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Cardinal brewery to close its doors

This content was published on Aug 31, 2010 Citing overcapacity, Carlsberg said on Tuesday it would concentrate production of beer for the Swiss market in Rheinfelden, the home of Feldschlösschen, near Basel. Those affected in Fribourg will either be offered alternative employment within Feldschlösschen or retire. The factory will closed by June next year. A statement said Feldschlösschen would now begin discussion with…

UN climate panel urged to stick to science

This content was published on Aug 30, 2010 The InterAcademy Council (IAC) released a report on Monday that said the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) needs stronger review procedures and “significant reforms” to avoid publishing mistakes. Co-chair of the IPCC, Swiss climatologist Thomas Stocker, said implementing the recommendations contained in the critical review could strengthen confidence in the panel’s future assessments…

Attitudes towards minorities “getting worse”

This content was published on Aug 30, 2010 Gülcan Akkaya, vice president of the Federal Commission against Racism, says Switzerland needs a policy that includes and recognises everyone living here. Her comments come after the population voted in favour of a controversial anti-minaret building initiative in November 2009 and prepares to vote on a people’s initiative to deport foreign criminals. Another issue making…

Action urged to end workers’ exploitation

This content was published on Aug 29, 2010 Swiss Labour Assistance (SLA) hopes to change this shopping policy through a campaign drawing attention to exploitation, slavery and work undertaken by children. Paving stones for Swiss streets produced under conditions of exploitation in Indian quarries or footballs for schools sewn by Pakistani children. These are examples the charity gives of purchases made by Swiss…

Russian shops offer taste of home

This content was published on Aug 28, 2010 Alongside Russian restaurants, you can find Russian food shops and bookshops in Zurich, Geneva and Bern. And it’s not just Russians who are interested in buying imports from the homeland, but also people from other parts of the former Soviet Union as well as the Swiss themselves. According to the Russian embassy in Bern, there…

Researchers from Zurich win European grants

This content was published on Aug 27, 2010 The ERC Starting Grants are the most important European programme for innovative research. The funds will go towards interdisciplinary projects launched by researchers at the Federal Institute of Technology and Zurich University, according to a joint statement. They will all receive €1.5 million over the next five years for their projects in the fields of…

Switzerland complies as US tax deadline passes

This content was published on Aug 26, 2010 The State Secretariat for International Financial Matters (SIF), issued a statement saying that the Federal Tax Administration (FTA) had “issued the corresponding conclusive decrees” on the cases, as it was obliged to do by an agreement signed last August between Switzerland and the US. Client data in about half the cases has already been supplied…

Economic cooperation with Russia to increase

This content was published on Aug 26, 2010 The agreement was signed by the Swiss economics minister, Doris Leuthard, who is also this year’s Swiss president, and her Russian counterpart Elvira Nabiullina, during a meeting with Russian president Dmitri Medvedev, the Swiss economics ministry said. It replaces and extends a previous agreement which is due to expire at the end of the year.…

Stargazers discover “richest” planetary system

This content was published on Aug 26, 2010 If confirmed, the discovery by a European team, led by Christophe Lovis from Geneva University, represents “the richest” system of exoplanets – planets outside our own solar system – ever found. “We have discovered what is probably the most populated planetary system known to date,” the lead researcher said in a statement on Wednesday. This…

Novartis moves a step closer to Alcon buyout

This content was published on Aug 26, 2010 Novartis, which now has a 77 per cent stake in Alcon and a majority on its board, has been trying to buy the remaining 23 per cent in Alcon since exercising its option to buy the food group’s stake in January. Alcon’s Independent Director Committee has dismissed the Novartis offer for the minority stake as…

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