Swiss Identity

Prix d’architecture pour l’ambassade à Washington

This content was published on Aug 7, 2007 Elle est le fruit de la collaboration entre un architecte américain, Steven Holl, pour l’extérieur, et un architecte suisse, Justin Rüessli, pour l’intérieur. Inaugurée en septembre 2006, la résidence de l’ambassadeur suisse à Washington a reçu en juin le prix d’architecture du prestigieux Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). «Un plan fascinant, des espaces développés…

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Street Parade 2007. Official Compilation.

This content was published on Aug 7, 2007

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Fears mount over missing girl

This content was published on Aug 6, 2007 On Monday police said initial DNA tests showed a link between the belongings of the girl, Ylenia, and the chief suspect, a Swiss who had lived in Spain since 1990. Police said investigations were also underway in Spain and Portugal, where four-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann disappeared three months ago. But they declined to comment…

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Swiss history comes alive in bilingual guide

This content was published on Aug 6, 2007 “Petit guide de la Suisse insolite: Made in Switzerland” – to give Mavis Guinard’s book its full title – introduces curious tourists to unusual aspects of Switzerland, explaining for example how Frankenstein’s monster was “created” by Lake Geneva. The guide charts how the English invented tourism in the Alps, which until the 19th century were…

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Criminals continue to hide behind cell phones

This content was published on Aug 5, 2007 By the end of 2006, officers had come across 17,000 cases of false registration during the course of their investigations. “We very often come up against cases in which the user of a mobile phone is not the same as the person who registered it,” commented Susann Birrer, head of communications for Zurich’s city police.…

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Migration boss seeks clarity on integration

This content was published on Aug 5, 2007 Gnesa, who is head of a working group that will put recommendations to the government, told the SonntagsZeitung newspaper that the main focus should be on helping young foreigners. He said young foreigners had difficulty finding apprenticeships and jobs, and were more likely to commit crime. Gnesa said integration had to be improved first and…

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Franciscan monk

This content was published on Aug 5, 2007

Actor Anthony Hopkins captivates Locarno

This content was published on Aug 4, 2007 Hopkins, aged 69, who has entered his work in the international competition, presents a virtuoso film with an experimental structure in which there is no shortage of irony. The actor, his wife Stella Arroyave and actor Christian Slater formed the “glamour factor” at the festival but Hopkins was there not as an actor but as…

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Campaigners hail justice for asylum seekers

This content was published on Aug 3, 2007 Since the start of the year the Swiss government has been automatically expelling those that fail to produce identity papers within 48 hours without a credible reason. The controversial measure is part of a tough new asylum law that came into force on January 1. It has been fiercely contested by non-governmental organisations and challenged…

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Locarno

This content was published on Aug 2, 2007

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