Milan fraud trial adds to UBS reputation woes

by Giles Broom

March 19, 2010 | 09:50

News that UBS will stand trial for fraud in Italy sinks in another body blow to the loss-making bank’s tarnished reputation. Critics also question why UBS is pumping so much cash into fat-cat salaries. However Martin Naville of the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce maintains that despite these problems, and the ongoing banking secrecy debacle, the country’s reputation is still intact.

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Education & Health
	Swiss Ambassador to US embarks on tour of Arkansas
	March 17, 2010 \| 08:24	by Suzi Parker – US Correspondent

Urs Ziswiler, Swiss Ambassador to the United States speaks on Tuesday about Swiss and American relations at the Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock, Arkansas, an institution founded by former...Full story

Society
	Louisa Schibli – running The Xpat Xchange from overseas
	March 11, 2010 \| 11:12	by Marcus Berry

Louisa Schibli, boss of The Xpat Xchange, one of Switzerland's first information websites aimed at English speakers, is a familiar figure at Expat Expo. After nearly 10 years of operating the site providing...Full story

News
	New Botta museum in US for Swiss Bechtler art collection
	January 5, 2010 \| 01:49	by Michèle Laird

To house his family’s spectacular art collection, the Swiss-born Andreas Bechtler has commissioned leading architect, Mario Botta to design a museum in his adopted country. The Bechtler Museum of Modern...Full story

Society
	Historic agreement aims to ease train congestion
	December 22, 2009 \| 08:41	by Michèle Laird

An official agreement launches a complete overhaul of the train connections between Lausanne and Geneva Airport. The signed protocol, a first of its kind, will allow the cantons of Vaud and Geneva to advance...Full story

Culture
	Béjart Ballet courts innovation and sponsors
	December 18, 2009 \| 01:27	by Michèle Laird

Considered one of the top dance companies in the world, Béjart Ballet Lausanne gives its end-of-year spectacular at the Théâtre de Beaulieu from 19 to 23 December. Director Gil Roman introduces innovation...Full story

Lifestyle
	Mock Swiss minaret attracts worldwide attention
	December 17, 2009 \| 09:08	by Michèle Laird

In protest of the ban on minarets voted by his fellow countrymen, a Swiss businessman builds a mock minaret on the roof of his premises in Bussigny, a suburb of Lausanne. Visible from afar, the minaret...Full story

Gates lavishes funding on health partnerships
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation provides two organizations in the Geneva area with massive funding to fight malaria, the world’s most ‘expensive’ neglected disease. Swisster investigates "product...

Full storyNovember 18, 2009 | 08:20by Michèle Laird

Mervyn Peake illustrations on show in Yverdon
The name Mervyn Peake conjures gables, gothic grotesque and Gormenghast, but the genius of the British novelist, playwright and poet extends to painting and illustration as well. The 250 original drawings...

Full storyOctober 19, 2009 | 11:11by Michèle Laird

Rugby: Bern stun Swiss champs in league shocker
In what must go down as one of the more surprising results in recent Swiss rugby memory, Bern, who failed to win a single match last season in the country’s A League, stun Swiss champions Geneva Plan-les-Ouates...

Full storyOctober 19, 2009 | 10:27by Marcus Berry

What's on: Mercury, museums and mountain golf
A look at what's going on this weekend, including a golf tournament in Crans-Montana and a triathlon in Locarno. Art lovers should check out Biel's photo days or head to Zurich for museum night. Meanwhile,...

Full storySeptember 2, 2009 | 11:24by Susan Vogel-Misicka

Cricket: Power Winterthur reach league semi-finals
In the last of the Swiss Cricket Association quarter-finals, Power Winterthur shrug off last week's Pickwick Cup final disappointment with a morale-boosting win against a sluggish Zurich Royals XI. The...

Full storySeptember 1, 2009 | 10:26by Daniel Johnson

Dangerous Asian mosquito invades Switzerland
A team of scientists at the University of Zurich discover the Asian rock pool mosquito, known to transmit the fatal West Nile virus, is established in five Swiss cantons. One of the team leaders, parasite...

Full storySeptember 1, 2009 | 10:11by Malcolm Curtis

Bern appoints UK adviser who opposed Iraq war
The Swiss government names British lawyer Elizabeth Wilmshurst to an arbitration panel meant to resolve a dispute with Libya over the Geneva arrest of Muammar Gaddafi's son and wife last year. Wilmshurst,...

Full storyAugust 31, 2009 | 10:37by Malcolm Curtis

Kurdish oil dealings threaten Addax assets
Iraq's oil ministry may blacklist China's oil behemoth, Sinopec, because its new subsidiary, the Geneva-based Addax, has signed independent oil deals with the Kurdish government. Kurdistan is a key market...

Full storyAugust 27, 2009 | 10:52by Giles Broom

Nine pups born at Saint Bernard foundation
"Hera", a four-and-a-half year old female, gives birth to nine puppies at the St. Bernard Barry Foundation in Martigny, the original kennel for Switzerland's national dog. While no longer employed to seek...

Full storyAugust 26, 2009 | 11:06by Marcus Berry

What's on: multi-cultural fun and blues to bop
A look at what’s going on this weekend, including music festivals in Gruyères, St Moritz and Lugano. Meanwhile, Fribourg welcomes performers from five continents, while Zurich’s Niederdorf neighbourhood...

Full storyAugust 26, 2009 | 09:30by Susan Vogel-Misicka

Switzerland's relative tax appeal rises, study shows
Increases in taxes for high income earners in countries such as the United Kingdom, Ireland and Iceland in the past year have improved Switzerland's relative attractiveness as a place for the wealthy,...

Full storyAugust 25, 2009 | 09:28by Malcolm Curtis

Cantons mobilise against swine flu as holidays end
As Swiss public schools open this week and most international schools will be in full swing in less than a fortnight, cantons prepare for potential outbreaks of the H1N1 virus, otherwise known as swine...

Full storyAugust 25, 2009 | 09:01by Michèle Laird

CRICKET: Kamran spell snares Pickwick Cup
In this weekend’s games, Geneva CC lift the Pickwick Cup on a perfect day in the field before steamrolling Olten in their quest for the double; Zug pay heavily for missed chances against a Nomads pair...

Full storyAugust 25, 2009 | 07:38by Daniel Johnson