Cluster: Swiss Identity

Sashes to sashes: the death of Miss Switzerland?

This content was published on May 5, 2012 Ever since Switzerland’s Stefanie Job won the inaugural Miss Europe in 1928, slim young Swiss girls have strutted around stages in swimming costumes being graded, usually by older men. But whereas public disapproval drove such shows from television screens elsewhere in Europe decades ago – the BBC announced in 1984 that it would “stop televising…

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Cyberscams on the rise

This content was published on May 4, 2012 In its latest semi-annual report which covers the second half of 2011 (but provides no figures), the government service said that scammers claiming to be IT support staff had gained access to people’s computers and the data stored on them, including credit card numbers. Hackers accessing e-mail accounts were also able to send out messages…

“Help! I’ve broken my hip in Paris!”

This content was published on May 4, 2012

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Air rescue reaches new heights after 60 years

This content was published on May 4, 2012 All three of its jets were later in action repatriating the Belgian school pupils back home. This was one of the largest, and most traumatic, operations in the 60 year history of the Swiss Air Rescue Service (Rega). A few weeks later, the air ambulance was active once again, this time in Turkey where 19…

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Historic UN building on endangered list

This content was published on May 3, 2012 The financing is not yet guaranteed, and before any work can start, Geneva must wait for the on-going $2 billion restoration of the UN’s New York headquarters to be completed. (RTS/swissinfo.ch)

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Nestlé to build third Swiss Nespresso site

This content was published on May 3, 2012 The new factory will result in the direct creation of some 400 jobs over the long term, Nestlé said in a statement on Thursday. The factory, to be based in Romont, will be the third Nespresso production site in Switzerland and follows similar investments in production and distribution sites in Orbe and Avenches. In a…

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Press freedom under threat

This content was published on May 3, 2012 Each year the non-governmental Reporters Without Borders publishes a booklet entitled “100 photos for press freedom”. This year, ten of the world’s most dangerous places are also listed.

Swiss adolescents have a healthy lifestyle

This content was published on May 2, 2012 The study spoke to young people aged 11, 13 and 15 in 39 countries and regions in Europe and North America about their health practices. The Swiss turned out to have the least problem with their weight: only five per cent of 11-year-olds were overweight, compared with 30 per cent in the United States and…

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Fight over Gruyère cheese label spreads to US

This content was published on May 2, 2012

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“Art stood for hope during and after the war”

This content was published on May 2, 2012 “In the spring of 1992, no one believed that a real war had begun. When the first shots were fired, everyone thought that it would just last ten days,” said Almir Surkovic, a Bosnian artist who later moved to Switzerland. Surkovic was 25 when the war broke out in his city of Sarajevo. At the…

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