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Schmid signs global Parkinson’s Declaration

This content was published on Apr 11, 2005 The declaration, which is sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO), calls for more solidarity and professional support for those with the degenerative disease. Speaking at the signing ceremony in the Swiss capital, Bern, Schmid said healthy people should take responsibility for those who are ill. “We cannot allow our society to individualise itself to…

Deiss calls for trade accord with Indonesia

This content was published on Apr 11, 2005 Deiss, accompanied by a delegation from the Swiss business community, also called on the Jakarta government to make conditions easier for investors. During talks on Sunday and Monday, Deiss urged Indonesia’s president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the minister of trade, Mari Elka Pangestu, and the economics minister, Aburizal Bakrie, to conclude the free-trade accord with Efta.…

Farmers earned more money in 2004

This content was published on Apr 11, 2005 The Swiss Farmers’ Union has commented that it is satisfied with the development but has warned against overenthusiasm. According to provisional figures published on Monday by the Federal Research Station for Agricultural Economics and Engineering, the net income made on average by each farm was SFr62,300 ($52,221). Between the years 2001 and 2003, the figure…

Air traffic over Zurich gets radical overhaul

This content was published on Apr 11, 2005 Skyguide, the Swiss air traffic control agency, has warned that delays could be expected during the first few weeks of operations while it implements the changes. Aircraft waiting to land at the city’s airport will now have to do so in Swiss airspace, over two areas to the northeast and the west of the airport.…

Inventors look for big break in Geneva

This content was published on Apr 11, 2005 Over 1,000 inventions are on display at the city’s annual inventors fair, their creators hoping to attract the investor who will help them find fame and fortune. Inventors are considered by many to be slightly eccentric, or at least original thinkers. The 33rd International Exhibition of Inventions does little to dispel this belief. Folding fins…

Deiss discovers the drama of Banda Aceh

This content was published on Apr 10, 2005 Deiss, who is on a trade promotion trip to Indonesia, also inspected aid projects that Switzerland has initiated. “Before you have actually seen it you cannot imagine that a catastrophe of such dimensions is possible,” Deiss said, visibly shaken by what he found. More than 125,000 people are reported to have died in Aceh province…

Record lottery win is “made in Switzerland”

This content was published on Apr 9, 2005 The playslip was officially registered at a newsstand in a shopping centre in the town of Sierre, shortly after 5pm on Friday. The winner or winners, who chose seven numbers correctly, now have six months to claim their prize. Lottery authorities say the exact prize money is SFr99,039,018 before a withholding tax of about a…

US authorities fine Syngenta over Bt10

This content was published on Apr 9, 2005 The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), which imposed the fine, also ordered the Basel-based company to develop a training programme to prevent another occurrence. The European Food Safety Authority has said the Bt10 corn contains an antibiotic-resistant gene that it believes should not be present in crops grown commercially. But Syngenta says the gene…

Majority of Swiss fear electrosmog

This content was published on Apr 8, 2005 The survey by the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine at Bern University found that five per cent had already complained of ailments due to electrosmog. Most of those who said electrosmog affected their health cited various symptoms such as problems sleeping and headaches. At the top of the list of causes was radiation from…

Ex-Swissair bosses may face their day in court

This content was published on Apr 8, 2005 Karl Wüthrich told swissinfo that the lawsuits were likely to be the first of many, and that he was also confident of getting money back from Swissair’s banks. Wüthrich is seeking SFr280 million ($231 million) from some of Switzerland’s top business people and politicians who were in charge of Swissair before it collapsed. It was…

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