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Calls mount for more action over suicide

This content was published on Sep 10, 2007 Hopes are that Monday’s World Suicide Prevention Day will help raise awareness of the issue. Around 1,400 Swiss take their own life every year. This is double the number of people that die in road accidents and at a rate above the international average. The problem, according to prevention experts, is the absence of a…

Joining the family of nations – five years on

This content was published on Sep 9, 2007 This symbolic event marked Switzerland’s decision to join the UN and the end of its self-imposed isolation. Swiss UN experts look back at this historic moment and examine the country’s UN track record over the past five years. According to Switzerland’s ambassador to the UN in New York, Peter Maurer, and political analyst Albert Stahel,…

Putting people under the microscope

This content was published on Sep 9, 2007 Hainard, director of the internationally renowned Geneva Museum of Ethnography, hopes to extend the museum as a way of drawing the crowds to its rich and unique collection. He adds that ethnology is not just about the past – there is much to be learned from the discipline today. Best known for his provocative exhibitions,…

All good things come in trees

This content was published on Sep 8, 2007 After last year’s garden theme, the NIKE cultural preservation centre, which organises the Swiss events, is focusing on one of the world’s most versatile materials. swissinfo visited three locations that have made very different use of wood. “The aim of the days is to make the public aware of the problems of preserving national architectural…

Calmy-Rey defends foreigners’ economic record

This content was published on Sep 7, 2007 Speaking at the economiesuisse Swiss Business Federation’s annual Economy Day Calmy-Rey also spoke out against wage dumping fears. Other speakers raised concerns over climate policy plans. Switzerland’s biggest political party, the rightwing Swiss People’s Party, is coming under increasing fire after launching a poster campaign depicting three white sheep booting a black sheep out of…

Alone but never lonely at new hotel

This content was published on Sep 7, 2007 Located in the lakeside town of Spiez, the Single Hotel Eden is the brainchild of a woman who wants to do for mature travellers what backpacker lodgings have long done for young people. After checking in, guests receive more than a single room with a spectacular mountain and lake view. The individual quarters are larger…

Gotthard railway celebrates 125 years

This content was published on Sep 6, 2007 She was speaking in the southern town of Bellinzona in the presence of 200 guests from Switzerland and abroad at the beginning of four days of official celebrations. “The opening of the Gotthard tunnel not only showed the world the know-how of Swiss engineers, but also permanently shaped the history and identity of Switzerland,” she…

Energy boom lifts ABB forecast

This content was published on Sep 5, 2007 The four-year targets supersede 2005-9 goals of five per cent sales and ten per cent margin increases. A priority for the group will be improving business ethics, chief executive Fred Kindle told swissinfo. The Swiss-Swedish company specialises in electrical equipment such as transformers and motors for power plants, and the oil, gas, mining and alternative…

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