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Exercise key to preventing second heart attack

This content was published on Mar 16, 2009 Doctors looked at 209 people who had survived a heart attack to gauge the effects of different types of exercise and what happened when people stopped regular physical activity. The team from the Clinique Valmont-Genolier in Montreux said the blood vessel function improved after four weeks of exercise among people who exercised but that long-term…

UBS nominates finance specialists to boardroom

This content was published on Mar 16, 2009 Switzerland’s largest bank has replaced its chief executive and named a successor as chairman in the last month. Last summer, four directors stood down following the departure of then chairman Marcel Ospel. Swiss biotech magnate Ernesto Bertarelli, corporate lawyer Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler and Asian industry expert Jörg Wolle will step down from the UBS board at…

More changes to UBS board

This content was published on Mar 16, 2009 They will stand for election at the bank’s Annual General Meeting on April 15, and will replace Ernesto Bertarelli, Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler and Joerg Wolle. Demaré is a member of the executive committee of the Swiss-Swedish concern ABB. At the request of the British government, Ann Godbehere served as Chief Financial Officer of Northern Rock during…

Foreign-held accounts could top SFr2 trillion

This content was published on Mar 15, 2009 Up to SFr2.15 trillion in foreign private clients funds is the estimate given by the SBA in response to inquiries from the NZZ am Sonntag, the newspaper reported on Sunday. The sum is twice the estimate given up to now by the Swiss National Bank, which mentioned SFr1 trillion. Based on the new higher figure,…

Patent system needs overhaul, say researchers

This content was published on Mar 14, 2009 An international team, led by Professor Peter Bossaerts from Lausanne’s Federal Institute of Technology, carried out experiments to quantify the ways patent systems and market forces might influence someone to invent and solve intellectual problems. Their findings were published in the latest issue of the journal Science. The researchers claim that a market economy, where…

Press bid farewell to paradise lost

This content was published on Mar 14, 2009 But after this historic concession, commentators point out that the time has come to move onto the offensive in negotiations to protect Switzerland’s competitive position. Facing possible sanctions by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Finance Minister Hans-Rudolf Merz announced on Friday the government’s decision to cooperate on cases of international tax evasion.…

Future web will “rock the boat”, says creator

This content was published on Mar 13, 2009 British scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee made the remark on Friday at his former place of work, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or Cern, in Geneva. While speaking of his fond memories of his time at Cern – “an excellent place to start a new idea” – Berners-Lee stressed the importance of looking to the…

Cabinet marks presence in UBS case

This content was published on Mar 13, 2009 The Swiss will protect their “sovereign interests” according to a statement, by instructing an American law firm to draft an “amicus curiae” brief explaining Switzerland’s legal position. “Amicus curiae” is the name given to a person or organisation that participates in a court action but is not a party to the action. An amicus curiae…

swissinfo celebrates ten years of Swiss news

This content was published on Mar 13, 2009 Friday marks the tenth anniversary of swissinfo.ch, a multimedia platform that produces news about Switzerland in nine languages for an international audience. Based in Bern and part of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, the enterprise was created by federal mandate. The portal replaced shortwave radio broadcasts produced by Swiss Radio International for decades. swissinfo aims to…

Dinosaurs in the workplace

This content was published on Mar 13, 2009 During a conference in February in Geneva called Lift, participants could reminisce over the earliest days of computing thanks to the Mémoires Informatiques foundation. Founded in Lausanne in March 2007, the group seeks to safeguard the knowledge of computing pioneers and their programming languages to guarantee obsolete computers will still work years from now. Here’s…

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