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En route with Hugo Loetscher

This content was published on Aug 19, 2009 “We do not have a second Hugo!” said long-time friend Urs Widmer in an interview. The death of Hugo Loetscher leaves a gaping hole in the Swiss literary landscape. Photographer Tobias Hitsch accompanied the author to India in 2006 and to Egypt in 2007.

How wellbeing might sound

This content was published on Aug 19, 2009 For German-speaking countries, wellness usually means relaxing in the spa or having a massage in a nice hotel. But the mountain region near St Gallen believes it can be a holiday for the senses as well. “Sound wellness is the possibility of coming into contact with sound. When you go onto an Alp and all…

Rise of swine flu prompts vaccination doubts

This content was published on Aug 19, 2009 Public health authorities in Switzerland have recommended immunisations for vulnerable segments of the population but controversy is heating up, with opponents criticising the latest government recommendations. The Federal Vaccination Office says opponents are “acting irresponsibly”. Inoculating the entire population is presently not necessary, according to the Vaccination Office. Instead it prioritises jabbing people in risk…

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This content was published on Aug 19, 2009 swissinfo.ch – the international service of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC) Since 1999, swissinfo.ch has fulfilled the federal government’s mandate to distribute information about Switzerland internationally, supplementing the online offerings of the radio and television stations of the SBC. Today, the international service is directed above all at an international audience interested in Switzerland, as…

Hofmann. Haydn. Mozart. Sol Gabetta, cello. Kammerorchester Basel. Sergio Ciomei, cond.

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Hunting early predators in the Alps

This content was published on Aug 19, 2009 Experts from the Basel Natural History Museum say the footprints measure 40cm and were left by predatory dinosaurs on what was the bed of a shallow sea during the Triassic period. “Obviously this dinosaur did not wear crampons 205 to 210 million years ago, otherwise we would see it clearly,” joked Christian A. Meyer, a…

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Experts mull Afghan elections and way forward

This content was published on Aug 18, 2009 Millions of Afghans are expected to vote on Thursday for the president and for provincial councils amid threats from the Taliban that they will disrupt the poll. On Tuesday a suicide car bomber killed at least eight people and injured about 50 more in Kabul and earlier a Taliban rocket struck the grounds of the…

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Switzerland’s “most cosmopolitan” writer dies

This content was published on Aug 18, 2009 Loetscher, who would have turned 80 in December, started his career as a literary critic and editor. In the 1960s he started travelling widely, especially in Latin America and South East Asia, and reported on the countries he visited. He was called “the most cosmopolitan of Swiss writers”. In addition to his journalistic work, he…

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Google launches Swiss version of Street View

This content was published on Aug 18, 2009 Street View provides 360-degree detailed views of streets and homes, adding pictures to the search engine’s existing Google Maps application. But the service has raised concerns among some privacy campaigners. Zurich, Bern, Geneva, Winterthur, Lausanne and major towns in the Three Lakes and the Bernese Oberland regions are now available on the Street View service.…

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