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Famine threatens to return to North Korea

This content was published on Jun 29, 2011 Katharina Zellweger, head of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) in the North Korean capital, says the situation is not as serious as 1995, when up to 3.5 million of 22 million people starved to death, but serious food shortages are again an issue. Zellweger, who has lived in North Korea since 2006,…

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Eliana Burki & iAlpinisti: Travellin’ Root

This content was published on Jun 29, 2011 Baggage Claim Eliana Burki & iAlpinisti

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Unifying furniture

This content was published on Jun 29, 2011 What’s the world’s most famous chair? An anonymous, cheap, lightweight, waterproof, stackable plastic patio chair, manufactured from just one piece of polypropylene in a single process. The “selene” chair by Italian designer Vico Magistretti, first produced in 1969, broke new ground and is now found the world over, along with a multitude of copies. (All…

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Cost-cutting measures announced at swissinfo.ch

This content was published on Jun 28, 2011 swissinfo.ch, formerly Swiss Radio International, will continue to provide in-depth information about Swiss politics, economy, culture and society in nine languages. A tenth language, Russian, will be introduced in 2013. One of the SBC’s five units, swissinfo.ch has fulfilled a federal government mandate to provide information in nine languages outside Switzerland through the internet for…

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swissinfo.ch readies itself for the future

This content was published on Jun 28, 2011 Guaranteeing a long-term mandate For the past ten years, swissinfo.ch has fulfilled an information mandate for the Swiss government, complementing the work of the online services of the SBC’s radio and television stations. During this period, the framework conditions have changed fundamentally for swissinfo.ch. The availability of news services has increased rapidly and internet usage…

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Sebastian Coe defends Olympic ticketing system

This content was published on Jun 28, 2011 There has been plenty of frustration in Britain over the online scramble for tickets for next year’s Olympics. Coe was in Lausanne on Monday to share insights into organising the Games with a 500-strong audience at the IMD business school. “No event in world history has sold so many tickets so quickly,” the London 2012…

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Federer through to last eight

This content was published on Jun 27, 2011 The first set went to a tie-break, which Youzhny, seeded 18th, eventually won 7-5, fighting back to overcome Federer’s 4-1 lead. But the number three seed took the next three sets 6-3, 6-3, 6-3. His victory increases one of his many records: he has now won through to 29 grand slam quarter finals in succession.…

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Life on stilts

This content was published on Jun 27, 2011 Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Italy and France have successfully campaigned to have 111 of the most important lakeside pile dwellings in the Alps designated World Heritage sites. Of these, 56 are in Switzerland.

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Waiting for the future

This content was published on Jun 27, 2011 As part of the editorial photography course at Lucerne’s MAZ School of Journalism, Benjamin Manser, in cooperation with swissinfo.ch, met residents of a shelter for asylum seekers in Amriswil, Thurgau, who are waiting for the Federal Migration Office to rule on their claims for asylum.

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