(Keystone) Global market can make life tough for local manufacturers. Logic would suggest that A to Z Textile Mills is a company in the right place at the right time. This family-owned enterprise on the weste outskirts of Arusha in northe Tanzania is one of the largest makers of long-lasting insecti...

On April 26, 1986, the meltdown of the Che obyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine marked one of the worst-ever accidents in the history of the energy industry. The catastrophe seemed to confirm the worst expectations of the environmental movement, which had always wa ed against the ecological risks of ...

A Ferris wheel at a playground in the deserted town of Pripyat, Ukraine, in 2011, some three kilometres from the Che obyl nuclear plant. (Keystone) Thirty years after the Soviet nuclear disaster, traces of radioactive elements from Che obyl are still being registered in Switzerland, especially south...

Stories we’re following the week begi ing April 25: (Keystone) Monday Switzerland’s canton Ticino was effected by the radioactive cloud that swept across Europe 30 years ago in the aftermath of the Che obyl disaster. We look at the very real health scare and hear from the man whose job it was to sto...

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The clock is ticking for Switzerland’s only remaining factory processing local tobacco. How long can it fend off market pressures? (SRF/swissinfo.ch) Since it was opened in 1938, Fermenta in Paye e, canton Vaud, has been preparing tobacco for inte ational cigarette producers. But a number of factors...

Apr 23, 2016 - 11:00April 26 marks the 30th a iversary of the Che obyl disaster. Who are the children of Che obyl? This photo jou alism story by Niels Ackerma won the Swiss Press Award 2016. “Here, more people die because of drugs and alcohol than because of radioactivity,” explained Kiril, pointing...

Nature already needs extra protection, like the Rhone glacier where tarp is used to help prevent ice melt (Keystone) Switzerland’s essential alpine character stands little chance of surviving predicted man-made global warming, even if the Paris agreement succeeds in putting the world on a low-carbon...

Swiss goods have become 10% more expensive for eurozone customers since January 2015. (Keystone) A British vote to leave the European Union on June 23 could lead to serious negative consequences for Swiss exporters, according to a gove ment agency that promotes Swiss business abroad. Switzerland Glo...

On 21 June 1999 in Luxembourg, the first package of bilateral agreements between Switzerland and the EU was signed. Seventeen years later, the bilateral approach has struggled to take off. (Keystone) As Switzerland moves closer to implementing the initiative “against mass immigration”, the country’s...

About a third of the doctors practising here are from other countries, as Switzerland does not train enough of its own medics. Now the gove ment wants to fix this. (SRF/swissinfo.ch) It’s investing CHF100 million to offer additional places for students in human medicine. The aim is to tu out up to 1...

Farewell Hawaii! Si2 is headed for the North American continent. (Solar Impulse | Revillard | Rezo.ch) The Swiss Solar Impulse 2 (Si2) has found a flight window for its trip from Hawaii to Califo ia, with plans to depart on Thursday. This time it will be project initiator and pilot Bertrand Piccard ...

This would be the solar-powered plane's second visit to Arizona – a state with great solar energy potential. (Keystone) In many ways Phoenix, Arizona, would be a natural stop for a high-tech solar airplane like Solar Impulse because the sun influences many aspects of life in the desert city. But tem...

The Basel University Psychiatric Hospital wanted to centralise its child and youth psychiatric services into a new clinic - here an idea of how it would look - on its grounds. (www.upkbs.ch) Compromise is an integral part of the Swiss democratic process. In canton Basel city, it helped therapists an...

Joe Jimenez took charge of Novartis six years ago Joe Jimenez is facing a battle to restore investor confidence in Novartis, after a series of setbacks which have sent shares in the Swiss pharma group down more than a quarter in the past year. Weak sales of a new heart drug have combined with proble...

Schweizer's documentary was financed by Migros culture percentage and co-produced by the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG/SSR) (A Film Company) How do Swiss-based commodities giants Glencore or Vale operate in the field and what are the consequences of their work for those living there? A new doc...

A group gathered outside a venue hosting one of Germany's most prestigious media awards lifts a photo of talk show host Jan Böhmerma , indicating he's "missing" from the ceremony. Böhmerma created a storm when he insulted the Turkish president on his television show at the end of March. (Keystone) A...

Schweizer's documentary was financed by Migros culture percentage and co-produced by the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG/SSR) (A Film Company) How do Swiss-based commodities giants Glencore or Vale operate in the field and what are the consequences of their work for those living there? A new doc...

The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) has given up the armed struggle and is now part of the country's gove ment There was not much time for cinema and popco during the violent Maoist insurgency in Nepal. The country’s young filmmakers are now making a splash at Swiss and other inte ational film fes...

How much would be given would be worked out later by lawmakers (Keystone) In a world first, the Swiss are voting in June on whether the state should pay a monthly basic income to every citizen. Is it the answer to the changing jobs landscape or a utopian concept? The initiative, "for an unconditiona...