Cluster: Swiss Identity

Tunnel safety to be assessed after fatal crash

This content was published on Mar 18, 2012 The Federal Roads Authority will examine several measures, including raised road surface markings at the edges of lanes to warn motorists if they are getting too close to the walls, according to a report in the SonntagsZeitung newspaper. Wednesday’s crash in a tunnel near to Sierre killed 22 children from a Belgian school and six…

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Film awards throws up surprise winner

This content was published on Mar 18, 2012 The film also scooped top Quartz prizes for the best screenplay and cinematography, despite two other movies being widely tipped by critics and the media to clean up at the awards that were staged in Lucerne. One of the pre-ceremony favourites, a film called Der Verdingbub that portrays the scandal of forced adoptions in Switzerland,…

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Making sense of the language confusion

This content was published on Mar 18, 2012 Switzerland is at the intersection of three major European cultures – German, French and Italian – and the only language it can truly call its own, Romansh, is spoken by less than 0.5 per cent of the population. German-speaking Swiss, about two thirds of the population, have a plethora of different dialects, which are mutually understandable,…

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Taliban kidnap duo arrive back home

This content was published on Mar 17, 2012 The couple, who were snatched by the Taliban last July, confirmed on their arrival at Zurich airport that they had escaped the clutches of their captors using their own initiative. “We are very happy that after such a long period of captivity we could return to Switzerland,” they said in a statement after touching down…

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New Joyce book creates controversy in Zurich

This content was published on Mar 17, 2012 Titled The Cats of Copenhagen, the children’s book has been published and marketed by Ithys Press of Dublin as a limited first edition. The text is taken from a letter Joyce wrote to his grandson Stephen in 1936 and relates to Joyce’s only known children’s story, The Cat and the Devil, also written to Stephen…

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Intimate stranger

This content was published on Mar 17, 2012 The self-taught photographer devoted his free time to taking portrait pictures of friends and people in the street. In 1958 he launched his big project – working with a gang of teenagers over a long period of time. In the late 1940s he published his photographs in the internationally acclaimed gay magazine Der Kreis.

Uncovering the truth in the Killing Fields

This content was published on Mar 16, 2012 Laurent Kasper-Ansermet knows his order to resume an investigation of the Khmer Rouge that was closed last year would result in “fallout”. Nevertheless, he wants the tribunal to try five additional cases. The UN has chosen him to replace Germany’s Siegfried Blunk as co-deputy investigating judge, although the Cambodian Supreme Court refuses to recognise this.…

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Car-issimo

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Muslims advise fellow believers how to integrate

This content was published on Mar 16, 2012 The 2009 initiative to ban construction of minarets was accepted by more than 57 per cent of voters but was heavily criticised by international human rights organisations. The Grouping of Swiss Muslims said its recommendations were not only for the attention of federal, cantonal and communal authorities, political parties, the media and business, but “in…

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Berset opens green research centre in Asia

This content was published on Mar 16, 2012 A branch of Zurich’s Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ), the Singapore-ETH Centre for Global Environmental Sustainability is supported financially by both the ETHZ and Singapore’s National Research Foundation. Speaking alongside Singapore’s minister for the environment and water resources, Vivan Balakrishnan, Berset said the new centre was a testament to the international prestige of the ETHZ.…

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