Swiss Identity

Swiss join European digital archive gateway

This content was published on Mar 4, 2008 The project aims to piece together shared European history and show how ideas, trends or movements have developed. Digitalised items from the Swiss National Library will be pooled with around two million archives from institutions around Europe, accessible via a website being launched later this year. A test page of the Europeana website went online…

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Police test air surveillance of football fans with drones

This content was published on Mar 4, 2008 Police test air surveillance of football fans.

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Prisons hold fewer detainees

This content was published on Mar 4, 2008 The Federal Statistics Office said on Tuesday that the country’s prisons were 86 per cent full, with the vast majority of detainees being adult males. Women accounted for six per cent of the prison population, and teenagers one per cent. On the office’s reference day – September 5 – 1,653 people were being held in…

Mummenschanz

This content was published on Mar 4, 2008 The Mummenschanz group has redefined masked theatre over the past three decades. Without words, music or sets, using only masks, its members have enchanted and moved young and old with their universal body language. They are currently presenting “3 x 11”, a retrospective of their work.

Eliana Burki: Heartbeat

This content was published on Mar 4, 2008

Football fans volunteer to pitch in

This content was published on Mar 3, 2008 This figure represents over three times the number of people needed to assist at the world’s third-largest sporting event. Five thousand volunteers will be selected to work at the competition, and while they will not be paid, they will be allowed to keep their uniforms and will receive free refreshments. Uefa, European football’s governing body,…

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German coach adopts Swiss football team

This content was published on Mar 3, 2008 Speaking to the media in Zurich on Monday, Hitzfeld spoke of the strong attachment he felt to his adopted country. He will succeed current coach Köbi Kuhn in July with a mandate to qualify for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. The appointment of Hitzfeld, announced earlier this month, has been greeted by the…

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Fewer young men heed call to holy orders

This content was published on Mar 3, 2008 Despite this crisis in vocations, some young men are still drawn to the life of a priest. swissinfo visited the Seminary of Sion to talk to those who are keeping the faith. Built in 1975, the seminary in Fribourg, western Switzerland was meant to house 28 candidates for the priesthood. Today only nine of the…

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Federer crashes out in first round in Dubai

This content was published on Mar 3, 2008 Murray rallied to win 6-7 (6), 6-3, 6-4 on Monday. It was Federer’s first match since his loss to Novak Djokovic in the semifinals of the Australian Open in January, and his first opening-round defeat in three-and-a-half years. Federer, who won the Dubai tournament four times in the past five years, had not lost in…

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Merchant navy swimming in new money

This content was published on Mar 3, 2008 Authorities said that the funding – in the form of loan guarantees – aims to cover rising acquisition costs and to help purchase multi-use bulk cargo carriers. Parliament had already accepted a 10-year funding mechanism totalling SFr600 million in 2002. Monday’s addition boosts the total to SFr1.1 billion. Switzerland’s merchant navy fleet currently consists of…

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