Internal: Archive

Swiss biggest train travellers in Europe

This content was published on Jan 14, 2000 The Swiss are the greatest users of rail transport in Europe, according to a survey by the International Railway Union (UIC). In 1998, the average Swiss travelled 1817 kilometres or 40 journeys. The Danes came second, with 28 journeys per person, one more than in Luxembourg. Austrians clocked up 22 and the Dutch came fifth.…

Bad weather hampers Libya crash search

This content was published on Jan 14, 2000 Bad weather is hampering the search for survivors after a Swiss-owned Shorts 360-300 aircraft crashed off the coast of Libya on Thursday, killing at least seventeen people. Nineteen survivors have been plucked from the sea, and the search is continuing for three Libyans, one Briton and one Filipino, who are still missing. Salvage workers are…

Novartis to invest in French plant

This content was published on Jan 14, 2000 The Swiss life sciences group Novartis in Basel says it is to invest SFr136 million at its nearby Huningue site in Alsace, France, to produce revolutionary asthma and allergy treatment. A statement said the Board of Directors had approved the investment to develop the Novartis Biotechnology Centre. Construction and installation activities are underway and production…

Merkt awarded annual Latsis Prize

This content was published on Jan 14, 2000 The annual Latsis Prize, awarded in recognition of outstanding research by scientists under 40, has been awarded to Frédéric Merkt for his work in the field of physical chemistry. The 33 year-old professor at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich takes home prize money worth SFr100,000. Merkt’s research has focussed on understanding how molecules…

Swisscom considers property sales

This content was published on Jan 14, 2000 The Swiss telecommunications giant, Swisscom, says it is considering the sale of a large amount of property belonging to its Swisscom Immobilien Invest AG subsidiary. “Current market conditions are considered favourable and should allow the transaction to be completed in the second half of the year 2000,” Swisscom said in a statement. Without specifying how…

Swiss cities best places to live

This content was published on Jan 13, 2000 The Swiss capital, Berne, and the country’s financial centre, Zurich, are two of the cities with the best standard of living in the world, according to a new study. The survey, published on Thursday by the London-based human resources consultants, William K. Mercer, put the two Swiss cities at the top of the list, together…

Local governments at their limit

This content was published on Jan 13, 2000 Many of Switzerland’s local authorities are reaching the limits of their capabilities according to a study by the Swiss National Science Foundation. For the past two and a half years the Foundation has been looking at the problems facing local government and the pace at which reforms have taken place. With 2,900 municipalities, Switzerland has…

Roche sales rise 12 per cent

This content was published on Jan 13, 2000 Sales at the Basel-based pharmaceuticals group, Roche, rose 12 per cent last year, to SFr27.6 billion. That is above analysts’ expectations of about nine per cent growth. Roche said it expected to post good results for 1999, excluding special items, such as the floating of part of its US biotechnology unit Genentech, and the fines…

Memorial service for Crossair crash victims takes place

This content was published on Jan 13, 2000 A memorial service is underway for the ten people who died in Monday’s Crossair plane crash near Zurich. The transport minister, Moritz Leuenberger, is representing the Swiss government at the service in Basel cathedral. Also attending are diplomats from Germany, France, Spain, Moldova and Slovakia, the countries from which the seven passengers and three crew…

Trade unions want more jobs, better wages

This content was published on Jan 13, 2000 The Swiss Trade Union Federation has demanded more income for those on low and medium salaries, and a flexible retirement age. It also argued that more jobs had to be created in Switzerland. Looking back over the past decade at its annual news conference in Berne, the federation president, Paul Rechsteiner, said that the rich…

Internal: Archive

Popular Stories

Most Discussed

Internal: Archive

More

Swiss biggest train travellers in Europe

More

Bad weather hampers Libya crash search

More

Novartis to invest in French plant

More

Merkt awarded annual Latsis Prize

More

Swisscom considers property sales

More

Swiss cities best places to live

More

Local governments at their limit

More

Roche sales rise 12 per cent

More

Memorial service for Crossair crash victims takes place

More

Trade unions want more jobs, better wages

Popular Stories

Most Discussed