By News Desk -December 14, 2021 Two mountaineers are chasing the same record on the world’s highest mountains. Gelje Sherpa, 29, of Nepal and Shehroze Kashif, 19, of Pakistan are both trying to […]
Human rights experts have welcomed the repatriation this week of two Swiss girls from a camp in northeast Syria. But they say Switzerland should be doing more about suspected Swiss […]
The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has flagged up a rise in racist hate speech over social media channels in Switzerland.This content was published on […]
The Bremgarten cemetery in Bern is one of few in Switzerland offering people of diverse world religions and belief systems a final resting place. A tour of the grounds reveals […]
Last year 2.766 million people – 38% of Switzerland’s permanent resident population aged 15 and over – had a migration background, 0.3 percentage points more than in 2019.This content was […]
A clear majority has backed the government’s coronavirus policy after voting on the issue for the second time this year.This content was published on November 28, 2021 – 18:06November 28, […]
(The Jakarta Post) – ● Fri, November 26, 2021 SwissCham Indonesia has signed a letter of intent (LoI) with the Swiss government agency Swisscontact, which is implementing the […]
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The COP26 summit approved a climate deal late Saturday evening. But the watered-down ambitions on the end of coal subsidies left many delegates frustrated, including Switzerland.This content was published on November […]
History A Swiss climatologist and a climate historian have written a book about the climate over the past 1,000 years. Their message: the climate situation today has no equivalent. This content […]
Foreign affairs This is the story of how an Egyptian businessman living in an Italian enclave in Switzerland ended up in the crosshairs of the Swiss and American judiciary. This content was published […]
As you lie in slumber, your spirit body snaps free and drifts upward while your physical shell is left lonely on the bed below, connected only by a fragile, silvery […]
One in three Swiss workers were over the age of 50 in 2020, according to the Federal Statistical Office (FSO). The unemployment rate for people in the 50-64 age bracket is […]
Two decades of the “War on Terror” has had a drastic effect on the lives of Muslims in western countries.This content was published on September 21, 2021 – 09:00September 21, 2021 – […]
Swiss Nobel laureate Didier Queloz and Swiss-German astrophysicist Sascha Quanz plan to study the origins of life at a new centre in Zurich. What exactly do the researchers hope to […]
Culture “Rösti ditch” and “Polenta ditch” is how the Swiss refer to their linguistic boundaries – where German, French or Italian stop being the main languages. But the reality is […]
It’s an economist’s conundrum: global capital, instead of flowing from rich countries to poor countries, actually moves in the other direction. Each year hundreds of billions of dollars leave developing […]
Foreign affairs The debate on decolonising aid is pushing Switzerland to question how it is approaching development work. This content was published on October 5, 2021 – 09:00October 5, 2021 – […]
Little more than a month after the departure of American troops from Afghanistan, people in the country are struggling to pay for basic necessities as foreign cash dries up. Can […]
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has sent a letter to Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis asking Switzerland to accept more people fleeing Afghanistan.This content was published on September […]