Swiss Identity

Titanic account surfaces after 100 years

This content was published on Apr 14, 2012 It jolted him from his sleep just before midnight; when he left his cabin to find out what it really was, he saw men playing football with lumps of ice that had fallen onto the deck. “They said that the Titanic had crashed into an iceberg, but that there was no danger so I should…

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Desert days

This content was published on Apr 14, 2012 The Mzaina Bedouins in this part of Egypt have lived according to the rules of their tribal culture for centuries. Livestock breeding, religion and family dominate life in the desert. Increasingly, modern media, Western values, and urban ways of living are endangering their traditional culture. The German-language book, Mzaina Bedouins in the Sinai, (Benteli, 2012)…

US senator digs in heels over Swiss tax deal

This content was published on Apr 12, 2012 Despite the current log-jam US officials have generally welcomed the revised Swiss-US double taxation accord, approved by the Swiss parliament and government, which makes it easier to hand over information about US citizens with Swiss bank accounts. Rand Paul, a Republican senator from Kentucky, is the only senator openly opposing the ratification of the revised…

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Painting is confirmed as stolen Cézanne

This content was published on Apr 12, 2012 Zurich prosecutors said on Thursday that the Bührle Foundation certified that the painting is Cézanne’s “The Boy in the Red Vest”. The painting was worth SFr100 million ($109.6 million) when it was stolen along with three other works from the private Bührle collection in 2008. Claude Monet’s “Poppy field at Vetheuil” and Vincent van Gogh’s…

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Controversial mountain deck given go-ahead

This content was published on Apr 12, 2012 The Bern cantonal government on Thursday said it had approved amended plans for a balcony near the top of the Stockhorn mountain in the Bernese Oberland. The initial project launched two years ago for a glass observation platform, nicknamed the “nose ring”, ran into opposition from environmental groups. The revised project by the local cable…

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Restaurant goers spend less on drink and food

This content was published on Apr 11, 2012 Gastrosuisse President Bernhard Kuster said sales dropped by seven per cent to SFr24.2 billion ($26.4 billion) last year compared with 2010. Guests spent significantly less money on drinks, he told a news conference. Kuster said restaurants and hotels in the eastern canton of Graubünden were particularly hard hit, while another traditional holiday region, in central…

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Another wild bear becomes famous just for showing up on Swiss territory

This content was published on Apr 11, 2012

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Air rescue service has “busiest year ever”

This content was published on Apr 11, 2012 The iconic red and white helicopters were called into action 10,797 times, including more than 2,000 night flights. Rega’s three ambulance jets carried out 698 missions last year while medical teams accompanied ill or injured patients back to Switzerland 147 times on passenger flights. In November last year the non-profit Rega was taken aback by…

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Cinema confronts the fear of Islam

This content was published on Apr 11, 2012 A dagger-toting, double-crossing villain with a moustache, a Middle-Eastern accent and an evil look in his eye: whether in literature or in the cinema, this has been the standard figure of the Arab “bad guy” opposed to everything good in the Christian West. “This feeling of mistrust and fear towards an imaginary all-conquering Islam was…

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Blowing the whistle on human rights abuses

This content was published on Apr 10, 2012 The trade union-backed organisation Solidar Suisse wants Fifa, world football’s governing body, to speak out against what it says are rights abuses in countries that host the World Cup, specifically Brazil next year. The on-line video shows a Blatter look-alike dancing to the tune of a Brazilian pop song, and pirouetting across the stage –…

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