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Doors open on Bamiyan project

This content was published on Jan 22, 2007 The House of Science, financed and designed by the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, is part of efforts to rebuild this war-torn area at the foot of the Hindu Kush mountains. Bamiyan is well known for its Buddha statues which were destroyed by Islamic militants in 2001 for being un-Islamic. The move caused an…

Generic drugs market soars

This content was published on Jan 22, 2007 But the report, published on Monday by Interpharma, highlighted slower overall growth across the pharmaceutical industry, and falling medicine prices. In 2006 the Swiss pharmaceutical industry generated SFr4.2 billion ($3.36 billion) in revenue. This represents a 1.9 per cent rise on the previous year, compared with 3.8 per cent in 2005. Meanwhile, the average price…

Credit Suisse proposes to buy back more stock

This content was published on Jan 22, 2007 At a presentation for investors in Zurich on Monday, the group’s chief executive Oswald Grübel ruled out making any major acquisitions, preferring to return any excess capital to shareholders. However, he did not rule out making small-scale purchases. “We will… invest in businesses which fit our model and where we see the best long-term, sustainable…

Doctors sound alarm over television

This content was published on Jan 22, 2007 In the latest edition of the health booklet distributed to parents, they advise that children should not sit in front of a screen for more than seven to ten hours a week. “When some toddlers tell me about the film they just watched before coming to school, the mind boggles,” said one teacher in Zurich,…

Campaign for fair labour standards launched

This content was published on Jan 21, 2007 The campaign, backed by Switzerland’s centre-left Social Democratic Party, the Trade Union Federation and Swiss Labour Assistance, wants to put the issue at the top of the global political agenda. “United we stand,” said Mamounata Cissé of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) at the launch in Nairobi, Kenya, on Sunday. An estimated 500 people…

WEF aims to set agenda in a shifting world

This content was published on Jan 21, 2007 The former classical musician, who has worked for the forum since 1998 and has been a board member since 2003, explains why the WEF remains a unique forum for leaders from the political and business world. Climate change, energy and terrorism, as well as the Middle East are expected to dominate the five-day talks which…

Swiss give super-rich expats tax reprieve

This content was published on Jan 19, 2007 Swiss cantons, which met on Friday to debate a possible doubling of the tax rate, opted instead for a study comparing their systems for super-rich expatriates with those applied in other havens, including Luxembourg and Monaco. The meeting of financial authorities followed a recent outcry in both France and Switzerland after ageing French rock star…

Swiss technology travels to outer space

This content was published on Jan 19, 2007 Swiss industry and research institutes have regularly supplied parts and instruments for the spacecraft and probes that travel across the solar system. By 1960, the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States had well and truly extended into space. Three years earlier, the Russians had launched the first satellite, and now the…

Bern and Tokyo discuss free trade accord

This content was published on Jan 19, 2007 Despite the collapse of the Doha world trade talks, progress has also been made in negotiations regarding other free trade agreements – Switzerland is set to sign with Egypt next week, and an accord with Canada is also on the cards. Bern and Tokyo have been studying the possibilities of economic partnership and a free…

Doctored snow generates ill feeling

This content was published on Jan 19, 2007 The decision follows reports that 1.5 tons of ammonium nitrate fertiliser was used to ensure the running of last weekend’s World Cup Lauberhorn race in Wengen. Urs Näpflin, Lauberhorn race director, confirmed to swissinfo that the quoted amount of the chemical compound, which raises the freezing point of the snow, had been spread “over the…

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