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Swiss urge EU to do more to cut pollution

This content was published on Jul 16, 2006 The Swiss government, which announced a second package of anti-pollution measures last month, wants the European Union to move quickly in introducing tougher standards. The meeting of European environment ministers and experts in Turku over the weekend marked the first time that Switzerland – which is not a member of the EU – had been…

Microsoft takes Swiss approach in Russia

This content was published on Jul 16, 2006 The 36-year-old Russophile from the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland describes the opportunities and difficulties of working in the fast-moving Russian market, where industry leaders can “hope to see annual growth of 80 to 100 per cent”. After studying computer science at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Santinelli taught for a year at Moscow…

Deiss pushes for trade agreement with Malaysia

This content was published on Jul 15, 2006 Deiss, who was on his last foreign trip before leaving the cabinet, said in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, on Saturday that the Malaysian government was receptive to the idea. “Concrete negotiations could begin next year,” announced Deiss, who had earlier held talks with Malaysia’s trade and industry minister, Rafidah Aziz. Negotiations on a free-trade agreement…

Disaster tourists flock to Eiger

This content was published on Jul 14, 2006 Hundreds of hikers and hordes of journalists have taken up position each day to watch the Eiger slowly shed a large chunk of its eastern flank, and ponder what it says about global warming. Those fascinated by the Eiger usually come to stare in awe at its formidable North Face, once considered insurmountable by alpinists.…

Eiger sheds rock mass

This content was published on Jul 14, 2006 The rock – loosened by melting glacial ice – crashed down shortly before 8pm on Thursday, blanketing the Bernese Oberland resort of Grindelwald in a cloud of dust for hours. Rescue chief Kurt Amacher of the Swiss Alpine Club told swissinfo that about 400,000 cubic metres of stone – or 20 per cent of the…

Major China deal looms for UBS

This content was published on Jul 12, 2006 UBS will pay SFr270 million ($220 million) for a 20 per cent stake of brokerage firm Beijing Securities if its proposal is accepted. When the deal gets rubber stamped, as expected, the brokerage will be renamed UBS Securities, UBS said on Wednesday. The Swiss bank would be the first foreign company to be allowed to…

Whisky galore

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Liechtenstein marks 200th birthday

This content was published on Jul 12, 2006 The tiny state has adopted much that is Swiss, including the currency, the postal service and similar tax and banking rules. But it draws the line at importing Swiss democracy. Liechtenstein’s “Day of Sovereignty” on July 12 is the culmination of its bicentennial festivities, which include an official ceremony, a parade by its 11 municipalities,…

Consumers lose appetite for organic food

This content was published on Jul 12, 2006 Turnover was down 0.5 per cent last year to SFr1.183 billion ($950 million), accounting for three per cent of the food market. And there were 2.6 per cent fewer organic farms. The Swiss are still the world’s biggest buyers of organic products, spending SFr160 per person annually. But Otto Schmid of the Swiss Research Institute…

hospitality helps save ukraine’s forests

This content was published on Jul 11, 2006 In the rural villages of Transcarpathia, over-dependence on forest products is threatening the stability of the ecosystem. The local people are trying an alternative: eco-tourism. The region around Chernobyl is not the only part of Ukraine closed to the general public. In the mountains of Transcarpathia, close to the border with Hungary and Romania, another…

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