OCT 20, 2016 A teenager in a transition center at Davos awaiting asylum earlier this year (Keystone) Some 20 youths who left their home country as political refugees without their parents gained an audience – and pushed for more latitude and rights – at the federal parliament building with […]
SWISS TV INTERVIEW OCT 20, 2016 – 11:38 Assad has said that taking the city of Aleppo from rebel forces would act as a springboard to ‘push terrorists back to Turkey’ (AFP) Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad told Swiss public television, SRF, that fighting ‘terrorists’ in Aleppo was the only […]
OCT 18, 2016 – Asylum seekers play cards in a chalet near Villars-sur-Ollon in the Vaud Alps (Keystone) Requests for asylum in Switzerland were down by almost half in the third quarter of the year compared to the same period in 2015, the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) reported […]
Pilgrimage from China to Oerlikon By Thomas Kern, Luigi Jorio POLITICS Religion Several thousand people gathered in Zurich on October 14 to see the Dalai Lama, the highest authority in […]
OCT 16, 2016 – Around 250 people attended the ceremony in Echallens (Keystone) Two Buddhist temples in Switzerland conducted special religious ceremonies to mourn the death of Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Around 250 people attended the special ceremony held at the Buddhist temple in Echallens in the canton of Vaud […]
File photo: Martin Abegglen Published: 12 Oct 2016 The Swiss people will go to the polls next February to vote on whether it should be easier for third generation immigrants […]
ISLAMIC STATE OCT 15, 2016 – Since 2001, 77 Swiss have left the country for conflict regions to take part in jihad (Keystone) According to Markus Seiler, head of the Federal Intelligence Service (FIS), hardly anyone from Switzerland wants to join the Islamic State (IS) anymore. In an interview with […]
It was just one year after the second world war ended, which brought death and destruction over Europe, when three young Muslim Missionaries from British India, arriving via England, stopped over in Switzerland on 13th October 1946. The actual destination was Germany, but at that moment the entry was […]
AUTOMATED PRODUCTION Robots promise cure for Swiss manufacturing blues By Matthew Allen OCT 12, 2016 – 11:00 ABB’s YuMi robot can work, uncaged, alongside humans (AFP) It is hoped that robots can stem, or even reverse creeping deindustrialisation. An automated future is already becoming a reality in Switzerland. Squeezed by […]
BHUMIBOL OBITUARY The late Thai king’s youth in Switzerland By Luigi Jorio OCT 13, 2016 King Bhumibol of Thailand, who reigned for seven decades, died in hospital aged 88(Keystone) Thailand’s […]
Flouting the rules? Photo: AFP, Richard Juilliard Geneva police to lift ban on bearded officers Published: 07 Oct 2016 10:12 GMT+02:00 Canton Geneva police intend to fall into line with the rest of the country and lift a centuries-old ban on officers sporting beards, in a move likely to please […]
CHARLES DUTOIT AT 80 By Rodrigo Carrizo Couto, Morges CULTURE OCT 7, 2016 – 20:00 Charles Dutoit: “I am not interested in anyone dedicating a street in my name or erecting a statue in a square” (Reuters) Swiss conductor Charles Dutoit rarely gives interviews. But on the occasion of his 80th […]
“YOU’RE HIRED!” Swiss-backed show helps Kosovars find jobs SOCIETY Work http://tp.srgssr.ch/p/inline?urn=urn:swi:video:42474522 EMBED CODE OCT 7, 2016 – 11:00 Swiss development aid is being used to help finance a Kosovo TV show in which young unemployed people pitch for a job. (SRF/swissinfo.ch) Candidates learn how to write a CV and to […]
MIGRATION SERIES (PART 4) By Duc-Quang Nguyen OCT 6, 2016 – 16:17 The free movement of people accord is in the line of fire as Europe battles with its migration crisis. But which European countries have more people leaving than arriving? We took a look at the data. It’s over […]
JAEGER-LECOULTRE By Anand Chandrasekha OCT 4, 2016 Could the face that launched several Indian films also be the one painted on an iconic Swiss watch? (Nikhil Dhanrajgir) Sébastien Marcel is an unlikely judge of beauty queens, but his face recognition expertise could finally solve the identity of an Indian woman […]
OCT 5, 2016 – Fierce gun battles have played out around Kunduz in recent days (Keystone) Switzerland will continue funding humanitarian projects in Afghanistan to the tune of CHF26 million ($26.6 million) per year until 2020, a conference in Brussels was told. Thomas Greminger, head of the Swiss delegation […]
By Christina Warren in Bern OCT 4, 2016 – 11:00 Giving up her citizenship was a painful process for Christina Warren (Reuters) In 2014, Christina Warren made the difficult decision to renounce her US citizenship. The process, she says, was preceded by angst, anger and grief, followed by a period […]
WORK INTEGRATION How Graubünden integrates asylum seekers in the job market SOCIETY http://tp.srgssr.ch/p/inline?urn=urn:swi:video:42438540 EMBED CODE OCT 3, 2016 – 17:00 People fleeing conflict or persecution have to battle to be recognised as refugees by countries like Switzerland. It’s another challenge to integrate into a foreign culture, especially without a job. […]
Source: The Local A family’s much-loved cat who went missing from her home in the north-eastern Swiss city of St Gallen more than a year ago has been found 600 kilometres away in Bonn, Germany. More:
GULF TOURISTS IN GENEVA ‘I avoid places where the niqab is banned’ By Jasmine Kannouna SEP 29, 2016 – 20:00 Tourists from the Gulf make up a significant source of income for Switzerland (Keystone) An initiative to ban full-face veils has split Swiss politics, but veiled tourists interviewed by swissinfo.ch […]