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Nuclear fallout role-play tests emergency response

This content was published on Nov 20, 2013 Nuclear power and how Switzerland would respond to an accident at a power plant have been real topics of debate since the catastrophe in Fukushima, Japan in 2011. It’s led to a decision to decommission the controversial nuclear power plant in Mühleberg, canton Bern.

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Swiss donate to typhoon relief

This content was published on Nov 20, 2013 The storm devastated the Philippines on November 8, reportedly causing up to 5,000 deaths. Monday’s donation event, which started at 6am, was the 35th nationwide day to raise money for aid in the 67-year history of Swiss Solidarity, the fundraising arm of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC), swissinfo.ch’s parent company. Swiss Solidarity has received CHF14 million…

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Natural disasters highlight insurance void

This content was published on Nov 20, 2013 “The situation really looks apocalyptic here. Almost every house is down, the whole area was flooded very badly, the water rose up to nearly two or three metres inside the city,” Yann Libessart, part of the emergency team from Doctors without Borders, told swissinfo.ch from Tacloban in the Philippines. While international aid plays a major…

Education

Quality of living makes Zurich a top student city

This content was published on Nov 20, 2013 Contrary to its expensive reputation, Zurich scored higher in affordability than the top four cities: Paris, London, Singapore and Sydney. The cost of tuition for international students was included in this calculation. But its fifth place counterpart, Melbourne, beat the Swiss city most noticeably for the mix of students. It was in the quality of…

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Cost of domestic violence ‘the tip of the iceberg’

This content was published on Nov 19, 2013 A report published on Tuesday revealed that in 2011 at least 15,000 criminal offences were committed in Switzerland involving domestic violence. More than half of all murders involve a partner. Sylvie Durrer, director of the Gender Equality Office, said one person dies every fortnight as a result of domestic violence, with two victims out of…

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Messy message raises toilet awareness

This content was published on Nov 19, 2013 More than 3,000 children die every day in developing countries after drinking water contaminated by faeces, according to development NGO Helvetas, which organised the awareness-raising event on November 19, World Toilet Day.

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High achieving woman

This content was published on Nov 18, 2013

Swiss mourn the death of a president

This content was published on Nov 18, 2013

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‘Academic freedom is something priceless’

This content was published on Nov 17, 2013 “History, football and motorcycling are the great passions of my life,” says Garufo, sipping a morning coffee in his office at the University of Neuchâtel. Passion is a word one easily associates with his personality. It shows in the light shining in his expressive eyes as we talk. His educational accomplishments show that this 41-year-old…

Culture

Neither plant nor animal: simply a mushroom

This content was published on Nov 16, 2013 Most people will know, or at least have heard of, edible mushrooms such as chanterelles and boletes, or toxic varieties such as the Death Cap and the Fly Agaric. In Switzerland there are thousands of species – 5,500 to be exact. Up to 3,000 of them appear every year. An official mushroom expert, Flück knows…

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