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Singapore regulator fines Coutts in 1MDB case

This content was published on Dec 2, 2016 The offences were perpetrated between 2003 and 2009 by two employees who later moved to the Lugano-based former BSI Bank, which was subject of a criminal probe in relation to the affair. Coutts’s international operations were taken over by Switzerland’s Union Bancaire Privée (UBP) in 2015. In a statement on Friday, MAS said it had…

Raise a glass to certified Swiss culture

This content was published on Dec 1, 2016 A Swiss city’s renowned winemakers’ festival will be a certifiable – though intangible – cultural experience three years from now.

More Swiss youngsters sign up to Instagram

This content was published on Dec 1, 2016 Instagram continues to grow in popularity among Swiss youngsters, while Facebook has fallen from grace, a new survey reveals.

Banking lobby group calls for more financial data treaties

This content was published on Dec 1, 2016 The Swiss Bankers Association wants the authorities to sign more international deals to automatically exchange the financial data of tax residents.

Almanac of Swiss politics goes digital

This content was published on Dec 1, 2016 The first edition of the “Annual Yearbook of Swiss Politics” was published in 1966. For the past five decades, experts have recorded political life both at a national level and in the country’s 26 cantons. The publication, written in German and in French, two of Switzerland’s four national languages, has become an important source of…

The difficult hunt for wild boar

This content was published on Dec 1, 2016 In many places, wild boar are a plague for farmers. The damage they cause throughout Switzerland each year amounts to CHF4 million. Farmers are engaging hunters to weed out the boar. But these highly sensitive animals are very difficult to kill. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)

Nestlé accused of ties to Indonesian palm oil labour abuse

This content was published on Nov 30, 2016 Indonesian children are working in hazardous conditions on palm oil plantations to supply multinationals like Nestlé, Amnesty International claims.

Sika founders appeal against voting rights ruling

This content was published on Nov 29, 2016 The family’s holding company Schenker-Winkler Holding (SWH) wants the high court in Zug to dismiss the decision of the lower court on October 27, which upheld Sika management’s right to restrict the Burkard family votes during the past two annual general meetings. SWH said in a statement on Tuesday that resolutions of the 2015 Sika…

Swiss-made camera sends first high-res shots of Mars

This content was published on Nov 29, 2016 The CaSSIS camera, which stands for Coulour and Stereo Surface Imaging System, was launched aboard the ExoMars mission’s orbiter in March and entered Mars’s orbit on October 19. Although the lander launched at the same time crashed on the Martian surface, the orbiter is currently circling the planet in an elliptical pattern, allowing the camera…

Why did voters reject a second major nature park?

This content was published on Nov 29, 2016 Eight of 17 municipalities, including two key communes, have rejected plans for a second national park in the Swiss Alps.

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