Cluster: Swiss Identity

Entrepreneur’s charter airline goes bust

This content was published on Oct 22, 2012 The Hello grounding, affecting up to 3,000 stranded passengers and 140 employees in Switzerland, stems from the loss of several clients, including the German travel agency TUI. TUI ended its relationship with Hello largely because of the high cost of the Swiss franc and plans to expand its own charter airline out of Basel in…

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Cyber-bullying pulled out of the shadows

This content was published on Oct 22, 2012 Pro Juventute’s emergency “147” telephone hotline, designed to serve young people in need, has reported a significant increase in calls from troubled teens who have become the targets of name-calling, teasing and verbal abuse via the internet. Cyber-bullying is particularly threatening to teens because it continues away from school, is not monitored by adults and…

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Swiss drag feet over national human rights

This content was published on Oct 22, 2012 Since April 2008 the human rights records of all 193 UN member states have been scrutinized by the 47-nation Geneva-based rights council in a peer review process known as the UPR. It is now Switzerland’s turn to make its second appearance before the council. Four years ago Switzerland was grilled by states on issues ranging…

Education

Universities demand cash for foreign students

This content was published on Oct 21, 2012 The Rectors’ Conference of the Swiss Universities (Crus) will recommend the measure next week as a means to alleviate the growing financial burden on many institutions, according to the NZZ am Sonntag newspaper. Universities want an international arrangement similar to a current inter-cantonal system that spreads the cost of higher education across the country. A…

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“Progress” destroys idyll

This content was published on Oct 21, 2012 In the early 1970s the A3 motorway connecting Basel and Zurich was built. Places Sabine went to play with her friends disappeared, along with their names. Sabine continued to take pictures and used a portfolio of them as part of her successful application to an art school in Zurich. Today she works for a Swiss…

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Minister presents human trafficking action plan

This content was published on Oct 18, 2012 Human trafficking “occurs in secret” in Switzerland, Sommaruga told the conference in Bern on Thursday. “We don’t see it. We’re hardly aware of it.” But according to the foreign ministry it is a very real problem, as evidenced by criminal investigations in Zurich in recent years. The plan sets out 23 specific measures to be…

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Enamelled watches make a comeback

This content was published on Oct 15, 2012

Culture

Treating eating disorders in Switzerland

This content was published on Oct 15, 2012 Described variously as addictions and diseases, eating disorders afflict 3.5 per cent of the Swiss population at some point in their lives, with 1.1 per cent currently suffering from a disorder, according to a 2012 survey of 10,038 people aged 15 to 60 in Switzerland. The study, conducted by researchers from Zurich University and commissioned by…

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How I tamed my anorexia

This content was published on Oct 15, 2012 She told swissinfo.ch that accepting help was what saved her life. She’s now a student in one of Switzerland’s most prestigious art colleges, learning how to illustrate fiction.(Raffaella Rossello, swissinfo.ch)

How do you take it?

This content was published on Oct 14, 2012 Clever marketing, offering us choices we never knew existed, has been a huge success in countering a long-term decline in coffee sales and consumption.

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