Swiss Identity

Swiss practitioner first outsider to receive Ayurveda award

This content was published on Feb 21, 2017 The 54-year-old doctor, who is currently based in South India, received the Pandit Shiv Sharma Oration award from the Indian Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine in the Indian city of Varanasi on February 18. She is the first woman and first non-Indian to be conferred the honour. “I am happy to receive…

Demographics

‘Don’t come to Switzerland’ – the anti-tourism campaign

This content was published on Feb 21, 2017 A Swiss-funded television series set in Nigeria paints a very different picture of Switzerland from the usual tourism campaigns.

Demographics

Group arrested over attacks at Swiss mosque

This content was published on Feb 21, 2017 The group are alleged to have physically attacked and detained the two Muslims inside the mosque and threatened their families back in November 2016 after they gave information to journalists about an imam who called for non-practising Muslims to be killed. The people aged between 17 and 53 were arrested on Tuesday in Winterthur and…

Demographics

Pensions – what women need to know

This content was published on Feb 21, 2017 Many women in Switzerland work part time or not at all, often resulting in a small pension that is not enough to live on.

Demographics

Sauber celebrates 25 years in Formula One

This content was published on Feb 21, 2017 The wider and lower car has no carry-over parts from last season, reflecting the new aerodynamic and technical rules that should see faster lap times. Ferrari-powered SauberExternal link has only once won a Formula One race, in Canada in 2008 when BMW owned the team. It finished 10th of the 11 teams last season. Testing…

Demographics

Swiss economists suggest charging migrants a fee

This content was published on Feb 20, 2017 Rather than blocking their entry, nations should charge migrants a fee for being taken in, suggest Swiss economists.

Demographics

People-smugglers caught driving migrants across border

This content was published on Feb 20, 2017 The four suspects – aged between 21 and 39 years and legal residents of Italy – drove the migrants from Como in Italy to either Lugano in the Swiss canton of Ticino, or Zurich. In return for their services, they charged migrants a fee ranging from €90 to 150 (CHF96 to 160). The investigation into…

Demographics

Swiss sailor youngest to finish round-the-world race

This content was published on Feb 20, 2017 The 23-year-old, who set out on November 6 last year from Les Sables d’Olonne, near Nantes on France’s western coast, crossed the finish line at 09:12 on Monday morning after 105 days, 20 hours, 10 minutes and 30 seconds of arduous racing. “Twelfth. It’s funny because basically I found a racer inside of me. I…

Culture

Stories making the Swiss Sunday papers

This content was published on Feb 19, 2017 Advertising on public television, getting freight off the road and onto the rails, and the Swiss friend of the Berlin Christmas market attacker

Demographics

Unloved: wolves, arms makers and asylum seekers

This content was published on Feb 19, 2017 Here are some of the stories we’ll bring you the week of February 20.

Page 790 of 3172

First … 788 789 790 791 792 … Last

Swiss Identity

Popular Stories

Most Discussed

Sign in and personalize Swissinfo

Swiss Identity

More

Swiss practitioner first outsider to receive Ayurveda award

More

‘Don’t come to Switzerland’ – the anti-tourism campaign

More

Group arrested over attacks at Swiss mosque

More

Pensions – what women need to know

More

Sauber celebrates 25 years in Formula One

More

Swiss economists suggest charging migrants a fee

More

People-smugglers caught driving migrants across border

More

Swiss sailor youngest to finish round-the-world race

More

Stories making the Swiss Sunday papers

More

Unloved: wolves, arms makers and asylum seekers

Popular Stories

Most Discussed