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Swiss exports continue to grow

This content was published on Apr 26, 2011 During the first quarter of 2011, Swiss exports went up by 5.8 per cent for a total value of SFr50 billion ($56.88 billion). The growth trend continues despite the strong Swiss franc. This increase is roughly the same as that in the third and fourth quarters of last year, the Federal Customs Administration announced on…

Swiss SMEs are small but international

This content was published on Apr 26, 2011 In both cases, the logic is the same. Firstly, the domestic market is too small. Secondly, much of the demand comes from abroad. And thirdly, Switzerland’s economic interaction with the European Union has made access to European markets much easier for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). “Size, therefore, has relatively little to do with…

UBS records a profitable first quarter

This content was published on Apr 26, 2011 As the bank announced on Tuesday, it made a net profit of SFr1.8 billion ($2.03 billion) in the first quarter of this year. That’s 18 per cent less than a year ago, but still seven per cent more than in the final quarter of 2010. The net inflow of new money from January to March…

Basel stinker soon to fade

This content was published on Apr 24, 2011 However, the sight will soon be over. On Sunday afternoon huge dark red petal-like structure surrounding the yellow flowering structure began to wilt. The central structure itself is likely to collapse on Monday, the custodian of the botanical gardens, Heinz Schneider, told the Swiss News Agency. On Saturday alone, more than 10,000 people came to…

Galileo’s heirs advise the pope

This content was published on Apr 24, 2011 Werner Arber, an Aargau-born microbiologist and geneticist who shared the 1978 Nobel Prize for Medicine, is the first Protestant to hold the position. The 81-year-old heads a body that is meant to keep the pope up to date with the latest scientific developments. Historically, however, the Catholic Church has had a strained relationship with science,…

New light on how mind meets brain

This content was published on Apr 23, 2011 The research by Francois Ansermet, a psychoanalyst from Geneva university, and Pierre Magistretti, a neuroscientist from the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, offers new insights into how we think, behave and act. On Thursday they spoke about their work to a conference in New York of psychoanalysts, doctors and scientists, explaining how the fields…

Stinking giant a hit in Basel

This content was published on Apr 23, 2011 The only previous time a titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum) produced a flower in Switzerland was 75 years ago. World-wide, there have only been 134 recorded instances of cultivated plants blooming. The nearly two-metre tall flower opened on Friday evening. The flower started to poke out of the soil in March, and in the past few…

Cern breaks new record in particle collisions

This content was published on Apr 22, 2011 The development on Friday happened after they fed beams into the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), with some six per cent more particles per unit than the previous record set by the Fermilab’s Tevatron collider in the United States last year. Each collision in the LHC’s 27-kilometre circular underground tunnel creates a simulation of the Big…

Holenweger acquitted of money laundering

This content was published on Apr 21, 2011 Eight years after Holenweger was first arrested on charges of laundering money for South American drug cartels, the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona on Thursday cleared him of all charges, which also included bribery, falsifying documents and mismanaging client assets. The Bellinzona court awarded Holenweger SFr420,000 ($476,730) in compensation. Prosecutors said during the trial that…

Holenweger acquitted of money laundering

This content was published on Apr 21, 2011 Eight years after Holenweger was first arrested on charges of laundering money for South American drug cartels, the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona on Thursday cleared him of all charges, which also included bribery, falsifying documents and mismanaging client assets. The decision represents a significant defeat for federal prosecutors who had sought a prison term…

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