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Final bell rings for American schools’ founder

This content was published on Feb 18, 2009 Eloquent, stubborn and charming, Fleming founded the American School in Switzerland (Tasis) in 1956 in canton Ticino. Its mission: to give Americans a strong education set in culturally rich Europe. Today the private boarding school offers Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate studies to more than 500 students from 51 countries, most of whom pay SFr64,000…

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Make English an official language, study urges

This content was published on Feb 18, 2009 Well-qualified foreigners only tend to stay in Switzerland for a couple of years, not always enough time to learn a national language, the study says. Making more legal documents and forms available in English would make their life easier and boost recruitment. It is just one of the recommendations in a study carried out as…

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EU immigrant numbers grow steadily

This content was published on Feb 18, 2009 According to the latest figures released by the Federal Migration Office, 1.6 million foreigners had residence permits out of a total population of 7.6 million. These foreigners include people born in Switzerland of foreign parents. While the number of EU citizens is growing steadily, new arrivals from other parts of the world increased by only…

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Green group keeps up pressure on alpine traffic

This content was published on Feb 18, 2009 The Alpine Initiative group says it is possible to reduce the number of transiting trucks to one million by 2011. The non-governmental organisation aims to protect the environment from road traffic and promote rail transport. But a look back over the past 15 years leaves top representatives of the group with a feeling of ambiguity.…

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Injury forces Federer to take time out

This content was published on Feb 17, 2009 In a message on his website on Tuesday Federer said it was a precautionary measure as he had not had enough time to strengthen his back after it was injured last year. “This decision was very difficult for me, because I won’t just be missing one of my favourite tournaments of the tour, but also…

Culture

Albert Bolliger. Historic Organs in France Vol. 5.

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Atheists launch non-prophet bus campaign

This content was published on Feb 16, 2009 The Swiss freethinkers’ association launched a campaign on Monday to collect donations to “give a voice to those people who feel plagued by the missionary slogans” plastered around the country. “We did it because so many people asked us to do it,” Reta Caspar, spokeswoman for the association, told swissinfo. “We hadn’t planned it –…

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Flights halted at Samedan

This content was published on Feb 16, 2009 The Federal Civil Aviation Office imposed the ban on Monday, as part of its investigation into a fatal crash at the mountain airport on Thursday. A Falcon jet smashed into a bank of snow and broke up, killing two of its occupants and seriously injuring a third. Investigators said the walls of snow around the…

Broadcasting company gets hefty fine

This content was published on Feb 16, 2009 The Federal administrative court in Bern found on Monday that German-language television had broken the law in a 2006 travel programme and in its weather forecasts in 2007, both of which were sponsored by the Touring Club of Switzerland (TCS) motoring organisation. The programmes used slogans to advertise the TCS. The Federal Communications Office, which…

Culture

A ‘scream of freedom’ over the river

This content was published on Feb 16, 2009 swissinfo met the controversial artists at an exhibition of their current artwork in progress, “Over the River”, which opened on Friday at Lausanne’s Fondation de l’Hermitage Museum. The 73-year-old eccentrics, who are famous for wrapping up Berlin’s Reichstag building and surrounding Miami islands in shocking-pink fabric, were in Switzerland to drum up support for their…

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