Cluster: Swiss Identity

Child sex offender given 13-year sentence

This content was published on Mar 21, 2014 The man was found guilty of rape and sexual abuse of children and dependents at a number of institutions. The prosecution had demanded 15 years followed by lifelong internment. The court turned down the request for internment, saying it could only be considered if other measures failed. The presiding judge said the number of cases…

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Alcohol abuse costs Switzerland dear

This content was published on Mar 20, 2014 This corresponds to 0.7% of Swiss gross domestic product (GDP) or CHF632 per person aged over 15. These were the findings of the only study on the subject in Switzerland, published on Thursday by the Federal Health Office. The authors said the consumption of alcohol not only had consequences for an individual’s health, but also…

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When machines can’t quite do the job

This content was published on Mar 19, 2014

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Containers hold the waste waiting for disposal

This content was published on Mar 19, 2014

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Are obese children falling through the care net?

This content was published on Mar 17, 2014 “To lose weight and to be able to go to the swimming pool again without people laughing at me.” That’s the wish of 13-year-old Volkan. Like many other boys of his age he likes football. But unlike the majority of his peers, Volkan is obese and needs support to have a chance to live a…

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Small ski resorts join forces to survive

This content was published on Mar 17, 2014 They are located in what geographers call a “hanging valley”. The road leading up to the Val d’Anniviers has first to negotiate an almost sheer rock face, twisting backwards and forwards round some 15 hairpin bends. There is a clear view over to the northern side of the Rhone valley. The mountains over there are…

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Firm tries to import huge batch of steroids

This content was published on Mar 16, 2014 Lukas Jaggi, spokesman of swissmedic, the Swiss Agency for Therapeutic Products which is responsible for overseeing the safety of medicines, confirmed the newspaper report to the Swiss News Agency. “Three tonnes is a huge amount; that doesn’t happen very often,” he said. “We don’t know what the importer thought it was going to do with…

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Swiss delighted by success at Leipzig book fair

This content was published on Mar 16, 2014 The “incredible attention” paid to the Swiss presence “exceeded all expectation,” Dani Landolf, director of the Swiss publishers and booksellers association (SBVV), told the Swiss News Agency. The SBVV organised the event from the Swiss side. More than 80 Swiss authors from all four language regions attended the fair, along with about 70 publishing houses.…

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Rigging scandal still pursues Swiss banks

This content was published on Mar 15, 2014 The FDIC says the manipulation, which occurred between August 2007 and “at least” the middle of 2011, benefited the big financial institutions at the expense of 38 small and medium-sized US banks, ten of which subsequently failed and were taken over by the FDIC. In its suit filed on Friday it is seeking economic and…

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World Atlas of Swiss Places

This content was published on Mar 15, 2014 Journalist Petra Koci was fascinated when she discovered just how many such places there are, and decided to track some of them down. She travelled all over the world in her search for towns and villages bearing names from all three of Switzerland’s official languages – German, French and Italian. She has published a book,…

Cluster: Swiss Identity

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