File photo: Martin Abegglen Published: 08 Sep 2016 Some people in Switzerland can be left ‘stateless’ when the authorities withdraw their Swiss passport on suspicion of a sham marriage, the Tages Anzeiger has reported. Under Swiss rules, a foreign national who obtained Swiss citizenship through marriage to a Swiss can […]
BUSINESS SCHOOL University of St Gallen tops FT 2016 masters in management rankings By Laurent Ortmans, Financial Times SEP 12, 2016 – 08:25 A management symposium at St Gallen (Keystone) The University of St Gallen’s domination of the Financial Times’ ranking of masters in management courses continues for another year. […]
http://tp.srgssr.ch/p/inline?urn=urn:swi:video:42422844 EMBED CODE SEP 9, 2016 – 17:00 A new museum near Lake Geneva dedicated to the life and work of filmmaker Charlie Chaplin is proving a hit with visitors from Switzerland and abroad. (rts/swisisnfo.ch/jh) Since its opening in April, the museum above the town of Vevey has attracted 25,000 […]
SEP 10, 2016 – An asylum seeker shows his refugee route from his home country to Switzerland (Keystone) Switzerland’s top migration official says 50% to 60% of those seeking asylum in the country vanished over the summer. Mario Gattiker, who oversees the State Secretariat for Migration, told reporters on […]
By Tech DeskPublished: September 8, 2016 Pakistan is among the least innovative countries in the world, a report released last month has revealed. According to the Global Innovation Index (GII) […]
Child refugees in Greece have missed 18 months of their education on average, with one in five never having been to school. But on one island, a Swiss organisation has […]
IN CASE OF EMERGENCY By Jo Fahy SEP 1, 2016 – 11:00 The bunker has seven levels underground, staff would have entered through this tunnel (swissinfo.ch) The Swiss city of Lucerne was once home to the biggest civilian bunker in the world. Built to shelter 20,000 people in the case […]
ARTISTIC STATEMENT SEP 7, 2016 – Crosses are a familiar sight on Swiss mountain tops(Keystone) An artist has posed the question of why so many mountain peaks are dominated […]
MIGRATION SERIES (PART 1) Defining the 25% foreign population in Switzerland By Duc-Quang Nguyen AUG 31, 2016 For the first time, Switzerland has 2 million foreigners living in its midst. As of last year, these non-Swiss – often the subject of political debate – accounted for nearly a quarter of the nation’s […]
Ben Moshinsky Aug. 21, 2016, 10:30 AM AP If you want a university degree that boosts your earning power, go and study in Switzerland. Swiss universities occupy the top four spots of Emolument.com‘s table of European colleges with the highest earning graduates. The University of St. Gallen, known for its […]
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS Germany bemoans Swiss-transited asylum seekers AUG 17, 2016 – 21:43 Asylum seekers arriving in Switzerland from Italy (Keystone) German officials have complained that the border with Switzerland has more holes than a “Swiss cheese” as asylum seekers head north across the Alps, despite the best efforts of Swiss […]
File photo: C Carlstead Geneva advises teachers on religion in school Published: 24 Aug 2016 12:03 GMT+02:00 As children start the new school year, the secular canton of Geneva has issued guidelines for teachers on how to deal with religious issues in the classroom. Italian ‘ignored’ by Swiss schools in […]
Arms forum Aug 22, 2016 – Switzerland is an active player in the global arms trade (Keystone) Swiss President Johann Schneider-Ammann has called on all signatories to the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) to work together to ensure that global rules are followed in the sale of weapons and munitions. Opening […]
Source: Time By David Rising BERLIN (AP) — The man who attacked passengers on a crowded Swiss train with a knife and burning liquid died of his wounds Sunday, as did […]
File photo: Patrick Denker Women shoppers flout burqa ban in Ticino Published: 04 Aug 2016 09:31 GMT+02:00 The new ban against the Islamic face veil (niqab) and full-length burqa in the canton of Ticino is not being effectively enforced, according to reports. The ban, which forbids the attire in public […]
BLOCKED By Gerhard Lob in Como and Chiasso AUG 5, 2016 – 16:29 Not all migrants are allowed to cross the Swiss-Italian border (Keystone) More and more migrants who want to travel via Switzerland to northern Europe are becoming stranded in Como, Italy, just a few kilometres from the Swiss […]
nder cover of darkness, they beached their small, lateen-rigged sailing vessel on the rocky shore and began the slow, silent climb to the manor house on the hill. Storm clouds shrouded the moon, darkening the coastal Mediterranean landscape; sporadic rain and gusting winds concealed the sailors’ approach. They were 20 […]
UNVEILED IN TICINO Few problems in first month of burka ban By swissinfo.ch, with input from Gerhard Lob, Ticino AUG 4, 2016 – 15:57 The police fined Nora Illi for defying the headgear ban. (Keystone/Ti-Press) It’s been a month since a so-called burka ban took effect in Switzerland’s Italian-speaking canton, […]
FACE COVERINGS By swissinfo.ch and agencies AUG 2, 2016 – 21:33 Police in Locarno cautioning a member of the Islamic Central Council Switzerland on July 1, the day a ban on face coverings in canton Ticino came into effect (Keystone) Banning the wearing of face coverings is a question of […]
File photo: Martin Abegglen Published: 02 Aug 2016 Members of Switzerland’s Socialist Party (SP) are volunteering to be “naturalization advisers” under a new campaign to help foreigners in the country […]