, dating from the period between 1994 and 2000, so that 100 years of documents may be ready in their entirety in time for the organisation’s centenary in 2016. Baccaunaud, a dual Swiss/French national with a…

HSBC transfers more data to the US

This content was published on Aug 15, 2012 A spokesperson confirmed a report in Tuesday’s edition of the Geneva-based Le Temps newspaper. He added all affected staff had been informed and that no client data had been handed over. The bank employees, who dealt with wealthy US clients, apparently had no possibility to prevent the transfer. The spokesman said the bank had reduced…

Chocolate health claims set pulses racing

This content was published on Aug 15, 2012 The health claims surrounding chocolate are many and various, bombarding consumers with “evidence” that it can help prevent cancer, cure coughs, stave off heart disease, produce a general sense of well-being and even stimulate flagging sex lives. Many of these claims are yet to be proven and some have been scientifically dismissed as urban myths.…

Chocolate – Grand Cru

This content was published on Aug 15, 2012 Felchlin carries out every step of production in Schwyz, following a traditional process. Noble Criollo cocoa beans form the basis of the Grand Cru couvertures. Traditional roasting – carried out in small batches – allows the cocoa to fully develop its character. (All images: Thomas Kern / swissinfo.ch)

Swiss researchers uncover clues to HIV treatment

This content was published on Aug 14, 2012 The study, published on Tuesday in the Archives of Internal Medicine, included 1,957 patients who began combination antiretroviral therapy between 2005 and 2009 at one of seven Swiss university hospitals: Basel, Bern, Geneva, Lausanne, Lugano, St Gallen and Zurich. The study was unique in that patients with conditions like drug addiction, alcohol-related illnesses, hepatitis or…

Baer to buy Merrill Lynch’s international arm

This content was published on Aug 13, 2012 Baer said in a statement on its website that the purchase of the business was to boost its assets under management in growing markets. The transaction is expected to result in additional assets of between SFr57 and SFr72 billion, the Swiss private banking group said. The difference in the values reflects Baer’s worst and best case…

Online gathering rides on Swiss train technology

This content was published on Aug 11, 2012 Cesar Meza is the proud engineer and mechanic on the last operating locomotive designed by Swiss inventor Anatole Mallet in the 1870s. “It’s not a museum piece, it’s the only Mallet engine still running today,” the 35-year-old from South Dakota told swissinfo.ch. Thanks to its double engine technology, the Mallet locomotive was a wonder of…

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