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Swiss-US agree on vocational training and bio products

This content was published on Jul 9, 2015 On Thursday he also signed an agreement of mutual recognition of organic standards with the Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Krysta Harden. “Vocational education and training are core principles of the Swiss educational system,” Schneider-Ammann said. “They play a major role in ensuring adequate education and job preparation for young people in Switzerland.” Switzerland had received…

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Sepp Blatter: ‘Am I responsible for climate change, too?’

This content was published on Jul 9, 2015 In a lengthy interview in the Swiss magazine Weltwoche, published on Thursday, Blatter maintained his view that FIFA had done nothing wrong. “Our influence over contracts concluded by the confederations is practically zero. We can only control our own flows of money at FIFA,” said Blatter. Asked whether he bore any responsibility as the head…

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150 years on, Matterhorn guides’ family stake claim in history

This content was published on Jul 9, 2015 A new generation will play their mountain guide ancestors in an open air theatre production of a climb that defined a mountain and their name.

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The houseman

This content was published on Jul 9, 2015 As a stay-at-home dad or “man of leisure”, I spend a fair amount of time with other parents. One thing I have learned is that each one of us is unique and that mothers and fathers tend to see things in slightly different ways. The documentary film The Evolution of DadExternal link takes a look at…

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Hearing restored in deaf mice

This content was published on Jul 8, 2015 The results of the study were published in the journal Science Translational Medicine on Wednesday and could pave the way for gene therapy in people with hearing loss caused by genetic mutations. The researchers focused on a gene called TMC1 that helps convert mechanical sound waves entering the inner ear into electrical signals that talk…

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Boom over for some Swiss international schools

This content was published on Jul 8, 2015 On a late weekday afternoon, Lawrence Wood, principal of the SIS Swiss International School Winterthur, looks on as a handful of young students climb ropes and chase balls on a rooftop playground. Enrolment at his 14-year-old school is at an all-time high with 112 students. Nevertheless, Wood now finds himself assuring concerned parents that…

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Lung cancer, heart disease leading killers in Switzerland

This content was published on Jul 7, 2015 One in twenty Swiss die of lung cancer, according to the latest figures published by the Federal Statistical Office (FSO).

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The Swiss school as a multilingual playground

This content was published on Jul 6, 2015 They are between 11 and 12 years of age and live within 200 kilometres of each other. But in Switzerland such a distance is enough to separate two very different linguistic worlds. In mid-May, the pupils of Rachel Dällenbach, a teacher from Fribourg (French-speaking), and those of Marina Studach from Kilchberg (German-speaking), met for the…

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Kazakh lobbyist denies lack of transparency

This content was published on Jul 4, 2015 In an interview published in the German language daily Südostschweiz on Saturday, Baumann claimed that she had informed centre-right Radical Party parliamentarian Christa Markwalder about her links with her Kazakh client. She also said that she had told Markwalder about all modifications made to the parliamentary questions, including the removal of the term “human rights”. …

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Lung cancer, heart disease leading killers in Switzerland

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