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Swiss highly connected but pay more

This content was published on Feb 23, 2010 Switzerland moved up to seventh place in an information and communications technologies ranking published by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) on Tuesday. The ITU’s annual study looked at 11 indicators including availability of fixed and mobile telephone service, as well as the internet. Sweden, Luxembourg, South Korea, Denmark, the Netherlands and Iceland finished in the…

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Switzerland’s troubling record of suicide

This content was published on Feb 22, 2010 The issues of gun suicide and Switzerland’s high rate of weapon ownership came under the spotlight again in January. The police chief overseeing security at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos turned his service revolver against himself a day before the event began. His case is hardly unique. From 1996 to…

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Futuristic student centre opens doors

This content was published on Feb 22, 2010 The radical, open, undulating student building, designed by the Japanese star architect team SANAA, is set to become the heart of the campus and symbolises the EPFL’s long-term ambitions. “It’s very audacious, but that was the aim. We needed to invent new spaces,” explained EPFL President Patrick Aebischer. “We want to become one of the…

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How we get our heads round languages

This content was published on Feb 20, 2010 On the occasion of International Mother Language Day on Sunday, swissinfo.ch spoke to Jean-Marie Annoni, of the neuropsychology unit at the Geneva University Hospital, who has been working on the subject of language acquisition for several years. Switzerland has four national languages – German, French, Italian and Romansh – so multilingual ability is not unusual.…

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Swisscom feels the heat of competition

This content was published on Feb 18, 2010 The group’s revenues dropped 1.6 per cent to SFr12 billion ($11.1 billion) in 2009 but profits rose nearly ten per cent to SFr1.9 billion thanks to a decrease in one-off charges from the previous year. The former state monopoly, which is still majority owned by the government, is facing increasing competition across the cable television,…

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Haiti donations top SFr50 million

This content was published on Feb 16, 2010 The fundraising body is part of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, the parent company of swissinfo.ch. Swiss Solidarity said people donated SFr20 million on January 21, which it billed as a national fundraising day. Swiss donated SFr227 million in 2004 after the Asian tsunami and SFr74 million in 2000 to help victims of storms in Switzerland.…

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Germans experience tide of xenophobia

This content was published on Feb 14, 2010 Social scientist Marc Helbling says migrants have always faced opposition, but the fact that Germans are often highly qualified means competition over jobs. Their direct manner is also not appreciated. There are now 250,000 Germans in Switzerland, double the number eight years ago. In Zurich alone, where there are 30,000 Germans, there has been a…

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Twittered reporters left flapping their wings

This content was published on Feb 13, 2010 Anne-Paule Martin, a reporter with Switzerland’s French-language public radio, voluntarily sequestered herself along with four other journalists in the beginning of January to try to produce stories using only information sourced from the two platforms. The verdict on their success, and what the services mean for newsgathering, is still out. Twitter has been scrutinised for…

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Salt favours highway plant invasion

This content was published on Feb 13, 2010 Furthermore, the salt used to de-ice roads in winter has had a severe impact on habitat, driving out such common wayside plants as daisies and dandelions, and enabling salt-tolerant plants to take root. As a result, some plants which used to be found only on the coast are moving inland. Botanist Raymond Delarze, who runs…

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