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Progress in fighting malaria

This content was published on Sep 15, 2006 Malaria accounts for one in five of all childhood deaths in Africa, according to the World Health Organisation. Most of the victims are children under five. For decades, scientists have been working on a vaccine against the tropical disease. Thanks to funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, researchers seem to be closer than…

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Culture

Chonguri. Thomas Demenga, cello. Thomas Larcher, piano. Teodoro Anzellotti, accordion.

This content was published on Sep 15, 2006

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Defending champions on thin ice

This content was published on Sep 14, 2006 On top of being hit by a major tax fraud scandal, the team from canton Ticino in southern Switzerland have also lost most of their best players to other clubs. The 2006-2007 ice hockey championships open on Friday evening, when the race begins among the 12 elite teams to find a successor to the unsteady…

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Heli skiing

This content was published on Sep 14, 2006

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Quartett Laseyer: Hierigs…us em Appezöll.

This content was published on Sep 14, 2006

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Co-host Switzerland prepares for Euro 2008

This content was published on Sep 13, 2006 Its plan is to deploy up to 15,000 soldiers with possible use of unmanned drones and helicopters. The estimated cost is SFr10 million ($8 million). It is foreseen at present that 13,900 soldiers will be called upon but, as at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, they will not come into…

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Villa Rose opens doors to Toblerone ramblers

This content was published on Sep 13, 2006 For years the mysterious pink family house on the former Geneva-to-Lausanne main road puzzled locals – never any lights in the windows or cars on the drive.

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Civilian service fights to survive

This content was published on Sep 13, 2006 The Swiss Committee for Civilian Service has proposed a series of reforms, including admitting women and foreigners, to try to stop the trend. The committee says that since a new system of army recruitment was introduced in 2004, almost 40 per cent of Swiss young men are discharged for medical reasons, compared with 15-20 per…

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OECD gives Switzerland good education marks

This content was published on Sep 12, 2006 The latest study by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development says standards among member states are continuing to rise. The Paris-based group says thanks to big efforts at the higher level of education in Switzerland, the percentage of graduates to the population had increased from 10.4 per cent to 25.9 per cent between 2000…

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Chonguri. Thomas Demenga, cello. Thomas Larcher, piano. Teodoro Anzellotti, accordion.

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Defending champions on thin ice

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Quartett Laseyer: Hierigs…us em Appezöll.

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Co-host Switzerland prepares for Euro 2008

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