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Spotlight turned on agro investment boom

This content was published on Jun 9, 2011 The second “jetfin AGRO” conference for investors with an eye on agriculture and water took place in the western Swiss city on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the global land-grab phenomenon continues to expand as states attempt to regulate the issue. Activists from some 25 Swiss non-governmental organisations and unions demonstrated outside the conference at the five-star Kempinski Hotel…

Economiesuisse sees economy getting weaker

This content was published on Jun 9, 2011 The federation says that the economy is nevertheless holding its own in a difficult world economic context. Economiesuisse said in its latest outlook on Thursday that Switzerland’s recovery from the financial crisis was flattening. Exports are developing positively as a result of demand from new markets and industrialised countries like Germany, but the strong franc…

Transocean faults Coast Guard report

This content was published on Jun 9, 2011 The draft report criticises the Zug-registered company for a host of shortcomings – including a poor safety culture, which it says caused the disaster in April 2010. In a 112-page response filed with the US government on Wednesday, Transocean said that the Coast Guard report should be corrected. Transocean argues that the explosion was not…

Recovery in sight for foreign banking sector

This content was published on Jun 9, 2011 The 153 banks that make up the sector also put a brave face on falling margins due to low interest rates and the high Swiss franc. The Association of Foreign Banks in Switzerland (AFBS) revealed that profits had risen six per cent to SFr1.965 billion ($2.35 billion) while withdrawals of client assets slowed to a…

World’s most powerful group meets in St Moritz

This content was published on Jun 8, 2011 Critics denounce the four-day conference, which is closed to the prying eyes of the media and doesn’t issue any press releases, for having a deleterious influence on world politics. Previous guests include kings, presidents, captains of industry and heads of international organisations. United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has attended, as have Microsoft founder…

Understanding the “Big Bang” Machine

This content was published on Jun 8, 2011 Physicist Kyle Cranmer did just that, taking on the task of making the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – a particle accelerator located at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) laboratory in Geneva – accessible to audiences of all ages at the 2011 World Science Festival in New York. Adults and children crammed into Cranmer’s…

Swatch Group investigated over cartel law

This content was published on Jun 8, 2011 Comco said on Wednesday that the purpose was to determine whether Swatch Group’s decision was an abuse of its dominant market position, and thus in violation of the law against cartels. Swatch Group said in a press statement that it had initiated the investigation itself. The aim was to find a mutually agreable solution to…

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This content was published on Jun 8, 2011 and we drove through it frequently, I dont think Ive ever ventured beyond the railway station and the through-roads. What a lovelytown Id been missing! Built on a hillside to better avoid marauding armies traveling the lake shore, this ancient town (yes, dating at least to the Romans, who named it Lousanna) is the fourth-largest…

Unemployment continues downward trend

This content was published on Jun 8, 2011 In April the figure was 3.1 per cent, said the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (Seco), in a statement issued on Wednesday. Unemployment among young people – aged between 15 and 24 – dropped by 11.5 per cent from April, to 14,801. Compared with May 2010 it was down by 34.3 per cent. French and…

Swiss ICT sector seeks Indian solutions

This content was published on Jun 8, 2011 India’s rapidly growing ICT sector presents a potentially lucrative market for Swiss specialists, while Switzerland estimates it will face a shortfall of 32,000 skilled workers in the field by 2017. Companies and experts gathered in Zurich on Monday to explore ways of forging deeper links, with the umbrella bodies from both countries signing a memorandum…

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