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Swiss open probe into scientist's terror links

World
2009-11-9

SWITZERLAND has opened its own investigation into the case of a nuclear physicist from France suspected of links with al-Qaida, an official said yesterday. The French suspect worked at the world's largest atom...

Swiss halt tax talks due to Italian raids

Business | Banking
2009-11-2

SWITZERLAND, angered by Italian raids on Swiss bank branches, has hit back by halting talks on a new double taxation agreement, Swiss Finance Minster Hans-Rudolf Merz said in a newspaper interview published yesterday....

US asks Switzerland to extradite Polanski

World
2009-10-23

THE United States has asked Switzerland to extradite film director Roman Polanski after he fled sentencing for having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977, the Swiss Justice Department said today. "The...

Switzerland, Slovakia secure World Cup berths

Sports | Soccer
2009-10-16

SWITZERLAND and Slovakia clinched Europe's last two automatic spots at next year's World Cup on Wednesday, while Portugal got the win it needed to keep alive its hopes of reaching the competition in South Africa. ...

Swiss writer dies, 75

World
2009-10-11

JACQUES Chessex, one of French-speaking Switzerland's leading novelists and the first non-Frenchman to receive the prestigious Prix Goncourt, has died aged 75, officials said yesterday. Chessex collapsed and died...

US urged to spend more on under-six

World
2009-9-2

AMERICA suffers the industrialized world's worst rates of infant mortality, teenage pregnancy and child poverty, even though the United States spends more per child than better-performing countries such as Switzerland,...

Beauty of a trip will cost pretty penny

National
2009-8-28

TEN Chinese women have each paid 200,000 yuan (US$29,000) for a trip to extend their youth in Switzerland in October. The women, all aged over 40, have signed up for a course of "revitalization" therapy using fresh...

Alpine faithful pray glacier will stop shrinking

World
2009-8-7

VILLAGERS from deeply Roman Catholic south Switzerland have for centuries offered a sacred vow to God to protect them from the advancing ice mass of the Great Aletsch glacier. Global warming is making them want...

Swiss battle for bank secrecy in US courts

Business | Lawsuits and scandals
2009-7-9

SWITZERLAND has vowed to prevent UBS from handing over client information to United States authorities, in an attempt to defend bank secrecy, saying a tax case targeting its main bank is souring diplomatic ties. ...

Switzerland gives World Expo a lift

Metro | World Expo
2009-5-8

SWITZERLAND yesterday brought a duplicate of a Titlis Mountain chair lift to Shanghai to be displayed at its Expo pavilion. Locals can sit in the chair lift at the Expo Exhibition Center on Huaihai Road M. for...