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Swiss delighted by success at Leipzig book fair

This content was published on Mar 16, 2014 The “incredible attention” paid to the Swiss presence “exceeded all expectation,” Dani Landolf, director of the Swiss publishers and booksellers association (SBVV), told the Swiss News Agency. The SBVV organised the event from the Swiss side. More than 80 Swiss authors from all four language regions attended the fair, along with about 70 publishing houses.…

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Rigging scandal still pursues Swiss banks

This content was published on Mar 15, 2014 The FDIC says the manipulation, which occurred between August 2007 and “at least” the middle of 2011, benefited the big financial institutions at the expense of 38 small and medium-sized US banks, ten of which subsequently failed and were taken over by the FDIC. In its suit filed on Friday it is seeking economic and…

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World Atlas of Swiss Places

This content was published on Mar 15, 2014 Journalist Petra Koci was fascinated when she discovered just how many such places there are, and decided to track some of them down. She travelled all over the world in her search for towns and villages bearing names from all three of Switzerland’s official languages – German, French and Italian. She has published a book,…

Expensive, but worth the price

This content was published on Mar 14, 2014

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Alternative approach makes housing affordable

This content was published on Mar 14, 2014

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Communities fight the property bubble effect

This content was published on Mar 14, 2014 Johannes Wartenweiler, a long-term resident of the Lorraine area of Bern is worried about the future of his neighbourhood, where individual buy-to-sell investors can “demand up to CHF2 million ($2.2 million) for seven rooms”, and the effect this influx of money will have on rents. He formed a co-operative in this much talked about area…

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Prison sentence for FC Bayern Munich president

This content was published on Mar 14, 2014 The judge ruled Hoeness’ voluntarily disclosure in January 2013 – that he had failed to pay taxes – was incomplete and did not meet a requirement needed for amnesty. “The voluntary disclosure is not valid with documents that were presented alone,” he said. On Friday, Hoeness said he would not appeal the ruling and would…

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Asbestos victims achieve victory at European court

This content was published on Mar 11, 2014 Swiss courts had previously turned down claims from victims on the grounds that they had filed their lawsuits much more than 10 years from their last contact with the fibrous mineral, and were thus outside the country’s statute of limitations. Hans Moor, who inhaled asbestos dust during his work at an engineering factory in the…

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Dealing with hazardous waste (Part 1)

This content was published on Mar 11, 2014

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Swiss block further Ukrainian bank accounts

This content was published on Mar 10, 2014 They had already frozen all assets of Yanukovych, his son Alexander – both of whom are subjects of a Swiss money-laundering investigation – and about 20 more people. On Monday, the asset freeze was extended to Yanukovych’s second son, also called Viktor, and Alexey Azarov, son of the former Ukrainian prime minister, Mykola Azarov. Also…

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