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Vaccines enjoy renaissance in pharma industry

This content was published on Dec 21, 2009 What was once a seemingly sleepy sector in the pharmaceutical industry, where there were few opportunities to make big profits, has come alive over the last decade. “The market has almost tripled over the last eight to ten years,” Carsten Mantel, a medical officer in the World Health Organization’s Expanded Programme on Immunisation, told swissinfo.ch.…

Study finds .ch a safe domain

This content was published on Dec 21, 2009 Domain names ending in .ch stand alongside those of Japan, Ireland, and Luxembourg as the safest, the report said. There is a 0.3 per cent risk ratio of downloading a virus by visiting a Swiss site. Cameroon, in stark contrast, tops the risk factor with a ratio of 69.7 per cent. Also high risk are…

Housing market remains on solid foundations

This content was published on Dec 21, 2009 The benign outlook is good news for Switzerland where the sure-footed nature of the housing market has contrasted to the carnage created by bursting bubbles in a host of other countries. While house prices have been crashing in countries such as the United States, Britain and Spain, the Swiss market has experienced above average growth…

HSBC executive says stolen data “incomplete”

This content was published on Dec 20, 2009 The data, taken by Herve Falciani, a former information technology specialist, in 2006 and 2007, has been handed over to French tax authorities and has cast doubt over the ratification of a tax treaty between the two countries. “What we have seen so far is a list with seven names. … The data from Falciani…

“Siberia of Switzerland” freezes again

This content was published on Dec 20, 2009 The drop, which occurred on Saturday evening and early Sunday morning, made La Brévine the coldest place in the country so far this year. Many parts of Switzerland saw the mercury fall to between minus ten and minus 20 degrees. In Buchs, canton Aargau, temperatures fell to -14.9 degrees. It was -14.4 at the Zurich…

Swiss Post chair wants to grow revenues abroad

This content was published on Dec 20, 2009 “The Swiss Post must be like Nestlé,” Claude Béglé told the Sonntag newspaper, referring to the Vevey-based food giant, which does most of its business outside Switzerland’s borders. “It will in the future have a large headquarters in Switzerland, will develop products here, will pay taxes on its profits but to a large extent will…

Swiss banks should step up Islamic wealth drive

This content was published on Dec 19, 2009 However, the controversial vote and subsequent condemnation should serve as a warning for the Swiss finance industry to better serve the needs of Islamic clients, observers believe. Switzerland is waiting to see how far November’s referendum decision to ban the future construction of minarets will damage the country’s image and business interests. So far, only…

Leuenberger says Copenhagen outcome “insufficient”

This content was published on Dec 19, 2009 Bitterly divided, the two-week meeting barely avoided collapse and countries said they would try again for a new global pact by the end of 2010. Following resistance from a small group of developing countries, the conference’s 193 participating nations will “take note” of the three-page Copenhagen Accord but not all will endorse it. Speaking in…

Divided world “takes note” of climate pact

This content was published on Dec 19, 2009 “Finally we sealed a deal,” said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. “The Copenhagen Accord may not be everything everyone had hoped for but this decision… is an important beginning.” The conference’s 193 participating nations will “take note” of the pact but not all will endorse it. The result follows two years of international negotiations, a furious…

Contentious Copenhagen deal risks unravelling

This content was published on Dec 19, 2009 The United States, China, India, South Africa and Brazil spearheaded a deal that espoused “deep cuts in global emissions” and financing for poor nations but left out plans to adopt a legally binding agreement by next year. Meant to be the high point of two years of negotiations, the meeting in Copenhagen risked ending with…

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