Dark sky no more And the people voted: let there be light By Stephanie Hess, in Surrein Direct democracy kept the people of one Swiss alpine village in the dark for over 40 years. What made them finally see the light? ...
Guidelines and principles Why no name for train attacker? By Veronica DeVore The name of the person believed responsible for a deadly attack on train passengers in northeastern Switzerland has not been released. Here's why.
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Wealth fund scandal Swiss probe ex-Abu Dhabi official over 1MDB By Michael Peel and Simeon Kerr Swiss criminal authorities are probing a well-connected former top Abu Dhabi finance official over an alleged international ...
The Week Ahead Sports, streetlights, and small farms Here are the stories we’re following the week of August 15.
Pensions, spies and carbon footprint Three issues feature on the agenda of the September 25, 2016 nationwide votes: A trade union initiative to raise old age pensions, an initiative ...
Podcast Dancing and dumplings By Susan Misicka As a Westerner, what's it like to live in Egypt or China? Two global citizens share their experiences and advice.
Take a look Picture of the week In this series, swissinfo.ch picture editors choose an image highlighting a news event of the past seven days.
Emigration Where do the Swiss go, when they live abroad? By Kai Reusser and Luigi Jorio More than one in ten Swiss lives abroad. The number has more than doubled since 1980. This graphic illustrates that the Swiss don’t like to stray ...
Picture-taking salesman Travels in a bygone age in a poor alpine valley By Roberto Donetta To make a living, Roberto Donetta worked as a travelling photographer and seed salesman. His images captured scenes in the Blenio valley when ...
High-profile tourists The continuing appeal of Switzerland for British VIPs After a hectic first month in office, British Prime Minister Theresa May and her husband have begun a two-week hiking holiday in ...
Aletsch’s changing environment What’s happening to Europe’s longest glacier? By Simon Bradley, Aletsch The mighty Aletsch Glacier is melting at an ever-quickening pace and could almost disappear by the end of this century. The shrinking ...
Cartoon of the week Each week cartoonist Marina Lutz takes a look at a big issue in the news in Switzerland. She has worked with different Swiss media as a ...
At home The key to integration? Feeling welcome A Swiss study has found that when the local authorities ask newcomers to Switzerland to a ‘welcome interview’ they have a better chance at fitting ...
Vote September 25 Reducing Switzerland’s carbon footprint by 2050 By Armando Mombelli Switzerland needs an economy that is based on the sustainable use of natural resources. An initiative by the Green Party wants to ...
In need of care Addressing the shortage of Swiss doctors By Isobel Leybold-Johnson Universities have been announcing plans to boost the number of places to study medicine following the decision to inject millions ...
Energy in the mountains A huge battery made of air By Luigi Jorio, Biasca Deep in a cavern in the Swiss Alps, an innovative system that stores electricity as compressed air is being developed in a pilot ...
Tourism woes Clouds gather for Swiss hoteliers The Swiss Hotel Association is seeing red. Overnight stays by foreign guests have dropped by 2.5%.
Engadine Fast internet to bring digital nomads to Alps By Dale Bechtel This article on Switzerland you are about to read was actually written on the island of Bali, in Indonesia.
No happily ever after The ‘harmful custom’ of forced marriage By Jo Fahy Following the report by a specialist Swiss website of 119 cases of forced marriages involving minors in the country so far this year, swissinfo.ch ...
Crowdfunding culture When the public bankroll films By Jessica Dacey, Locarno What would you pay for a meal cooked by a film director or to have an associate producer credit at the end of a film? If you balk at ...
Podcast Wanted: world-beating young tennis players By Thomas Stephens Swiss kids love Roger Federer and Stan Wawrinka – but why aren’t they playing tennis?