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Football authorities suspend four players after brawl

This content was published on Oct 31, 2000 The two Sion players sent off in the last minutes of the match, Joel Magnin (bad foul) and Zlatomir Zagorcic (unsporting behaviour) were suspended for two and three matches respectively. Two Lugano players, Stéphane Grichting and Bertrand Fayolle, were both suspended for four games after television footage showed them involved in scuffles following Magnin’s red…

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Nidegger returns to court in Grossrieder affair

This content was published on Oct 30, 2000 The general prosecutor, Anne Colliard Arnaud, filed a case against Nidegger in July. He has been ordered to appear before a criminal tribunal, according to judge André Waeber. During the Grossrieder trial, Nidegger declared several times that he was not present at the first questioning of the drugs squad head on March 20 1998. It…

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Kuoni undertakes major restructuring

This content was published on Oct 30, 2000 The accounting system will remain the same however, Kuoni said, in order to facilitate comparisons with past years’ performances. New operational groups are due to be created. Notably, the “Charter” group (including Switzerland, Scandinavia, and Austria), the separate group “Specialist on Great Britain and the United States”, which will reorganise the tour operators in the…

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Comic strip informs Swiss girls of contraception choices

This content was published on Oct 30, 2000 The cartoon, entitled One Day, A Flower, is aimed at girls aged 15 to 19 and addresses one of the key problems facing adolescents and one which they often find hard to talk about: what kind of contraception are we going to use? “We’ve taken the opportunity to make information about effective methods of contraception…

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Leading banks establish anti-money laundering principles

This content was published on Oct 30, 2000 The new guidelines were announced in Zurich on Monday by 11 banks and by Transparency International (TI), the global anti-corruption organisation. The package has been seen partly as a bid to counter allegations that the banks are not doing enough to prevent dirty money entering the global financial system. The guidelines are intended to help…

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Federer climbs into top 25

This content was published on Oct 30, 2000 Federer was beaten in five sets by Sweden’s Thomas Enqvist in the final of the Swiss Indoors tournament on Sunday. But Federer’s performances throughout the week were enough to lift him to 25th in the rankings, a climb of nine places. Swiss number two Marc Rosset also moved up the list, after reaching the semi-finals…

New Swiss film put forward for Oscar

This content was published on Oct 30, 2000 Koller already has one Oscar to his name after winning the best foreign film award for “Reise der Hoffnung” (Journey of Hope) in 1991. “Gripsholm”, a biography of the German poet, Kurt Tucholsky, opened at Swiss cinemas earlier this month to mixed reviews. Koller said he chose to make a film about the Berlin-born writer…

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Exhibition unveils real-life Agatha Christie mystery

This content was published on Oct 30, 2000 “Agatha Christie and the Orient – Criminology and Archaeology” tells the story of how the author developed a deep interest in Middle East excavations, and even drew inspiration from them for her fiction-writing. It began in 1928 when after reading an article in the Illustrated London News about excavations at Ur, in Iraq, she decided…

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Berne-Montreux team present Olympic bid

This content was published on Oct 30, 2000 Three days before the Thursday deadline, the organisers of the combined Berne-Montreux bid set out their stall, saying that their campaign’s strength lay in its national appeal. With sporting locations spread across seven cantons, the proposal is being touted as the first Swiss Olympic bid to bridge the country’s linguistic divide. The rival bid centres…

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A milestone for Swiss tourism

This content was published on Oct 30, 2000 The creators of the Milestone Tourism Prize hope it will become the Oscar for Switzerland’s most glamorous industry. More than 70 projects were submitted for the two prizes to be awarded for excellence. The jury has narrowed the field to 10, which include everything from a hotel for children to a unique partnership between an…

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