Swiss Identity

Switzerland asked to return Buddha pieces

This content was published on Oct 22, 2003 The Swiss justice ministry said the request came after an international specialist claimed to have spotted the fragments. “In the event that the Buddha pieces are found in the customs warehouse, the Afghan [culture] minister has asked that they be returned as soon as possible,” confirmed ministry spokesman Folco Galli. He said that the Afghan…

Culture

Robert Lucas Pearsall: Lay a Garland. Madrigals (Doppelchörige Madrigale). The Pre-Raphaelite Singers. Dir. Anthony Rooley.

This content was published on Oct 22, 2003

Education

Zurich students to study Swiss wartime role

This content was published on Oct 21, 2003 Zurich’s education department gave the go ahead for a textbook of the report to be produced. It will be introduced into the curriculum in Spring 2005. Entitled “Admit, suppress, inquire: Switzerland and the time of National Socialism”, the 124-textbook will present the findings of the Bergier report in a shortened form for students aged 14…

Demographics

Foreigners excluded by provisional permits

This content was published on Oct 21, 2003 It said some 26,000 foreigners in Switzerland were being denied access to social support and to the job market, and were sometimes stripped of their human dignity. The Swiss Federal Commission against Racism said holders of an “F permit” – a provisional 12-month residency permit – also had no proper access to the country’s education…

Culture

Ohrewürm 4. Children’s songs in different Swiss-German dialects.

This content was published on Oct 20, 2003

Demographics

UN condemns “xenophobic” People’s Party

This content was published on Oct 20, 2003 The People’s Party hit back, slamming the organisation for sticking its nose in Switzerland’s internal affairs. It is not the first time the UN refugee agency has taken the People’s Party to task over its tough stance on foreigners and asylum. Last November, the High Commissioner for Refugees, Ruud Lubbers, condemned a proposal by the…

Culture

Making guitars for the stars

This content was published on Oct 19, 2003 Despite a tiny output of around a dozen guitars a year, Pagelli has earned recognition – and commissions – from some of the industry’s top names. “Being based in Switzerland, we don’t exactly have stars wandering around the workshop all day,” grins the 45-year-old Swiss. “So I mainly sell my guitars to lesser-known professional musicians…

Federer eyes twin targets in Basel

This content was published on Oct 18, 2003 The Swiss tennis star will also be challenging for the number one ranking when the competition starts on Tuesday. Federer will also be hoping that it’ll be third time lucky at the Swiss Indoors where he has lost twice in the finals, in 2000 to the Swede, Thomas Enqvist and in 2001 to the British…

Culture

Kapelle Aegler Fuhrer: Nostalgie

This content was published on Oct 16, 2003

Culture

Vierstern Aemmitaler: PopCHorn

This content was published on Oct 16, 2003

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