GenevaLunch » drugs http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 25 May 2012 22:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no More bribery behind sharp increase in suspect money flowshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/15/more-bribery-behind-sharp-increase-in-suspect-money-flows/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/15/more-bribery-behind-sharp-increase-in-suspect-money-flows/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 06:56:02 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=70238 GenevaLunch.com Arab spring played a role Numbers are impressive but it’s the criminal tales that are gripping BERN, SWITZERLAND – Switzerland saw a 40 percent increase in 2011 in the number of suspicious activities reports (Sars) to MROS, the Money Laundering Reporting Office Switzerland, the federal office shows in its annual report published Monday 14 May. [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/15/more-bribery-behind-sharp-increase-in-suspect-money-flows/feed/ 0 Foreign thieves plague Geneva; this one is Americanhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/10/foreign-thieves-plague-geneva-this-one-is-american/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/10/foreign-thieves-plague-geneva-this-one-is-american/#comments Thu, 10 May 2012 07:46:47 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=70104 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The daily police reports from Geneva police tend to confirm what too many citizens suspect, that petty crimes such as theft and drug-dealing are committed mainly by foreigners. The latest is almost typical: police Wednesday arrested seven people for crimes ranging from shoplifting to breaking and entering to being in Switzerland without [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/10/foreign-thieves-plague-geneva-this-one-is-american/feed/ 0 A dog’s best friend is surely a police handlerhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/27/a-dogs-best-friend-is-surely-a-police-handler/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/27/a-dogs-best-friend-is-surely-a-police-handler/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:09:09 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=69565 GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – The good thing about being a police dog is that your job is to play, all the time. And you spend hours learning how to do it well, with your buddy, whom others call your “handler”. “They don’t work, they play. That’s what dogs do, and police dogs are no different,” Jean-Christophe [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/27/a-dogs-best-friend-is-surely-a-police-handler/feed/ 0 Novartis jumps from Prangins shutdown plans to Zurich area growthhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/23/novartis-jumps-from-prangins-shutdown-plans-to-zurich-area-growth/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/23/novartis-jumps-from-prangins-shutdown-plans-to-zurich-area-growth/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:03:48 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=69400 GenevaLunch.com Five months ago the company was cutting jobs; today it is expanding its Swiss base BASEL / GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Novartis is pumping CHF500 million into a new plant in Stein, canton Aargau, near Zurich, to replace an older one with a state of the art production facility. Stein will become a platform for launching [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/23/novartis-jumps-from-prangins-shutdown-plans-to-zurich-area-growth/feed/ 0 Antiobiotics affected by water environment say EPFL researchershttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/20/antiobiotics-affected-by-water-environment-say-epfl-researchers/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/20/antiobiotics-affected-by-water-environment-say-epfl-researchers/#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:50:25 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=69248 GenevaLunch.com Findings could help development of new drugs for epilepsy, cancer and Alzheimer’s disease LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – “Water isn’t just a neutral environment; it can also interact with the molecules and change their structure” EPFL researchers at the Laboratory of Molecular Physical Chemistry note in a statement about new findings that could lead to progress in [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/20/antiobiotics-affected-by-water-environment-say-epfl-researchers/feed/ 0 Swiss customs revenues get boost from high Swiss franchttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/08/swiss-customs-revenues-get-boost-from-high-swiss-franc/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/08/swiss-customs-revenues-get-boost-from-high-swiss-franc/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:40:48 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66411 GenevaLunch.com BASEL / GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Lower prices across the border in France thanks to the high Swiss franc don’t always mean the Swiss lose out: the Swiss Customs Office says that in 2011 its revenues rose thanks to import declarations, from CHF28.7 million to CHF39.8m. Imported border goods remain nevertheless a small part of customs [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/08/swiss-customs-revenues-get-boost-from-high-swiss-franc/feed/ 0 Novartis 2,000 job cuts in US result of patent ending, new drug demand fallhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/13/novartis-1600-job-cuts-in-us-result-of-patent-ending/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/13/novartis-1600-job-cuts-in-us-result-of-patent-ending/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:48:05 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=65219 GenevaLunch.com BASEL, SWITZERLAND – Novartis will be cutting close to 2,000 jobs in the US, in New Jersey, as the result of an expected fall in demand for a relatively new medicine and the expiry of the patent for another, the company announced Friday 13 January in Basel. The sales force will lose 1,630 jobs and [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/13/novartis-1600-job-cuts-in-us-result-of-patent-ending/feed/ 0 Lausanne police seize stolen goods, drugs, cash in refugee centre raidhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/05/lausanne-police-seize-stolen-goods-drugs-cash-in-refugee-centre-raid/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/05/lausanne-police-seize-stolen-goods-drugs-cash-in-refugee-centre-raid/#comments Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:33:37 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=62119 GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Lausanne police Wednesday pulled in 44 of the 91 residents questioned at the Venne refugee centre, the Etablissement vaudois d’accueil des migrants (EVAM), in the city after a dawn raid that continued until 14:00. Authorities seized a quantity of drugs: 232 grams of cocaine, 22 g of heroin and 60 g of marijuana. [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/05/lausanne-police-seize-stolen-goods-drugs-cash-in-refugee-centre-raid/feed/ 0 Russian, Italian criminal presence in Switzerland grows, aided by Internethttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/23/russian-italian-criminal-presence-in-switzerland-grows-aided-by-internet/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/23/russian-italian-criminal-presence-in-switzerland-grows-aided-by-internet/#comments Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:48:56 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=59119 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – The Italian “Ndrangheta” organized crime group as well as Russian mafia have been increasing their operations in Switzerland, Swiss federal police said Thursday 23 June. Human trafficking from eastern Europe is also on the rise. Police have been working more closely on a national level to reduce the amount of drug trafficking [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/23/russian-italian-criminal-presence-in-switzerland-grows-aided-by-internet/feed/ 1 Geneva police say 2 women found dead in park known to drug serviceshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/01/geneva-police-say-2-women-found-dead-in-park-known-to-drug-services/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/01/geneva-police-say-2-women-found-dead-in-park-known-to-drug-services/#comments Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:28:48 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=58399 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The two women, ages 34 and 37, whose bodies were found shortly after 08:30 Tuesday 31 May in the Geisendorf Park in Geneva (between rue de la Servette and rue de Lyon), were known to Geneva’s narcotics agents, police say. The two were stretched out on the ground, with no sign of [...]

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