Cluster: Swiss Identity

Tackling Geneva’s homeless crisis

This content was published on Dec 25, 2012 Last winter, 1450 different people used the city’s emergency overnight facilities. The figure is not expected to decrease this winter. But there is only room for 200 people per night in emergency shelters. The containers, with bedrooms, showers and cooking facilities, will house 20 people on a longer-term basis. (SF/swissinfo.ch)

Culture

Christmas past bows to Christmas present

This content was published on Dec 24, 2012 The Christian church soon hijacked the mid-winter custom, and declared it the time to mark the birth of Christ. For many grandparents and parents nowadays it is also a chance to pass on to their children the pleasures they experienced when they were small. But in actual fact, how traditional is the way we celebrate…

History

Christmas through artists’ eyes

This content was published on Dec 24, 2012 (pictures: agk images)

Demographics

The end of end-of-world prophecy is nigh

This content was published on Dec 20, 2012 Cults and esoteric experts, scientists and even Maya priests say it’s not true, but some anxious people are calling Swiss telephone hotlines and even buying survival kits. (RSI/SF/RSR/swissinfo.ch)

Culture

Research team busy uncovering Mayan mysteries

This content was published on Dec 20, 2012 Several years ago, Sebastian Breitenbach, a post-doctoral researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, was given a stalagmite from a cave in the central American country of Belize – an area that was part of the ancient Mayan empire – and asked to analyse it. As a paleoclimatologist, he knew what to…

History

No salvation for Swiss Eurovision entry

This content was published on Dec 19, 2012

Demographics

Cost of global disasters falls to $140 billion

This content was published on Dec 19, 2012 After two years of disasters mainly in Asia Pacific and South America, weather-related disasters in the US accounted for the bulk of the total, Swiss Re said in a report on Wednesday. Superstorm Sandy, which wreaked havoc across the east coast of the country, as well as in the Caribbean and the Bahamas at the…

Demographics

Water – the elixir of life

This content was published on Dec 19, 2012 “No water – no life,” is something we learn as small children. In many countries, however, it’s the water that makes people ill or even kills them. The cost of purifying water in Switzerland is so small that people aren’t aware of it. The following pictures aim to highlight where recycled wastewater – so-called greywater…

Spain frees wanted ex-HSBC employee

This content was published on Dec 18, 2012 The court ordered Hervé Falciani’s release on Tuesday based on the prosecutor’s recommendation, which argues that Falciani was cooperating with authorities in several European countries in investigations on tax, money-laundering, corruption and terrorism financing. The prosecutor noted that Falciani had been detained for some time and that his extradition case could drag on. He was…

Demographics

Poverty remains a threat in land of plenty

This content was published on Dec 18, 2012 Those at risk from poverty earn less than 60 per cent of the so-called median equivalent income. In Switzerland, this is 14 per cent of the population, a figure that has remained stable according to figures released on Tuesday. For a single person, this means living on less than SFr2,400 ($2,619) per month, while for…

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