Cluster: Swiss Identity

Will the Swiss net stay neutral after Netflix?

On-demand internet streaming media provider, Netflix

This content was published on Sep 19, 2014 Streaming video market leader Netflix has arrived in Switzerland, raising larger questions about keeping the internet a neutral playing field.

Education

Temporary solution for Erasmus+ to continue

This content was published on Sep 19, 2014 Switzerland will keep to its interim solution to ensure that university students can participate in the Erasmus+ exchange programme - after it was frozen out of the scheme by the European Union following an anti-immigration vote earlier this year.

Culture

Photography in the post-selfie era

This content was published on Sep 19, 2014 At a time when everyone with a smartphone is a photographer, the Vevey Images festival asks where photography is headed in the digital age.

Arno Rafel Minkkinen: Architecturally speaking

Culture

Vevey’s larger than life visual arts

This content was published on Sep 19, 2014 Every two years, Vevey broadcasts to the world why it is called the “City of Images”. (Images: Christoph Balsiger, swissinfo.ch)

Demographics

Swiss send first direct aid to northern Iraq

This content was published on Sep 19, 2014 Switzerland is sending 50 tonnes of winter aid relief, worth CHF400,000 ($427,000), to northern Iraq – home to thousands of refugees fleeing the militant Islamic group Islamic State (IS).

Demographics

Switzerland signs treaty to prevent match-fixing

This content was published on Sep 18, 2014 The convention, which was drafted in March 2012, commits signatories to create effective penalties, facilitate cross-border judicial cooperation and supply guidelines for sports betting agencies. It requires countries to prevent conflicts of interest between betting agencies, athletes and competition organisers. It also has provisions to restrict access to betting agencies or block their financial transactions…

Demographics

Swiss on the brink of Ebola vaccine trials

This content was published on Sep 18, 2014 The trials involve the two most-talked about vaccines the World Health Organization (WHO) is keen to develop quickly, according to Marcel Tanner, director of Swiss TPH, speaking to Swiss public Radio, SRF on Thursday. The phase 1 tests would take place in Geneva and Lausanne, and would involve 100 participants. The drugs would also be…

Culture

When old and new artists collide

This content was published on Sep 18, 2014 Contemporary artists have made their mark on the Rietberg Museum's renowned collection of non-European art.

Culture

Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s works on show

This content was published on Sep 18, 2014

Demographics

Switzerland moves up billionaire list

This content was published on Sep 17, 2014 Asia’s billionaires, led by Chinese tycoons, enjoyed the fastest increase in their wealth (18.7%) compared with their peers in the rest of the world, according to a report published on Wednesday by Wealth-XExternal link, a research firm specialising in ultra-high net worth individuals, and Swiss bank UBSExternal link. Asia is now home to 560 billionaires,…

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