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Wealth managers are turning to a variety of surprising sources - such as online dating and charity “ to persuade the world™s richest people to invest with them.
Stinking exhaust fumes hanging in the air of Swiss cities may become a thing of the past if a move to ban polluting vehicles from town centres gets the go ahead.
Swiss Environment Minister Moritz Leuenberger says he has been encouraged by two days of informal talks in Geneva on funding efforts to combat climate change.
Scientists have identified a new experimental malaria drug able to cope with resistant strains of the deadly disease with just one dose.
Following the announced closure of the Cardinal brewery in Fribourg, swissinfo.ch looks at whether the glass is half-full or half-empty for the Swiss beer industry.
Most Swiss are in favour of assisted suicide, and would also support direct active euthanasia “ a practice currently outlawed.
With wind turbines popping up haphazardly around Switzerland, the time has come for better planning and dialogue to avoid opposition which the machines provoke.
Switzerland is earmarking nearly a billion francs to clean up soil contaminated by heavy metals leached from spent bullets.
Switzerland™s top climate envoy hopes this week™s informal financing meeting in Geneva will rebuild trust to revive the stalled global climate change talks.
The government is pushing ahead with proposed spending cuts to the tune of SFr1.6 billion ($1.56 billion) annually until 2013 to balance the federal budget.
Ten years after the Swiss and Europeans embarked on university reforms, the Bologna Process continues to raise questions of flexibility in higher-education.
Iraq has won its sovereignty as the United States formally ended combat operations there, but a political expert tells swissinfo.ch challenges still lie ahead.
Developers behind the holiday resort under construction in Andermatt have reached an important milestone.
Swiss law prohibits the advertisement of prescription drugs “ including botulinum toxin, which is commonly used to smooth wrinkles.
The new federal alcohol law wants to ban happy hours in Swiss bars on Fridays and Saturdays “ a move that has come in for strong criticism.
A global group of scientists has said a United Nations panel should avoid advocacy and rely only on solid evidence when making predictions about climate change.
Interior Minister Didier Burkhalter says the visit by a group of Swiss health and science experts he led to Brazil confirmed its emerging importance in the sectors.
The political climate for minorities in Switzerland is becoming more difficult, an expert tells swissinfo.ch.
A final in Toronto and a win in Cincinnati have shown that Swiss tennis superstar Roger Federer is close to his best form ahead of the US Open that begins on Monday.
When buying goods, many Swiss communes just look at the price and don™t think about how they were produced, according to a charity.
Migrants who intend to go home tend not to integrate, coping with an unfamiliar society can be bad for the health “ and not all migrants are the same!