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Chinese timepieces give tourbillons a whirl

This content was published on Jul 5, 2012 The imposing statue of the late Chairman Mao Zedong still watches over the entrance of the Beijing Watch Factory in the Changping district in northern Beijing. A symbol of China’s economic power, it remains a relic from the past as market forces steadily play a greater role and the country opens up to the rest…

Swiss crack down on fake watches from China

This content was published on Jul 5, 2012 If you look at it very, very closely, you can detect a few irregularities: a screw slot with a microscopic fault in it, a piece of the carbon casing replaced by plastic, or the absence of anti-glare glass. But apart from these details, which even experts have trouble detecting at a glance, the fake Hublot…

Cern detects new ‘Higgs-like’ particle

This content was published on Jul 4, 2012 “We have a discovery. We have observed a new particle consistent with the Higgs Boson – which one? That remains open,” Cern Director General Rolf Heuer told a seminar at the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva on Wednesday. “This is indeed a new particle. We know it must be a boson and it’s…

Energy Agency worried by withdrawal “challenges”

This content was published on Jul 3, 2012 The IEA added that demand is in fact likely to rise in the next few years. The country will have to take wide-ranging accompanying measures if it is to meet the challenges of its proposed abandonment of nuclear energy by 2050, says an IEA report presented at a news conference in Bern on Tuesday. Switzerland…

Compromise reached in Zurich airport row

This content was published on Jul 2, 2012 After five rounds of negotiations, Transport Minister Doris Leuthard said delegations from both countries had agreed on Monday a state treaty concerning flight noise. Flights over southern Germany heading to and from Zurich airport will be affected, with changes set to come into effect after required runway extensions, but at any rate by 2020. Evening…

Caught between trade freedom and human rights

This content was published on Jul 2, 2012 Switzerland’s arms export laws are considered among the strictest worldwide even if breaches or evasions of these rules regularly attract media attention. Erwin Bollinger, of the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (Seco) and head of the Swiss delegation at the United Nations conference, says a global effort would be very welcome, even if the accord…

Shopping for warfare

This content was published on Jul 2, 2012 The trade and trafficking of arms and light weapons leads to 200,000 deaths every year, according to the United Nations. At present, the arms trade is largely an unregulated business with a blurry line between legal and illicit transfers. In July 2012 the international community gathered at a UN conference on the Arms Trade Treaty…

Wealthy French consider Swiss tax exile

This content was published on Jul 2, 2012 “If François Hollande is elected president and the Left get a majority in parliament, the wealthy will move abroad,” warned Swiss lawyer and tax specialist Philippe Kenel in April. Two months later, all the conditions for an “exodus” are fulfilled: the Socialist Party has an absolute majority the national assembly and its tax programme will…

Too many specialists, not enough GPs

This content was published on Jun 30, 2012

Government opts for second Gotthard tunnel

This content was published on Jun 28, 2012 In announcing the decision on Wednesday, Transport Minister Doris Leuthard said the government had studied the issue thoroughly. “Every option has advantages and disadvantages and is technically possible … The second tunnel is the one that makes the most sense.” The plan envisages full closure of the current 30-year-old tunnel, one of Europe’s major north-south transit…

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