Cluster: Swiss Identity

London Olympics parachutist dies in Switzerland

This content was published on Aug 15, 2013 Forty-two-year-old Mark Sutton died after crashing into a mountain near Martigny in canton Valais. He had jumped out of a helicopter at an altitude of 3,300 metres with another man while wearing a wingsuit – a special jumpsuit designed to increase lift when skydiving. The former British army officer was part of a stunt in…

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Switzerland: in a class of its own

This content was published on Aug 14, 2013 “There are very few class differences in Switzerland,” Christoph Stokar, who wrote Der Schweizer Knigge (the Swiss etiquette manual), tells swissinfo.ch. “Some people talk about an ‘A Switzerland’ and a ‘B Switzerland’, the former being companies and people who think and act on a global scale. This includes many foreigners, who often work in the…

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Official Basel river swim attracts thousands

This content was published on Aug 14, 2013

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Cook’s tour to Switzerland commemorated

This content was published on Aug 13, 2013 Cook’s tour to Switzerland commemorated

Culture

Oprah sorry for racism ruckus

This content was published on Aug 13, 2013 “I think that incident in Switzerland was just an incident in Switzerland. I’m really sorry that it got blown up. I purposefully did not mention the name of the store. I’m sorry that I said it was Switzerland,” Winfrey said, speaking at the premiere of her latest film on Monday. “I was just referencing it…

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Free Wi-Fi slowly arrives in train stations

This content was published on Aug 13, 2013 Spokesman Reto Schärli on Tuesday confirmed Swiss media reports that “until further notice” the railways’ internet strategy was to equip main stations with WLAN (wireless local area network). He added that this currently wasn’t possible in trains “for technical reasons”. In February, Swiss railways announced that it wanted to offer free Wi-Fi in the 100…

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Cheap breaks for struggling fathers

This content was published on Aug 13, 2013 The company Reka offers heavily subsidised vacations to parents who could not otherwise afford to holiday with their children. swissinfo.ch meets four fathers on the ‘Hello Pa’ scheme at a Reka village in Wildhaus, north eastern Switzerland. (Julie Hunt, swissinfo.ch)

Education

First-time funds fight poverty with education

This content was published on Aug 13, 2013 In St Gallen, home to about 70,000 people, they say height above sea level is proportional to income level; wealthier residents live on the ridge overlooking the city, while the poor and working class tend to stay in the long valley on either side of the city centre. That stratification plays itself out in everyday…

History

Ticino to vote on burka ban

This content was published on Aug 12, 2013 Burkas, full-body cloaks worn by some Muslim women, especially in Afghanistan, are few and far between in the Italian-speaking canton in southern Switzerland. According to official estimates, only about 100 women in Switzerland wear them. “Hand on heart: who has ever seen a burka in Switzerland?” began an editorial in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung in…

The power of pictures

This content was published on Aug 10, 2013 A black bar in some pictures covers the faces of church followers who argue a breach of their image rights. The American-style ICF was founded in Switzerland in the 1990s and is one of the largest free evangelical churches in the country. Lutz, from Geneva, has been working on a trilogy of political, economic and…

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