Cluster: Swiss Identity

Vitali toys on show in Zurich

This content was published on Sep 29, 1999 The Museum für Gestaltung in Zurich — a museum for design and contemporary art — is staging an exhibition featuring the works of sculptor and toy designer Antonio Vitali. Organisers show Vitali’s toys along with other exhibits from the museum’s poster collection, the graphic collection and the design collection. “What is exemplified is the interest…

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Swiss prosecutor will focus Kosovo investigations on Milosevic

This content was published on Sep 29, 1999 (AP) — The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal’s new chief prosecutor, Carla Del Ponte of Switzerland, said Wednesday she will maintain the court’s focus on gathering evidence against Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and others suspected of atrocities in Kosovo. In a statement issued by the United Nations tribunal in The Hague, Del Ponte reiterated the position…

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Report: Swiss education is good but needs improvement

This content was published on Sep 29, 1999 Switzerland’s education and job training system is good but needs improvement in some key areas, according to a new report by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The report, presented at a news conference in Berne on Wednesday, gives high marks to performances in maths, foreign languages and apprenticeship job training programmes. But students have dropped…

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Zurich museum traces history of Vatican Swiss Guard

This content was published on Sep 28, 1999 The Haus zum Rech museum in Zurich is staging an exhibition on the history of the Swiss Guard, outlining the early days of the papal corps and its history throughout the centuries to the present. One section of the exhibition is dedicated to the close links between the Swiss guard and a local family by…

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Swiss probe illegal chemicals exports to South Africa

This content was published on Sep 27, 1999 (Reuters) — Switzerland has launched an investigation into possible espionage and illegal chemicals exports to South Africa, the Swiss Federal Prosecutor’s Office said on Monday. “An investigation has been launched against person or persons unknown related to espionage and infraction of the law on the control of goods,” spokesman Dominique Reymond told Reuters. “There is…

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Swiss deny revealing secrets in Russia probe

This content was published on Sep 27, 1999 (Reuters) — The Swiss Federal Prosecutor’s Office on Monday denied allegations it damaged the interests of Geneva-based financial services company Forus Services SA in a probe into money missing from Russian state airline Aeroflot. “The allegations are completely wrong. We deny that we showed or sent documents relating to Forus to Russia,” Dominique Reymond, spokesman…

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Rosengart collection to go on show

This content was published on Sep 27, 1999

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Swiss extradite former Aeromexico board chief

This content was published on Sep 24, 1999 (AP) — Gerardo de Prevoisin, a former Mexican airline executive wanted in a $61 million fraud case, was flown to Mexico Friday after losing his appeal against extradition, the Swiss justice ministry said. De Prevoisin boarded a flight from Zurich Friday morning, accompanied by three Mexican police officers, a statement said. He was arrested at…

Culture

Interlaken hosts Swiss national folk music festival

This content was published on Sep 24, 1999 The town of Interlaken in canton Berne hosts Switzerland’s biggest festival of traditional Swiss folk music this weekend. The festival, which is expected to attract thousands of visitors from near and afar, is only staged every three years and is considered the biggest and most important such folk music event. About 1,300 musicians dressed in…

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Transplant doctors call for more organ donations

This content was published on Sep 24, 1999 Swiss doctors on Friday called for more people to donate organs, saying the waiting list for patients needing transplants is growing longer by the day. The Swisstransplant organisation, which brings together six hospitals carrying out the operations, told a news conference in Berne that 920 patients were waiting for an organ in 1998. Over the…

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