Cluster: Swiss Identity

ICRC develops global website to reunite families

This content was published on Nov 12, 2012 The site, familylinks.icrc.org, will work by tapping into the ICRC’s established network of humanitarian workers and volunteers around the world. According to Olivier Dubois, deputy head of the Central Tracing Agency and Protection Division of the ICRC, a person seeking a loved one through the system will be able to use it find an ICRC…

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The art of giving

This content was published on Nov 12, 2012 For many brands it is very good PR. However, associating your image with modern art is not always risk-free. (RTS/swissinfo.ch)

Dynamism of young writers boosts sales abroad

This content was published on Nov 11, 2012 A new, young Swiss literature is hitting the shelves of Parisian bookshops, supported on the one hand by persistent publishing houses, such as Zoé in Geneva and L’Age d’Homme in Lausanne, and galvanised on the other by its own ambitions: the appeal of greener pastures which bestows an exotic flavour on the work of certain…

Culture

Welcome to the literary Babel belt

This content was published on Nov 11, 2012 In Hinter dem Bahnhof (Behind the Station), a child describes a series of events in a Graubünden mountain village which is far from the usual chocolate-box image of alpine luxury. We don’t know the name of the village. We do, however, know that it contains “13 cats, six dogs, four fire hydrants” and 40 or…

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Young author attracts attention in Paris

This content was published on Nov 11, 2012 Dicker was also nominated for the French Prix Goncourt for his book, which has already sold more than 60,000 copies. (SF/swissinfo.ch)

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Outrage over tobacco funds for Red Cross

This content was published on Nov 10, 2012 According to the Tribune de Genève newspaper, the European Respiratory Society, the World Heart Federation, local anti-smoking associations Cipret and OxyRomandie and representatives from Lausanne University have sent letters of protest to the museum urging them to end a partnership with JTI. They claim that one of the fundamental principles of the Red Cross and…

Culture

Yallah – a journey across the Sahara Desert

This content was published on Nov 10, 2012 Häberlin was born in 1912 in Oberaach, canton Thurgau. His job as a photographer allowed him to pursue his life-long passion for travelling. During his prolonged stays in the Sahara Desert, he spent days looking for the perfect shot without thinking too much about the publication of his pictures or a potential target audience. His…

Culture

Future designers fashion fabric of their dreams

This content was published on Nov 9, 2012 Photos, fabric scraps, and unidentifiable flotsam and jetsam: inspiration for yet-to-be-born textiles.

Culture

Knit wits

This content was published on Nov 9, 2012 Textile design, theory and practice

St Gallen fabrics for the rich and famous

This content was published on Nov 9, 2012 In the late 19th century, St Gallen was one of the world’s top embroidery producers. The tradition lives on through its textile makers.

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