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Swiss tourists involved in fatal coach crash

This content was published on Mar 10, 2014 A spokesperson for the police in Madrid confirmed the numbers affected, adding that four further people suffered light injuries. Sixteen tourists and a tour guide, all Swiss, and a Spanish driver were on board the minibus, run by Lucerne-based travel operator Baumeler Reisen. The injured have been taken to two hospitals in the city of…

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Swiss account threatens to sideline German icon

This content was published on Mar 10, 2014 Hoeness, who as a player won the World Cup with West Germany in 1974 and has been credited with turning Bayern Munich into one of the world’s most respected clubs, told tax authorities about his secret account and undeclared income of his own accord in January 2013. Bavarian prosecutors filed charges against Hoeness last year…

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Victims of $7bn Ponzi scheme compensated

This content was published on Mar 10, 2014 The company Stanford Group (Suisse) in Liquidation has been fined CHF1 million ($1.14 million) for aggravated money laundering and sentenced to pay compensatory claims of CHF6-9 million, as well as to bear the costs of the proceedings. Both the fine and the compensatory claims will go to the victims of the investment fraud. The Swiss…

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Will Basel’s kids pick the fife over football?

This content was published on Mar 9, 2014 On a chilly day in mid-February, the sounds of pipes and drums echo across the plaza in front of Basel’s main exhibition hall. Inside, adults browse stands from area merchants at the Muba fair, an annual trade show all about Switzerland’s third-largest city. But outside, children are learning about one of the city’s oldest traditions,…

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Getting children involved in carnival

This content was published on Mar 9, 2014

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Taking on the boardroom in the war on inequality

This content was published on Mar 8, 2014

Education

Institutes asked to disclose sponsorship links

This content was published on Mar 5, 2014 On Wednesday, the data protection commissioner recommended that the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ) and the Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) publish all of their sponsorship contracts in addition to registers containing any links between teaching staff and sponsors. The institutes have 20 days to release the documents. If they do not, an…

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Author of thrillers found no Swiss cuckoo clocks

This content was published on Mar 5, 2014 British writer Graham Greene’s final resting place near Vevey is a far cry from the dangerous and exotic locations of his greatest works.

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Magic mountains inspired a German author

This content was published on Mar 5, 2014 The German author, Thomas Mann, had a room with a view over Lake Zurich. There he worked on some of his greatest novels and essays.

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Spirit of Joyce still roams Zurich

This content was published on Mar 5, 2014 Irish writer James Joyce was very much at home in Zurich. His work is still celebrated and debated by the city's admiring cognoscenti.

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