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Switzerland for the outside world

This content was published on Dec 27, 2004 For swissinfo itself, his priorities are to provide more information and services to the Swiss living abroad, and to better integrate swissinfo’s website into the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation’s multimedia operations. swissinfo: You became director of swissinfo on January 1. How do you see your role? Beat Witschi: I helped to create the web platform, swissinfo,…

Nightmare in paradise

This content was published on Dec 27, 2004 Much of Switzerland’s 40,000-strong Tamil community is in shock after hearing that thousands had been killed in Sri Lanka and India’s Tamil Nadu province. “I was in shock when I heard about the catastrophe because my parents are in Sri Lanka,” Krishanthan Vivekanandan told swissinfo. The 20-year-old Tamil moved with his family to Switzerland when…

Quake was detected in Switzerland

This content was published on Dec 27, 2004 That’s according to the Swiss Seismological Service, which said the quake registered on Swiss instruments hours before killer tsunamis hit the region’s coastlines. Manfred Baer of the Swiss Seismological Service in Zurich told swissinfo that, although earthquakes are impossible to predict, the likelihood of tsunami waves could be determined with a good degree of accuracy.…

Swiss provide emergency aid for quake victims

This content was published on Dec 27, 2004 The death toll has reached more than 17,000 and is continuing to climb following a massive earthquake and tsunami tidal waves in the region. Tourists, fishermen, hotels, homes and cars were swept away by walls of water unleashed by the 9.0-magnitude earthquake, centred off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Sri Lanka,…

Cost of living to rise in 2005

This content was published on Dec 25, 2004 Economists are predicting that inflation – 0.8 per cent this year – will average between 1.3 and 1.5 per cent in 2005. Health insurance premiums will rise on average 3.7 per cent next year, and a hefty 5.5 per cent for people between the ages of 19 and 26. According to the Swiss Institute for…

Taxing time for transport policy

This content was published on Dec 25, 2004 In this fourth report in a special series comparing Switzerland and Austria, swissinfo finds that the road to Brussels can be a dirty one. Approaching the Austrian city of Innsbruck from the Brenner Pass, a thick layer of smog hovers over the city, trapped by the high mountain walls on its north and south flanks.…

What can Switzerland learn from Austria?

This content was published on Dec 24, 2004 Starting a series to mark the tenth anniversary of Austria joining the European Union, swissinfo talks to Rudolf Walser – chief economist at Swiss business federation economiesuisse – about the “land next door”. Criticism of the Swiss economy tends to focus on the country’s comparatively low rate of economic growth and the need for major…

Watch this space for Titan mission

This content was published on Dec 23, 2004 After a seven-year journey from Earth, the Huygens probe of the European Space Agency is preparing to land on Titan, the largest and most mysterious moon of Saturn. Systems from Contraves Space in Zurich will help separate the probe from its mother ship, Cassini, which was built by NASA in the United States. “We provided…

Space probe launched toward Saturn moon

This content was published on Dec 23, 2004 Systems from Contraves Space in Zurich helped separate the probe from the Nasa orbiter, Cassini. After a seven-year journey from Earth, researchers hope the mission will end with answers about one of the most puzzling bodies in the solar system. Ground controllers received a signal in the early hours on Saturday CET indicating that the…

Unwanted gifts will be wanted elsewhere

This content was published on Dec 23, 2004 The operation, called “Twice Christmas”, is collecting surplus gifts and will distribute them with the help of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, Swiss Post and the Swiss Red Cross. The initiative, which is now in its eighth year, was the result of a pre-Christmas brainstorming among staff of a consumer programme at German-language Swiss radio. The…

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