Swiss Identity

Legal system protects multinationals

This content was published on Apr 16, 2012 The report says the Glencore subsidiary Katanga Mining Limited (KML) is buying ore from small mines with “catastrophic working conditions” which also use child labour, and is polluting the environment, including water supplies, leaving thousands without water fit to drink. But the authors of the report, issued on Monday by the Swiss non-governmental organisations Swiss…

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Snowman forecasts reasonable summer

This content was published on Apr 16, 2012 It took 12 minutes and seven seconds for the head of the Böögg effigy to explode at the end of Zurich’s Sechseläuten festival on Monday. The Böögg – 3.4 meters tall and weighing 80 kilos – looks like a giant snowman perched on the top of a huge bonfire. His head is stuffed with fireworks.…

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Number of asylum requests remains high

This content was published on Apr 16, 2012 The number of applications spiked in January, at a record 2,653 (four per cent more than December), but decreased over the next two months, according to the Federal Migration Office on Monday. A total of 7,150 asylum requests were received in first three months, 1.3 per cent down on the last quarter of 2011. In…

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Skin cancer rates sharply increase

This content was published on Apr 16, 2012 The Federal Statistics Office said on Monday diagnosis rates of melanoma had sharply increased over the past two decades and skin cancer was now fourth on the list of cancers most affecting the Swiss. According to the Statistics Office, diagnosis occurs more frequently among people who have regular checkups and when the melanoma is not…

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Swiss struggle to fight and keep track of racism

This content was published on Apr 16, 2012 Martine Brunschwig Graf, a former parliamentarian from Geneva who took up her new post at the beginning of the year, says her priority is to promote prevention efforts. “No law can make people think or stop people from thinking. It’s just as well, but at the same time it is making our task even more…

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Michel Godard

This content was published on Apr 16, 2012 Michel Godard Michel Godard plays Monteverdi.

“Works of art should not be hung in bunkers”

This content was published on Apr 15, 2012 Gianna Mina explains what has changed in the Swiss art world since the “theft of the century” in February 2008 and the difficult choices facing museum directors and curators. On Thursday, police from Serbia and Switzerland recovered Cézanne’s “The Boy in the Red Vest”, worth an estimated SFr100 million ($110 million), which had been stolen…

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Miss Switzerland 2012 pageant cancelled

This content was published on Apr 15, 2012 As pageant director Christophe Locher told the SonntagsZeitung newspaper on Sunday, “We terribly regret the decision, but we had no choice”. He told the Swiss News Agency that he and his team were “confident” that they could find a solution for 2013. One possibility would be holding a non-televised event. Last September, public service television…

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Enthusiasts celebrate the sound of the serpent

This content was published on Apr 15, 2012 The serpent, a snake-shaped wind instrument thought to originate in late-16th-century in France, was the highlight of a recent musical workshop organised by Stephan Berger and his wife Erna Suter near the town of Saignelégier. For four days, 24 serpent players from France, Germany and Switzerland came together to share their experiences and, above all,…

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Up to one in three has psychological problems

This content was published on Apr 15, 2012 Inadequate or non-existent therapy will only aggravate the situation, as psychologist Alain Malafosse tells swissinfo.ch in an interview. The specialist is not the first person to call for more coordinated research to produce better treatments. Jean-Nicolas Despland, director of the Institute for Psychotherapy at the university hospital of Canton Vaud, is also convinced that one…

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