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Spring-cleaning a Swiss ski resort

This content was published on Apr 9, 2016 At the end of the ski season the number of tourists in Swiss mountain resorts might drop as steeply as the pistes, but locals start looking to summer.

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Finance minister defends offshore business

This content was published on Apr 8, 2016 “Offshore firms are not illegal,” Maurer told the Swiss tabloid Blick on FridayExternal link. “That many are founded in Switzerland has to do with the importance of our financial centre.” “I have a good feeling about it because we have a strict money laundering law. The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) External linkhas it…

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Planning bosses use drones to spy on people

This content was published on Apr 8, 2016

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Panama Papers put Swiss lawyers in tight spot

This content was published on Apr 7, 2016 For anti-corruption campaigners, the media-driven exposé provides the missing link between such financial intermediaries and the murky activities of the rich and powerful. Furthermore, they claim that the emerging details highlight loopholes in regulations that are supposed to clamp down on financial crimes. But lawyers bridle at the suggestion that they are doing the dirty…

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Criminal enquiry into offshore activities launched in Geneva

This content was published on Apr 7, 2016 The 11.5 million files – mainly emails and PDFs of contracts – reveal the offshore holdings of 140 politicians and public officials from around the world. They showed that lawyers and institutions in Geneva have set up numerous offshore companies for private clients. “The Attorney General’s Office believed in certain specific cases there was a…

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A future for female farmers

This content was published on Apr 7, 2016 It’s not the first school of its kind in the canton of Uri. Between 1946 and 1996 there was a training programme in the Reuss valley in the village of Gurtnellen. It was part of a Christian boarding school for girls, managed by the Ingenbohl nuns. The young women were trained to run a household…

From the podium to competing on the job market

This content was published on Apr 7, 2016 Virginie Faivre is an Olympic athlete and three-time world champion but will one day need to find a job.

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How anger over tax havens has moved from margins to mainstream

This content was published on Apr 7, 2016 No one used to care about offshore finance. Or at least, hardly anyone. Back in 2003, recalls Alex Cobham, now head of research at the Tax Justice Network, a small band of activists started lobbying against what they saw as the insidious role of tax havens. The campaigners would spend months trying to get meetings…

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Swiss police swoop on UEFA HQ

This content was published on Apr 6, 2016 New FIFA president Gianni Infantino has been challenged by the Panama Papers for having signed contracts with an offshore company over television rights while he led the legal services department at the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA).

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Diabetes a ‘defining issue for global public health’

This content was published on Apr 6, 2016 In Switzerland, where an estimated 500,000 of the 8.3 million total population have diabetes, more than 1,000 people die each year from diabetes and around 3,000 deaths are attributable to high blood glucose, the study found. Nevertheless, northwestern Europe has the lowest rates of diabetes, with age-adjusted prevalence lower than 4% among women and at…

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