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Football chiefs consider joint league with Austria

This content was published on Apr 12, 2003 The announcement follows a string of financial disasters at football clubs in both countries. The idea of forming a joint “alpine league” for Austria and Switzerland was first voiced last month by the Austrian league’s chief executive officer, Peter Westenthaler. Although no concrete plans have yet been put forward by the Austrians, Swiss league president…

Education

Ten years in Nepal

This content was published on Apr 12, 2003 Known locally as the Home of New Hopes, the building now houses and educates more than 250 children. Wick, who first visited Nepal while working as a volunteer at another school, says that it’s hard to believe she has now been there for a decade. “The last seven years in particular have gone very quickly,…

ICRC calls on coalition to restore order in Iraq

This content was published on Apr 11, 2003 The humanitarian organisation warned on Friday that the city’s infrastructure was collapsing, as the result of widespread chaos and lawlessness. During a press conference at the ICRC’s headquarters in Geneva, the Swiss president of the organisation, Jakob Kellenberger, said it was unlikely that any hospitals were still functioning in Baghdad. “The ICRC is profoundly alarmed…

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Police smoke out cross-border cannabis trade

This content was published on Apr 11, 2003 Officers confiscated cannabis – much of it destined for Italy – with an estimated street value of about SFr25 million ($18 million). In a series of raids over the past few weeks, Swiss police seized more than 400 kilogrammes of cannabis and 130,000 plants. Police said the one of the main aims of “Operation Indoor”…

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Iraq: from chaos to post-war order

This content was published on Apr 11, 2003 However several Swiss experts have questioned whether the US-led forces are equipped for the job, given that the armed conflict has not ended. Military operations continue to unfold north of Baghdad and in the country’s south, where pockets of resistance remain. “The war has been won, but the war is not yet over,” Victor Mauer,…

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The many faces of Derain go on show in Lausanne

This content was published on Apr 10, 2003 It explores the four periods of the French artist’s extensive and very varied production: Fauvism, early Cubism, Neo-Classicism and Primitivism. The show brings together over 100 works ranging from sculptures and drawings to ceramics and paintings to illustrate the different phases in Derain’s artistic development. As the first exhibition on Derain in Switzerland for 50…

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Swiss step up search for lost tourists

This content was published on Apr 9, 2003 The missing Swiss are just one of six groups of European travellers that have vanished without a trace in Algeria in the past six weeks. Altogether, 29 tourists from Switzerland, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Sweden have gone missing in the same area of the Sahara Desert. All set off at different times and from…

Culture

Swiss art stretches reality

This content was published on Apr 9, 2003 The show is part of the swisspeaks festival – an eight-week event in the Big Apple celebrating Swiss creativity in the arts, culture and business. The Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art is displaying 11 exhibits – many of them by Swiss artists. The exhibition curator, Marc-Olivier Wahler, says the show is all about pushing reality…

Swiss firms respond to virus threat

This content was published on Apr 9, 2003 Many firms have imposed restrictions on workers travelling to affected countries in an effort to avoid spreading the illness. Novartis is asking its employees not to travel to Hong Kong or to the Chinese province of Guangdong, where Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) is thought to have originated. In addition, the pharmaceutical concern has told…

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