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Producing for diverse audiences is part of the job at an inteational broadcaster(Keystone / Salvatore Di Nolfi) ...

The aual photo of the Swiss Federal Council for 2020, with federal chancellor Walter Thuherr on the far left(Swiss Fede...

Switzerland's seven cabinet members welcome the Indian president in September 2019. Foreign policy strategy aims to involve...

Once an ordinary mountain village, an Egyptian billionaire’s vision to construct Switzerland’s largest tourist resort changed the landscape of the central Swiss town of Andermatt and the l...

China Is leading the world towardsan electric car future (Robyn Beck / AFP) Switzerland has a new strategy to promote greater use of electric vehicles, but the Alpine nation remains far behind ...

While thesefoot-shaped plates helped women cross gratingsoutside a German department store in the 1960s, women at the SBC were asked to leave high-heeled shoes at home (Keystone) Since its cre...

Orphans eatlunchin Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo.More than four million children have lost at least one parent in Congo over the past two decades(Keystone) The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has boycotted a United Nations conference in Geneva that reaped hundreds of millions of dollars to help...

Benoît Schwarz delivers a stone during the A-Division European Curling Championships 2017(Keystone) A record 171 athletes will be representing Switzerland at the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, which start on Friday. But only a few can make a living from their sport. They need a job and a company willing to be flexible over training and competition needs. Enter the new “athlete-friendly companies” label.Curler Benoît Schwarzexteal link, a bronze medallist at the World Men’s Curling Championship last year, is among those going to South Korea. He trains 25 hours a week and feels top fit, but he is lagging behind on the career front, despit...

Multinational companies are being urged to contribute more to the battle against global warming at the World Economic Forum’s aual meeting in Davos.Christiana Figueresexteal link, former United Nation’s climate chief and now a leading light at the environmental NGO Mission 2020exteal link, said the world must start reversing the trend of rising CO2 emissions by 2020 and then halve greenhouse gases in each subsequent decade.Figueres is lobbying corporates and politicians at WEF to clean up their act. “This is the biggest business opportunity that we have ever seen, but only if we harvest it in time,” she told swissinfo.ch at the Artic Basecampexteal link event in Davos that gathered together ...

Many Swiss citizens prefer to sit and watch. Why isn't tuout in regular votes and elections not higher? ( Salvatore Vinci / 13 Photo) Switzerland is often regarded inteationally as a model of functioning democracy. But a closer look shows that Swiss democracy is far from perfect. The “rule of all” tus out to be the “rule of some”. It is September 24, 2017, a “voting Sunday” as we say here in Switzerland. Voters have the final say on a crucial reform of the old age pensionsystem. This is a topic that will conceeveryone, sooner or later. Over the course of the day it becomes apparent that the proposed reform isn’t getting a majority of votes and is going down to defeat. But the real letd...

(Keystone/Sigi Tischler) Why is Swiss meat among the most expensive in the world? Farmers, consumer groups and industry experts all have their opinions. Not many people in the world can afford to pay nearly $50 for a kilogramme of beef leg round or more than $20 for the same amount of pork chop. But those are the price tags on these cuts of meat in Swiss supermarkets. According to the Meat Price Index 2017 by Caterwingsexteal link, Switzerland has the highest meat prices in the world - 142% more than the global average. Caterwings estimates that an unskilled Swiss worker needs only 3.1 hours to afford 1kg of beef, while in India someone must work 22.8 hours to pay for the same amount. ...

The town of Schwyz recently tore down some medieval buildings with beautiful wall paintings in order to create space for some multi-storey buildings. According to the 2014 federal zoning law, Swiss municipalities are obliged to limit urban sprawl. However, building new, incongruous structures in historic town centres can often changethe local character. (SRF/swissinfo.ch) Free space is getting scarcerin Switzerland. The equivalent of eightfootball pitchesis covered with new buildings every day. In order to prevent green spaces from disappearing, the Swiss govement revised the federal zoning law in 2014. Since then, communities have been obliged tolimit urban sprawl. + Leaing how to improve l...

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... Print comment Reuse article "Together" is a portal for leaing about life in Switzerland through quiz games, receiving local news in seven languages and asking questions that will be included in the app(swissinfo.ch) “Together” is a smartphone app from swissi...

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Out-of-pocket health care costs can add up quickly, in both Switzerland and the US.(Keystone) Several readers wanted to know how much residents in the two countries pay for health care, in t...

Office worker salaries are higher in Switzerland than in other parts of the world, but so is the cost of living(Keystone) When travelling abroad, especially to countries with much lower wa...

“Unfamiliar Familiarities” is the latest exhibition by the Swiss Foundation of Photography.Visitors to the exhibitionexteal link, currently on show in Lausae, are presented with five completely different travel reports which go beyond easily acc...

Campus Biotech in Geneva - a symbol of how attractive French-speaking Switzerland is for life science firms(Keystone) ADC Therapeutics, a Vaud-based start-up that specialises in cutting-edge canc...

The new CHF10, unveiledwith much fanfare(Swiss National Bank) Crisp, yellow, and adoed with train tracks andwatchmaking supplies, the new CHF10 banknote will soon be in circulation across Switzerland. But what can you buy with it?Revealed by the Swiss National Bankexteal link on Wednesday, the banknote is the third in the new series tha...