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It appears on coins of the Swiss franc from 1879, and was inscribed on the Federal Palace in 1902. It was used in the official seal from 1948. The abbreviation CH was first introduced in 1909, as international vehicle registration code, [5] and in 1974, it was assigned as ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Switzerland.
.ch is the country code top-level domain for Switzerland in the Domain Name System of the Internet. Made available in 1987, [ 2 ] only two years after .com , it is administered by SWITCH Information Technology Services .
Slightly more than 5 million people work in Switzerland; [161] about 25% of employees belonged to a trade union in 2004. [162] Switzerland has a more flexible labor market than neighbouring countries and the unemployment rate is consistently low. [163] The unemployment rate increased from 1.7% in June 2000 to 4.4% in December 2009. [164]
According to the Bern-based news organization Swissinfo, 5 million people in 779 Swiss municipalities across 12 cantons—the rough equivalent of U.S. states—will be supplied with the tablets.
Blick (View) is a Swiss German-language daily newspaper and online news website covering current affairs, entertainment, sports and lifestyle. Based in Zurich, it is the largest newspaper in Switzerland with a print circulation of around 285,000. The newspaper has been printed continuously since its inception in 1959.
The main programmes on the channel come from Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, which have already been aired on SRF 1 and SRF zwei. During the evenings the channel rebroadcasts the daily news programmes SRF Tagesschau, 10vor10 and Schweiz aktuell. The channel also rebroadcasts some programmes such as the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos.
The paper is based in Zurich [4] [5] and is published in broadsheet. [6] Its owner and publisher is Tamedia [2] and its editor is Res Strehle. Although Tages-Anzeiger is a national newspaper, it focuses mainly on the Zurich region. [7]
SWI swissinfo.ch is a Swiss multilingual international news and information company based in Bern.It is a part of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG SSR). Its content is Swiss-centred, with top priority given to in-depth information on politics, the economy, the arts, science, education, and direct democracy.