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Population hits 7.7 million on immigration wave

This content was published on Aug 27, 2009 The permanent population in 2008 stood at 7,701,900 people, according to definitive figures released by the Federal Statistics Office on Thursday. That is 108,400 more people, or 1.4 per cent, over the previous year. Nearly 90 per cent of the new residents were immigrants. Laws allowing citizens of the European Union to live in Switzerland…

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Sandee: Diva?

This content was published on Aug 27, 2009

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Foreign banks aim to save banking secrecy

This content was published on Aug 27, 2009 But as banking secrecy has already been shaken by double tax accords and the UBS deal, experts say the move may be too late. Switzerland is currently signing double taxation agreements on easing the flow of tax information between it and third parties – the latest being on Tuesday with Luxembourg. The aim is to…

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Journey through Switzerland

This content was published on Aug 27, 2009 20 young Swiss from abroad spent ten days travelling round Switzerland in August 2009. They recorded their adventures and impressions in photos. Audio slideshow by Eveline Kobler, swissinfo.ch

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Bernina treasure Flash

This content was published on Aug 26, 2009 The Rhaetian Railway in the Albula/Bernina Cultural Landscape is an engineering marvel of stone viaducts and loops crossing two alpine passes and connecting Switzerland with Italy. It has now won World Heritage recognition from Unesco. (swissinfo, Michele Andina)

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Cabinet opposes national adventure sport law

This content was published on Aug 26, 2009 In a statement released after its weekly meeting on Wednesday, the cabinet said it saw no reason to place activities including canyoning, river rafting and bungee jumping under federal legislation. It made the decision based on a recommendation by the Federal Sport Office. A 1999 canyoning accident in the Bernese Oberland that claimed 18 lives,…

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Libyan hostages still not back in Switzerland

This content was published on Aug 26, 2009 Several media outlets reported on Tuesday that a plane had been dispatched, and by Wednesday photographers were camped outside Bern’s airport. Bern would neither confirm nor deny it had sent a jet to Tripoli to retrieve the two men, who were denied exit visas from the North African state in July 2008 following the arrest…

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History returns on a silver platter

This content was published on Aug 26, 2009 The pieces, created by Swiss Renaissance painter Urs Graf in 1519, were purchased by the Basel History Museum and the Swiss National Museum from the British Museum for £400,000 (SFr694,000). The nearly palm-sized silver plates were crafted for the monastery at St Urban. They had been most recently owned by the St George Church at…

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Post delivers lower profits

This content was published on Aug 26, 2009 The global economic and financial crisis and increasing wage costs were blamed for the figures, which are expected to stay in the red for the entire year. EBIT (earnings before interest and tax) was down 12.9 per cent to SFr365 million, and turnover fell by 2.3 per cent to SFr4.275 billion. The number of full-time…

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