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Swiss record third E.coli case

This content was published on Jun 3, 2011 It said on Friday that like the two previous cases, the bacterium had been contracted during a stay in Germany, the country with the most cases so far. All three patients are reported to be stable. Scientists have blamed Europe’s worst recorded food-poisoning outbreak – which has caused at least 18 deaths, 17 of them…

Farmers destroy cucumbers over E.coli fears

This content was published on Jun 3, 2011 This is despite the fact that cucumbers have been cleared as the source of the bacteria, which has killed at least 17 people in neighbouring Germany. According to a Swiss television report, the Seeländer BioGroup alone will have to destroy 30,000-40,000 of its cucumbers. Another Zurich farmer is due to throw away around 10,000 cucumbers…

The Cisalpino nears the end of the line

This content was published on Jun 2, 2011 The train has had its fair share of breakdowns and many passengers complained that it made them feel sick in the twisty parts of the line in the Bernese Oberland and to and from the Gotthard tunnel. The ETR 470, as it’s known to railway buffs, has been criticised over the years, not least because…

WHO says E.coli strain never seen before

This content was published on Jun 2, 2011 A spokeswoman in Geneva said that the WHO was waiting for more information from laboratories. Chinese scientists at the Beijing Genomics Institute in Shenzhen city, who have newly analysed the genes of the strain, said it carried genes which made it resistant to some classes of antibiotics and was highly toxic. The scientists in Beijing,…

Dams generate hopes and fears

This content was published on Jun 2, 2011 About 900 experts in dams from all over the world converged on Lucerne this week for the annual symposium of the International Commission on Large Dams (Icold) to exchange experiences and to see how the Swiss do things. Switzerland has a long history of dam building: the oldest dam still in use is the Wenigerweiher…

Switzerland passes OECD grey list hurdle

This content was published on Jun 1, 2011 A largely positive peer review on Swiss tax cooperation was carried out by the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes and presented in Bermuda on Wednesday. The review found that while Switzerland had made progress in meeting global tax cooperation requirements over the past two years, several areas needed improvement. In…

China to use Swiss expertise to monitor dams

This content was published on Jun 1, 2011 The Sino-Swiss meeting took place on the sidelines of the annual conference of the International Commission on Large Dams in Lucerne on Wednesday. Switzerland, with the highest density of dams in the world as well as the world’s highest concrete dam, the Grande-Dixence, sources 55 per cent of its electricity needs from hydroelectric power. Swiss…

Investment Bank puts freeze on Glencore

This content was published on Jun 1, 2011 The EIB, the European Union’s lending institution, provided a $50 million (SFr42 million) loan in 2005 to Mopani Copper Mines, a Zambian subsidiary of Zug-based Glencore, to help pay for modernisation work. But Mopani has since been accused by some non-governmental organisations – most recently campaign groups in an open letter signed by a group…

Cisalpino reaches the end of the line

This content was published on Jun 1, 2011 The company made the announcement during the unveiling of its travel plan for 2012. Federal Railways boss Andreas Meyer told reporters on Tuesday that he wanted “to put an end to this horror”. The problems with the Cisalpino, or ETR-470, had halved since the company had taken over maintenance but it had not been possible…

Guardian Angels aim for billion-euro EU prize

This content was published on May 31, 2011 swissinfo.ch visited “The Guardian Angels” project laboratories at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) to find out more about the next-generation chips that may transform our daily lives. Visitors to Michael Graetzel’s EPFL lab come away spellbound. One or two raspberries are squashed between two small glass layers, one of which is covered…

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