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Schnyder and Wawrinka out

This content was published on Jan 17, 2008 Schnyder, Switzerland’s top-ranked female competitor and 15th seed, lost to Australia’s Casey Dellacqua 4-6, 7-5, 8-6. Dellacqua moved into the top 100 for the first time in 2007. Wawrinka, the Swiss number two behind Roger Federer, retired from a match with French player, Marc Gicquel, after sustaining a groin injury. World number one Federer has…

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Switzerland works to defuse tensions

This content was published on Jan 16, 2008 Speaking in Madrid on Tuesday she outlined the ways in which Switzerland is working at home and abroad to defuse tensions between peoples of different beliefs and cultures. “Switzerland has resolved its religious conflicts by favouring a system which prevents one part from dominating another,” she told the forum of the Alliance of Civilisations. Despite…

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Grenchen wins heritage prize

This content was published on Jan 16, 2008 The award from the Swiss Heritage Society (SHS) is a boost to the town in northwestern Switzerland, which suffered during the watch-making industry recession of the 1980s. Grenchen’s town architect Claude Barbey told swissinfo that the Wakker Prize was a big chance for the town to improve its image. “It’s well known that we have…

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Voodoo casts spell on Geneva

This content was published on Jan 16, 2008 In a bid to rectify this image, the Museum of Ethnography in Geneva is holding an exhibition of some 300 Haitian voodoo objects, part of the largest collection of its kind, owned by a Swiss woman living in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince. Haiti is one of the poorest nations on the planet, but the tiny Caribbean…

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Oscar hopes dashed

This content was published on Jan 16, 2008 The Swiss offering did not make it to the next stage of selection where a list of nine candidates will be whittled down to five nominees. Bettina Oberli’s film was seen by more than 600,000 people in Switzerland, making it the second-most successful Swiss production ever, behind 1978’s Die Schweizermacher. The comedy about how the…

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Approaching a Switzerland without borders

This content was published on Jan 16, 2008 Meeting in Brussels on Tuesday, the EU’s Efta Group cleared the way for Switzerland to become part of the border-free zone from November 1. The accord could be signed as early as the end of January and come into force one month later. In Switzerland the necessary technical and legal changes will be addressed and…

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Sexual harassment widespread in Switzerland

This content was published on Jan 15, 2008 In two-thirds of cases, the workplace harassment originates from men. Women are the aggressors in 15 per cent of cases and mixed gender groups are responsible for the remainder. The research, the first to cover men and women at a national level, was carried out for the Federal Gender Equality Office and the State Secretariat…

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“Sausage task force” cannot help cervelat

This content was published on Jan 15, 2008 An exhaustive search by a “cervelat task force” has failed to find a foolproof alternative to the Brazilian cows’ intestines that encase the nation’s favourite sausage, the industry said on Tuesday. Brazilian skins are the only product versatile enough to provide a top quality gourmet experience when eating the sausage both raw and cooked. But…

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Haitian voodoo

This content was published on Jan 15, 2008 “Le vodou, un art de vivre” runs at the Geneva Museum of Ethnography until August 31. The exhibition brings together more than 3,000 artefacts amassed by Marianne Lehmann over the past 50 years, one of the largest collections of Haitian sacred art in the world. (Collection Marianne Lehmann, FPVPOCH. Photo Jonathan Watts, MEG)

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