Cluster: Swiss Identity

“If I don’t take myself out of this game – I will die”

This content was published on Apr 29, 2012 At Everest Base Camp, swissinfo.ch spoke to the 36-year-old, who has made a name for himself among the world’s climbing elite for his solo speed ascents on some of the world’s toughest mountain faces, in both the Alps and Himalaya. There is a lot of pressure on him to attempt a new or difficult Everest…

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Red Cross worker murdered in Pakistan

This content was published on Apr 29, 2012 Khalil Rasjed Dale was managing a health program in the city of Quetta in the south-western part of the country when armed men seized him from the street close to his office. The identities of his captors are unknown, but the region is home to separatist and Islamist militants who have kidnapped for ransom before.…

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How a poor country became rich

This content was published on Apr 29, 2012

Culture

Swiss room opens in Cathedral of Learning

This content was published on Apr 28, 2012 It brings to 29 the number of Nationality Rooms in the university’s Cathedral of Learning, which are described on its website as “expressions of timeless human values, representing the diverse heritages of the peoples who built Pittsburgh”. The idea of a Swiss room was first raised in the 1970s, retired professor Heinz Kunz told swissinfo.ch.…

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Artist David Weiss dies

This content was published on Apr 28, 2012 The Matthew Marks gallery in New York, which represents the duo in the United States, confirmed his death on Friday. Weiss trained as a sculptor in Zurich and Basel. Fischli and Weiss, who began collaborating in 1979, are best known for their 1987 experimental film, The Way Things Go (“Der Lauf der Dinge”). It shows…

Modern times at the factory

This content was published on Apr 28, 2012 Tuggener was also a filmmaker and painter, but saw himself mainly as an artist. His favourite themes were factory work, country life and sparkling social events. He was particularly interested in photo books, designing over 60 even though he only published one. Although his work was praised by specialists, it was a commercial failure. The…

Stolen Degas recovered damaged

This content was published on Apr 27, 2012 The Zurich cantonal prosecutor’s office said on Friday that the picture, “Count Lepic and his Daughters” by Edgar Degas, had been recovered in Serbia a few months ago, but the discovery had not been announced because of ongoing investigations into the fate of the most valuable picture in the haul, Cézanne’s “Boy in the Red…

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Swiss move in to help quench China’s thirst

This content was published on Apr 27, 2012 Ma Jianguo has a gap-toothed but friendly smile. The 71-year-old peasant farmer and his wife have lived all their lives in a village in Hebei province, about one hundred kilometres north of Beijing. Ma doesn’t plan on retiring, since he draws no pension and says he gets by with an annual salary of about SFr800.…

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Paying undesirables to leave Switzerland

This content was published on Apr 26, 2012 This issue has been in the headlines after the government proposed to increase return assistance for illegal aliens to limit controversial deportation flights. A return project in Geneva aimed at North African immigrants is also gaining wider interest. The cabinet on Wednesday launched a consultation process to reform financial aid for asylum seekers and refugees.…

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Big firms urged to solve Geneva housing crisis

This content was published on Apr 26, 2012 Over the past ten years local real estate prices have exploded as the region has attracted new businesses and workers and housing construction has failed to keep pace. Yet observers say targeting multinationals is not the cure. “It’s illogical for transnationals to set up in Geneva and make tax savings without making an effort to…

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