Cluster: Swiss Identity

Middle eastern films dominate at Fribourg festival

This content was published on Mar 31, 2012 The road movie is his first full-length feature and it carried off the Regard d’Or trophy along with SFr30,000 in prize money. It was presented for the first time to an international audience. Egypt’s Amr Salama was awarded the audience prize for his film “Asmaa”, the story of a girl suffering from Aids, while Jordanian …

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Swiss target German tax officials

This content was published on Mar 31, 2012 Federal prosecutor Michael Lauber confirmed on Swiss public radio on Saturday that there were serious indications of intelligence gathering carried out against the Credit Suisse bank and that a request for judicial assistance had been made. The German state paid an informant €2.5 million (SFr3 million) in 2010 for the CD, which allegedly contained the names…

Culture

A writer’s healing vision

This content was published on Mar 31, 2012 The author (1877-1962) lived in the Swiss capital from 1912 to 1919, a period marked by deep crises. Hesse began not only psychotherapy but also his until now little-known career as a painter, which reached its peak in the 1920s and 1930s in Montagnola, a village in canton Ticino. To mark the 50th anniversary of…

Bus hit by landslide in Swiss Alps

This content was published on Mar 30, 2012 Police say the driver of another car escaped unharmed. The coach was travelling without passengers on board and was scheduled to pick up a group of German tourists in the nearby Italian enclave of Livigno on Saturday. The incident, which took place on a road linking the villages of Martina and Vinadi in southeastern Switzerland,…

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Fifa backs reform of corruption investigations

This content was published on Mar 30, 2012 Sepp Blatter also said football’s governing body is prepared to examine any “credible” evidence of past wrongdoing. Hailing a “historic day for Fifa’s reform process” after a series of scandals, Blatter on Friday announced a reform of its ethics committee to create separate investigating and prosecuting units with new, independent leaders. Blatter said the proposal…

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Fewer people affected by poverty

This content was published on Mar 30, 2012 The Federal Statistics Office said about 586,000 people – or 7.8 per cent of the total population – did not have enough money to buy food and take part in social life in 2010. This compares with 9.1 per cent of the Swiss population in 2008. The office says the drop is a result of the…

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Cambodian tribunal puts justice in the spotlight

This content was published on Mar 30, 2012 Laurent Kasper-Ansermet announced on March 19 that he was stepping down from the tribunal investigating crimes committed by the former Pol Pot regime, because of political interference from the Cambodian government. Conflict has arisen over whether or not further investigations should be launched into officials of the former Pol Pot regime, which was responsible for…

History

Easter customs have deep roots

This content was published on Mar 30, 2012 Some of the old celebrations have disappeared, some have adapted, some have been revived, and some have doubtless been recently invented. It is not always easy to know which is which. Easter has today become highly commercialised, with chocolate rabbits and eggs appearing in the shops weeks ahead of the festival itself. Paul Hugger, retired…

Education

Young Greeks driven out by lack of prospects

This content was published on Mar 30, 2012 Twenty-four-year-old Glampedakis from the sunny island of Crete is studying at Bern University. Enrolled since last autumn, he had never experienced such a cold winter but he is glad to be here. “The university in Athens is good but with a masters in my field [theoretical mathematics] I would have had hardly any chance of…

Culture

Record hoard of celtic coins found

This content was published on Mar 29, 2012 Announcing the find on Thursday, the cantonal archaeological department said it consisted of 293 silver coins, found scattered over an area of about 50 square metres only a few centimetres below the surface. However, cantonal archaeologist Reto Marti said they had probably originally been buried together. The coins are small: about a centimetre across and…

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