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Der lange Weg nach Kaltbach – ORIGINAL

This content was published on Nov 30, 2010 Tief im Felsen reifen über 50’000 Käselaibe über 300 Tage lang. Der Fotograf begab sich auf die Spuren einer Schweizer Delikatesse und zeigt uns den Weg von den saftigen Wiesen des Juras und Emmentals, den Käsereien und deren traditionellem Handwerk bis hin zur einzigartigen Lagerung. Die Portraits von Bauern, Käsern und Höhlenarbeitern erzählen die Geschichte…

ABB spends SFr4.2bn on US firm

This content was published on Nov 30, 2010 The agreed price of $63.50 a share represented a 41 per cent premium to Baldor’s closing price on November 29, ABB, the world’s largest builder of electricity networks, said on Tuesday. The company, which also builds robots for industrial use, expected more than $100 million in annual cost synergies and global revenue synergies of the…

Forecasters predict cold winter

This content was published on Nov 28, 2010 Meteorologist Stephan Bader told the SonntagsZeitung that their forecasting model had shown that the average temperature would be -0.3 degrees Celsius this winter. The news comes amid a drop in temperatures and heavy snowfall in many places in Switzerland “In the past five years we have not had similar clear forecasts showing a ‘cold’ tendency,”…

Swissmem head calls for Switzerland to be open

This content was published on Nov 27, 2010 Hans Hess, who took over the position from the now economics minister Johann Schneider-Ammann on November 18, said in an interview that the country should not, as some sectors wanted, “put itself under a cheese cover”. Switzerland can only face the challenges of the economic crisis with the aid of others, Hess told the Finanz…

Swiss urged to leave wallets at home

This content was published on Nov 27, 2010 swissinfo.ch speaks to the Swiss event’s organiser, the founder of a Buy Nothing Christmas initiative and asks a retail expert whether it’s all just a waste of time. “The philosophy is to object to the current trend, dictated to us by most Western governments, that a good citizen is one who buys a lot,” said…

Regulator Finma defends actions in UBS crisis

This content was published on Nov 26, 2010 A parliamentary report in May said the government failed to act quickly to prevent the bank’s credit woes and had exerted pressure on the regulator to order UBS to hand over client data from about 4,450 accounts to United States tax authorities. The watchdog – the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (Finma) – argued in…

New Swiss atlas offers more than ever before

This content was published on Nov 26, 2010 The maps, covering about 2,000 themes, can be viewed in either two or three dimensions. One innovation is the 3-D prism map, where two themes can be combined in one statistical overview. The new version is the third to appear on DVD. It includes many new themes from the areas of transport, energy and communications…

Worth a mint

This content was published on Nov 26, 2010 The Swiss Federal Mint’s origins go back to 1848, when the modern Swiss state was founded, and the prerogative of coinage passed from the cantons to the Confederation. The introduction of the Swiss franc, considered one of the world’s strongest currencies, also took place then. Since then, Swissmint, which is based in the capital Bern,…

Credit Suisse sued by UAE bank

This content was published on Nov 25, 2010 The lawsuit filed in New York – the second filed by the Abu Dhabi government-controlled bank – claims the Swiss bank as well as Standard &Poor’s rating agency failed to disclose conflicts of interest. The case, which dates back to 2007, involves a $153 million (SFr153.2 million) provision for losses from investment in the United…

Employment rises, especially in health care

This content was published on Nov 25, 2010 In the past year the number of people with jobs has gone up by one per cent overall, the Statistics Office announced in its third quarter employment report on Thursday. While the secondary sector (production and construction) shows very slight growth at 0.3 per cent, employment in the third sector (administration and services) is up…

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