Cluster: Swiss Identity

Waiting for Saigon

This content was published on Sep 21, 2011 The Reunification Express – one of the slowest express trains in the world – was built by the French in 1936, destroyed during the Vietnam War and rebuilt in 1976. It links Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon. Swiss photographers Stéphanie Borcard and Nicolas Métraux were fascinated by its slow pace and name…

Football fans keep themselves in check on Swiss trains

This content was published on Sep 20, 2011

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Ring pull

This content was published on Sep 20, 2011 Luke, Sylvain, Laura, Luca and Stanley are ordinary-looking young people. On Saturday nights, however, they turn into vampires and other weird characters. In the ring, the fighters of Swiss Championship Wrestling demonstrate their agility and entertain the audience with tricks and acrobatics. (Luigi Jorio and Thomas Kern, swissinfo.ch).

The Britannic Organ. Music from the RMS Britannic’s Welte-Philharmonie organ.

This content was published on Sep 20, 2011 Toccata in f David Rumsey, organ

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Towering over Switzerland – the high-rise trend

This content was published on Sep 20, 2011 At 126 metres tall, Prime Tower is the highest building in Switzerland – followed by Basel’s 105-metre Exhibition Tower in Basel, which was built from 2001-2003. Towers are “trendy”, observes Christian Zimmermann, head of undergraduate studies at Lucerne University’s school of architecture. “There was a time when people vehemently rejected them – saying they weren’t…

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Reaching for the skies

This content was published on Sep 19, 2011 Switzerland is preparing to inaugurate the Prime Tower in Zurich, the country’s tallest building. To mark the occasion the Zurich Museum of Design has created an exhibition celebrating great buildings from around the world.

Switzerland through to Davis Cup World Group

This content was published on Sep 19, 2011 In a match suspended by darkness on Sunday, Wawrinka and Australia’s Lleyton Hewitt returned to the court on Monday with Wawrinka leading 5-3 in the fifth set. He needed just four minutes to finish the match, promptly breaking Hewitt’s serve to win 4-6, 6-4, 6-7 (7-9), 6-4, 6-3. It is the first time Switzerland has…

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Police blame “riot tourists” for violence

This content was published on Sep 18, 2011 Police chief Philipp Hotzenköcherle said at a media conference on Sunday afternoon they had arrested 91 people, of whom 48 remained in detention. A total of 62 face charges, mainly for breaches of the peace, but also for violating the law forbidding people to hide their faces and for violence against the police. Only six…

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Stakes high in battle between FC Sion and Uefa

This content was published on Sep 17, 2011 A Swiss court has contested that decision, exposing Uefa to potentially serious consequences, according to sports law specialist Piermarco Zen-Ruffinen. A legal offensive kept up for several weeks by Sion against the ruling powers of international football took a new turn this week. On Tuesday morning, a civil court in canton Vaud ordered the football…

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Swiss tennis hopes dim

This content was published on Sep 17, 2011 Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka won the first set 2-6 against Lleyton Hewitt and Chris Guccione in Sydney on Saturday but lost the next three 6-4, 6-2. 7-6 (5). The defeat gives Australia a 2-1 lead, with two single matches left to play. While Federer, ranked number 3 in the world, is expected to beat…

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