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swissinfo videos now on YouTube

This content was published on Dec 3, 2007 Bern, 18 July 2007 More and more people are searching the internet for specific film footage. In response to this demand, swissinfo/SRI has launched its own channel featuring selected videos about Switzerland and the Swiss. YouTube surfers can view, rate and comment on these videos and recommend them to their friends. They can even upload…

swissinfo – About us – Activities WEBFACTORY

This content was published on Dec 3, 2007 swissinfo’s Webfactory provides production and promotional services. Its strengths are web, DVD, video, audio and print production. Webfactory projects include the production of the “swissworld” DVD series on a variety of Swiss-related themes for Presence Switzerland, the government organisation responsible for promoting Switzerland abroad. It also produces English-language reports about Switzerland for CNN’s “World Report”.…

Laptops for Africa

This content was published on Dec 3, 2007

Last orders

This content was published on Dec 3, 2007

A Swiss California Journey

This content was published on Dec 1, 2007 Traveling west to California in October, we traced the path of a Zurich mechanic who settled there in the mid-1870s, struggled to survive, had a large family, and never returned home. The story is actually much more intricate and intriguing than my summary suggests, and has been captured by letters that Jakob Otto Wyss and…

Switzerland’s new tourism ambassador

This content was published on Dec 1, 2007 But despite the major challenges ahead, Jean-François Roth, a former parliamentarian and senator, has great faith in the nation’s strengths: quality, networks abroad and reputation as a place for innovation. “International tourism can quite easily live without Switzerland,” Roth told swissinfo. “We are competing against 190 other destinations worldwide. Today you can go skiing in…

Safety measures target young drivers

This content was published on Nov 30, 2007 AXA Winterthur insurance company is offering cheaper premiums to under-25s who have a black box data recorder fitted to their cars, while Transport Minister Moritz Leuenberger plans to introduce a total alcohol ban for new drivers. The number of deaths and serious injuries resulting from car crashes is falling in Switzerland. Last year 370 people…

Belgium crisis deepens

This content was published on Nov 30, 2007 Leterme set a midday deadline for parties to accept his final plan. When one of them declined to do so, he went to King Albert to be discharged from his task of forming a government. Whats next? The political future of the country of 10.5 million is nowunclear with no obvious alternative coalition. This will…

Waste not, wood not

This content was published on Nov 30, 2007 The climate change debate has given a boost to renewable energy research. Wood is a source of energy that has a lot of potential. A team at the Paul Scherrer Institute is currently developing a new biofuel technology using what is a plentiful natural resource in Switzerland. (Michele Andina, swissinfo.ch)

Biochemist sees prize as sign of integration

This content was published on Nov 29, 2007 swissinfo spoke to the winner of the 2007 Marcel Benoist Prize, a professor at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, to talk about pathogens, integration and Trojan horses. Helenius, who moved to Switzerland a decade ago from Yale University, received the prize on Thursday for his pioneering work into how viruses enter cells and…

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