Cluster: Swiss Identity

Swiss gauchos

This content was published on Oct 31, 2011 The 16,000-strong Swiss community in Argentina is the largest Swiss expatriate group in Latin America. The book El Legado Suizo (The Swiss Heritage), traces the history of the immigrants and their clubs from 1885 to the 21st century. (Pictures: El legado suizo en el Bicentenario argentino. Buenos Aires: Camara de Comercio Suizo Argentina, 2010)

All-star turnout for Swiss Indoors

This content was published on Oct 31, 2011 With its SFr19 million ($21.8 million) budget, Swiss Indoors is the most expensive sporting event in Switzerland but also the third biggest indoors tournament in the world. Giving defending champion Roger Federer a run for the SFr2 million prize money will be world number one Novak Djokovic – who returns from a six-week injury break…

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Conference targets armed violence

This content was published on Oct 31, 2011 “Three thousand will be killed during the two days of this conference,” Martin Dahinden, head of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, told the meeting. More than 400 representatives from 80 countries are taking part in the Review Conference of the Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development. The declaration is a diplomatic initiative…

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Is self-esteem the key to success?

This content was published on Oct 31, 2011 Does self-esteem increase success, are people with more of it more successful – or do the two reinforce each other? Ulrich Orth, professor of psychology at Basel University, and scientists at the University of California analysed the data of 1,824 people aged 16-97 who had spent more than 12 years in the United States (see…

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“It will take centuries to eradicate TB”

This content was published on Oct 29, 2011 Dr Mario Raviglione heads the global fight against TB at the World Health Organization (WHO). In an interview with swissinfo.ch he warns that the progress made is fragile. Tuberculosis claimed 1.4 million lives in 2010, 300,000 fewer than the year before, according to a recent WHO report. And for the first time the number of…

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Farmers cry over bumper onion crop

This content was published on Oct 29, 2011 The Swiss vegetable growers’ association said the 23,417 tonnes of onions – a result of optimal weather conditions in summer and autumn – were pushing the price down. The recommended price is now SFr0.45 ($0.52) per kilo compared with SFr0.75 last year – a figure which doesn’t cover production costs, according to the association. It…

Culture

Roving carpenters keep tradition alive

This content was published on Oct 28, 2011 Which is really what they are, young craftsmen who “wander” for three years and a day, faithfully following the principles of an 800-year-old European tradition “on the waltz”. After working for almost two months on the restoration of the fifteenth century town hall in the western Swiss lakeside town of Murten, two young German wanderers…

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Skiing in Switzerland: too expensive?

This content was published on Oct 28, 2011

Culture

Authenticity of stolen Picassos confirmed

This content was published on Oct 28, 2011 The Schwyz cantonal prosecutor’s office said on Friday tests had confirmed the authenticity of the two works, “Tete de cheval” painted in 1962 and “Verre et Pichet” from 1944. Both are in good condition and in the process of being returned to Switzerland. Investigations into who stole the paintings are continuing, the prosecutor’s office said.…

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Developers cleared in firefighter deaths

This content was published on Oct 27, 2011 In an appeal hearing on Thursday the court in Solothurn overturned the brothers’ 20-month sentences issued in December 2010. They were among five people who had faced homicide charges over the 2004 incident in which seven firemen died when a parking garage in Gretzenbach, northwestern Switzerland, collapsed on top of them as they fought to…

Cluster: Swiss Identity

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