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Bern’s slumdog rickshaw driver

This content was published on May 13, 2016 It is a perfect spring afternoon in Bern with clear skies and abundant sunshine. The city’s railway station area is buzzing with human and vehicle traffic as the work day comes to an end. Amidst the orderly crowd, stands a vehicle that looks like nothing else around – a cycle-rickshaw. It belongs to 39-year-old Lal…

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Sports, hidden assets challenge corruption fight

This content was published on May 12, 2016 Switzerland was among 50 countries that signed an agreementExternal link in London on Thursday reinforcing their commitment to fighting corruption. In the wake of revelations about vast offshore accounts in the Panama Papers data leak, Britain took steps to combat dirty money in the real estate industry by requiring that “foreign companies who own or…

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Wisconsin’s Swiss voice goes off the air

This content was published on May 12, 2016 This portrait of Bernet from the book “Westward – Encounters with Swiss American Women”, originally published in 2010, looks back on her remarkable career and journey from Switzerland to the United States. She deftly adjusts the controls of the studio soundboard: “Good afternoon, it’s time for our Swiss folklore program on station WEKZ. I hope…

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Number of retired people expected to rise sharply

This content was published on May 12, 2016 Over the next thirty years, almost all cantons – with the exception of Uri – will see population growth, mainly as a result of people reaching retirement age or arrivals from other cantons or abroad. Cantons Fribourg, Vaud, Thurgau, Valais, Zurich (+1.5-1.8 million) and Aargau will witness the greatest total population increases (+25%), the office…

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How a longer lifespan can be a curse

This content was published on May 12, 2016 Since the 70s, the life expectancy for a Swiss has been extended by ten years. Demographers say children now have a 50% chance of reaching 100. But elderly people often suffer from degenerative illnesses that make them dependent on help, so the longer lifespan can be a curse rather than a blessing. This is one…

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Swiss go to Cannes with two animated films

This content was published on May 11, 2016 In the Directors’ Fortnight section, My Life as a Courgette will have its world premiere, while Whatever the Weather will appear as part of the Cinéfondation screenings. My life as a Courgette, by director Claude Barras, is based on the book, Autobiography of a Courgette, by French author and journalist Gilles Paris. It tells the…

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No trace found of alleged Swiss deal with PLO

This content was published on May 11, 2016 There had been allegations of undue government interference in a criminal judicial investigation into a bomb attack on a Swiss national airline passenger plane outside Zurich in February 1970, according to a statement published by the foreign ministry on Wednesday. Last February, a panel including representatives from several government ministries, was set up with a…

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Swiss hooligans stopped from travelling to Euro 2016

This content was published on May 10, 2016 The Swiss police have set up a special unit to monitor the 780 known troublemakers – who have received Swiss stadium bans – in order to prevent them from attending Euro 2016 matches in France, which takes place from June 10 to July 10. “If a dangerous person wants to attend a match, we can…

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Plane hijacker sentenced to psychiatric care

This content was published on May 9, 2016 During Monday’s sentencing, the judge deemed the defendant’s risk of relapse to be high and so sentenced him to undergo therapy while under guard in canton Geneva. The pilot is already receiving treatment for paranoid schizophrenia and was not present at the sentencing hearing. The defence team had asked that the pilot be set free…

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Platini to resign after latest CAS verdict

This content was published on May 9, 2016 In a much-awaited but damning verdictExternal link, CAS lowered his sanction from six to four years on Monday but said Platini was guilty of a conflict of interest for taking a CHF2 million ($2 million) payment from world football’s governing body FIFA, approved by former FIFA President Sepp Blatter in 2011. This occurred eight years…

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