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‘Enjoy in moderation’ to be Swiss Expo message

This content was published on May 25, 2014 Organisers of the fair will be asking international participants whether it is possible to ensure healthy, sufficient and sustainable food for all mankind. Not an easy question to answer. Governments and international organisations have been trying to tackle the issue for decades. But more than 800 million people still go hungry, and at least as…

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Who decides when it’s time to go?

This content was published on May 24, 2014

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The ups and downs of expat life

This content was published on May 24, 2014

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Behind closed doors at the Swiss air force academy

This content was published on May 24, 2014 The Swiss air force has been at the centre of public attention in recent weeks. On May 18, voters rejected the planned purchase of new Gripen fighter jets. But how does the air force train the next generation of pilots? For the book “Our fighter pilots” by journalist Margrit Sprecher, Fabian Biasio accompanied the pilots-in-training.…

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Health office criticised over sexual campaign

This content was published on May 23, 2014 On the opinion pages of Friday’s Neue Zürcher Zeitung newspaper, the health office’s director, Pascal Strupler, directly addressed criticism that he said had been levelled at them in recent days, calling the film pornographic and “immoral”. “Quite the opposite”, he said. While pornography “degrades people as mere sexual objects”, this short-film shows the “tender and…

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Hitler salute ruled not always illegal

This content was published on May 21, 2014 The president of the Federal Commission Against Racism has expressed disappointment at the court’s decision. The April 28 ruling by the Lausanne-based Federal Court, released on Wednesday, overturned a lower court’s conviction last year in the case of a man charged with racial discrimination after he took part in a demonstration in 2010. Apart from the…

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Concerns raised about trafficking in sex industry

This content was published on May 21, 2014 Two brothels, one in a rural area of canton Schwyz and another in the picturesque town of Nidau in canton Bern, were raided simultaneously by police back in 2007. At least 23 women were found to be working under coercion, prosecutors say. One of Switzerland’s largest human trafficking scandals, the Bolenberg case finally came to…

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Oligarch faces CHF4 billion Swiss divorce

This content was published on May 20, 2014 In papers delivered on Monday to both parties, a Geneva court said Dmitry Rybolovlev must pay the sum – almost double what Swiss bank Credit Suisse was fined the same day for aiding tax evasion in the United States – to his former wife, who lives in Geneva. The judgement also granted his ex-wife property…

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Writer of offensive tweet sentenced and fined

This content was published on May 19, 2014 The former school board member deleted the tweet after receiving negative feedback, but by then it had reached the Swiss media. He then claimed that the tweet was taken out of context, and that he was reacting to the acquittal of a Muslim man who had said it was “OK” for a man to beat…

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Hundreds of Hodler works promised to museum

This content was published on May 19, 2014 Bern-based artist Schindler started his collection in 1956, after he visited an exhibition of Hodler’s work. He purchased the majority of his sketches and drawings from the Swiss artist’s widow, Berthe Hodler. Between 1999 and 2002 Schindler entrusted the then-director of the Musée Jenisch with three items from his collection. He recently gave the museum…

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