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Temple offers oasis of enlightenment

This content was published on Dec 24, 2002 While elsewhere turkeys are being basted and presents wrapped, a group of monks sit meditating amid the peaceful surroundings of the biggest Buddhist centre in Europe. This is Wat Srinagarindravararam, home to five Thai monks and their abbot, the reverend Dr Thongsoon Rongthong. The brightly decorated roof of the new temple, which is due to…

Gingerbread cakes with the motifs of frosted bears, which are put on by hand, in the bakery of a tea room in Bern, Switzerland.

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Swiss tuck into movable feast

This content was published on Dec 24, 2002 But Switzerland does not have a single traditional dish. Regional specialities compete alongside more modern meals and conventions. It is traditional in Switzerland for families and friends to come together to celebrate Christmas. But what they eat varies. “In Switzerland, there is no classic Christmas meal,” Esther Infanger, a nutritionalist at the Swiss Foundation for…

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The Chaplin Project

This content was published on Dec 23, 2002 The project was officially launched earlier this year even though Italian researchers and film restorers began their work in 1999. Cecilia Cenciarelli, the co-ordinator of the Chaplin Project, spoke to swissinfo’s Dale Bechtel about its work and its aims. swissinfo: Why has an Italian archive been entrusted with the task of restoring Chaplin’s films and…

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Corum takes “Watch of the Year 2002” title

This content was published on Dec 23, 2002 The jury singled out Corum’s “Classical Heure Sautante” (jumping hour) for its superior technical and aesthetic qualities. Second and third prizes in the annual competition, organised by the “Montres Passion” and “Uhrenwelt” magazines, also went to watches from the town of La Chaux-de Fonds in canton Neuchâtel. Second place was taken by a model called…

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Swiss regret collapse of WTO drugs deal

This content was published on Dec 22, 2002 The talks in Geneva collapsed on Saturday after the United States blocked the deal, saying it was too flexible. The accord would have given millions of people in developing countries access to medicines for epidemics such as HIV/Aids and malaria. Switzerland – one of the worlds’ biggest exporters of pharmaceutical products – accepted the draft…

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Sleeping beauty

This content was published on Dec 21, 2002 Cramped, dilapidated and outdated, the museum is now facing a massive overhaul to bring it in line with its foreign competitors. “The museum certainly has character and history,” says director Andres Furger, “but in operational terms it comes nowhere near modern expectations. It was designed in the late 19th century and the concept of museums…

Christmas brings cold comfort to homeless

This content was published on Dec 21, 2002 The number of temporary beds has been increased in many cantons, and more emergency shelters have been opened. In Lausanne, the 60-year-old woman’s death shocked the authorities into action. “That really shook people up here and since then a lot more has been done to help homeless people,” says street priest, Étienne Visinand. At the…

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Apartheid era probe comes to an end

This content was published on Dec 20, 2002 This probe centred around allegations that the former head of the Swiss secret service, Peter Regli, helped the apartheid regime secure illegal drugs intended for crowd control. The probe was initiated after the former boss of South Africa’s chemical and biological weapons (CBW) programme, Wouter Basson, implicated Regli during his trial testimony. On the witness…

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