SWI Highlights 2016
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Switzerland's largest bank UBS is set to announce a new growth strategy targeting wealthy American clients. This comes nine years after the US Department of Justice forced the bank to rethink its business model, leading many banks to avoid expat American clients.
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A pioneering - and very expensive - leukaemia drug has been approved in Switzerland.
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The Swiss media are in trouble – with negative consequences for democracy.
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The employees were brought over from India on a tourist visa.
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Low wages with no holidays made university student Gaurav turn down jobs at Indian restaurants.
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A space probe with Swiss-built instruments departed from French Guiana for Mercury. It will take the BepiColombo about seven years to reach Mercury.
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Swissquote bank allows clients direct access to cryptotokens issued by a novel Swiss initial coin offering (ICO).
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When did glaciers start to melt? More importantly, when did human actions begin to influence it?
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Which Swiss regions have the most hospitalisations related to intoxication?
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Twelve members of a Swiss-registered vessel are still being held hostage by a separatist group from the Niger Delta region.
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Insurance investigators – necessary or dangerous?
Spying with drones, surveillance in bedrooms, an intrusion into privacy: In the upcoming public vote on social insurance investigators, a lot is ... Spying with ...
Spying with drones, surveillance in bedrooms, an intrusion into privacy: In the upcoming public vote on social insurance investigators, a lot is ... Spying with ...
When rugby goes farming
Farmers' work can be tough... the perfect fitness training for athletes! Players of the local rugby team in Biel have been helping out a farmer preparing his field a ...
Farmers' work can be tough... the perfect fitness training for athletes! Players of the local rugby team in Biel have been helping out a farmer preparing his field a ...
Origins of life clues in glacial microbes
Thousands of micro-organisms inhabit the Swiss glaciers. Scientists are now talking a closer look at these bacteria, which managed to adapt to ... Thousands of ...
Thousands of micro-organisms inhabit the Swiss glaciers. Scientists are now talking a closer look at these bacteria, which managed to adapt to ... Thousands of ...
Swiss referendum against a change to gun laws
Following the attacks in Paris in November 2015, the EU tightened gun laws in its member states. As a Schengen country, Switzerland is also affected. Following ...
Following the attacks in Paris in November 2015, the EU tightened gun laws in its member states. As a Schengen country, Switzerland is also affected. Following ...
A historical cookery book for the modern age
"Ein schön Kochbuch" from the year 1559 is Switzerland's oldest-surviving German-language cookbook. Discovered by chance, it has now ... "Ein schön ...
"Ein schön Kochbuch" from the year 1559 is Switzerland's oldest-surviving German-language cookbook. Discovered by chance, it has now ... "Ein schön ...
Switzerland: a country of dual nationals?
Every fifth Swiss has dual nationality. In Geneva, it's almost half of the population. Swiss public television, SRF took a closer look at why residents with foreign ...
Every fifth Swiss has dual nationality. In Geneva, it's almost half of the population. Swiss public television, SRF took a closer look at why residents with foreign ...
A final resting place in Switzerland
Famous rich people don't just come to Switzerland for fancy holidays in the Alps, some of them choose it as their final destination. Yes, Swiss cemeteries host ...
Famous rich people don't just come to Switzerland for fancy holidays in the Alps, some of them choose it as their final destination. Yes, Swiss cemeteries host ...
From cable car to sauna
Fancy a sauna in your back garden? What about if it was in an old cable car…? (RTR/swissinfo.ch) Nouvo brings you short videos about Switzerland, Swiss ...
Fancy a sauna in your back garden? What about if it was in an old cable car…? (RTR/swissinfo.ch) Nouvo brings you short videos about Switzerland, Swiss ...
Researching tsunamis in Switzerland
Researchers at the University of Bern have been drilling for core samples at three locations around Lake Lucerne. They have been investigating if .
Researchers at the University of Bern have been drilling for core samples at three locations around Lake Lucerne. They have been investigating if .
How do the Swiss memorise yodel melodies?
It consists of hundreds of different similar-sounding melodies: natural yodelling. This has always been passed on from yodeller to yodeller ... It consists of ...
It consists of hundreds of different similar-sounding melodies: natural yodelling. This has always been passed on from yodeller to yodeller ... It consists of ...
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