Cluster: Swiss Identity

Burst water main affects 40,000 Geneva residents

Tap water no longer drinkable for 40,000 Genevans

This content was published on Sep 30, 2024 Around 40,000 residents in Geneva are without clean tap water after a burst pipe caused disruption over the weekend.

Loneliness affects many seniors, lack of volunteers

Demographics

Over a third of Swiss seniors suffer from loneliness as volunteer shortage worsens

This content was published on Sep 30, 2024 “Loneliness has serious health consequences and significantly reduces life expectancy,” Pro Senectute warned in a press release on Sunday.

Maren Eggert (center) plays the 'matriarch' Karen in "The Sparrow in the Chimney", the pivot of all family tensions in the Zürcher brothers' latest film.

Culture

Women rule and animals roam in Ramon Zürcher’s human zoo

This content was published on Sep 29, 2024 Ramon Zürcher's new film arrives in Swiss cinemas, concluding the Animal Trilogy. With a unique psychological aesthetic, the director transforms spaces into emotional chessboards.

Demographics

Study highlights Swiss cantons’ failings over adoptions from India

This content was published on Sep 27, 2024 A Swiss study released on Friday has revealed that cantons Thurgau and Zurich are responsible for shortcomings linked to adoptions of children from India.

ZH: couple punished for reducing two women to virtual slavery

Demographics

Swiss couple sentenced for enslaving two housekeepers

This content was published on Sep 27, 2024 A 46-year-old Swiss man has received a three year sentence, including nine months in jail, for exploiting, locking up and handcuffing two housekeepers he brought to Switzerland between 2018 and 2019.

Zurich Film Festival will not be showing "Russians at war" after all

Culture

Zurich Film Festival drops screening of ‘Russians at War’ documentary

This content was published on Sep 27, 2024 The organisers of the Zurich Film Festival have decided not to show the controversial documentary Russians at War due to "safety considerations",

Education

Swiss parliament boosts education and research budget

This content was published on Sep 26, 2024 Parliament tops up government proposal on education and research spending over the next four years.

Swiss are rich (241,000 francs each), but Americans more

Demographics

US tops Switzerland in global wealth ranking

This content was published on Sep 25, 2024 The Swiss are rich, with average assets of CHF241,000 per person; but the US is richer, finds a report by insurance firm Allianz.

Culture

Switzerland to try its luck at 2025 Oscars with ‘Reinas’

This content was published on Sep 25, 2024 Klaudia Reynicke’s film is the official Swiss entry for the “best international feature” category in next year’s awards.

Education

Top Swiss education official not a fan of phones in schools

This content was published on Sep 25, 2024 The head of the Swiss Conference of Cantonal Ministers of Education says bans should be decided by schools rather than politicians.

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