Credit Suisse has dismissed its entire wealth management team in China, scrapping its ambition to become one of the biggest foreign money managers in the country as UBS decided not to take on the staff, people familiar with the matter said....
The Swiss State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) seeks to set up an advisory body for refugees in Switzerland and at a multilateral level. The commitment is one of several unveiled by Switzerland at the start of the second World Refugee Forum in Geneva....
On Wednesday, canton Valais halted the shooting of the wolf packs of Hauts-Forts, Nanz and Le Fou-Isérables. The decision follows an appeal by nature conservation organisations to the Federal Administrative Court....
Nearly two out of three people are planning to reduce their spending on Christmas presents this year, according to auditing firm EY, following its traditional end-of-year survey of some 600 consumers. This content was published on December 13, 2023 - 14:07 December 13, 2023 - 14:07 2 minutes Keystone-SDA...
The number of university students requesting financial support has risen since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. The majority of requests are made from foreign students living in precarious situations....
According to Swiss experts speaking on Monday at COP28, the loss of biodiversity is just as serious a problem for nature and humanity as climate change....
Switzerland is moving towards a ban on Hamas, the Islamist movement that rules the Gaza Strip and carried out a major attack against Israel on Oct. 7....
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that talks on a peace plan will be held in Switzerland in January 2024 – the day before the start of the World Economic Forum in Davos....
A new Swiss instrument has been installed as part of the European Southern Observatory telescope in Chile. Among other things, it will help to search for traces of life on distant planets....
With its “One million stars” campaign, NGO Caritas expressed solidarity on Saturday to the more than one million people in Switzerland who do not have enough to live on....
Live betting is taking place at amateur league football matches that can involve players under the age of 18, according to Swiss media reports published on Sunday. This is prohibited in Switzerland....
Canton Neuchâtel’s public prosecutor’s office has opened a criminal investigation into the “threatening” young man who broke into a primary school in Cortaillod on Friday....
Swiss Environment Minister Albert Rösti signed emissions reduction agreements with Chile and Tunisia in Dubai on Saturday. The resulting CO2 reductions in the two countries will count as progress towards Switzerland’s climate goals....
US diplomat Sonata Coulter, who is responsible for relations with Russia and Central Europe, urged Switzerland to step up its efforts to combat illegal financial flows....