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Echo vor Giebelegg. 20 Jahre.

This content was published on Sep 25, 2006

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Building grand hotel comes at a price

This content was published on Sep 25, 2006 The British star architect, Norman Foster, is transforming the old hotel overlooking the Swiss financial centre into a state-of-the-art city resort. One expects to find craftsmen applying mortar to cracked sandstone walls or scraping away decades of grime and grit to reveal fanciful paintings. But one-and-a-half years before the Dolder’s reopening, the 107-year-old hotel is…

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Moondart: Druflos

This content was published on Sep 25, 2006

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Stubeta us um Oberwallis 2006.

This content was published on Sep 25, 2006

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Voters tighten asylum and immigration rules

This content was published on Sep 24, 2006 With most of the votes counted in Sunday’s ballots, some 70 per cent of the Swiss were behind the measures. A third ballot – to prop up the country’s ailing old-age pension scheme with profits from the National Bank – failed. Near-final results show approval rates of up to 80 per cent for the tighter…

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Swiss to give verdict on tougher asylum rules

This content was published on Sep 23, 2006 The electorate also has the final say on an amended law tightening immigration rules mainly for citizens from countries outside the European Union. A third issue to be voted on is a proposal to prop up the country’s ailing old age pension scheme with profits from the National Bank. The government said harsher measures against…

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Herzog & de Meuron awarded Miami project

This content was published on Sep 22, 2006 The Miami Art Museum (MAM), which will cost $208 million (SFr257 million) to build and is to open in 2010, is part of a master plan to revitalise the Florida city’s downtown area. The new building will occupy 16,000 square metres in Miami’s Museum Park. It will be the latest in a series of high-profile…

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Roche shares HIV drug know-how with Africa

This content was published on Sep 22, 2006 Roche said on Friday it would supply free-of-charge three companies with the technical ability to manufacture generic medicine for HIV, the virus that leads to Aids. Aspen Pharmacare in South Africa and Cosmos Limited and Universal Corporation Limited in Kenya will receive the necessary technical expertise. The Basel-based firm said another 25 companies from 14…

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Switzerland wants to regulate mercenaries

This content was published on Sep 22, 2006 Active in more than 100 countries, independent military contractors have an estimated annual turnover of $100 billion (SFr123 billion), which is expected to double by 2010. The Swiss government, with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), has launched an initiative to establish a proper legal framework for one of the world’s oldest professions.…

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Liebestraum. Love’s Dream. Armin Bachmann, trombone. Cora Irsen, piano.

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Echo vor Giebelegg. 20 Jahre.

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Building grand hotel comes at a price

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Moondart: Druflos

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Stubeta us um Oberwallis 2006.

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Voters tighten asylum and immigration rules

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Swiss to give verdict on tougher asylum rules

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Herzog & de Meuron awarded Miami project

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