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swissjourno In the largest undertaking its kind in Europe, a 6,200-tonne building is being shifted in one piece 60 metres westward. The old management building of the former machine factory Oerlikon in Zurich has to make way for some new railway tracks. (SF/Swiss Prime Site/swissinfo.ch)
May 22, 2012

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swissjourno A small drum-making firm in Basel has been commissioned to make 20 new instruments for the Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps of the United States army, which performs at state ceremonies. It’s a great honour for the Swiss, but a lot of hard work. (SF/swissinfo.ch)
May 19, 2012

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swissjourno Geneva’s Palais des Nations is the European headquarters of the United Nations. But the historical building is in need of a major facelift and urgent repairs. The restoration is estimated to cost over $600 million (SFr567 million). The financing is not yet guaranteed, and before any work can start, Geneva must wait for the on-going $2 billion restoration of the UN’s New York headquarters to be completed. (RTS/swissinfo.ch)
May 18, 2012

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swissjourno Swiss director Nicolas Wadimoff’s Opération Libertad features in the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight section. In the film, a revolutionary group tries to uncover a 1970s money laundering operation by a South American dictator in a Swiss bank. The film then jumps 30 years forward when videotapes chronicling the entire operation reappear and reopen the haunting question: does the end justify the means? Wadimoff talks to swissinfo.ch. (Akkafilms.ch-swissinfo.ch)
May 16, 2012

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swissjourno Thousands of jobs are being cut in the banking sector, but big banks still offer training programmes for future bankers. Even for those who make it, the days of job security and easy bonuses are over. Despite incurring massive losses during the financial crisis and collecting negative press about tax evasion and rogue trading, UBS is still able to attract some of the brightest graduates into its training programmes. (Raffaella Rossello, swissinfo.ch)
May 15, 2012

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swissjourno Expo.02 took place around the lakes of Neuchâtel, Biel and Murten. The five sites were called "arteplages" as they were so close to the water. The events attracted 10 million visitors. (Julie Hunt/swissinfo.ch)
May 14, 2012

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swissjourno Switzerland may not have its own oil reserves, but it does have plenty of forests full of wood that could be used to heat houses. More and more villages are installing central wood furnaces, which distribute hot water to homes. (Julie Hunt/swissinfo.ch)
May 14, 2012

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swissjourno The Hotel Bahnhof in the unassuming alpine village of Ausserberg has every reason not to be a choice stop on the Swiss tourist trail. Yet it is bucking the trend by showing that small in the hotel business can be beautiful. (Michele Andina, swissinfo.ch)
May 11, 2012

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swissjourno In this era of mechanised Swiss agriculture, dairy farming is also going through changes. On some farms, milk production has even been mechanised completely, breaking radically with the traditional image of farming. Milking machines are sometimes frowned upon. But this automated milking machine has advantages for both the farmer and the animal. swissinfo.ch visited the Cotting family on their farm in Ependes, canton Fribourg. (Olivier Pauchard, Christophe Balsiger, Daniel Wihler)
May 7, 2012

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swissjourno More than 30 per cent of the economically active population feels stressed out at work in Switzerland and burn out affects up to 20 per cent. New preventive tests are being developed, among which is a smartphone app. (RTS-Nouvo/swissinfo.ch)
May 7, 2012

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swissjourno In autumn 2010, the Swiss solar boat “PlanetSolar” embarked on a world tour. The 19-month adventure took the catamaran across the United States, the Panama Canal, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong and the Persian Gulf. On May 4, PlanetSolar reached Monaco, accomplishing its record-braking mission. (By courtesy of PlanetSolar)
May 4, 2012

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swissjourno Back in 1960 the Swiss Air Rescue Service (Rega) began repatriating Swiss citizens who were injured or fell ill while abroad. Today the organisation has its own jets and carries out several hundred repatriation flights every year. (SF/swissinfo.ch/Rega)
May 4, 2012

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swissjourno Emmi, the largest Swiss dairy, is expanding its cheese production in the United States with a big new Gruyère cheese factory. Faced with opposition from Swiss cheesemakers, Emmi is now rethinking the name of its US product. (RTS/swissinfo.c)
May 2, 2012

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swissjourno This is the story of a Bosnian Muslim woman who fought on the frontline during the Bosnian war, and later fled to Switzerland. In 1995, Zuhra Hodzic found herself at the centre of the massacre of Srebrenica. (Julie Hunt, swissinfo.ch/SF)
May 2, 2012

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swissjourno Switzerland was once a poor country. Only at the end of the 19th century things did begin to change after an economic boom. Then it took just 130 years for the Swiss population to grow from three to eight million. (SF/swissinfo.ch)
Apr 29, 2012

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swissjourno Branding 2012 as the "Year of Water", Switzerland Tourism is promoting the H2O theme in all its forms. It’s part of efforts to find new ways of helping the industry overcome the effects of the strong franc. (SF/swissinfo.ch)
Apr 29, 2012

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swissjourno Researchers at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne have accomplished the task of piloting a wheelchair using brainpower alone. This brain machine was developed by the Institute’s Neuroprosthetic Centre, and promises to vastly improve the lives of disabled people. (SF/swissinfo.ch)
Apr 26, 2012

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swissjourno Switzerland has the highest rate of skin cancer in Europe, with some 2,000 cases being diagnosed every year. Men seem to be particularly vulnerable. Over the past two decades, detection rates have sharply increased and melanoma is now the fourth most prevalent cancer in Switzerland. (SF/swissinfo.ch)
Apr 24, 2012

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swissjourno Switzerland is expensive. The franc is too strong for the industrial sector to be competitive. Some Swiss companies have had to move their production abroad because of this. But there are also many foreign firms which relocate to Switzerland, mainly because of tax cuts but also because they want a good business environment and the “Swiss made” label. (SF-ECO-swissinfo.ch)
Apr 23, 2012