Cluster: Swiss Identity

Another “Pink Panther” jewel thief behind bars

This content was published on Oct 25, 2013 A 38-year-old Serbian national was handed a seven-year prison term by a court in Lausanne after being found guilty of taking part in two heists. Last month a court in Geneva jailed a Montenegrin member of the gang for nine years. Switzerland has proved a favourite spot for the gang’s fast-paced jewel snatches in recent…

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Swiss still need more women managers

This content was published on Oct 25, 2013 Iceland, Finland and Norway have the most gender equality, according to the WEF ranking of 136 nations, based on political participation, economic equality and rights like education and health. Yemen was at the bottom. Switzerland moved up to ninth place from tenth last year, mainly as a result of increases in women’s salaries, the Geneva-based…

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Football players reveal their true colours

This content was published on Oct 25, 2013 (Bilder: Keystone, Reuters, AFP)

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Undoing youthful follies

This content was published on Oct 25, 2013

Campaign aims to eradicate measles

This content was published on Oct 24, 2013 The Federal Office of Public Health launched on Thursday in Bern the Swiss campaign to eradicate measles by 2015 – which would require an 85 to 95% immunisation rate. This would result in just a few isolated cases of the disease. The office said that it wanted to remind people that the infectious respiratory disease…

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Former UBS banker accepts to face US court

This content was published on Oct 24, 2013 The independent investment adviser was arraigned last week in Florida before being released after posting $750,000 (CHF670,000) bail. The Fort Lauderdale court where he is due to go on trial in late November also gave him permission to return to Switzerland. The former banker was indicted in 2011 on charges of conspiring from 1993 to…

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Swiss Greenpeace activist talks of detention

This content was published on Oct 23, 2013

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Pressure builds up on Qatar World Cup

This content was published on Oct 20, 2013 Domenico Scala, chairman of FIFA’s audit and compliance committee since last year, questioned plans to stage the competition in the blistering heat of the Qatari summer and warned of dire consequences if corruption was found to have tainted the award. “Awarding the World Cup to Qatar in the summer was not the best decision, irrespective…

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‘Martial arts brought us together’

This content was published on Oct 20, 2013 Talk to Swiss people about China and they think of chop suey and kung fu. “Cooking and kung fu are our two best-known skills among the Swiss. Stars such as Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Jet Li are very popular here,” Wu Yongmei tells me as I arrive. And it’s thanks to kung fu that…

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Fake drugs intercepted by Swiss customs

This content was published on Oct 18, 2013 The Swiss Agency for Therapeutic Products, Swissmedic, said Friday the tablets were counterfeits of the Xanax compound made by Pfizer. They were found in four crates that weighed over 400 kilogrammes. Swissmedic said in a statement that laboratory tests showed the intercepted tablets contained no active ingredients, adding that they could not be recognised as…

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