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Ai Weiwei to make a film on Europe’s refugee crisis

This content was published on Apr 27, 2016 Speaking in the Swiss capital Bern, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has described the European refugee situation as a “test for humanity”.

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How contemporary Chinese art mirrors change

This content was published on Apr 27, 2016 New wealth, mobility, consumerism, spiritual emptiness, and the loneliness of only children are leaving their mark on Chinese art.

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Parliament strikes down paternity leave plan

This content was published on Apr 27, 2016 The proposal, from centrist Christian Democratic parliamentarian Martin Candinas, called for new fathers to be given leave paid at 80% of their salary for a period of two weeks after their child is born. The incurred costs of about CHF200 million ($205 million) annually would be assumed collectively by employers through the income replacement fund. …

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Lawmakers approve reparations for child victims

This content was published on Apr 27, 2016 Whereas the initiative calls for the creation of a CHF500 million ($514 million) reparation fund, the government counterproposal would create a fund of CHF300 million to be distributed to an estimated 12,000 to 15,000 victims, with each person receiving a maximum of CHF25,000. The counterproposal was seen as the better alternative by a majority of…

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Provenance research at Bern’s Kunstmuseum

This content was published on Apr 27, 2016

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Mummy portraits stolen by Nazis returned to heirs

This content was published on Apr 26, 2016 Following an investigation by the university in 2015, it was discovered that two mummy portraits in its possession had been illegally taken from Erna Felicia and Hans Lachmann-Mosse, the daughter and son-in-law of Berlin publisher Rudolf Mosse, ‘on racial grounds’ shortly after the Nazis came to power in 1933. The portraits of a young woman…

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stolen art

This content was published on Apr 26, 2016

Learning to be a couple while caring for a sick child

This content was published on Apr 26, 2016 Anna of Bern and Remco of Amsterdam met at a Brazilian folkdance weekend in Paris in April 2014. Like many intercultural couples, they started with “a lot of EasyJet flights”, but soon decided they were ready for a deeper commitment. Both wanted children. And when they learned that Anna was pregnant, it made the decision…

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Using music to help premature infants

This content was published on Apr 26, 2016 The neonatal intensive care unit at Bern’s university hospital is open and airy. Sunlight shines into the room from above. Nurses sit in a row at the entrance, overseeing a room full of incubators and keeping track of physiological data on numerous screens in front of them. Here and there, parents sit beside the high-tech…

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Diccon Bewes

This content was published on Apr 26, 2016 Author of the best-selling book ‘Swiss Watching’, Diccon Bewes addresses the kinds of questions often asked by expats in Switzerland. A self-confessed chocoholic, Diccon is a resident of the Swiss capital, Bern. He’s found the city to be a great base for exploring the country in order to write about it, and – for swissinfo.ch – to make videos. Diccon’s other books include ‘Around Switzerland in 80 Maps’ and ‘Slow Train to Switzerland’, which tells the story of the first conducted tour of Switzerland in 1863 and what it’s like to do that tour today. Follow Diccon on Twitter @dicconb

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