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Economics Minister Couchepin visits China to boost trade ties

This content was published on Nov 5, 1999 Swiss Economics Minister Pascal Couchepin, accompanied by top business leaders, is paying a week-long visit to China. Discussions in Beijing Monday and Shanghai Wednesday will be dominated by trade issues, including tourism and market access. Switzerland is one of the major direct investors in China, and Couchepin’s visit comes only a few days before Switzerland…

Switzerland warns of time factor in Kosovo reconstruction

This content was published on Nov 5, 1999

Internet usage booms in medium-size business sector

This content was published on Nov 5, 1999 The use of the Internet by small and medium-sized businesses in Switzerland is booming. According to a study by Berne University, it nearly doubled in the past 12 months. The newly-released report finds that about 30 percent of the 25,000 businesses polled regularly use the Internet, while another 14 percent say they plan to go…

Swiss authorities urge more action over world hunger

This content was published on Nov 4, 1999 The Swiss government’s aid agency Thursday sounded the alarm about world hunger, saying that despite international pledges, there were now more undernourished people than three years ago. Taking stock of efforts to help those in need, the Agency for Cooperation and Development said that results are falling well short of the targets set at a…

Spirits sales quadruple after cut in import tax

This content was published on Nov 4, 1999 Imports of spirits such as whiskey and cognac have quadrupled over the past months in the wake of dramatic cuts in import duties for foreign spirits, the Swiss authorities said Thursday. The customs authorities said overall imports had increased from 1.14 million to 4.89 million litres since July, when the import levies took effect. This…

WTO: world trade growth on course for recovery in 2000

This content was published on Nov 3, 1999 (AP) — Growth in world trade should recover next year after its sharp drop in 1998, the director-general of the World Trade Organisation said in Geneva Wednesday. Mike Moore said trade in goods rose by 4 percent worldwide in 1998, compared with 10 percent the previous year. All regions were affected by the slowdown, and…

Swiss Marilyn Monroe impersonator buys movie star shoes

This content was published on Nov 3, 1999

Fredericks to take up post as U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland

This content was published on Nov 1, 1999 The U.S. Senate has confirmed President Bill Clinton’s nominee for the vacant post of ambassador to Switzerland. Richard Fredericks is to succeed Madeleine Kunin in the Swiss federal capital, Berne. Fredericks, 54, comes from a mainly business background and has known Clinton since their student days at Georgetown University in Washington, where they shared a…

Researchers chart path toward modernised welfare state

This content was published on Nov 1, 1999 The Swiss National Science Foundation is launching a major research project which is aimed at modernising social security programmes that are increasingly cash-strapped due to an ageing population and mounting benefit payments. Swiss and international researchers involved in 30 to 40 projects are addressing such issues as the working poor, insurance models for old age…

Lonza back to Swiss bourse after 25 years

This content was published on Nov 1, 1999 Specialty chemicals firm Lonza Group returned to the Swiss stock market on Monday after a quarter-century absence. Lonza had been listed on the Swiss bourse until 1974, when it was taken over by what is now Swiss aluminium, packaging and chemicals concern algroup. Lonza is being spun off again as algroup readies to merge with…

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