Cluster: Swiss Identity

Mountaineers

This content was published on Aug 7, 2011 Not the “I lost control and now I’m about to die” kind of scared, but the “In the blink of an eye or the slip of a boot I could lose control and die” kind of scared. Climbers get that way sometimes, but we do our best to avoid it with good judgement, good route…

Locarno welcomes A-list action heroes

This content was published on Aug 6, 2011 Securing an appearance by the A-list cast was a big coup for the Locarno Film Festival – one of the longest running festivals in the world alongside Cannes and Venice but not a usual fixture for Hollywood actors. The festival admitted to swissinfo.ch being “stunned” by their “lucky break” when they heard that not only…

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Power to the people

This content was published on Aug 6, 2011 All the electrical monitoring equipment was fried. That’s the only real mishap here in almost 50 years of operation. “When I tell people the dam was built by Italians they laugh,” said Gion Grischott, the Swiss station manager with Kraftwerke Hinterrhein (KHR), the company that owns and runs the dam. “But they did a fantastic…

Psychologist strives to break sex taboos

This content was published on Aug 6, 2011 Her views on sexual behaviour have been reported widely and her research findings are often quoted in the tabloids, as well as the more serious broadsheet newspapers. swissinfo.ch spoke to the 31-year-old researcher in London, where she is doing postdoctoral work. Burri’s research on sexuality first captured the public’s imagination and made headlines in 2009…

Culture

Projet Corrida

This content was published on Aug 5, 2011

Football clubs land difficult European ties

This content was published on Aug 5, 2011 The draw for European football’s most prestigious club tournament took place at Uefa headquarters in Nyon on Friday. Zurich, runners-up in the Swiss championship, will travel to Munich on August 16 or 17. The return match is scheduled a week later. Swiss champions Basel have automatically qualified for the group stages of the lucrative competition.…

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Energy fields

This content was published on Aug 5, 2011 Gion Fluregn Grischott told me this last night. But he wasn’t talking about the huge hydropower dam he’d just taken me inside of. He was pointing to a place on the map about two kilometers away, beside the trail I’d be hiking in the morning. There, at an alp age called Ganda Nera, is a…

Modern masters from a unique Swiss collection

This content was published on Aug 5, 2011 Built up in Winterthur between 1905 and 1936 by an ophthalmologist, Arthur Hahnloser, and his artist wife, Hedy Hahnloser-Bühler, the collection is a valuable snapshot of a period in art history poised between Impressionism and Modernism. It is also the uncommon story of how a Swiss family of neither great means, nor artistic standing, shaped…

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Court rules in favour of polluter-pays principle

This content was published on Aug 4, 2011 In its ruling on Thursday, the court said towns and villages can no longer cover the cost of rubbish collection solely through taxes. The Lausanne-based court said applying a lump sum tax was inconsistent with Swiss environment laws since no incentive was provided for people to reduce waste. From January 2012, all towns and villages…

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Devastating drought

This content was published on Aug 4, 2011 The ongoing and deadly drought in the Horn of Africa has forced hundreds of thousands of families to flee their homes. Southern Somalia is in the midst of the worst famine to hit the country in at least 20 years. In recent weeks, more than 1,500 refugees have arrived at the already packed camps of…

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