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Anti-racism body slams minaret posters

This content was published on Oct 7, 2009 Cities around Switzerland have reacted differently. While Lausanne, Montreux, Fribourg, Neuchâtel and Yverdon-les-Bains followed Basel in outlawing the posters in publicly owned spaces, Geneva, Zurich, Biel, Winterthur and Lucerne have rejected the ban on free-speech grounds. The main poster, which shows a woman in a burka and a Swiss flag with minarets springing out of…

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Stefanie Heinzmann: Roots To Grow

This content was published on Oct 7, 2009 Stefanie Heinzmann

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Stiff penalty in SMS-while-driving case upheld

This content was published on Oct 7, 2009 The Federal Court in Lausanne on Wednesday issued the ruling in a case of a motorist who drove off the road and into a wooden fence while sending an SMS. The three-year-old case centred on whether the man’s actions constituted a major or minor traffic violation. A Zurich court had ruled that the violation was…

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Special Federer – Detail right

This content was published on Oct 7, 2009

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The Making of a Champion

This content was published on Oct 7, 2009 Many experts and his own peers believe Roger Federer may prove to be the greatest player of all time. swissinfo returns to his childhood to try to fathom the secret of his success. (swissinfo archive 2007/SF1/Julie Hunt)

Sino-Swiss tourism becomes a one-way street

This content was published on Oct 7, 2009 The Chinese are bucking the general downward trend in overnight stays by foreign tourists. They posted a 34 per cent increase in August this year, compared with the same month in 2008, according to the Federal Statistics Office. The same report shows that foreign visitor stays overall fell by 4.5 per cent, with the biggest…

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ABB fined for “gentlemen’s” cartel

This content was published on Oct 7, 2009 The Commission said on Wednesday that ABB, Japan’s Toshiba and other firms had taken part in a “gentleman’s agreement” not to compete with each other in the European and Japanese power transformer markets. ABB was hit with a €33.8 million fine. Germany’s Siemens had its fine waived because it blew the whistle on the cartel.…

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Unemployment rate continues to rise

This content was published on Oct 7, 2009 The State Secretariat for Economic Affairs reported on Wednesday that the number of people registered as unemployed increased by 3,578 to 154,409 by the end of September. People aged 15 to 24 have been particularly affected by the economic downturn: the jobless rate among that group stands at 5.4 per cent, a 75 per cent…

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Swiss playwright stages London success

This content was published on Oct 7, 2009 The fortysomething polymath – he is also a filmmaker, singer-songwriter and entrepreneur among other things – talks about the importance of optimism, the British sense of humour and Swiss trains… “I fell in love with London as a teenager. I used to visit every year and mainly go to the theatre,” he told swissinfo.ch. “On…

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Solojodlerin Ruth Felix-Naef: Aes Hämpfeli Heimat.

This content was published on Oct 7, 2009

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