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Fewer clandestine immigrants in Switzerland

This content was published on Apr 25, 2016 The authorities concluded that the figure was close to the 76,000 mark in 2015, compared to around 90,000 individuals in 2005. The true figure is expected to be somewhere between 58,000 and 105,000 individuals. Clandestine immigrants are those who come from outside the EU and do not have the right to remain in Switzerland. Around…

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Parvez Sheik Fareed on the ad design process

This content was published on Apr 25, 2016 The Zurich-based advertising copywriter behind a controversial political advertisement shares where he gets ideas for campaigns.

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An exaggerated reaction to a real threat

This content was published on Apr 25, 2016 At the time of 1986 disaster, Mario Camani was head of Sezione della protezione dell’aria dell’acqua e del suolo (SPAAS), the environmental protection office of the southern canton of Ticino. Because of the meteorological conditions at the time of the disaster, Switzerland’s Italian-speaking canton was the most affected region in the country. High altitude winds…

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Radioactivity still shows up in Switzerland

This content was published on Apr 25, 2016 “Memories fade quicker than caesium-137,” which has a half-life of 30 years, says Christophe Murith, head of the radiological risk section of the Federal Office of Public Health. Yet the momentous events of spring 1986 are still vivid in his own memory. He was in the front line when the poisonous cloud from Chernobyl reached…

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Nuclear power’s economic meltdown 30 years after Chernobyl

This content was published on Apr 25, 2016 Thirty years later, the nuclear industry is facing a meltdown of a different kind: an economic meltdown. “New nuclear – the economics say no” was the headline of a 2009 analyst reportExternal link published by Citigroup. The bankers had taken a closer look at the financial viability of the proposed construction of nuclear power plants…

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Net makers afforded scant protective cover

This content was published on Apr 25, 2016 Logic would suggest that A to Z Textile Mills is a company in the right place at the right time. This family-owned enterprise on the western outskirts of Arusha in northern Tanzania is one of the largest makers of long-lasting insecticidal bed nets in Africa, where 90 per cent of such nets are found. Yet,…

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Voting for foreigners, nuclear cloud scare and political ads

This content was published on Apr 24, 2016 Stories we’re following the week beginning April 25.

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Champion of abuse victims considers government deal

This content was published on Apr 23, 2016 Guido Fluri, a former boys home resident turned multimillionaire, told the Tages-Anzeiger and Der Bund newspapers on Saturday that if parliament approves the counterproposal next week, he would “in all likelihood” withdraw the initiative. He added, however, that the decision would have to be taken by the initiative committee as a whole. In 2014, Fluri…

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The children of Chernobyl have grown up

This content was published on Apr 23, 2016 “Here, more people die because of drugs and alcohol than because of radioactivity,” explained Kiril, pointing to the grave of his best friend, who fell from a balcony one drunken evening. On April 26 the world will commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. Instead of once again looking at the consequences of accident,…

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Everest guide’s Swiss training

This content was published on Apr 23, 2016

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