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Creating Haute Couture Christmas trees

This content was published on Dec 21, 2005 His extravagantly decorated Christmas trees adorn the yachts and chalets of the rich and famous, royal households, and in the past even the White House and St Peter’s Square in Rome. “I’m like a fashion designer, but instead of creating lines for women, I dress Christmas trees,” Wanner says (see video). The trees are “dressed”…

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Lavaux stakes claim for heritage status

This content was published on Dec 21, 2005 The government has also asked Unesco for the heritage status granted in 2001 to the Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschorn region to be extended over a further 284 square kilometres. On Wednesday the director of the Federal Culture Office, Jean-Frédéric Jauslin, and representatives of the local association behind the Lavaux bid handed in their application at Unesco headquarters in…

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Campaigners to fight for animals’ lawyer

This content was published on Dec 20, 2005 Declaring itself “far from satisfied” with the new law on animal protection adopted last week by parliament, Swiss Animal Protection (SAP) said it had decided to withdraw its original initiative to focus on this one key demand. SAP’s Heinz Lienhard told a news conference in Bern that the new law was a step forward but…

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Christoph Grab: Cryptic Blues

This content was published on Dec 20, 2005

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The Swiss charged with investigating the CIA

This content was published on Dec 20, 2005 In an interview with swissinfo, Dick Marty described himself as a “loner” – fitting for a man who led efforts to decriminalise drugs in Switzerland and to allow euthanasia in Europe. Marty, 60, a senator for Switzerland’s centre-right Radical Party, was appointed in November by the Council of Europe to probe allegations that the CIA…

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Hospitals discuss changing euthanasia rules

This content was published on Dec 19, 2005 Lausanne University Hospital confirmed at the weekend that it would permit the practice under strict conditions from January 1. The hospital in western Switzerland said it would allow the voluntary euthanasia group, Exit, to help terminally ill patients who are unable to go home. Patients wishing to take their own lives must have expressed a…

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Swiss travel less and closer to home

This content was published on Dec 19, 2005 Figures from the Federal Statistics Office show that for the five-year period to 2003, Swiss tourists also spent less while travelling. Business travel was down 44 per cent on 1998. The majority of Swiss did travel to some extent, the survey confirmed. In 2003, 83 per cent of people domiciled in Switzerland travelled within the…

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Red Sea pioneer to build resort in Swiss Alps

This content was published on Dec 19, 2005 It is the first time Samih Sawiris, who runs the hotel division of his family’s Orascom Group, will venture outside the Middle East and Gulf region with a tourism project. Hundreds of local residents crowded into Andermatt’s community centre on Sunday evening anxious to have the rumours confirmed and to see the Egyptian billionaire for…

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Swiss honour their world champions

This content was published on Dec 18, 2005 The motorcyclist and orienteering specialist were joined on the podium by the Swiss national football team and their trainer, Köbi Kuhn. All the winners voted for by the Swiss public – who cannot choose a best athlete but have to pick a best male athlete and a best female athlete – came from the German-speaking…

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Folklore – Vollträffer. Die Sieger des 10. Schweizerischen Nachwuchsjodler- und des 12. Schweizerischen Jungmusikanten-Wettbewerbes 2005.

This content was published on Dec 17, 2005

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