Nyon (ots) - Postal workers, union members, MEPs and concerned citizens will tell the European Parliament in Brussels today to demand an end to post market liberalisation. The groups say the switch from publicly funded post systems to private ownership routinely leads to unemployment, attacks on working conditions and poorer service for customers. UNI ...
Berne (ots) - The Swiss people decided at the weekend to ban the building of minarets in the country. swissinfo.ch has for months been closely following and reporting on the process leading up to acceptance of the people?s initiative. Switzerland?s direct democracy means that it is citizens who have the last word on important political decisions. At the weekend Swiss voted, with a majority of 58 per cent, to ...
- Indication: The full press release can be downloaded free of charge under: http://www.presseportal.ch/de/pm/100007839 - Ecublens/Lausanne, Switzerland (ots) - - AC Immune selected as Technology Pioneer 2009 by the ...
IMC - Internet Media Consultants SA
Nyon, Switzerland (ots) - America.com is LIVE, and currently seeking the direct attention of every American in the land, including John McCain and Barack Obama. Internet Media Consultants, SA, led by Mr. Paolo Belcastro, has announced today the officially launch of America.com! "We are honored to be in a ...
Washington (ots/PRNewswire) - A federal judge has ordered the Government of Libya and six of its officials to pay a total of approximately US$6 billion in damages arising from the mid-air suitcase bombing of a French-operated UTA Flight 772, DC-10 wide-body jet. The 1989 attack killed 170 people from Europe, ...
New York (ots/PRNewswire) - - The man who could be the next Russian President tells Bloomberg: Planned U.S. Missile System is "a new Berlin Wall." The dispute over a planned U.S. missile system that would include installations in Eastern Europe has plunged Russian relations with the United States and the European Union to lows not seen since the end of the Cold War. BLOOMBERG TELEVISION(R) explores this issue ...
Rousset, France (ots/PRNewswire) - Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), announced today that the Korean Finance Telecommunication & Clearings Institute (KFTC) awarded Atmel with a certificate stating that Atmel's manufacturing processes and security comply with Koreans KFTC standards. KFTC was established in 1986, with 12 general members, 10 associate members ...
Grid stability thanks to solidarity Laufenburg (ots) - The situation in Europe is presently characterised by rising electricity consumption and a growing shortage of available grid capacity. In order to ensure a secure and reliable electricity supply in the future, Swiss operators of transmission and distribution grids aim to create the organisational and technical ...
Bucharest (ots) - In Romania these days you see a lot of smoke from the battle coming from the political scene. Is a poignant image of a country that has just acceded to the EU, but seems to lack political wisdom in order to remain there. When the political alliance came to power in 2004 Romania seemed to go into the right direction. The new government implemented key reforms in several areas and the general sense was that all the political forces were united around a ...
Sofia and Geneva (ots) - The leading Swiss company for Internet security WISeKey entered the Bulgarian market in December 2006 with the registration of its local branch, WISeKey Bulgaria. The company is a world leader in the IT domain, offering complete solutions for net security through high-level data encryption. WISeKey effectuated the first project worldwide for ...
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (ots/PRNewswire) - Dubai's emergency 997 line received a report of the fire at the Fortune Tower on Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai's Marina Distict (JAVAZ) at 1311 hours on Thursday, 18 January, 2007. The closest fire station, Al-Quwoz, about 12 kilometers from the site, sent one medium intervention vehicle, one firefighting vehicle, one water supply vehicle, and a services vehicle to the building. Despite significant traffic congestion, the ...
New York (ots/PRNewswire) - - Full marketing authorization and extension of indication to first-line treatment of advanced and/or metastatic renal cell carcinoma (MRCC) - First multiple receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor to be approved in the EU for first-line use in MRCC Pfizer Inc said today that ...
St. Gallen (ots) - His Excellency Mr. Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations, today accepted the Max Schmidheiny Foundation Freedom Prize in person. At a formal ceremony at the University of St. Gallen attended by several hundred guests from business and politics as well as students, Prof. Dr. ...
ICZ - Israelitische Cultusgemeinde Zürich
Davos/Geneva (ots) - On 26 January 2006 the State of Geneva convened a CEO-level meeting on global security in new technologies at the ski resort of Davos on the occasion of the Annual Meeting 2006 of the World Economic Forum. At the event, Pierre Francois Unger, President of the State of Geneva announced that ...
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs
Washington (ots/PRNewswire) - A new U.S. travel publication covering a range of issues, such as how to obtain a visa and understanding new border security procedures, is now available from the U.S. Department of State. In addition to information on current travel laws and entry procedures, the electronic ...
Development Gateway Foundation
Washington (ots/PRNewswire) - - Nominees Support Tsunami Recovery, Improve Farmers' Livelihoods, and More Six finalists have been chosen from a field of 135 nominations for the Development Gateway Award 2005. The US$100,000 award, to be announced in September, will recognize one finalist for ...
Washington (ots/PRNewswire) - In a one-on-one interview with Bloomberg News(R) today, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that the U.S. is committed to ensuring that prisoners at Guantanamo Bay "are able to practice their religious faith," and the U.S. has "gone to extraordinary lengths" to protect these rights. The Secretary of State also told Bloomberg ...
Worldwide Communications & Television
Petra, Jordan (ots/PRNewswire) - - World's best minds gather in ancient city of Petra to solve pressing global problems Today is the opening of the inaugural Petra Conference in Jordan hosted by King Abdullah II and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel. The world's greatest thinkers -- the Nobel Laureates of Peace, Economics, Literature, Physics, Chemistry, ...
Davos, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - In an exclusive interview on Bloomberg Television this afternoon, Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi stated that Iran rejects any "discriminatory" proposals to restrict its nuclear work. "No discriminatory proposal can be accepted," Kharazzi told Bloomberg Television. During the ...
Davos, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - - Former President Bill Clinton to Host Event This September Former President Bill Clinton said today that he is organizing a major annual gathering of leaders to address global challenges, with the first meeting set to take place this fall in New York City. The inaugural Clinton Global Initiative will take place in September, coinciding with the 60th session of the ...
Petaluma, California (ots/PRNewswire) - - Early Adoption of Hands-Free Hydration Systems by U.S. Military and NATO Countries Help Spur Demand by Armies Around the World CamelBak(R) Products, LLC., inventor of the hydration-on-the-move water-backpack system, today announced that its drinking system-already ...
Queensland, Australia (ots/PRNewswire) - The people of Nias and surrounding islands have been some of the worst affected by the Earthquake Tsunami disaster that struck on 26 December. Nias lies around 125 km off the west coast of Northern Sumatra in Indonesia and, similar to Banda Aceh, encountered the full force of the Earthquake and Tsunami. Local reports ...
Buenos Aires, Argentina (ots/PRNewswire) - A new report by the Australian APEC Study Centre says the fastest growing economies in the world would be damaged if they adopted Kyoto Protocol targets to cut emissions. "The United Nations has not delivered on the promise (via the Kyoto Protocol and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change) to help developing countries, especially high-growth developing economies in ...
Ingelheim, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - Boehringer Ingelheim today announced the submission of a Marketing Authorisation Application (MAA) to the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) for tipranavir. Simultaneously the documentation was submitted to the FDA. Tipranavir is a non-peptidic protease inhibitor (NPPI) for ...
St. Gall (ots) - In line with the concept: "Entrepreneurship and risk" the Max Schmidheiny Foundation is placing its commitment to a stronger relationship between business, politics and society at the centre of its activities. Accordingly, it will establish an initiative that will reinforce the dialogue between ...
London (ots) - By arranging a Paris Club debt restructuring James Baker is going against the will of Iraqis, who are demanding a fair arbitration tribunal on Saddam's odious debt. Justin Alexander, Coordinator of Jubilee Iraq says: "A Paris Club debt restructuring will ignore the odious nature debt of much of Saddam's debt. Instead it will be based on Iraq's "financing capacity" according to the French Foreign ...
Wiesbaden, Germany (ots) - Ministers of Health, Finance and Planning from 40 developing countries will come together with development partners at WHO headquarters from 29 to 30 October to address the need to significantly increase investments in health. This is the first time that the World Health Organization (WHO) has hosted a meeting so widely attended by ...