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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…

Swiss aid benefits 1.2 million Hurricane Mitch victims

This content was published on Nov 1, 1999 Switzerland’s emergency and reconstruction aid for the victims of last year’s Hurricane Mitch benefitted 1.2 million people in over 170 villages, the authorities said Monday. The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation said that 95 projects were put in place swiftly to benefit those most in need in the Central American countries. The bulk of…

Red Cross societies meet in Geneva to draft action plan

This content was published on Oct 29, 1999 Red Cross delegates from all over the world are meeting in Geneva this week to plan concrete action to tackle the humanitarian challenges of the next millennium. The week-long conference brings together representatives from 188 governments and 176 national Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. They will chart the organisation’s so-called Millennium Year, which has…

OECD report highlights weak points of Swiss social assistance

This content was published on Oct 29, 1999 Switzerland’s welfare payments are on average very generous but have a tendency to stifle personal initiative and tend to slow down a return to the job market, says a newly released report. The study by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development put the spotlight on four cantons – Zurich, Vaud, Ticino and Graubünden –…

Medical doctor Uma Grob honoured for work in Tanzania

This content was published on Oct 29, 1999

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