Cluster: Swiss Identity

Zurich collector returns Pompeii Fresco

This content was published on Mar 2, 2000 A Zurich art collector has returned a fresco missing from Pompeii since 1947 to the authorities in the Italian city of Naples. The fresco, a peacock against a yellow background, was located three years ago by an Italian curator who noticed a reference to it in a Swiss art catalogue. It is believed to date…

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13,000 foreigners to get temporary residence

This content was published on Mar 1, 2000 The Swiss government has decided to recommend that 13,000 long-term asylum-seekers, most of them Tamils and Kosovars, be given temporary residence. The ruling applies to people whose asylum applications are still at the first hearing stage, or whose requests have been turned down, but who have yet to be sent home. The applicants must have…

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Curtain goes up on controversial new hotel for super-rich

This content was published on Feb 29, 2000 A controversial 48-room hotel for the super-rich has been inaugurated in the resort of Zermatt. The glass building — curiously named Into the Hotel – is the brainchild of local artist Heinz Julen (picture). The hotel comes complete with revolving rooms and roof-top jacuzzis, but with the nightly rate reaching up to Sfr3,000, it is…

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Deiss visits Swiss culture centre in Cairo

This content was published on Feb 29, 2000 The Swiss foreign minister, Joseph Deiss, took a break from his political schedule in Egypt to visit the Cairo office of the Swiss arts centre, Pro Helvetia. Deiss met the new director of the Cairo office, Anita Müller, and found out about some of the projects the council is undertaking to promote Swiss culture. One…

Culture

Photography as Art

This content was published on Feb 28, 2000 The Fine Arts Museum in Zurich is staging its first major exhibition on the works of a photographer. It features nearly 500 photographs taken by Jakob Tuggener, who was born in Zurich and died there in 1988 at the age of 84. Tuggener’s photographic career was dominated by three themes – industry, the Swiss countryside…

Rosset serves up response to snub

This content was published on Feb 28, 2000 Earlier this month he was unceremoniously dumped from Switzerland’s Davis Cup team. Now Marc Rosset has responded in the best possible fashion. It seems that his omission from the Davis Cup team was the perfect way of bringing the best out of the Geneva player. His defeat of the new world number one, Yevgeny Kafelnikov,…

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No ban on blood donors from Britain

This content was published on Feb 27, 2000 The Federal Health Office has decided not to ban people who lived in Britain between 1980 and 1986 from giving blood. The decision comes despite claims a ban could help control the spread of Creuzveldt Jacob disease (CJD). CJD is the human variant of BSE, commonly known as mad cow disease, a fatal brain disorder…

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Expo.02 loses control of its label

This content was published on Feb 26, 2000 An anonymous official from canton Valais has acquired control of the trademark of the troubled national exhibition, Expo.02. The exhibition’s organisers have been left to try and recover the copyright, either through an amicable settlement or legal means. According to the French-language newspapers “24 Heures” and “Tribune de Geneve”, the unnamed official registered the Expo…

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Meningitis strikes again in Ticino

This content was published on Feb 26, 2000 A teenager from canton Ticino has been hospitalised with meningitis. It comes less than a month after another Swiss girl died of the brain disease, and is the latest in a series of cases in the region. The seventeen year old girl was taken to Mendrisio hospital on Friday, where it was confirmed she was…

Culture

Chabaud works on display in Lausanne

This content was published on Feb 24, 2000 An exhibition of works by the French artist, Auguste Chabaud, has opened in Lausanne. Chabaud was born in 1882 in the rural Provence region but lived and worked mainly in Paris. His works highlight the tensions between city and country. Chabaud is considered one of the leading representatives of Fauvism, an artistic movement related to…

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