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Marc & The Boiled Crawfish: Mudbug Business

This content was published on Sep 24, 2009

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“Excessive pay” campaign targets Novartis boss

This content was published on Sep 24, 2009 The group released its annual presentation on executive pay in Zurich on Thursday, which showed that salaries of top managers in the 47 largest Swiss firms had sunk by 22 per cent in 2008. The survey said top executives took home on average SFr2.4 million ($2.35 million), chairmen SFr2 million and other board members SFr300,000.…

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CINEMA: Cargo

This content was published on Sep 24, 2009 The first science fiction film Made in Switzerland! This exciting drama by Ivan Engler tells the story of Laura, a young doctor who is the only person awake on board the Kassandra, a dilapidated cargo spaceship.

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Trafigura settles toxic waste lawsuit

This content was published on Sep 24, 2009 The metals and oil trading firm with offices in Geneva and Lucerne admitted no wrongdoing surrounding events in August and September 2006, when a Trafigura-chartered ship offloaded 500 tons of petrochemical waste to a local company. That company then poured the caustic mix into open-air dumps in Abidjan, the West African country’s largest city. A…

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“Go to Basel and you will find your way”

This content was published on Sep 23, 2009 Instead he is starting over. The 20 year old recounts his upbringing in Afghanistan, the quick beginning and end of a journalism career and the moment that forced him to leave everything behind. “It’s really hard for me. I really miss the voice of my mother,” he says. He speaks of the past in deliberate…

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OPEN-AIR: Antiques Fair and Flea Market

This content was published on Sep 23, 2009 Rummage at Switzerland’s largest open-air Antiques Fair & Flea Market.

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Federer may face Nadal in 2010 Davis Cup

This content was published on Sep 23, 2009 Federer and Nadal, ranked respectively one and two in the world, have never met in the Davis Cup. They last played each other at the Madrid Open in May when Federer carried the day 6-4, 6-4. The draw for the World Group also sends the United States to Serbia, making a match between Novak Djokovic…

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Cancellara aims for home wins at cycling worlds

This content was published on Sep 23, 2009 The two-time world time trial champion and defending Olympic gold medallist in the same discipline is set to test his legs on the mountains of Ticino, his country’s Italian-speaking region. The 28-year-old Saxo Bank rider’s chances are good in Thursday’s 49.8-kilometre individual time trial, and he has proven he can train his focus on more…

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ART: Jenny Holzer

This content was published on Sep 23, 2009 The focus of American artist Jenny Holzer’s work is the use of words and ideas in public space. The exhibition includes paintings, sculptures, LED installations and spectacular light projections for buildings and sites in Basel and Zurich.

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