Cluster: Swiss Identity

Love match for Martina Hingis

This content was published on Dec 12, 2010 The news was broken by the Swiss celebrity news magazine Schweizer Illustrierte, which said the civil ceremony had been a private family affair. The couple met at a horse show near St Tropez in France in April, the magazine said. Hingis is known for her interest in horses. According to the SonntagsBlick newspaper, the couple…

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Swiss win two curling medals

This content was published on Dec 11, 2010 The women, playing first, beat Russia 9:5. The men then defeated Germany 7:4. It is the fourth time in the last ten years that both teams have won medals. Last year each won silver. In the women’s final, Sweden beat Scotland 8:6 to take gold, while in the men’s final Norway beat Denmark 5:3.

Experts to discuss deportation initiative

This content was published on Dec 10, 2010 Sommaruga said the seven-strong panel would include two members of the rightwing Swiss People’s Party which had launched the initiative. The group, which includes also representatives of cantons and the federal administration, has until June 2011 to draw up detailed legislation. Opponents of the initiative, including the government, had warned that it is not in…

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Digital project saves Montreux Jazz heritage

This content was published on Dec 10, 2010 Recordings by artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, B.B. King and Prince will be preserved and immortalised in the “Montreux Sounds Digital Project”, launched with the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) and private sponsors. Ever since the first edition of the festival in 1967, which featured the Charles Lloyd Quartet with Keith…

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Jodlergruppe Echo vom Flösch: Gueti Zyte

This content was published on Dec 10, 2010 Fründe – Friends. Yodel song. JG Echo vom Flösch

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Animal rights campaigners demand reform

This content was published on Dec 10, 2010 An increase of convictions by nearly a third in 2009 compared to the previous year shows that the Swiss are reporting more offences rather than treating animals worse, experts believe. But a report shows that cantons have different standards in applying rules. Statistics published by the Association for Animal Rights on Thursday reveal that 955…

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Geneva celebrates historic defeat of Savoy enemy

This content was published on Dec 10, 2010

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Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 10. Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich & David Zinman, direction

This content was published on Dec 9, 2010 Purgatorio: Unheimlich bewegt Tonhalle Orchestra; Zinman

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Locals films end decade on the up

This content was published on Dec 9, 2010 This market share of 5.2 per cent is up from 3.5 per cent last year and 2.4 per cent at the beginning of the decade. Sennentunstschi, Michael Steiner’s folk horror, was the most successful Swiss film of the year, selling some 125,000 tickets, according to provisional figures released on Thursday by ProCinema, the national film…

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Blatter defends Fifa and criticises England

This content was published on Dec 9, 2010 Sepp Blatter fiercely defended his organisation in a Swiss magazine interview and denounced England for reacting like an arrogant bad loser ever since Russia and Qatar were chosen to stage the 2018 and 2022 tournaments. “I’ll say it clearly: there is no systematic corruption at Fifa. That’s nonsense,” Blatter told the Weltwoche weekly. “We are…

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