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Swiss Light begins burning over London

This content was published on May 12, 2000 The light on top of the museum’s 110-metre high chimney is apparently visible from all over London, and sends a shaft of light down through a special glass roof into the museum. It was financed by the Swiss government-sponsored Commission for the Presence of Switzerland Abroad at a cost of SFr750,000, and according to the…

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Lausanne through to finals of Swiss football cup

This content was published on May 12, 2000 The 1999 cup winners were the favourites, and had the added advantage of playing at home. The side virtually secured their victory within the first twenty minutes of the game, thanks to two goals scored by Poland’s Marcin Kuzba. Although Lausanne dominated the game, Lugano did manage to answer the stronger side in the second…

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Basel victory deprives St Gallen of lead needed to take championship

This content was published on May 12, 2000 The Basel side may have had a slight psychological edge when they came out onto the field against Sankt Gallen. The team from eastern Switzerland have had an unbroken record of victories since last October, when they last met Basel – and were thrashed 4:1. Friday night’s match was not quite as bad, ending in…

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Protecting civilians in conflicts

This content was published on May 11, 2000 The key theme of the two-day meeting is Human Security; a term used to define a series of proposals aimed at protecting the individual from threats of violence in conflicts. Ambassador Raimund Kunz from the Swiss foreign ministry underlines the urgency of the problem: “The civilian population is the first and most important victim of…

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Lugano manager calls for Calais spirit

This content was published on May 11, 2000 Although Lugano are the underdogs, trainer Roberto Morinini is looking to France for inspiration, where the amateur side, Calais, made it to the final. Morinini said the epic run of the French amateurs proved the value of cup competitions. The Calais analogy may have been more apt than Morinini thought, but for the wrong reasons.…

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Foreigners and crime

This content was published on May 11, 2000 Produced by the Federal Statistics Office along with the Federal Foreigners Office and the Federal Refugee Office, the report looked at the criminal statistics for 1997. It found that around 45 per cent of the almost 64,000 people found guilty of crimes that year were foreign nationals. Within the statistics there were some striking contrasts.…

Pharmaceutical Roche plans to slash costs of AIDS drugs

This content was published on May 11, 2000 The companies are negotiating the scheme as part of a United Nations initiative to respond to the AIDS crisis in Africa. The deal would be a major move towards making the drugs affordable for millions of people at prices lower than in the West and even beneath those now available at reduced rates to African…

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Swiss ice hockey hopes dashed after Canadian defeat

This content was published on May 11, 2000 Coming in as the under-dogs, Switzerland kept their opponents on their toes during the quarter-final action at the Ice Palace in St Petersburg. Canada said that Switzerland’s form kept them playing like spectators. Canada scored first after the Swiss gave the puck away in their own end with just 16 seconds left in the first…

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Tracing the dependence of Swiss authors on French publishers

This content was published on May 11, 2000 It tells the story of the relationship between Swiss authors and the Paris publishing house, Gallimard, which organised the exhibition in collaboration with the Swiss National Library. “Gallimard is unique,” says library director Jean-Frédéric Jauslin, “in the sense of the high number of famous authors whose works are published by it, and also because of…

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Queen Elizabeth opens Tate Modern

This content was published on May 11, 2000 The architects have come in for almost universal praise for their work on converting the former power station into a massive, light-filled SFr350 million museum, facing St Paul’s cathedral on the other side of the river. The Tate Modern has been described by a leading British newspaper as the “cathedral of cool”. The Swiss interior…

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