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Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse

SNSF opposes initiative to ban animal and human experimentation

Bern, 14.10.2021 (ots) - The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) strives consistently and continuously to improve the quality of research. A ban on animal and human experiments would massively restrict the opportunity to gain knowledge and adversely affect Switzerland as a research hub. On 13 February 2022, the Swiss electorate will vote on the initiative to ban animal and human experiments. Acceptance of the ...

Fürstentum Liechtenstein

ikr: Peer review successfully completed: OECD Global Forum once again attests Liechtenstein a high degree of compliance with international tax standards

Vaduz (ots) - Liechtenstein complies with the international standards of the OECD on the exchange of information for tax purposes. The report by the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes (Global Forum) finds that the legal framework and practice in Liechtenstein are to a large ...

European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO)

Defending Medical Oncology to Assure Quality Care for Cancer Patients / ESMO releases position paper on medical oncologist's role

Lugano (ots) - Medical oncologists have a vital role to play in cancer care, particularly as treatments become ever more complex, a new position statement from the European Society for Medical Oncology says (http://www.presseportal.ch/go2/new_position_statement ). Medical oncologists are specialist cancer physicians ...

European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO)

Untreated cancer pain a 'scandal of global proportions,' ESMO-led survey shows / New global study reveals a pandemic of intolerable pain affecting billions, caused by pain medicines overregulation

Lugano (ots) - A ground-breaking international survey published today, shows that more than half of the world's population live in countries where regulations aiming to stem drug misuse leave patients without access to opioid medicines for managing cancer pain. The results from the Global Opioid Policy Initiative ...

WRS - World Radio Switzerland

WRS losing FM license and slated for Privatization wins «Radio of the Year» for the second year running

Geneva (ots) - World Radio Switzerland, the Anglophone broadcaster of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation was awarded Radio of the Year for French and Italian speaking Switzerland at the Swiss Radio Day on Thursday. This is the second year in a row the station has received the award, based on Publica Data statistics ...

European Broadcasting Union (EBU)

EBU condemns Greek government's threat of legal action against satellite operators transmitting ERT signal

Grand Saconnex, Switzerland (ots) - The Director General of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Ingrid Deltenre, today condemned the threat of legal action made by the Greek government against satellite operators that transmit the ERT signal over Europe and Asia. "We urge the Greek government to withdraw the ...

Basel Declaration Society

Researchers from all over the world are asked to condemn the recent animal rights extremism in Milan with a call for solidarity

Basel/Milan (ots) - On Saturday April 20, Italian animal rights extremists invaded laboratories at the University of Milan and the associated National Institute of Neurosciences to destroy a large number of important research projects. On behalf of more than 6000 researchers worldwide, the Basel Declaration condemns ...

Verein Tibeter Jugend in Europa / The Tibetan Youth Association in Europe

The Tibetan Youth Association in Europe Demands: Put Tibet on Google Maps

Zurich/Dharamsala, India (ots) - On the occasion of the centennial of Tibet's proclamation of independence, the Tibetan Youth Association in Europe (TYAE) is approaching Google with an urgent demand: Tibetan places on Google Maps should be labeled in Tibetan script. To stop the disappearance of Tibetan cultural heritage, the TYAE is hereby launching the campaign forum ...

Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials AG

Quadrant ruled to have been correctly acquired by Aquamit

Amsterdam/Zurich (ots) - Swiss Takeover Board (TOB) confirms correctness of Quadrant offer price; Sarasin Investmentfonds AG (now part of the Safra Group) defeated in long-standing legal dispute The Swiss Takeover Board (TOB) issued a order today reaffirming the correctness of the public tender offer made by Aquamit B.V. for Quadrant AG in 2009. The TOB confirms in its order that the offer price paid to minority ...

Interros Holding Company

Deripaska's further criminal complaints dismissed by Swiss legal authorities

Zurich/Moscow (ots) - Federal Attorney General's Office again rejects criminal complaints lodged by Oleg Deripaska (UC Rusal) Just three weeks after the Swiss Federal Criminal Court rejected an objection lodged by Oleg Deripaska (UC Rusal) to a previous such ruling, the Swiss Federal Attorney General's Office has announced that it will not be further investigating the ...

Interros Holding Company

Further Swiss legal defeat for Deripaska and Rusal

Zurich, Switzerland/Moscow, Russia (ots) - The Swiss Federal Criminal Court has rejected in full the objection lodged by Oleg Deripaska and UC Rusal to the decision by the Federal Attorney General's Office not to investigate their allegations. The objection was lodged in response to the decision (and corresponding decree) by the Federal Attorney General's Office not to pursue the criminal complaint against Interros and ...

Wegelin & Co. Privatbankiers

No threat to Wegelin & Co. Private Bankers

St. Gallen (ots) - In the Swiss newspaper "SonntagsZeitung" of 08.01.2012, two questions were raised in regard to the controversy between the US authorities and the Swiss financial centre: what would happen to a bank structured as a limited partnership - such as Wegelin & Co. - firstly if one of its Partners were indicted by the USA, and secondly, if the bank itself were indicted by the USA. The answer to these ...

UBP - Union Bancaire Privée

Union Bancaire Privée: Outlook 2012 - Beyond Black Swans

Geneva (ots) - 2011 was the year of black swans - those highly improbable occurrences that turn the world economy on its head. So what black swans could be in store for 2012? Central banks losing control over inflation, as a result of their policy of monetising sovereign debt to excess; or perhaps European growth in excess of 1.2%, a positive scenario that no economist is forecasting on today. The end of a cycle According ...

Roche Professional Diagnostics

Roche and Diagnostica Stago terminate partnership

Rotkreuz, Switzerland/Asnieres, France (ots) - Roche Professional Diagnostics and Diagnostica Stago announced today that the companies have decided to pursue separate paths in the business of Laboratory Coagulation in the territories where Roche distributed the Stago product range. The exclusive sales of Stago products by Roche will continue throughout the entire year of 2011. With the exception of Japan where Roche ...

UNI Global Union

UNI tells Santander: Stop Your Anti-Union Fear Campaign against Workers

Nyon (ots) - Bank workers and their unions from around the world are coming together to demand Spanish banking giant Santander respects its employees no matter where they work. UNI Finance Global Union is leading an international trade union delegation to Boston today to support Santander workers in the United States who want union representation. There is ...

Interpharma

Swiss pharmaceutical industry sets new standards in the protection of laboratory animals

UNI Global Union

Sport Pro/UNI Europa: Athletes send strong message for workers' rights to EU Commission

Nyon (ots) - Top European players unions are in Madrid today at the European Sports Forum to tell the European Commissioner responsible for Sport, Androulla Vassiliou, that European athletes must be covered by EU laws protecting workers' rights. The unions won't accept a special application of EU law for sport and are protesting their apparent exclusion from ...

FONDATION FRANZ WEBER

FONDATION FRANZ WEBER: Trial against the slaughter of Whales and Dolphins - The United Animal Nations demand immediate stop of whaling and dolphin killing

Montreux (ots) - - Indication: The Verdict can be downloaded free of charge under: http://www.presseportal.ch/de/pm/100019151/?langid=2 - The United Animal Nations (UAN) is not going to rest with the Geneva International Court of ...

UNI Global Union

Union video demands DHL respect its workers as company plans to relocate facility for "convenience"

Nyon (ots) - Unions are blasting German-based post and logistics company Deutsche Post DHL for the betrayal of its hallmark value of respect in a new video that highlights the company's failure to respect worker's rights worldwide. Watch the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnOyql_iXIg DHL is ...

Republic of Seychelles

Seychelles rejects financial piracy allegations

Mahé, Seychelles (ots) - The Seychelles Government rejects the allegations posted by PR NEWSWIRE on behalf of Mr. George Xiao and his company LXE Solar Incorporated under the headline "Lawsuit Charges Seychelles Government With Financial Piracy." The funds were not "seized" by the Government but frozen, and the article's accusations are unfounded, defamatory and incorrect, and no part should be considered as ...

Green Power Marketing

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UNI Global Union

Global study reveals post liberalisation disasters in Europe

Nyon (ots) - Postal market liberalisation routinely leads to unemployment, attacks on working conditions and poorer service for customers, says a study released today by UNI Global Union. UNI is urging the European Union to immediately put a moratorium on the implementation of the 3rd postal directive and start a proper debate on the issue. Competition is not delivering for customers; it is only creating social ...

ECA European Club Association

ECA dismisses 'super league' rumours

ECA very happy with existing competitions Amsterdam (ots) - The ECA Executive Board, assembled in Amsterdam for its regular meeting, wants to dismiss the content of articles published today in some of the major sports newspapers in Europe. These articles mention plans for a future "Super League". "We have never had any intention of implementing such a competition. We have never discussed it and it has never been ...

Fürstentum Liechtenstein

Press release from the Princely House

Vaduz (ots) - On 11 September, some media cited a June 2008 letter by H.S.H. the Reigning Prince of Liechtenstein declining participation in the exhibition "Looting and Restitution" at the Jewish Museum Berlin. With his private and personal letter to the Director of the Museum, W. Michael Blumenthal, Reigning Prince Hans-Adam II in no way intended to belittle the atrocious events of the Third Reich. Rather, the ...

Helsinn Healthcare SA

Helsinn Healthcare SA Announces Aloxi sNDA for PONV accepted for review by U.S. FDA

PDUFA date of 4th March 4, 2008 established Lugano (ots) - Helsinn's Top Management today announced that the supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for Aloxi® (palonosetron hydrochloride) Injection for the prevention of post-operative nausea and vomiting was accepted for filing by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Aloxi is approved by the FDA ...

Helsinn Healthcare SA

Helsinn Healthcare SA - Nimesulide is a safe drug

Lugano (ots) - With reference to the Irish Medicine Board (IMB) decision, mainly based on 6 cases of hepatic damage, to suspend the marketing and sale of nimesulide and following the request to the European Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) to revise the benefit/risk profile of the drug, Helsinn Healthcare deems opportune to specify that nimesulide is a drug with a positive safety profile as ...

Kudelski SA

Kudelski Group: Verdict against pirating of television programmes

Cheseaux (ots) - The court of the canton of Zug in Switzerland, convicts two sellers of pirate smartcards. The smartcards were devised to enable illicit reception of pay-television programmes. On March 27 in Zug, Switzerland, two people were convicted for selling forged smartcards, which were devised to access pay-television programmes without paying for them. The conviction follows a complaint registered at the ...

Beta Systems Software AG

Beta Systems Software AG publishes response to public takeover offer by Delta Beteiligungen AG

Berlin (ots) - Purchase consideration deemed inappropriate by Management Board and Supervisory Board; shareholders recommended not to accept offer The Management Board and Supervisory Board of Beta Systems Software AG (BSS, ISIN DE0005224406) have today published their joint response to the public takeover offer put forward by Delta Beteiligungen AG on February ...

Blum & Partner Rechtsanwälte

Statement of Dr. Evgeniy O. Adamov concerning the Extradiction Requests of the United States of America and Russia: "Return as a free man to my homeland"

Zürich (ots) - My client, Dr. Evgeniy O. Adamov, has requested me to publish following statement: "I respectfully decline simplified extradition to either country. My arrest at the behest of the United States was illegal. I intend to leave this prison as a free man, to return to my homeland as a free man, ...

Fédération des Barreaux d'Europe (FBE)

Denial of the Guantanamo detainees' fundamental human rights: Resolution adopted unanimously by the European Bars Federation (FBE)

Note: The Resolution can be downloaded free of charge following this link: www.newsaktuell.ch/d/story.htx?nr=100475710 RESOLUTION: The European Bars Federation, General Assembly in Lyon 29th May 2004: Lausanne (ots) - Having taken note that ...