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Recovering from teenage drug abuse

This content was published on Jan 11, 2013 The wardens at the two centres of Foyers Rives du Rhône in canton Valais help young people with addiction problems to regain their physical, mental and spiritual health. swissinfo.ch accompanied Xavier for a day in the centre of Salvan. (Peter Siegenthaler, Christoph Balsiger, Daniel Wihler, swissinfo.ch)

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Protection of children stepped up

This content was published on Jan 11, 2013 One noteworthy case involved a five-year-old boy picked up by police in a public swimming pool. Guardianship authorities were notified that the boy apparently didn’t want to go back to his mother and stepfather but wanted to live with his father. Soon afterwards the boy’s legal representative filed an endangered child report, saying it was…

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Founder of Montreux Jazz Festival dies

This content was published on Jan 11, 2013 Nobs died on Thursday after sustaining injuries from a fall while cross-country skiing alone in the village of Caux close to his home overlooking Montreux and Lake Geneva on Christmas Eve. He was flown to hospital and fell into a coma from which he never recovered. On its website, the festival said Nobs’ death came by…

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Ex-UBS bosses accused of negligence, ignorance

This content was published on Jan 10, 2013 Marcel Rohner, the former chief executive officer of Switzerland’s largest bank, told a British parliamentary committee investigating banking standards that he was “shocked” and “ashamed” when he learned about the rigging. He did not, however, consider his leadership negligent and was unaware of any misconduct because his focus at the time was to save the…

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“We probably build too much in this country”

This content was published on Jan 10, 2013 On March 3, the Swiss will vote on whether to limit building land. Changes to the law would force cantons and communes to reduce building plots, which were previously measured too generously and to compensate their owners. The revised planning law is contested by business, home and real estate associations and the rightwing Swiss People’s…

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Tug of war over scarce building areas

This content was published on Jan 10, 2013 They will be voting on a government counterproposal to an initiative – since withdrawn – which had demanded that the total area of building land may not be expanded over the next 20 years. Instead, the revised law aims to restrict the accepted reserves of building plots in the cantons, which, along with communes, would…

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Swiss to aid Chadian refugees from Libya

This content was published on Jan 9, 2013 The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) signed an agreement with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Geneva on Tuesday. The money will go to support people now living in three remote regions close to Chad’s northern borders with Libya, Niger and Sudan. It will be used over a period of two years…

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Swiss invest in innovation to boost tourism

This content was published on Jan 9, 2013 The regional tourist office in the Upper Engadine valley has developed a programme to “coach” warmth and affability in response to a perceived “lack of friendliness” in its mountain resorts, which includes St Moritz. “In the beginning we had to be very proactive, going to companies or hotels and saying, ‘Can we do this with…

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Small ski resort puts itself back on market

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Recovering from teenage drug abuse

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Protection of children stepped up

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Ex-UBS bosses accused of negligence, ignorance

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“We probably build too much in this country”

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Swiss to aid Chadian refugees from Libya

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