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What makes Pipilotti Rist tick? Posted by: swissinfovideos
Video duration: 265 seconds Swiss video artist Pipilotti Rist has made her name on the international stage with work that is funny, subversive and often risky. In contrast to many other conceptual artists, her colorful installations convey happiness and simplicity. |
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The future of banking Posted by: swissinfovideos
Video duration: 240 seconds 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. (Raffaella Rossello, swissinfo.ch) |
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Historic UN building on endangered list Posted by: swissinfovideos
Video duration: 222 seconds 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. (RTS/swissinfo.ch) |
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Cannes 2012: Operation freedom, morals and money laundering Posted by: swissinfovideos
Video duration: 101 seconds Swiss director Nicolas Wadimoff's Opération Libertad (Operation Freedom) has been selected for the Directors' Fortnight at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. In the film, set in 1970s Switzerland, a revolutionary group tries to uncover a money laundering operation by a South American dictator in a Swiss bank. Wadimoff talks to swissinfo.ch. (Akkafilms.ch-swissi nfo.ch) |
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"Waste" wood used to heat Swiss villages Posted by: swissinfovideos
Video duration: 246 seconds 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. |
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Switzerland's booming population Posted by: swissinfovideos
Video duration: 181 seconds 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. |
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Crazy Inventions enter Swiss television Posted by: swissinfovideos
Video duration: 213 seconds For three years Stefan Heuss has been presenting his machines on the satirical television program «Giacobbo/Müller». His inventions don't really serve any useful purpose, yet they make people laugh. (SF/swissinfo.ch) |
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Switzerland's new energy concept Posted by: swissinfovideos
Video duration: 201 seconds After its landmark decision to gradually reduce and abandon reliance on nuclear power, the Swiss government has set specific targets for the reduction of energy and electricity consumption by 2050. However, in order to reach these ambitious goals, people will also have to make their own contributions and rethink the way they consume energy. (SF/swissinfo.ch) |
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Fight over Gruyère cheese spreads to US Posted by: swissinfovideos
Video duration: 122 seconds Emmi, the largest Swiss dairy, is expanding its cheese production in the United States with a big new Gruyère cheese factory. In the face of opposition from Swiss Gruyère cheese producers, Emmi is now rethinking the name of its US product. (TSR/swissinfo.ch) |
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Brain power robot to help disabled Posted by: swissinfovideos
Video duration: 106 seconds 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) |
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Skin cancer increase in Switzerland Posted by: swissinfovideos
Video duration: 145 seconds 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) |
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War scarred Bosnian makes new life in Switzerland. Posted by: swissinfovideos
Video duration: 352 seconds This is the story of a Bosnian Moslem 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 archive) |
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Business oasis Switzerland Posted by: swissinfovideos
Video duration: 244 seconds 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 ). |
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Wild bears become instant celebrities Posted by: swissinfovideos
Video duration: 125 seconds It's not unusual for wild bears to coexist with humans in countries like the United States or Canada. But every time a wild bear comes near a populated area in Switzerland it makes the headlines. Lately it's the two-year-old brown bear called "M13". (SF-swissinfo.ch) |
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Skiing and farming at 98 Posted by: swissinfovideos
Video duration: 153 seconds Farming is a passion for Carl Jenal. He doesn't tend to his fields and cows to make money, but because he likes it. For forty years he was also a ski instructor. (RSR - swissinfo.ch) |
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Bear home gets makeover at Bern zoo Posted by: swissinfovideos
Video duration: 237 seconds In 2009, two Mongolian brown bears, orphans Mischa and Mascha, were given to Bern by the Russian President Dmitri Medvedev and his wife, who were visiting Switzerland for the first time. The cubs were put in Bern animal park, but their enclosure was too small. So the zoo raised SFr.3 million for a big new Bear Forest. (Julie Hunt, swissinfo.ch/SF) |
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Spa baths are booming in Switzerland Posted by: swissinfovideos
Video duration: 254 seconds Spas are all the rage in Switzerland at the moment. New thermal complexes are shooting up all over the country. But experts are wondering whether the building bubble may soon burst if there are too many spa facilities in close proximity to each other. (SF/swissinfo.ch) |
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Switzerland's tarnished wartime record Posted by: swissinfovideos
Video duration: 159 seconds In March 2002, the Bergier commission presented the Swiss government with its final report examining WWII relations between Switzerland and the Third Reich as well as Switzerland's Holocaust era refugee policy. Ten years after the publication of the 25 volumes, the findings are still hotly disputed. (SF/swissinfo.ch) |
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Protection from internet bullying Posted by: swissinfovideos
Video duration: 283 seconds The internet and mobile phones are now part of the furniture for young people living in Switzerland. But social networking sites and chat forums carry risks for children that can be difficult to control. A new mobile phone package launched by the children's organisation Pro Juventute should help to protect children from some of the dangers that lurk in cyberspace. (SF/swissinfo.ch) |
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Mysterious holes in Switzerland Posted by: swissinfovideos
Video duration: 138 seconds A couple of years ago some of the ground collapsed in the village of Hellikon, not far from the German border. Mysteriously steaming holes appeared in the middle of a field. Now Pro Natura wants to buy the holes and build a geological site around them that will be accessible to visitors. (SF/swissinfo.ch) |
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