Cluster: Swiss Identity

Hundreds of Swiss names on hacked client list

This content was published on Dec 27, 2011 Swiss German public radio revealed on Tuesday evening that credit card numbers, phone numbers, passwords and private addresses belonging to Swiss citizens were amongst the information stolen by a hacking syndicate dubbed Anonymous. Stratfor is a Texas-based security think tank. It is believed around 4,000 names were on the company’s stolen client list. Among the…

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Top court has its share of unusual cases

This content was published on Dec 27, 2011 Federal Court judges ruled for the first time on the issue of naked ramblers in the Swiss countryside, saying cantons could ban the practice. It approved a SFr100 ($107.40) fine handed out to a nudist who was seen walking in the canton of Appenzell Outer-Rhodes. The court came down hard on a Basel dentist who…

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Millions text their Christmas greetings

This content was published on Dec 26, 2011 There were 74.4 million text and multimedia messages sent via the three Swiss operators on the two days this year. Orange and Sunrise reported higher numbers than during the same period in 2010, but Swisscom had 7.5 per cent fewer messages. Swisscom had a record Christmas and Christmas Eve in 2010, but this year volume…

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Just call him king of the mountain

This content was published on Dec 26, 2011 swissinfo.ch spent a recent snowy day with Villars’ piste-basher supremo Oscar Bonzom, as he and his team flatten, shape and groom the slopes of the western Swiss ski resort ahead of the arrival of hordes of Christmas skiers – or so they hope. At the top of Roc d’Orsay, one of the highest points in…

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2011 in pictures

This content was published on Dec 26, 2011

Dickens unveils his Swiss side

This content was published on Dec 25, 2011 The Mysteries of Charles Dickens exhibition has just opened at the city’s Strauhof Museum, paying homage to the life and works of this extraordinary writer and social campaigner, and revealing some Swiss connections. “Bah! Humbug!” says the miserly Scrooge in Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, before he is transformed by the visit of three spirits into…

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Churches still pull in the Christmas crowds

This content was published on Dec 24, 2011 At the same time growing numbers of people are choosing not to belong to any official religion at all – around one in four people. swissinfo.ch carried out its own mini straw poll to find out more. According to a national survey by the LINK Institute on behalf of the Swiss Evangelical Alliance, nine out…

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I’m a skier, get me out of here!

This content was published on Dec 23, 2011 When several feet of snow fall in a very short time, it’s not just that roads and railway lines get buried; what poses a real danger is the threat of avalanches. But in Switzerland remote villages are used to being isolated from the outside world. Most of the problems that arise can be easily foreseen…

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Swiss advise against implant removal

This content was published on Dec 23, 2011 It follows the recommendation on Friday by France’s health minister that around 30,000 women with implants made by Poly Implant Prothese have them removed at the state’s expense. He described the measure as “preventive” and not urgent. Around 280 women in Switzerland have the implants. Swissmedic, the agency which authorises therapeutic products, said women should…

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Swiss Pop & Rock Anthology – POP (Vol. 4)

This content was published on Dec 23, 2011 First of all, it is a catchy contraction (which too is pop!) of the word “popular”. Pop means popular, but there are a handful of politicians and any number of sport stars who can also be considered as popular but who are not referred to as pop stars (although this once may be a case…

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