Category Archive: 3) Swiss Markets and News

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Migrant Rape Epidemic Reaches Austria

2016-05-05

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2016-05-05

Submitted by Soren Kern via The Gatestone Institute, A 20-year-old asylum seeker from Iraq confessed to raping a 10-year-old boy at a public swimming pool in Vienna. The Iraqi said the rape was a "sexual emergency" resulting from "excess sexual ene...

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Swiss sculptor Giacometti goes digital

2016-05-05

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Fans of one of Switzerland’s most famous artists, Alberto Giacometti, can now discover the places he knew and loved, with the help of their smartphones. (SRF/swissinfo.ch) — swissinfo.ch is the international branch of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC). Its role is to report on Switzerland and to provide a Swiss perspective on international events. For …

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EU Plans $290K Per Person Fine For Countries Refusing “Fair Share” Of Refugees; Angry Response Ensues

2016-05-05

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2016-05-05

As Norway offers cash for refugees to leave, announcing that they won't be accepting any more refugees from the EU, and Switzerland prepares its military to close down borders, the EU has seemingly had enough of every country acting as if it has any ...

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Here Comes The Turkish Flood: EU Commission Backs Visa-Free Travel For 80 Million Turks

2016-05-04

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2016-05-04

Earlier this week we observed that in what may be Europe's latest mistake, the European Union is about to grant visa-gree travel to 80 million Turks: a key concession that Erdogan obtained as a result of the ongoing negotiations over Europe's refugee...

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Switzerland: You know negative interest rates are bad when…

Switzerland is famous for being punctual. The trains. The buses. The meticulously crafted, hand polished luxury watches. The Swiss are so culturally punctual that they even tend to pay their taxes well in advance of the filing deadline. But with negative rates, the cantons' tax office do no longer like this.

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Lindiwe Zondo: An Out of the Ordinary Initiative

2016-04-29

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Investec Promaths alumna Lindiwe Zondo proves that ambition and perseverance can solve life’s most challenging equations. For more #OutOfTheOrdinary stories, visit www.liveoutoftheordinary.com

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cash-Talk vom 29. April 2016

2016-04-29

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Die Vorsorge der zweiten Säule betrifft alle, trotzdem wissen viele nur wenig darüber Bescheid. Im Talk nennt cash Pensionscoach Gabor Gaspar wichtige Punkte, der sich alle Vorsorgewilligen bewusst sein müssen.

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Ben Stokes, Joe Root, and Stuart Broad undertake longest drive challenge with Paul McGinley

2016-04-28

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Test cricket sponsors Investec brought together three of the biggest names in English cricket to test their golf skills at Woburn Golf Club. More used to smashing a leather ball than a dimpled one, Ben Stokes Joe Root, and Stuart Broad attempted to outhit each other under the tutelage of three-time Ryder Cup winner and …

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Provenance research at Bern’s Kunstmuseum

2016-04-28

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How much stolen or looted art is on display in Swiss galleries? The Kunstmuseum in Bern has taken a close look at its own pictures and has made provenance research the subject of its latest exhibition. (SRF/swissinfo.ch) — swissinfo.ch is the international branch of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC). Its role is to report on …

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Chernobyl fallout in Ticino: an exaggerated reaction to a real threat

2016-04-28

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The man responsible for dealing with the effects of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Switzerland’s worst hit region revisits what happened 30 years ago. (Carlo Pisani, swissinfo.ch) At the time of 1986 disaster, Mario Camani was head of Sezione della protezione dell’aria dell’acqua e del suolo (SPAAS), the environmental protection office of the southern canton …

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Hunting down carrion crows

2016-04-28

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In canton Aargau, vegetable farmers are disheartened as flocks of carrion crows descend on their seedlings, destroying large parts of their crops. Now cantonal authorities have taken the situation into their own hands with a pilot project that involves hunters shooting a limited number of the birds. (SRF/swissinfo.ch) — swissinfo.ch is the international branch of …

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Graeme Swann and Phil Tufnell commentate on the Investec Derby Trial

2016-04-26

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Cricketing legends Graeme Swann and Phil Tufnell swapped stumps for stalls, as they commentated on the Investec Derby Trial at the Investec Spring Meeting. Investec, the sponsor of Test cricket in England and the Investec Derby Festival, invited England spin legends Graeme Swann and Phil Tufnell to call the action on this year’s Investec Derby …

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Germany’s AFD leader Frauke Petry wants ‘more Switzerland for Germany’

2016-04-24

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2016-04-24

Fauke Petry, leader of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), believes Germany “needs more Switzerland … more democracy” and that Switzerland is some way ahead of her country when it comes to a “culture of democracy”.

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Last Swiss tobacco factory faces closure

2016-04-24

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Switzerland’s only remaining factory processing local tobacco is threatened with closure. (SRF/swissinfo.ch) — swissinfo.ch is the international branch of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC). Its role is to report on Switzerland and to provide a Swiss perspective on international events. For more articles, interviews and videos visit swissinfo.ch or subscribe to our YouTube channel: Website: …

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Switzerland Readies Military In Preparation For A New Wave Of Migrants

2016-04-23

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2016-04-23

According to The BBC, the most asylum claims in 2015 occurred in Germany, which saw >500,000...   With the main route (reportedly shut down) being from Turkey to Greece, and up through the Balkans... With Syrians making up the bulk of migrants tryi...

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Everest guide’s Swiss training

2016-04-23

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Tendi Sherpa, one of Nepal’s first mountain guides to be certified, has been in the southern canton of Valais on a five week mountain rescue course. (RTS/swissinfo.ch) — swissinfo.ch is the international branch of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC). Its role is to report on Switzerland and to provide a Swiss perspective on international events. …

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New in the supermarket: lettuce with roots

2016-04-21

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One of Switzerland’s biggest supermarkets, Coop, now features a completely new type of lettuce with roots attached, grown not in a field but in a trough. (SRF/swissinfo.ch) — swissinfo.ch is the international branch of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC). Its role is to report on Switzerland and to provide a Swiss perspective on international events. …

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The internet of the future

2016-04-21

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In the future the internet will not only allow people to comunicate with each other but with objects too. Swiss public television’s 10vor10 programme explains the “Internet of Things”. (SRF, swissinfo.ch) — swissinfo.ch is the international branch of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC). Its role is to report on Switzerland and to provide a Swiss …

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The Shocking Reason For FATCA… And What Comes Next

2016-04-21

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2016-04-21

Submitted by Nick Giambruno via InterntionalMan.com, If you’ve never heard of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), you’re not alone. Few people have, and even fewer fully grasp the terrible things it foreshadows. FATCA is a U.S. ...

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Michael Ringier, Verleger und VR-Präsident Ringier

2016-04-20

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Bei Ringier hat sich 2015 der Reingewinn halbiert. Das sei kein Anlass zur Sorge, sagt VR-Präsident Michael Ringier im Interview mit cash. Das Verlagshaus will weiter in hohem Tempo investieren.

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