Swiss Identity

Swiss log on to email surveillance

This content was published on Apr 1, 2003 The move has been criticised by experts who say it will be both difficult and costly to implement. Critics also argue that loopholes in the legislation will allow criminals to slip the net. ISPs have had over a year to comply with a change in the law under which they will now log customer activity,…

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Dip into Baden’s historical spas

This content was published on Apr 1, 2003 The country is awash with natural springs and, as elsewhere in Europe, it was the Romans who first tapped into the thermal waters. It’s been a while since a Swiss politician took his clothes off to sign a treaty with a foreign country. News of such dealings in a thermal bath would make a real…

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War victims’ list sparks furore

This content was published on Mar 31, 2003 Human rights groups say the list could be used for propaganda, while opponents accuse Calmy-Rey of using the war as a political platform in an election year. The foreign ministry was not willing to comment on the list ahead of its planned publication, expected in the next few days. But Calmy-Rey told the weekend press…

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Adrian Weyermann: La Poeta

This content was published on Mar 31, 2003

Swiss back business training for boffins

This content was published on Mar 31, 2003 The BBT is sponsoring courses aimed at teaching business skills to technical students across the country. Called CREATE, the program is an outgrowth of a successful set of courses running at universities in Lausanne and Geneva, the brainchild of former entrepreneur, Jane Royston. The first two courses begin this week in Zurich. A seven-day workshop…

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Dialogue Bach-Honegger. Bach: Musical Offering, The Art of Fugue. A. Honegger (1892-1955): Hymn for Strings, Largo for String Orch., Prélude, Arioso et Fughette sur BACH, Symphony No. 2 for String Orchestra. Festival Strings Lucerne, Dir. Achim Fiedler

This content was published on Mar 31, 2003

Education

Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne

This content was published on Mar 31, 2003 But right from the very beginning, what later became the Federal Institute of Technology had a reputation for being very selective. November 7, 1853: a year before Zurich, Lausanne inaugurated the embryonic form of the future institute. Founded by private citizens, on the model of the Ecole Centrale in Paris, the school envisaged training “builders…

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EXPRESSIVE! is impressive in Riehen

This content was published on Mar 30, 2003 It has transformed a limited chapter in art history (1905-1914) into a fundamental theme running through the past 100 years. “´EXPRESSIVE!’ combines the old with the new, which is a trademark of the Foundation Beyeler,” curator Markus Brüderlin told swissinfo. “The old must be acknowledged as a yardstick for the new but the classical also…

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Swiss couple convicted for child sex abuse in India

This content was published on Mar 29, 2003 The two Swiss, both in their fifties, were arrested in 2000 for taking nude photographs of poor street children who approached them for food and money. The husband and wife were also found guilty of six charges including kidnapping, outraging the modesty of young children, attempting to destroy evidence and criminal intention to induce children…

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ICRC fears hidden humanitarian crisis in Iraq

This content was published on Mar 28, 2003 But ICRC said on Monday it had begun visiting Iraqi prisoners of war held by United States-led forces near the southern town of Umm Qasr. “What really worries us is what’s happening in all the cities where we’re not present, like Nassiriya, and from which we’re getting very little information,” ICRC spokesman, Florian Westphal, told…

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