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Swiss suicide rate continues downward trend

This content was published on Oct 3, 2022 The year the Covid-19 pandemic hit, the number of suicides in the country fell below 1,000 for the first time since 1964.

Culture

Cinephiles flock to Zurich Film Festival

This content was published on Oct 3, 2022 The Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) remains the largest film festival in Switzerland, attracting 137,000 entries for the 18th edition.

Elderly person calculates their disposable income in Switzerland

Demographics

One in seven Swiss pensioners lives in poverty, study says

This content was published on Oct 2, 2022 Every seventh person over the age of 65 in Switzerland does not have enough money make ends meet, according to a study.

Culture

Swiss myths fall apart at the Zurich Film Festival

This content was published on Oct 2, 2022 From a portrait of ‘national painter’ Albert Anker to a fascist-hunting Heidi, the ZFF offers unconventional approaches to Swiss history.

Demographics

Top Swiss football clubs to reimburse Covid aid money

This content was published on Sep 30, 2022 Several professional football clubs in Switzerland that received extra funds for Covid-related losses must reimburse CHF4 million to the authorities.

Education

University of Geneva removes controversial building name

This content was published on Sep 30, 2022 The University of Geneva has decided to remove the name of “Carl Vogt”, a 19th-century naturalist accused of holding racist views, from a building.

Ann Demeester, the new director of the Zurich Museum of Fine Arts

Culture

The new director of Zurich’s Fine Arts Museum is not afraid to fail

This content was published on Sep 29, 2022 Belgian curator Ann Demeester takes over the direction of the city’s Museum of Fine Arts. She shares her vision for the historic art institution.

Demographics

Swiss willing to give up tumble-dryer but not hot showers

This content was published on Sep 28, 2022 If reductions in household energy-usage were to be enforced rather than recommended (as they are currently), the easiest thing to forgo would be the tumble-dryer: 63% of those polled said they could hang their laundry outside instead, the survey foundExternal link. The poll was run last week by the Leewas analysis group and involved some 16,000 participants.…

Culture

The South goes North: documenta15 turns the art world upside down

This content was published on Sep 28, 2022 The exhibition will go down in history as a milestone in the North–South artistic divide.

Demographics

Health insurance premiums to take biggest jump in a decade

This content was published on Sep 27, 2022 The cost of compulsory health insurance in Switzerland is to increase by an average of 6.6% in 2023.

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