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New centre provides seeds of knowledge

This content was published on Oct 27, 2007 Mycorama in Cernier has been over ten years in the making, finally overcoming a series of political and financial hurdles that often seemed insurmountable to its initiators. Autumn is the mushroom-collecting season in Switzerland. At weekends large numbers of people forage through the woods, basket in hand, in search of an often elusive – and…

New museum attraction is a walkover

This content was published on Oct 26, 2007 Visitors can effortlessly follow some of the routes that the Swiss slogged over for centuries on foot or by mule. One of the museum’s attractions is Swissarena, an aerial map of Switzerland on a scale of 1:20,000 – big enough to contain details down to the traffic on the roads, small enough to fit into…

Air pollution report takes breath away

This content was published on Oct 26, 2007 A governmental monitoring body said ozone, fine particles and nitrogen dioxide emitted by cars and trucks remained above limits last year. The National Air Pollution Monitoring Network (Nabel) said on Friday that urgent action was required to significantly reduce emissions of nitrogen dioxide, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), respirable fine particles and carcinogenic diesel particles and…

Birds of prey protection accord takes wing

This content was published on Oct 25, 2007 The meeting, the first of its kind, drew up the first steps towards an international agreement on protecting these migratory raptors – a move welcomed by Switzerland. The four-day International Conference on the Protection of Africa-Eurasian migratory raptors, with representation from 44 countries, ended at Loch Lomond on Thursday. Delegates discussed the best way to…

Energy firm has high hopes for wind farm

This content was published on Oct 24, 2007 If the SFr48 million ($41 million) project gets the go-ahead, the turbines could be in operation by October 2009, a spokesman for REnInvest said. With eight 78-metre high wind turbines, the Gotthard project would not only be the largest wind farm but also the highest in Switzerland, at 2,040-2,131 metres above sea level. Wind power…

Roche loses EPO court case

This content was published on Oct 23, 2007 The Basel-based firm is now considering its options, including a possible appeal, and still maintains that the facts and the law support its position in the dispute. The jury, following a six-week trial, announced on Tuesday that it was of the opinion that all of the American firm’s patent claims were valid and that Roche’s…

OECD calls for farming reform

This content was published on Oct 23, 2007 In its 2007 report on its members’ farming policies, the Paris-based organisation said subsidies to prop up domestic prices had dropped significantly in Switzerland but there was still room for improvement. The OECD pointed out that in recent years support has globally shifted away from measures linked to specific commodities. But production-linked measures still dominate…

Two killed in shoot-out at Syngenta GM farm

This content was published on Oct 23, 2007 This is the latest in several such protests by the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) in Brazil targeting multinationals in the agribusiness sector and what it sees as the “evil effects of genetically modified products”. Police said a peasant leader and a guard were killed at the Swiss-owned Syngenta research farm at Cascavel in the southern…

Hayek angles actor Clooney for energy venture

This content was published on Oct 20, 2007 Hayek, hailed as the saviour of the Swiss watch industry in the 1980s and a driving force behind the Smart car, added that Switzerland could become the world leader in renewable energies. In an interview in Saturday’s Berner Zeitung newspaper, Hayek said that the headquarters of the new holding company – yet to be named…

“Godfathers” help foreign workers integrate

This content was published on Oct 19, 2007 Swiss firms are increasingly having to look abroad for staff to expand their ranks, but SMEs have less experience in recruiting internationally. Godfathers are seen as one way around the problem. A recent survey by Swiss banking giant UBS revealed that the country’s industrial sector is working at 91.4 per cent capacity and that 40…

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