Swiss Identity

The breathtaking photos that showed Switzerland to the world

This content was published on Jul 7, 2017 Dizzying bridges, amazing mountain panoramas and the almost deserted streets of Zurich: this is how Switzerland was seen in the early days of tourism.

Culture

‘I had to learn that failing goes with the job’

This content was published on Jul 7, 2017 Peter Zumthor, the Swiss architect behind the new Los Angeles County Museum of Art, explains how hard it is to accept democratic processes.

Education

Let the summer holidays begin – Aarau-style!

This content was published on Jul 7, 2017 As has been the tradition for more than 400 years, excited schoolchildren in Aarau, northern Switzerland. have celebrated the Maienzug.

Photographers take pictures of artwork from the Gurlitt collection in Bern

Culture

First glimpse of controversial art collection

This content was published on Jul 7, 2017 The Museum of Fine Arts in Bern offered the Swiss media its first opportunity to look over some of the Cornelius Gurlitt collection.

Demographics

Swiss failing to control obesity levels

This content was published on Jul 7, 2017 In 2015, 107.7 million children (under 20) and 603.7 million adults were obese worldwide, according to a global study on the health effects of obesity, published on June 12 in the New England Journal of Medicine. The overall obesity rate was 5% among children (under 20) and 12% among adults, the researchers found. Among adults,…

Children in Switzerland, their situation is good but there is still work to do on their rights

Demographics

Swiss ‘still have work to do’ on child rights

This content was published on Jul 7, 2017 Switzerland ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 20 years ago.

Demographics

Skin lightening: why do Tamil women do it?

This content was published on Jul 6, 2017 Tama Vakeesan was born in Switzerland to Tamil parents from Sri Lanka. This week, she investigates why Tamil women want to look paler. (SRF Kulturplatz/swissinfo.ch)

Demographics

Slow take-off in compensation of forced child workers

This content was published on Jul 6, 2017 Fewer people than expected have applied to receive reparations through a government program to compensate so-called “discarded children.”

Two bird feathers mainly black with a white tip

Culture

Feather thief behind bars after CHF6 million museum raids

This content was published on Jul 5, 2017 The Basel court heard how he had raided museums in Basel and Neuchatel in Switzerland, as well as Munich, Stuttgart, Frankfurt and Berlin in Germany, and Vienna, Austria. On some occasions he ripped off whole wings from stuffed bird exhibits. The final bill for the damage caused was estimated at CHF6 million ($6.2 million), a figure…

Demographics

Cabinet wants restrictions on foreign doctors

This content was published on Jul 5, 2017 The government has presented plans to introduce additional quality controls and language tests to keep in check the number of medical doctors.

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