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Menagerie und Medizin * ORIGINAL *

This content was published on May 11, 2012 Klein dagegen ist die Abteilung für Wildtiermedizin, die allerdings regelmässig für Aufmerksamkeit sorgt, denn hier erregen Wolf, Luchs und ihre Beute die Gemüter. Der Fotograf Tomas Wüthrich hat mit seiner Reportage für das Magazin GEO beim Swiss Press Photo 2012 den dritten Platz erreicht. (Bilder: Tomas Wüthrich)

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Small hotels struggling for survival

This content was published on May 11, 2012 Tourism in Switzerland is expanding and stagnating at the same time. In the last 30 years the stock of holiday homes has increased, while the number of hotels has fallen. However the number of guest rooms per hotel and of the number of beds overall has grown. This is not a bad development in itself but…

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Big or small – what kind of hotel do you prefer?

This content was published on May 11, 2012 Would you rather reserve a room in a hotel belonging to an international chain whose quality you know, or would you prefer a more personal touch, even at the risk that it may be a bit shabbier? And how does the advent of readily available advice online through social media sites, and interactive online forums…

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Federal Court rules in favour of Egypt

This content was published on May 10, 2012 The Federal Prosecutor’s Office launched criminal proceedings against a dozen people, including Mubarak family members and close associates, for money laundering and organised crime offences following the dictator’s fall from power in February last year. The move was in parallel to the government’s freezing of SFr410 million ($442 million) in assets held in Switzerland by…

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“I want to build a new life for myself”

This content was published on May 10, 2012 Aek has just finished his lunch: fried vegetables and three pieces of pork on a bed of white rice. For about 60 cents you cannot afford anything else in this restaurant, which has little to offer anyway except soups and fried fish. To drink, there is water from the stainless steel container placed on every…

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Swiss wrestle with expelling undesirables

This content was published on May 10, 2012 In 2010, four years after changing the legislation on asylum and foreign residents, the Swiss electorate accepted a controversial deportation initiative. The rightwing proposal aimed to automatically deport foreign nationals convicted of particular crimes. These include sex crimes, robbery, drug dealing and social welfare abuse. Capturing the intent of the initiative in a piece of legislation…

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Killing forces ICRC to suspend activities

This content was published on May 10, 2012 Khalil Rasjed Dale, a 60-year-old health programme manager in Quetta, Balochistan, was murdered four months after he was kidnapped in January while returning from work. The ICRC said in a statement on Thursday it was reviewing all of its Pakistani operations following the killing and had suspended activities conducted from offices in Peshawar and Karachi.…

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Bachmann puts spotlight on Swiss citizenship

This content was published on May 9, 2012 News emerged this week that Marcus Bachmann, the Republican’s husband since 1978, was eligible for Swiss citizenship due to his parents’ nationality. Michele and Marcus Bachmann finalised a naturalisation process on March 19. “My husband is a 100 per cent Swiss, and his parents were raised in Switzerland. They were married there, they came to…

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Cornerstone laid for tallest Swiss building

This content was published on May 9, 2012 The 41-storey earthquake-resistant construction will be 178 metres high, towering over Switzerland’s current tallest building, Prime Tower in Zurich, by 52 metres. It will have 76,000 m2 of floor space and cost an estimated SFr550 million ($592 million). It is planned that 2,000 staff will be able to move into the building at the end…

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