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States come to terms with “dirty dozen”

This content was published on May 6, 2006 But Swiss officials said there had been agreement on further steps aimed at ridding the world of hazardous pesticides and chemicals during the weeklong meeting, which ended on Friday. The Swiss were hoping to convince other countries to appoint a single individual to take charge of the three secretariats dealing with chemicals, pesticides and hazardous…

Defenders of the environment call for action

This content was published on May 4, 2006 A study published on Thursday shows how the goal can be achieved using the consistent application of energy-saving technologies and with less traffic on the roads. Greenpeace, WWF and the Swiss Transport and Environment Association (VCS) wrote in their study “Energy Perspective 2050” that an unbelievably large amount of energy was being wasted. Despite a…

UBS posts best-ever quarterly performance

This content was published on May 4, 2006 This figure is the bank’s best-ever quarterly performance and easily beat analysts’ expectations. “This is our best net profit ever for the financial business,” announced Clive Standish, the bank’s chief financial officer, on Thursday. “A clear differentiator for UBS is that we have a very large stream of income from wealth management and asset management…

Alzheimer’s vaccine candidate shows promise

This content was published on May 3, 2006 The results, published in the latest edition of the Journal of Neuroscience, show that the vaccine impedes the appearance of a protein that is a hallmark of the disease. Beta-amyloid proteins amass in the brain when a person suffers from Alzheimer’s. These so-called plaques are considered to be a typical indicator of the disease, although…

Young foreigners need better integration

This content was published on May 2, 2006 While the office gave a generally positive evaluation of integration in the country, it warned that some youngsters could face poverty and exclusion if not helped. The report, released on Tuesday, stated that the most important factor for successful integration was access to jobs, but that many people had trouble finding work. Integration should be…

CS reports its businesses are flourishing

This content was published on May 2, 2006 Switzerland’s second-largest bank on Tuesday reported a first quarter net profit of SFr2.6 billion ($2.10 billion), up 36 per cent compared with the comparable period last year. Net new assets totalled SFr31.1 billion. “Positive market sentiment translated into strong client activity across our investment banking, private banking and asset management divisions and we were well…

Supermarket credit cards cause concern

This content was published on May 1, 2006 The Consumer Protection Association says that combining the credit cards with a loyalty card would allow Migros and rival Coop to snoop on customer buying habits. Last week Coop announced it would launch “Switzerland’s cheapest credit card”, costing SFr9.90 ($8) a year – only to be undercut a few hours later by Migros, whose card…

Swiss want united front on toxic chemicals

This content was published on May 1, 2006 The Swiss want one person to take charge of the secretariats of the Rotterdam, Stockholm and Basel conventions, which cover chemicals, pesticides and hazardous waste, to make them more effective. Swiss officials plan to table their proposal at the second conference of parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), which runs in…

Job market facing sea change

This content was published on Apr 30, 2006 Renzo Ambrosetti, co-president of Unia, Switzerland’s largest single trade union, and Peter Hasler, director of the Swiss Employers’ Association, give swissinfo their views of the Swiss job market. Labour Day, on May 1, is traditionally an opportunity to consider relations between employers and employees including a look back over the past year. 2005 was marked…

“Football widows” give Swiss hunks thumbs up

This content was published on Apr 29, 2006 A video clip featuring topless male models posing as traditional Swiss workers has been downloaded around 100,000 times from the Swiss tourist board website and e-mailed around the world. Viewers watching the 2005 Mr Switzerland, Renzo Blumenthal, milking a cow are told that Switzerland is “a country where men spend less time on football and…

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