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Swiss feel the pinch in their travels

This content was published on Nov 16, 2010 The Federal Statistics Office said in a study that Swiss residents were less keen on travelling within Switzerland for short stays, but continued to go on longer “classic” holidays abroad. The study found that journeys with overnight stays fell from 20 million in 2008 to 17 million in 2009. From 2003 to 2008 the number…

UBS discloses tax deal consequences

This content was published on Nov 16, 2010 At the same time, UBS confirmed its medium-term goals, saying it remained on course to reach an annual pre-tax profit of SFr15 billion. UBS has launched a large advertising campaign as it tries to win back clients who left the bank after it wrote down more than SFr50 billion on toxic assets in the credit…

How plants could protect against arsenic

This content was published on Nov 15, 2010 In a statement, they said that the results were a promising basis for reducing the build-up of the toxin in crops, such as rice, in regions of Asia, as well as for the clean-up of contaminated soils. Arsenic is present in water in some regions of the world – through the sinking of tube wells…

Kambly biscuits celebrates centenary with pride

This content was published on Nov 15, 2010 Alongside the railway track, a steady stream of people come out of the Kambly shop at its factory with plastic bags full of Switzerland’s leading specialty biscuits. The brand is a household name and they are even sold at airports these days. It would be fair to say that Kambly and its biscuits are what…

One hundred years of baking biscuits

This content was published on Nov 15, 2010 The producer of biscuit specialities is this year celebrating its centenary. Here’s a look at the company, some of its history, the present day and the local surroundings.

Swiss high tech to orbit Mars

This content was published on Nov 13, 2010 The university’s Space Research and Planetary Sciences Division, headed by British-born Professor Nicolas Thomas, is to oversee construction of the telescope camera that will take the images. Swiss firms will be invited to tender for the manufacture of the parts. Being asked to construct the camera is a real feather in the cap of the…

G20 meeting makes limited headway

This content was published on Nov 12, 2010 Global leaders meeting in Seoul this week were more preoccupied with tackling the problem of volatile currencies and failed to find consensus on how to iron out global trade imbalances around the world. The 20 most influential world economies gathered in South Korea on Thursday and Friday in an effort to establish coordinated ground rules…

WEF meeting to be held in new centre

This content was published on Nov 12, 2010 After 20 months of building work, the complex will be ready for the WEF, which takes place in January 2011. The current congress centre could host 3,000 people. President of the Davos commune, Hans Peter Michel, reckons the SFr37.8 million ($38.7 million) cost of the centre is “an investment for the future of Davos”. The…

Hormone therapy could increase cancer risk

This content was published on Nov 12, 2010 Researchers at the cantonal hospital of St Gallen examined the files of 108,000 men suffering from prostate tumours in the United States from 1993 to 2002. They concluded that patients following hormone therapy to fight the tumour had a greater risk of developing intestinal cancer. Out of 1,000 men, 4.4 patients taking hormones developed the…

Swiss man’s Jungle Book dream comes true

This content was published on Nov 12, 2010 Yet Fabio Preti, a Swiss, has chosen this original career path. Sitting astride a bare-backed elephant, as motorbikes honk and buses try to overtake, he tells swissinfo.ch why he chose this job and wouldn’t swap it for anything in the world. “It was a childhood dream,” he said. “My first drawing was an elephant, my…

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