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Switzerland commits to long-term Pakistan aid

This content was published on Mar 7, 2011 The director of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Martin Dahinden, has just concluded a four-day visit to the region during which he looked at development projects in the Swat Valley and Nowshera in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province (KPK). “One of the most significant things I saw during my visit was the resilience and…

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Cross-border commuters on the rise

This content was published on Mar 7, 2011 New figures released by the Federal Statistics Office reveal some 231,800 foreign nationals were crossing the border to work in Switzerland in the fourth quarter of 2010. The Statistics Office said economic conditions had led to the 4.6 per cent rise on-year. Around 80 per cent of cross border commuters work in the Lake Geneva region, northwestern…

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LITERATURE: The Long Song

This content was published on Mar 7, 2011 British bestseller novelist Andrea Levy presents her new book “The Long Song”. The novel (Booker Prize 2010 nomination) tells the story of July, a Jamaican woman slave. The reading and following discussion will be in English.

ICRC doctors assist in Libya

This content was published on Mar 7, 2011 The Swiss-run ICRC said two teams comprising ten surgeons and nurses from the Norwegian and German Red Cross organisations had arrived in Libya over the past week. One team has been sent to Al Jalaa Hospital in Benghazi which has received the majority of casualties since the crisis broke out, the Geneva-based ICRC said. A…

Swiss in Tunisia hopeful for the future

This content was published on Mar 7, 2011 Beat Frei who has been in Tunisia since 1985, is still moved by the memory of the upsurge of solidarity between Tunisians and foreigners during the Jasmine Revolution, as the events in Tunisia have been dubbed. The important thing was that everyone should act together to defend themselves against armed groups loyal to the old…

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Europe’s response to Arab Spring falls short

This content was published on Mar 6, 2011 Europe in particular needs to change its way of thinking about the Arab world, Belhassan tells swissinfo.ch. The Tunisian opposition figure was invited to speak on Friday at the opening of the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights in Geneva. Belhassan was the first woman president of the International Federation for Human Rights…

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An exile returns to Tunisia

This content was published on Mar 6, 2011

Libyan kidnappers should face justice: minister

This content was published on Mar 6, 2011 Micheline Calmy-Rey not only holds the country’s rotating presidency for 2011, but as foreign minister had to deal with the diplomatic crisis between the two countries sparked by the brief detention of the Libyan leader’s son in Geneva in 2008. “I can imagine Switzerland starting a criminal investigation to examine the circumstances of the abduction…

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Romansh speakers rebel against standard language

This content was published on Mar 6, 2011 It has to do with the rival claims of the standard language and the five “idioms” or regional dialects. These are more than just dialects, because they are standardised written forms of the language which go back several centuries. The standard language – Romansh Grischun (RG) – is being gradually introduced as a means of…

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E-vote trials face high hurdles for elections

This content was published on Mar 5, 2011 The government will decide in June on the extension of the tests, which are currently underway in about half of the country’s 26 cantons, and among registered Swiss expatriates. E-voting remains one of the political priorities of the Organisation of the Swiss Abroad (OSA), which represents the nearly 700,000 expatriates living in all four corners…

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