Sunday 20th May, 2012
Swiss phone workers charged for selling secrets: report
PARIS - Prosecutors in the Swiss canton of Geneva have charged three mobile phone company employees as part of a probe into illegal intelligence gathering, the Swiss ATS news agency reported ...
Bolt To Run At Zurich Diamond League
Double Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt will race in the Zurich leg of the Diamond League on August 30, organisers announced yesterday.Bolt, also the world record holder over the 100 and 200m, ...
Prosecutor’s office goes after Syrians, Libyans
The Federal Prosecutor's Office has opened criminal investigations into suspected money laundering activities by several people close to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and to former Libyan ...
Swiss investigate Syrians, Libyans over money-laundering
Arabian BusinessJeannette Balmer, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor, said Swiss authorities had received reports from the money laundering agency in connection with Libya and Syria, but could not give concrete ...
Dr. Salah bin Ali Abdulrahman meets with the Geneva-based Pak Ambassador
Bahrain News AgencyGeneva: May 20 -- (BNA) Minister of State for Human Rights Affairs Dr. Salah bin Ali Abdulrahman praised the current solid bilateral bonds between the Kingdom of Bahrain and the friendly Islamic ...
Health Minister heads delegation to Geneva
Bahrain News AgencyManama, May 20 (BNA) -- Health Minister Sadiq Al-Shehabi has left to Geneva to head the Kingdom's delegation in the 65th World Health Organization (WHO) meeting in Geneva from 21-26 May ...
Ex-UBS CEO says Swiss franc cap may harm economy
General Sources* Gruebel expects cap to hold * Says policy should be reconsidered at some point * Head of economiesuisse says markets could retest cap ZURICH, May 20 (Reuters) - The Swiss National ...
Sea Launch Prepares for the Launch of Intelsat-19
General Sources/PRNewswire-iReach/ -- The Sea Launch vessels have departed Sea Launch Home Port in Long Beach, California for the equator, in preparation for the launch of the Intelsat-19 satellite owned by ...
LCP moves further into Swiss market
European PensionsPensions and investment consultants Lane Clark & Peacock has expanded its Swiss operations with the launch of LCP Asalis. The new investment consulting practice will provide bespoke, ...
Swiss economy still suffering
European PensionsThe prospects for the Swiss economy have changed marginally in the latest Financial Market Test Switzerland, conducted by Credit Suisse in cooperation with the Centre for European Economic ...
Recession looms for Swiss economy
European PensionsThe Swiss economy is set to slide into recession in 2009, predict experts at Credit Suisse. Switzerland’s real economy finally felt the full force of the financial crisis in late 2008. ...
Swiss economy will neither boom nor bust
European PensionsThe Swiss economy is expected to neither boom nor go bust in 2009, according to economists at Credit Suisse. Thus far, the Swiss economy has proven to be robust, and although the current ...
Zurich Ireland outperforms market despite slump in new Life Insurance business
European PensionsThe Irish branch of Zurich (Eagle Star Life) has revealed that for the six months ending June 2008 it has outperformed the market, with Pensions Annual Premium new business of €47.4 ...
Aberdeen opens in Zurich
European PensionsAberdeen Asset Managers (Aberdeen) has opened new offices in Zurich, allowing enhanced levels of business in Switzerland, where the group has already been present for ten years. Aberdeen ...
Former president defends Blocher
Swiss InfoFormer Swiss President Micheline Calmy-Rey has defended as "normal" Christoph Blocher's role in passing on to her details of the private banking transactions of then Swiss National ...
Swiss fund invests $20m in ILD Energy
GlobesIE ), controlled by Ofer Nimrodi, has allotted 97,215,290 shares to Switzerland's VNG Capital Fund I (Opportunity Fund) at NIS 0.79 per share, for a total investment of $20 million (NIS 77 ...
Jeff Koons, the bridge between high and low art
Swiss InfoOne of the most ambitious exhibitions to date on American neo-pop artist Jeff Koons is being presented at the Beyeler Foundation near Basel, bringing together many of his most iconic ...
Innocence, beauty and sex
Swiss InfoJeff Koons is one of the world's best-known living artists. The Beyeler Foundation exhibition focuses on three central series of his work: The New, Banality and Celebration. All represent ...
Koons and Hirst lose value despite major shows
Swiss InfoAttention from major art institutions usually increases an artist's value, but simultaneous shows of Jeff Koons in Basel and Damien Hirst in London are having the opposite effect. Alarmists ...
Switzerland: The land that time begot
General SourcesNEUCHATEL, SWITZERLAND -- Andrew I-Jen Chen swapped a career crunching numbers at French bank BNP Paribas to take up an apprenticeship at one of Switzerland's most prestigious watchmaking ...
I owned Di Matteo
General SourcesBayern Munich hold summer training camps a few miles over the German border, and they have played pre-season friendlies here. Yet the locals will be backing Chelsea in tonight's Champions ...
Incredible moment 300,000 cubic metres of rock collapsed in Swiss Alps landslide
General SourcesDanger: The slab of rock that broke away from a mountain in southern Switzerland on Monday and crashed into the valley below close to the village of ...
BW Switzerland Opens Hotel Catering to Tall Guests >
Best WesternBest Western Switzerland Opens Hotel Catering to Tall GuestsBERN (Sept. 24, ...
British Lawyer Nabbed at JFK For Helping Americans Hide Swiss Accounts
ForbesImage via tibetanaltar.com With the IRS success with UBS and breaking the back of foreign bank secrecy, it's no wonder many Americans have come forward to disclose foreign accounts and ...
UAE's Ankabut Academic Network Takes Center Stage at WSIS Forum 2012 in Geneva
WAMWAM Abu Dhabi, 19th May 2012 (WAM) -- The National Research and Education Network (Ankabut) came under the focus of discussion during a Thematic Workshop at the World Summit on the Information ...
The Courage and Fidelity of the Swiss Guard
EWTNChaplain Gives Inside Look at Vatican HallmarkBy H. Sergio MoraVATICAN CITY, MAY 8, 2012 (Zenit.org).- On Sunday, 26 new recruits were sworn in to the Papal Swiss Guard.In the presence of cardinals, ...
Benedict XVI Welcomes New Swiss Guards
EWTNCalls Them to Support Each Other in Their ServiceVATICAN CITY, MAY 8, 2012 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI received in audience Monday 26 new Swiss Guards along with their families. The new recruits were ...
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