Continued plight of the ‘untouchables'
Source: Scoop
Geneva :: Switzerland | updated 2013-05-24 20:48:22 -0700 | political-news
They occupy the lowest levels of strict, hierarchical caste systems founded on notions of purity, pollution and inequality. They face marginalization, social and economic exclusion, segregation in housing, limited access to basic services including water and sanitation and employment, enforcement...
Old music becomes new art
Source: SwissInfo
Basel :: Switzerland | updated 2013-05-23 21:21:06 -0700 | political-news
Swiss Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf says a resolution may be not far off to end a long-running dispute with the United States over Swiss banks accused of helping wealthy Americans evade billions of dollars of taxes. [...] Changes at...
Mowasalat joins campaign to promote public transport
Source: Qatar English Daily
Geneva :: Switzerland | updated 2013-05-22 19:20:19 -0700 | political-news
Mowasalat has joined an international campaign to promote public transport. Grow with public transport. It offers guidance for decision makers, public transport authorities and transport companies on how to improve public transport and tools to help them implement sustainable mobility...
Amnesty International flags asylum law
Source: SwissInfo
Geneva :: Switzerland | updated 2013-05-22 12:51:45 -0700 | political-news
The report specifically cited as problematic the facts that individuals could no longer apply for asylum at Swiss embassies abroad and that conscientious objection is no longer considered grounds for granting asylum. However, Amnesty International praised Switzerland's willingness to allow...
Swiss leader looks to Beijing
Source: China News
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-05-24 03:08:07 -0700 | political-news
Zurich, Switzerland ( China Daily) A prosperous, stable and peaceful China is important to Switzerland and the world, according to President of the Swiss Confederation Ueli Maurer. His comments come ahead of official visits by Premier Li Keqiang to Switzerland...
Trip to Europe elevates relations
Source: China News
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-05-22 12:42:44 -0700 | political-news
Li is to pay official visits to Switzerland and Germany from May 24 to 27, his first European trip as China's new head of government. As an important diplomatic tour by the new Chinese leadership, the trip to Europe by...
Cabinet drafts unique law on dictators' assets
Source: SwissInfo
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-05-22 10:45:49 -0700 | political-news
Illegal money Cabinet has presented a draft bill setting the rules for the freezing and restoring assets obtained illegally by foreign dictators and deposited in Switzerland. If approved by parliament, it will be the first law of its kind in...
'Please just let me die with dignity'
Source: The Australian
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-05-22 09:18:52 -0700 | political-news
The former nurse, who lives in Orange, has motor neurone disease and knows that within years, his body will become useless. He will be able to see, hear and feel but will be trapped in a body torn by pain....
Refugees struggle to survive in new Lebanese homes
Source: SwissInfo
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-05-22 03:25:02 -0700 | political-news
A fatal bus crash that claimed the lives of 28 people, including 22 schoolchildren, last year was almost certainly caused by illness to the driver or by his inattention, according to a report by Swiss investigators. [...] Harmful correlation...
Marathon Man: On the Run with Hans-Ulrich Obrist, the World's Greatest Curator
Source: New York Observer
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-05-21 14:59:48 -0700 | political-news
Obrist. (Photo by Yang Fudong, Shanghai 2009) At 8 a.m. two Sundays ago, Hans-Ulrich Obrist was at his midtown hotel, pouring packs of orange powder into a glass of water. He was casually immaculate in a checkered blue suit with...
Sudden halt in Syrian refugees into Jordan - UN
Source: Zawya Political
Geneva :: Switzerland | updated 2013-05-23 22:03:29 -0700 | political-news
The UN said Tuesday the number of Syrian refugees flooding into Jordan had suddenly fallen from several thousand a day to close to zero, warning that fighting may be blocking people in need from coming. "In Jordan in the last...
Glasgow's Shimmy Club install two-way mirror in women's toilets so men can leer at them
Source: Mail Online UK
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-05-21 04:16:07 -0700 | political-news
I would think twice about even using the toilet in this establishment. Zuri , Zurich, 21/5/2013 11:57 perverts - Tj , West Midlands, 21/5/2013 11:56 This is absolutely vile...Why is it that people with more money than sense seem to...
Clock ticks on Swiss banking secrecy
Source: BBC
Bern :: Switzerland | updated 2013-05-21 02:35:37 -0700 | political-news
The United States has already told the Swiss government it expects Swiss banks to provide the US authorities with automatic information about US clients. Now the European Union is demanding the automatic exchange of information too, a policy non-EU-member Switzerland...
Should we be concerned about wage dumping?
Source: SwissInfo
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-05-21 02:08:24 -0700 | political-news
Up until now, the phenomenon has aroused the most heated discussions concerning less qualified workers in Switzerland. Will it soon also affect engineers, doctors and IT specialists?
IGIS finds no GCSB breaches, but law not clear
Source: Scoop
Igis :: Switzerland | updated 2013-05-24 07:51:36 -0700 | political-news
The Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security has completed an inquiry into potential breaches of the Government Communications Security Bureau Act (2003). Director, Ian Fletcher says, The Inspector-General formed a view that there have been no breaches, although the law is...
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