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India offers many possibilities for Swiss firms

This content was published on Jan 18, 2006 Probst, a lawyer, is part of an economics delegation that is accompanying Swiss Economics Minister Joseph Deiss on a five-day official visit to the country. “Trade relations are far from what they could be… I would really wish to see them improve much more and faster. We have been talking about the opportunity of India…

Former Swissair executive gives film thumbs-up

This content was published on Jan 18, 2006 Matthias Mölleney turned from advisor to actor on Grounding, as he relived events before he had to hand out thousands of redundancy notices in October 2001. Mölleney plays a cameo role in the film that is out on general release in Switzerland on Thursday. swissinfo: Does the film realistically portray actual events? Matthias Mölleney: The…

Swiss Re plans mass layoffs

This content was published on Jan 18, 2006 The announcement came as managers of both companies were meeting this week to discuss the group’s future leadership. Swiss Re chief executive Jacques Aigrain is quoted in Wednesday’s German-language edition of the Financial Times newspaper as saying that up to 15 per cent of the combined workforce of Swiss Re and General Electric’s Insurance Solutions…

Senior vet hammers Pitbull ban

This content was published on Jan 18, 2006 Pierre-François Gobat, president of the Association of Cantonal Veterinarians, believes the knee-jerk reaction by the government and politicians has no scientific basis and will not make people safer. On Friday the government proposed a series of measures against “dangerous dogs”, including a ban on Pitbull terriers and tighter restrictions on 13 other breeds. It follows…

Deiss leads trade offensive to India

This content was published on Jan 18, 2006 Deiss will meet political and economic leaders in Calcutta and Bangalore before a final stop-off in New Delhi. He is due to hold talks in the capital with the Indian commerce and industry minister, Kamal Nath, and the finance minister, P Chidambaram. A meeting with the prime minister, Manmohan Singh, is also scheduled. Switzerland says…

No end in sight for East Africa drought

This content was published on Jan 17, 2006 The warning comes as Switzerland prepares to join the countries concerned, aid agencies and the United Nations at a donor and coordination meeting in Nairobi on Thursday. According to the UN World Food Programme (WFP), millions of people across the Horn of Africa are in urgent need of food supplies. On Tuesday the WFP said…

Falling cigarette prices prompt health concern

This content was published on Jan 17, 2006 Health campaigners are concerned that lower prices will drive up tobacco consumption and are calling instead for cigarette prices to be increased. Philip Morris, one of the three big tobacco names in Switzerland, said the price of a packet of cigarettes could fall by up to half a franc ($0.39). Spokesman Marc Fritsch told Swiss…

Politics limits Swiss ability to innovate

This content was published on Jan 17, 2006 The EU Innovation Scoreboard 2005, published last week, ranks Switzerland second behind Sweden and ahead of the US and Japan. The Scoreboard ranks 33 countries based on the innovativeness of their industries, businesses and science institutes, measuring such factors as the number of science and engineering graduates, patents, spending on research and development (R&D) and…

SGS profit up 33.5 per cent

This content was published on Jan 17, 2006 The result, which the company said was driven by good trading conditions, narrowly beat analysts’ expectations. SGS – the world’s biggest inspection, verification and certification firm in terms of sales – said on Tuesday its outlook for the current year was “strong”. The company’s net profit has been rising steadily for the past few years.…

Pluto mission gets Swiss shield

This content was published on Jan 17, 2006 Zurich-based Contraves Space is supplying the fairing that sits on top of the launcher, protecting the spacecraft as it accelerates through the Earth’s atmosphere. Nasa, the United States space agency, says the mission is designed to help understand planets known as ice dwarves by making the first reconnaissance of Pluto and one of its moons,…

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