Swiss Identity

Wakker Prize 2012

This content was published on Jan 18, 2012 The Wakker Prize is awarded annually by the Swiss Heritage Society to a municipality for the development and preservation of its architectural heritage. This year, as in 2011, the focus is on the theme of built-up areas. Köniz, with 38,000 inhabitants Switzerland’s largest suburb, was highlighted for its long-term planning which was developed with input…

UBS real estate study sees “dangerous trend”

This content was published on Jan 18, 2012 Investors tend to see property as a safe asset and are pouring more money into it during these turbulent economic times. But UBS Research Switzerland sees this as a dangerous trend. The report found that the fundamentals of the residential real estate market remained strong with interest rates lower than ever before. Other boosts come…

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Private clinic has 180 PIP implant patients

This content was published on Jan 18, 2012 At present 280 women across Switzerland are known to have had the implants, made by the now bankrupt company Poly Implant Prothese (PIP). Laclinic is offering its patients an operation to remove the implants for SFr5,000 ($5,260), rather than the usual SFr10,000, according to a French-speaking television report broadcast on Tuesday evening. On it, the…

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Care drain threatens needy countries

This content was published on Jan 17, 2012 To combat this problem, a coalition of Swiss health and humanitarian organisations has written a manifesto that addresses the worldwide need for properly trained healthcare professionals. Medicus Mundi Switzerland, the Basel-based network of Swiss organisations active in international healthcare, published the ten-point manifesto on Monday. It calls for action to improve working conditions for health…

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Seismic zones need better quake insurance

This content was published on Jan 17, 2012 The report, “Lessons from recent major earthquakes”, says in the last two years several large earthquakes have caused a “devastating number of fatalities and injuries” as well as widespread damage to property. “The cumulative catastrophic impact of earthquakes on society is overwhelming. Seismic events caused economic losses of over $276 billion [SFr 261 billion] in…

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Swiss happy with quality of their environment

This content was published on Jan 17, 2012 A study carried out in spring 2011 showed that 95 per cent of the population regarded the quality of their immediate environment as “very good” or “quite good” and 74 per cent of them regarded this as have a “strong” or “quite strong” impact on their quality of life. But 17 per cent are “very…

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Tourist officials call on faithful to come

This content was published on Jan 17, 2012 The Swiss churches have joined forces with Switzerland Tourism to launch “Switzerland’s Religious Landscape”, aimed at providing Swiss and foreign visitors with an overview of the country’s religious heritage. Launched at the end of 2011, the German and English language website details the different faiths represented in Switzerland and provides links to information about religious…

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Mummy singer dug up in Egypt

This content was published on Jan 16, 2012 According to the tomb’s inscription, the woman, named Nehmes Bastet, was a singer and the daughter of a high priest around 945-712BC, the Egyptian ministry for antiquities said. The group of archaeologists chanced upon the tomb and its intact mummy while cleaning a site that had been discovered during last year’s uprising and since resealed…

New court aims to cut through patent nonsense

This content was published on Jan 16, 2012 In creating the court, based in St Gallen since January 1, the authorities want to simplify and speed up the system not only for Swiss companies and foreign multinationals based in Switzerland, but also for companies based abroad. It operates in Switzerland’s three official languages – German, French and Italian – but the language of…

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Snackers get a red warning

This content was published on Jan 16, 2012 The team at the Institute of Psychology think red could be acting as a subtle “stop” signal. In their first experiment, they asked 41 male students to drink sweet drinks from plastic beakers, half of which had blue stickers and the other half red. The ones given red beakers drank about 40 per cent less…

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