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Swiss prove army food can be delicious

This content was published on Oct 20, 2008 The team of 13 won over the jury and guests with a menu that included a salmon with saffron brioche appetiser, a main dish of chicken breast, olive tortilla and Mediterranean vegetables, and a macchiato dessert with coffee and sour cream. The team worked in a Nato field kitchen in Germany and the cost was…

“Zoogler” revolution gains momentum

This content was published on Oct 20, 2008 The number of Zooglers, as Zurich staff are known, has doubled in the past year to more than 400 to make it Google’s biggest engineering hub outside the United States. Expansion resulted in a move to larger premises earlier this year. The new custom-made premises on the site of a former brewery – complete with…

Swiss boldly go forward in space policy

This content was published on Oct 20, 2008 The country is a founding member of the 40-year-old European Space Agency (Esa). Last week the Swiss government revised its policies to help ensure that the Swiss remain key players within the agency and in space. For years Switzerland has had a galaxy of policies in place, in areas such as research and technology and…

Wasp stings don’t cause infertility

This content was published on Oct 19, 2008 The findings are reassuring, however. Men who have an allergic reaction to wasp stings should be at no higher risk of becoming infertile than those who do not, said a statement issued on Sunday by Bern University Hospital. The question arose because there is a protein in sperm whose structure is very similar to one…

Bonus issue preoccupies Switzerland

This content was published on Oct 19, 2008 The move, revealed on Sunday, follows on from a turbulent week in which the country’s largest bank UBS was given a huge government bailout. The bank’s bonus policy has also come under fire. UBS’s rescue package, worth more than SFr60 billion ($53 billion) and announced on Thursday, sent shockwaves through Switzerland. The surprise bailout has,…

UBS bailout plan splits public

This content was published on Oct 19, 2008 In addition, 90 per cent of those asked said that the bank should pay the money back, according to a poll published in the SonntagsZeitung newspaper on Sunday. On Thursday the Swiss National Bank announced that it would guarantee up to $54 billion (SFr61 billion) of UBS bad debt and pumped $6 billion into the…

History repeats itself with financial crash

This content was published on Oct 19, 2008 He believes the recent turmoil will prove to be the worst crash since the global economic meltdown of the 1930s. Meier is currently researching the history of the Swiss financial market for a book he plans to write on the same subject. swissinfo: Is this the worst crash the Swiss financial market has suffered? Richard…

Housing boom over for property investors

This content was published on Oct 18, 2008 The co-author of a new forecast told swissinfo property prices in these urban areas as well as mountain resorts such as St Moritz and Verbier could fall by up to 20 per cent. Elsewhere, prices are expected to stagnate, said the report by BAK Basel Economics and the consultancy Fahrländer Partner. However, Stefan Fahrländer told…

Widmer-Schlumpf criticises UBS bonus policy

This content was published on Oct 18, 2008 She was reacting to comments by UBS board chairman Peter Kurer who said last week that payouts in “double figure millions” could not be ruled out in the future. On Saturday he apologised for the statement. Widmer-Schlumpf said on the Swiss public television Arena programme on Friday evening that she was “totally appalled” by this…

Atom smasher will be in business by spring

This content was published on Oct 17, 2008 The problems, caused by a single bad electrical connection, will be fixed over the winter and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be back in operation next spring, Cern spokesman James Gillies said on Friday. But damage to insulation and other parts around 29 of the magnets will most likely require that they be brought…

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