Cluster: Swiss Identity

‘The World Cup is not the cause of global inequality’

This content was published on Jun 11, 2014 The 58-year-old member of the Communist Party of Brazil is friendly and informal – he is wearing a guayabera, a traditional linen shirt, and a pair of leather sandals without socks. The month-long tournament kicks off on June 12. swissinfo.ch: FIFA, world football’s Zurich-based governing body, says eight new stadiums are enough. Had you followed…

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Is the emblem of a Bern guild racist?

This content was published on Jun 11, 2014 The “Moors guild” was established in the 14th century in the municipality of Bern. On its coat of arms it bears a Moor’s head. Dark skinned, with thick red lips and wearing a feathered headdress. A stone statue of the Moor is also to be found in the old part of town. The depiction has…

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A Swiss haven for persecuted writers

This content was published on Jun 10, 2014 Naeimeh Doostdar Sanaye was in Kuala Lumpur with her baby and her husband when she got the news: her request for refuge had been accepted and the city of Malmö had invited her and her family to move to Sweden. Currently, no Swiss city can offer what Malmö offered the Iranian writer. Switzerland is not…

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Shifting debate from Facebook back to the dinner table

This content was published on Jun 10, 2014 Hands go up across the room as people in the audience wait to put their question to the four neuroscience experts sitting at the front. Seated in a stylish function room above a restaurant in Zurich’s old Niederdorf area, they’re keen to get involved in the Zurich Salon, an event that aims to revive the…

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Beekeeping booms

This content was published on Jun 10, 2014 The film More than Honey by Markus Imhof, a Swiss director, is about the disappearance of bees all over the world. But it’s also about the intelligent and social behaviour of bees. Its images are fascinating and shocking at the same time. It’s also thanks to the big success of this documentary that the number…

Digging the dirt on urban gardening

This content was published on Jun 7, 2014

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When in Venice: Swiss pavilion lets things float

This content was published on Jun 7, 2014 The point of departure, shared by all national pavilions, is the theme “Absorbing Modernity 1914-2014”. As director of the 14th International Architecture Venice Biennale, Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas has invited participants to revisit recent architectural history and use it as a toolbox to invent the future. Hans Ulrich Obrist, recognised as one of the most…

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‘I’m so happy to be a citizen of Gstaad’

This content was published on Jun 6, 2014

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More child abuse cases treated in hospitals

This content was published on Jun 6, 2014 Hospitals registered 1,292 cases of suspected or confirmed abuse in 2013, the Child Protection section of the Swiss Society of Paediatrics said in a statement made public on Friday, with almost all middle-sized and large children’s clinics contributing to the statistics. “This is the highest number of cases in five years [of publishing statistics],” a…

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Schweiz will keine “Striptease-Pilgerinnen” mehr

This content was published on Jun 6, 2014

Cluster: Swiss Identity

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