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ABB hammered over asbestos worries

This content was published on Sep 24, 2002 Uncertainty about the scale of asbestos claims sent ABB’s share price tumbling. The company’s former United States subsidiary is one of 250 firms which were facing trial in West Virginia this week. Most have agreed to settle out of court. ABB told swissinfo it would not make any comment on its strategy pending the trial,…

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Tribute to Niki de Saint Phalle extended

This content was published on Sep 24, 2002 It was mounted in Fribourg’s “L’Espace Jean Tinguely – Niki de Saint Phalle” shortly after her death in May this year at the age of 71. Her marriage to the Swiss sculptor and painter Jean Tinguely was one of the 20th century’s most important artistic partnerships. Canton Fribourg-born Tinguely, who died 11 years ago, is…

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Holocaust lawyer wants more money

This content was published on Sep 24, 2002 Holocaust lawyer Ed Fagan is said to want more than the $300,000 he has been offered. The United States district judge, Edward Korman, gave the go-ahead for the payouts in New York on Monday. However, some of the lawyers who represented Holocaust victims in their class action lawsuits are reportedly contesting the sums they’re being…

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IMAX film festival and invasion of British cars

This content was published on Sep 24, 2002 The town of Morges on the shores of Lake Geneva will be invaded by classic British cars on October 5. Flights of fancy Many of the films to be screened at the IMAX Days festival at the Swiss Transport Museum in Lucerne take a bird’s eye view of the world. The giant IMAX screen will…

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Cable car company comes out on top

This content was published on Sep 24, 2002 But they live so near to big resorts that they have become indifferent to the financial problems of the city’s very own cable car company and ski resort. What would New York be without Central Park, or London without Hyde Park? That was the question the residents of Chur had to ask themselves about their…

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Swiss stall on UN conventions against terrorism

This content was published on Sep 23, 2002 The result is a blow for the Swiss justice minister, Ruth Metzler, who wanted a speedy ratification of the treaties. A majority of 27 to 15 voted that the Senate should take more time before ratifying the conventions, citing the need to know more about the implications for Swiss law. Metzler had stated her hopes…

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French asylum policy blamed for Roma influx

This content was published on Sep 23, 2002 Officials say that more than 400 Roma have asked for asylum in Switzerland in the past two months. In the space of a fortnight, 255 Romanian gypsies in five groups, including 112 children, have been dumped in canton Vaud. They reportedly paid €100 per person, or €500 (SFr730) for a family to be smuggled into…

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Audrey Hepburn museum faces challenge

This content was published on Sep 23, 2002 The Audrey Hepburn Pavilion in Tolochenaz near Lausanne is losing the possessions of its famous former resident. Two academy awards, photographs, original film posters, costumes and other belongings of the late actress have been exhibited for the past six years in the Audrey Hepburn Pavilion. The pavilion was opened as a museum on the initiative…

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Gypsy influx prompts probe into trafficking network

This content was published on Sep 23, 2002 The cases, all in canton Vaud, point to a worrying new people-trafficking network. In total 178 Roma, around half of them children, have been dumped in the western Swiss canton since September 13, when a first group of 46 people were uncovered in Renens, near Lausanne. What at first appeared to be an isolated incident…

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Building a seaworthy security policy

This content was published on Sep 23, 2002 Its key message is that in a constantly changing world, easy answers are hard to come by. The Swiss government has an exhibition at each of the four sites of the National Exhibition, Expo 02. Although they deal with different questions, there is a common theme – finding solutions to global problems strengthens Switzerland and…

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