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Nuclear power, economy mark parliament session

This content was published on Sep 12, 2011 High on the agenda are debates in the Senate on a proposed opt-out from nuclear energy and the promotion of renewable energy resources. The House of Representatives approved the withdrawal from nuclear energy in the June parliament session. The decision foresees shutting down the country’s five reactors by 2034, but a Senate committee has proposed…

Swatch calls time on Tiffany watch division

This content was published on Sep 12, 2011 The Biel-based group accused Tiffany of breach of contract, citing “systematic efforts to block and delay development” of the Swatch-owned Tiffany Watch division. Swatch said in a statement on Monday that it would seek damages against Tiffany for loss of future business. Swatch and Tiffany formed their partnership in 2007 to further the development, production…

Union group wants to preserve Swiss workplaces

This content was published on Sep 10, 2011 Travail Suisse delegates, gathered at their annual conference in Bern on Saturday, say that the package would help support Swiss workplaces. The umbrella organisation, which represents some 170,000 workers, also prepared a manifesto with ten theories on how demographics affect the labour market. Travail Suisse argues that Switzerland needs especially good working conditions in order…

Spread of the Asian tiger mosquito feared

This content was published on Sep 10, 2011 The mosquito is already firmly established in Ticino, in the south of the country, and authorities and experts have this summer stepped up their battle against it. The Aargau sighting – first flagged up in the media on September 4 – has been found to be that of a “cousin” mosquito, the Aedes japonicus, said Anne-Gabrielle Wust…

Two-million-year-old bones show human links

This content was published on Sep 9, 2011 Peter Schmid from Zurich University’s anthropology department led the first excavation team to work on the site in Malapa, north of Johannesburg. Schmid said the well-preserved set of fossils shows a part-human, part-ape species – named Australopithecus sebida – which had hands similar to humans, sophisticated ankles that helped in movement and a surprisingly tiny…

Catastrophe claims are already “second highest”

This content was published on Sep 9, 2011 Industry insured losses from natural catastrophes rose to an estimated $67 billion (SFr58 billion) in the first half of the year, more than twice the level in the 2010 period, the Zurich-based company said. Insured losses are those losses which insurers and reinsurers have to cover. This would make 2011 second only to 2005, when…

Swiss Muslims deal with 9/11

This content was published on Sep 9, 2011 Muslims suddenly found themselves being regarded with suspicion as potential terrorists in many countries and their religion denigrated. Like most people who saw the attacks on television, Swiss citizen Nezhda Drissi remembers the day well. “My first reaction was that Muslims are incapable of doing something as terrible as that,” she told swissinfo.ch. Drissi, who…

Leuthard attends new fast-rail link ceremony

This content was published on Sep 8, 2011 The Swiss government contributed some SFr100 million (€82 million) to the construction of the rail line which is expected to reduce travel time between Zurich/Basel and Paris by 30 minutes when it opens in December. The 140-kilometre rail link runs between Mulhouse on the Swiss, French and German border, and Dijon in eastern France. The…

Bear family to stay united

This content was published on Sep 8, 2011 They will remain in the place where they were born, sharing the bear park not only with their mother, Björk, as they have done up to now, but also with their father, Finn, who for nearly two years now has been divided from them by a high wire fence. The announcement by zoo director Bernd…

Rail takes greater share of transalpine cargo

This content was published on Sep 8, 2011 There was an increase in both road and rail freight, with rail taking 64.1 per cent of the total as against 62.6 per cent in the same period in 2010, the transport ministry said on Thursday. In all 7,513,000 tonnes went by road, and 13,432,000 by rail. A record amount of “unaccompanied combined transport” –…

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