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Sommaruga represents Switzerland in New York

This content was published on Sep 27, 2015 Swiss president Simonetta Sommaruga is in New York City this weekend to support the adoption of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Culture

Over 400 alphorn players make music, history in Milan

This content was published on Sep 26, 2015 The Swiss made history today when 420 musicians gathered in the Piazza del Duomo in Milan, Italy, for the largest-ever alphorn concert performed outside of Switzerland.

Marc-André Perrin, teacher for migrant children

Education

Teaching migrant children, one day at a time

This content was published on Sep 26, 2015 Since last autumn 150 people have been living in the Schaffhausen transit centre in the Emmenthal. Among them, 20 children. Every day they travel to the school in the neighboring village, accompanied by three mothers. The children have come a long way: Eritrea, the Ukraine, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Syria. The refugee children are in…

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Swiss London

This content was published on Sep 26, 2015

Attorney General opens criminal proceedings against Blatter

This content was published on Sep 25, 2015 The Swiss Attorney General's office has opened criminal proceedings against outgoing FIFA president Sepp Blatter. He is being investigated on suspicion of criminal mismanagement and misappropriation.

Culture

Tajikistan today

This content was published on Sep 25, 2015 A journey through Tajikistan with its rich natural habitat and incredibly diverse mix of traditional and modern.

Swiss government approves national diploma in yoga

This content was published on Sep 24, 2015 The September 9 State Secretariat for Education Research and Innovation (SERI) decision was welcomed on Thursday by the Organisation of Swiss Alternative Medicine Professionals (OdA KT), which will conduct the exams for the diploma. The five therapies selected by the government for the complementary medicine diploma are yoga, ayurveda, shiatsu, craniosacral therapy and eutony. The…

History

Online tool enables ‘time travel’

This content was published on Sep 24, 2015

Demographics

Attorney General gets access to Valcke’s emails

This content was published on Sep 24, 2015 Valcke denies allegations that he engineered a marketing contract to sell tickets at the 2014 World Cup at inflated prices and that he stood to personally gain financially from the deal. FIFA’s second most powerful executive and number two to President Sepp Blatter was put on leave on September 16 and is now subject to…

Demographics

Switzerland drops in global expat poll

This content was published on Sep 23, 2015 The report, entitled Expat ExplorerExternal link put the Alpine country behind the favorite Singapore, as well as New Zealand, Sweden, Bahrein, Germany, Taiwan and the United Arab Emirates. Respondents were asked to rate the countries where they live in terms of economic well-being – including salaries and job security – personal experiences and the family life.…

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