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Jodlerduett Guido Schmidiger-Bruno Emmenegger / Jodlerklub Doppleschwand / Jodlerquartett Gmüetlech / Akkordeonduo ‘Top of Switzerland’. Mi Sunntigsrueh.

This content was published on Oct 19, 2004

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Swiss leads the fight against forced marriage

This content was published on Oct 18, 2004 A member of the commission for equal opportunity at the Council’s Parliamentary Assembly in Strasbourg, Zapfl-Helbling has been an advocate of women’s rights for 40 years. The Swiss parliamentarian has been charged with preparing a report on the issue to be presented next June “Each year, many women, adolescent and even young girls are married…

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Voice of Switzerland prepares to bow out

This content was published on Oct 18, 2004 The last shortwave transmitter in Switzerland is shutting down, bringing an end to radio broadcasts at swissinfo/Swiss Radio International (SRI). “For almost 70 years, shortwave has played a fundamental role in making the reality and the aspirations of Switzerland known to the world,” said Nicolas Lombard, the director of SRI. The Swiss Shortwave Service –…

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Swiss-backed radio in Congo triumphs over odds

This content was published on Oct 18, 2004 swissinfo’s Bernhard Meili recently went on a one-month trip to Congo – one of Africa’s biggest and most unstable countries – to report on Radio Okapi’s future. Radio Okapi was set up in early 2002 by the Hirondelle Foundation, a Lausanne-based NGO that helps establish independent media in countries emerging from conflict. The foundation works…

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Hijacker deported back to Lebanon

This content was published on Oct 17, 2004 Hussein Hariri was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1989 for the hijacking of an Air Afrique flight in which one person died and another was seriously injured. The 38-year-old Hariri left Switzerland for Beirut on Tuesday on board a plane chartered by the Federal Refugee Office. Confirming reports that had appeared in the Sunday press,…

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Podjama & Saraswati

This content was published on Oct 16, 2004

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Flims gears up for parliamentary invasion

This content was published on Oct 15, 2004 The parliament building in Bern needs renovating, so 246 Swiss politicians require a temporary home for the three-week autumn session in 2006. As makeshift parliament buildings go, they don’t come much better than the award-winning Park Hotel Waldhaus in the Romansh-speaking part of the country. The five-star hotel boasts 400 square metres of space, six…

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Binladin scents sweet smell of success

This content was published on Oct 15, 2004 Geneva-based Yeslam Binladin hopes that by steering clear of the family name, he can avoid the controversy that sunk his last commercial venture. On Monday the Swiss citizen is due to launch his “Yeslam” fragrance in the French resort of Cannes. “A perfume is personal, and as it’s my own creation I have opted to…

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Looking back at 70 years of SRI

This content was published on Oct 15, 2004 This gallery traces the 70-year history of Swiss Radio International (SRI), formerly known as the Swiss Shortwave Service, which goes off the air at the end of October 2004.

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