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Education seen as key to economic revival
Zurich :: Switzerland | 3 days ago
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The Swiss Business Federation, economiesuisse, predicts gross domestic product (GDP) to shrink by 2.1 per cent by the end of the year but recover slightly in 2010 to grow by 0.7 per cent if conditions do not deteriorate. In common with many forecasters,...
Tags: Switzerland, Pascal Gentinetta, Zurich, Education, Unemployment, Alternative education, Vocational education, Labor, Apprenticeship
A Swiss apple a day keeps wrinkles at bay
Zurich :: Switzerland | 3 days ago
Credibility Used in creams and serums, stem cells from the Uttwiler Spätlauber apple are said to protect skin cell regeneration and so delay the onset of wrinkles...The November edition of the United States Vogue magazine went as far as to call the variety "the super-apple",...
Tags: stem cells, ProSpecieRara, skin stem, Béla Bartha, Uttwiller Spätlauber, Michelle Obama, keeps wrinkled, United States Vogue, Switzerland, Zurich, Wrinkle, Aging, Apple, Cloning, Developmental biology, Stem cell, Biotechnology
Pay restrictions imposed on financial community
Zurich :: Switzerland | 3 days ago
Credibility The rules demand a link between bonuses and long-term performance to reduce excessive risk taking. Companies will also be expected to be more transparent about remuneration policies to shareholders. The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (Finma)...
Tags: Finma, told swissinfo, Switzerland, Zurich, Institutional investors, Legal entities, Finance, Business Finance, Bank, UBS AG, Financial institutions, Insurance, Types of insurance
The minaret ban hits the Swiss headlines
Lausanne :: Switzerland | 3 days ago
Credibility In Switzerland, there seems to be a general concern in the media that the vote (57.5 per cent in favour of the ban) could lead to reprisals from Muslims. The Fribourg newspaper La Liberté says Switzerland might have to pay for a "democratic luxury". "At...
Tags: Switzerland, Swiss Christian, Muslims, Lausanne, Neue Zￃﾼrcher Zeitung, Freedom of religion, Zￃﾼrich, Central Europe, Blick, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Minaret, Religion Belief
Google faces court action over Street View
Bern :: Switzerland | 3 days ago
Credibility The federal data protection commissioner, Hanspeter Thür, said on Friday he was bringing a case against Google at the Federal Administrative Court to force the company to make changes to its application. He explained that Google had rejected many of the...
Tags: street view, Hanspeter Thür, Switzerland, Google, view service, data protection, Bern, Google Earth, Google Street View, Privacy, Google Maps, Information privacy, Thￃﾼr
Nuclear energy debate generates heat
Bern :: Switzerland | 3 days ago
Credibility Energy providers Alpiq, Axpo and BKW Energie are bickering about how many new plants should be built and who should run them. But before that happens, they must first convince a sceptical public. Nearly three years ago, the Swiss government decided that...
Tags: Greenpeace Switzerland, nuclear energy, GE Hitachi, nuclear power, Switzerland, Bern, Environment, Nuclear power in Switzerland, Energy policy, Renewable energy, BKW FMB Energie AG, Nuclear technology, Energy development, Science and technology in Switzerland
"Unsustainable" cities need radical rethink
Singapore :: Singapore | 3 days ago
Credibility Singapore in an effort to produce a template for the modern sustainable city. Gerhard Schmitt. "Cities provide living space for more than half of the world's population, and this rate is set to rise. They produce half of the economic output but also half...
Tags: ETHZ, Gerhard Schmitt, city laboratory, Singapore, future city, Zurich, Environment, Urban planning, Central Europe, Green building, Sustainable city, Switzerland, Sustainability, City
Consumers take on sunnier outlook
Zurich :: Switzerland | 3 days ago
Credibility Swiss shoppers have a healthier appetite for spending than in the summer, according to a government pulse check of consumer intentions. Retailers are more optimistic than any other sector in a separate survey. All of this flies in the face of official...
Tags: Switzerland, Zurich
International Muslim concern at minaret vote
Geneva :: Switzerland | 3 days ago
Credibility The vote revealed the hidden fears of many Swiss, and Muslims should respond by trying to build harmony across society, a leading Muslim scholar says. The reaction of Ali Gomaa, the grand mufti of Egypt, was echoed by a number of other Muslim scholars...
Tags: International Muslim, Switzerland, Geneva, Islamophobia, Islam in Switzerland, Ali Gomaa, Religion Belief
Balkan businesses may hold key to stable future
Belgrade :: Serbia | 3 days ago
Credibility The financial crisis has created a "high noon" scenario for Albania and the former Yugoslavia. Whether they prosper or crumble depends largely on how well the region's economic potential is developed, experts say. Those were key topics at a forum in Bern...
Tags: Balkans, Serbian, European Union, Switzerland, Bosnian, Edin Dacic, Serbia, Belgrade, Slavic countries, Micheline Calmy-Rey, Landlocked countries, Republics, Liberal democracies
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