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Global Aids attention turns to Latin America

This content was published on Aug 3, 2008 A Swiss delegation is attending the five-day meeting, the first of its kind in Latin America, which is expected to draw around 25,000 participants from across the globe, including many world-renowned leaders and experts. Aids 2008 was officially opened on Sunday by Mexican President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa. Other opening session speakers include Secretary-General of the…

Police investigate Michelin man’s last supper

This content was published on Aug 3, 2008 Spanish police have mounted a search for Pascal Henry, 46, but a spokesman declined to comment on whether the fine-food fan might have simply skipped off without paying. “The restaurant informed us of what happened and we later heard through Interpol that he was a missing person,” the spokesman said on Sunday. “He got up…

Farmers bite back after fire blight crisis

This content was published on Aug 2, 2008 Thousands of fruit trees were infected in Switzerland in 2007 – the worst ever year for fire blight – causing millions of francs worth of lost crops. This year an antibiotic has been used for the first time to combat the disease – with positive results. Huber’s seven-hectare farm is in Neukirch-Egnach, an idyllic village…

swissinfo.ch journalist experiences canyoning (2008)

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Tour guide warned of cows, carts and crowds

This content was published on Aug 1, 2008 The venerable volume, according to French tyre giant and publisher Michelin, has been “for 100 years the faithful companion of travellers to Switzerland”. The truth, however, is a little more complicated. Michelin did indeed release its first guide about Switzerland in 1908. It was a very respectable size – several hundred pages – and in…

Swiss come tenth in worldwide patent rankings

This content was published on Jul 31, 2008 The Geneva-based United Nations specialised agency said that the country’s share of the worldwide patent cake had increased from 1.2 per cent in 2000 to 1.4 per cent in 2006. The report puts Switzerland tenth overall and 17th when it comes to patent filings compared with gross domestic product – one of the measures of…

UBS settles US securities fraud lawsuit

This content was published on Jul 31, 2008 Massachusetts attorney-general Martha Coakley alleged that a local broker working for UBS misled cities and government agencies into thinking that auction-rate securities were as liquid as cash, a legal requirement for government investments in Massachusetts. But early this year the market for the financial instruments dried up, and the cities were stuck holding long-term debt.…

Inflation highs sound no alarm bells

This content was published on Jul 31, 2008 Increasing energy costs have been blamed for the latest hike but a recent drop in oil prices, the stability of non-seasonal core inflation rates and restrained wage increases have dampened fears of a spiralling problem. The Federal Statistics Office reported on Thursday that July inflation rates were the highest in Switzerland since a peak of…

Recycling all the waste of a rich country

This content was published on Jul 31, 2008 Recycling all the waste of a rich country.

Economic barometer falls to five-year low

This content was published on Jul 30, 2008 The KOF Swiss Economic Institute indicator, which points to the economy’s likely performance in six months’ time, fell to 0.9 from a revised 0.99 in June. But the head of KOF, Jan-Egbert Sturm, said on Wednesday that it was “clearly exaggerated to speak of a recession”. He said that although consumption growth was no surprise,…

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