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The dreaded Swiss apartment handover

This content was published on Sep 12, 2012 “A famous place where the landlord would inspect was the water container above the toilet. They would lift the top and see if the scale had been cleaned out,” Thomas Köppel tells swissinfo.ch, recalling the handovers of his student years about 25 years ago. Little has changed. On the last day of August four women…

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Novartis patent case opens in India’s top court

This content was published on Sep 11, 2012 The final hearing, which started on Tuesday at the Supreme Court in New Delhi, is expected to last at least two months. Novartis took the case to the highest court after the drug failed to win an Indian patent on grounds that it was not a new molecule. India, the world’s leading exporter of generic…

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Former UBS trader appears in London court

This content was published on Sep 10, 2012 The trader involved has been charged by the British authorities with false accounting and fraud by abuse of position. The trader pleaded not guilty in January. He is risking a 10-year sentence if found guilty of fraud. The judge said Monday that he would begin hearing evidence in the case on September 14. The criminal…

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Casino growth leaves a bitter aftertaste

This content was published on Sep 9, 2012 As a nation, the Swiss are very partial to a flutter: in 2011, lotteries, betting and gambling earned the gaming industry over SFr1.7 billion ($1.78 billion). Gaming represents a highly lucrative source of income. Last year, taxes on casinos yielded SFr360 million francs to the federal coffers, while SFr60 million were turned over to the cantons.…

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Club owners and authorities search for solutions

This content was published on Sep 9, 2012 The heavy, thud-thud-thud bass line reverberates off the walls of the M2 metro and other buildings in the central Place de l’Europe. At the open-air festival in the square, Red Bull and Coke flows and hands reach high into the air as Norwegian DJ Todd Terje warms the crowd with his disco beats. “We come…

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Pharmacist rediscovers edible healing herbs

This content was published on Sep 9, 2012 Besides their exotic names – and in many cases pretty flowers – what are edelweiss, alpine rose, cowslips and eyebright good for? (swissinfo.ch/SF)

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A road to remember over the Susten pass

This content was published on Sep 8, 2012 With its 26 bridges and tunnels it was regarded at the time as one of the most beautiful roads in Europe. It is integrated perfectly into the landscape, with few curves and many lay-bys where motorists can stop and admire the stunning views. The 17th century mule track, the old pass road of 1817 and…

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Roughing it to find work in Switzerland

This content was published on Sep 5, 2012 Although the increase seems dramatic, it’s still not a mass phenomenon, underline Swiss authorities. Many unemployed live in precarious situations, camping for example, like Nicolas and Victor. If they stay for less than three months, they don’t even need a short time permit. One third of these people work in construction, six per cent in…

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Open season in the Alps

This content was published on Sep 5, 2012 Rony Frank believes hunting is in his blood. “It’s a disease. A passion. An addiction. It’s three weeks right in the middle of nature,” he tells swissinfo.ch. He and his brother Röbi come from a hunting family in the Domleschg, the valley through which the lower branch of the young Rhine flows. “We all hunt,”…

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A road to remember over the Susten pass

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Roughing it to find work in Switzerland

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