Swiss Identity

‘I’m half-half … and I don’t care’

This content was published on Apr 17, 2015 Babylon 2 was the portrait of an era: the 1990s, urban development, multiculturalism, rap music, the spread of digital technology. It’s a hybrid documentary made with all the technology available: 16mm and 35mm film, video and digital technology. Revolutionary at the time, Samir’s documentary was selected by the Solothurn Film Festival as one of the…

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Swiss less religious but more interested in sects

This content was published on Apr 17, 2015 The proportion of Swiss who describe themselves as religious has decreased considerably over the past decade.

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swissinfo.ch gallery wins Swiss Press Photo award

This content was published on Apr 16, 2015 Faham is a village in northern Thailand, a few kilometres outside Chiang Mai. It’s here that ten years ago, Swiss citizen Martin Woodtli set up Baan Kamlangchay, a centre for people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and old-age dementia. His project began when his father killed himself, after he no longer felt able to look after…

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Exotic veggies could contain drug-resistant germs

This content was published on Apr 16, 2015 A quarter of the 169 vegetable samples imported into Switzerland from the four countries revealed one or more extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) producing bacteria called Enterobacteriaceae. Beta-lactamase provides antibiotic resistance by breaking down the antibiotics’ structure. Another cause for worry is that over 78% of the bacteria were multi-drug resistant, according to the scientific study published…

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Three generations of Dimitris on stage

This content was published on Apr 16, 2015

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Indian ‘scientrepreneurs’ pursue the Swiss dream

This content was published on Apr 16, 2015 It literally took a tsunami to convince former IBM Switzerland executive Anil Sethi to take the plunge and create Flisom, a company that develops highly-efficient, flexible solar modules. The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that claimed around 230,000 lives highlighted the potential of the technology to generate enough electricity to provide clean drinking water to the…

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US embassy crash widower awarded $1.7 million

This content was published on Apr 15, 2015 The Swiss government will pay $1.425 million, while civil liability insurance will cover the remaining $300,000, the foreign ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. The government took note of the agreement, which was reached by the lawyers of the victim’s husband and those of the Swiss embassy. The agreement thus brought the case to…

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Abuse reporting plan aims to boost child protection

This content was published on Apr 15, 2015 The proposed measures are aimed at ensuring that child protective services can intervene at an early stage, according to a statement by the justice ministry on Wednesday. Cabinet has proposed making the duty to report mandatory for adults who work with children on a professional basis, including child minders and sports coaches. So far, the…

Demographics

Swiss among Europe’s top e-shoppers

This content was published on Apr 14, 2015 In all, 62% of those polled, who were aged 16-74, said they had bought something online at least once in the three months before the survey was carried out, according to the results published on Tuesday. Only in Denmark (66%) and Britain (72%) was e-shopping more popular, the statistics office said. The European Union average…

Culture

Slow-exploding snowman predicts poor summer

This content was published on Apr 13, 2015 Summer 2015 will be a crummy one if you believe the forecast of a burning snowman.

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