Cluster: Swiss Identity

Lugano wound Lions and raise hopes

This content was published on Mar 30, 2000 Lugano have dashed Zurich Lions’ hopes of an easy finish to the ice-hockey play-off final series. In Thursday’s knife edge game, amid an electric atmosphere on and off the ice, the Ticinese opened the scoring in the fourteenth minute, thanks to Fedulov. The Lions pulled back in the fifteenth, with a goal from Ivankovic, and…

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Festival introduces live opera to its website

This content was published on Mar 29, 2000 The Avenches open-air opera festival says its première of Verdi’s “Aida” this summer is to be transmitted live on the Internet. Cameras will be installed to broadcast one of opera’s biggest spectacles from the town’s Roman amphitheatre. Avenches has become accustomed to large numbers of visitors since its first festival in 1995 – the amphitheatre…

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Switzerland cracks down on bribery abroad

This content was published on Mar 29, 2000 The Swiss government has joined an international campaign to fight cross-border corruption. It announced on Wednesday that from May, bribing foreign officials would become a criminal offence. Switzerland’s current laws not only permit Swiss executives to give bribes abroad and at home, but also allow them to write the kickbacks off against tax if it…

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Stress and unhealthy living: the Swiss take a health check

This content was published on Mar 29, 2000 Stress levels are soaring in Switzerland. The Swiss are also reportedly getting fatter, are eating too much junk food and are not getting enough exercise. The Swiss Foundation for the Promotion of Health has released the worrying report, and has launched two national campaigns to convert people to a healthier lifestyle. The study shows that…

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Swiss group calls for Tolerance Centre

This content was published on Mar 29, 2000 A group of prominent Swiss politicians, officials and businessmen wants to open a Swiss Centre for Tolerance. The centre, probably to be located in the federal capital, Berne, is intended to be a place for Switzerland’s open encounter with its past and with its present position towards foreigners. The idea for such a centre stems…

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Music museum opens in Seewen

This content was published on Mar 28, 2000 A museum housing Europe’s biggest collection of old mechanical musical instruments has been inaugurated in the countryside of Canton Solothurn. It is in the small village of Seewen because that was where the collection of some 1,000 objects began. The instruments were accumulated over a long period by a Basel businessman, Heinrich Weiss-Stauffacher, who in…

Financiers prepare for new money laundering rules

This content was published on Mar 28, 2000 Asset managers, money brokers, solicitors and other financial intermediaries are gearing up for April 1 when they must have completed procedures to comply to the law on money laundering which came into force two years ago. Under the Swiss Money Laundering Act of 1997, financial intermediaries are obliged to join a self-regulating body recognised by…

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Deiss urges Putin to end Chechen war

This content was published on Mar 28, 2000 The Swiss foreign minister, Joseph Deiss, has responded to the election of Vladimir Putin as the new Russian president with a call for an early end to the war in Chechnya. In common with other western leaders who have called on the president-elect to end the Chechen war, Deiss said Switzerland was concerned about the…

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Swissair pilot’s arrest holds up flight in New York

This content was published on Mar 27, 2000 A pilot for Swissair, Switzerland’s national carrier, has found himself in more than hot water after being arrested while jogging in New York’s Central Park. A company spokesman confirmed reports that the un-named pilot had been taken into custody by the New York police. Swissair was unable to say for what offence, but the fact…

Culture

Swiss producer wins sixth Oscar

This content was published on Mar 27, 2000 Switzerland’s Arthur Cohn (right) has become the first film producer ever to win six Oscars. His film “One Day in September” was chosen as the best documentary at the most glamorous award ceremony in showbusiness. The film tells the story of the killing of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. Receiving the…

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