Wearing a Swatch Pride watch in Malaysia carries a jail term (www.swissinfo.ch)
Malaysia’s government said on Thursday that anyone found wearing a product of the Swiss watchmaker Swatch’s Pride Collection could be jailed for up to three years....
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Court: Swiss police can’t seize small amounts of cannabis for personal use (www.swissinfo.ch)
Police in Switzerland do not have the unconditional right to confiscate and destroy cannabis quantities less than 10 grams, the country’s Federal Court has ruled....
Switzerland to introduce uniform standard for phone and laptop chargers (www.swissinfo.ch)
In Switzerland, everyone should be able to use the same charger for different mobile phones, laptops or tablets from different manufacturers. The government is introducing USB-C as a uniform national standard from the beginning of 2024....
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Cancers among young people have almost doubled, says expert (www.swissinfo.ch)
Cancers in people under the age of 50, previously extremely rare, are on the increase. “They have almost doubled,” says Solange Peters, head of medical oncology at the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) in western Switzerland. In her view, this is “an alarming sign”....
Many people find their jobs pointless, study finds (www.swissinfo.ch)
Many employees see no social utility in their jobs, a University of Zurich study has found. This is true particularly in the finance, sales and management sectors....
Swiss police cry foul over citizen filming of arrests (www.swissinfo.ch)
Police say they are being misrepresented by filming of arrests by members of the public, with some voices calling for restrictions on video content being made public....
DDoS attack on Federal Administration: various Federal Administration websites and applications unavailable (www.admin.ch)
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Swiss parliament agrees not to deport Eritreans to third country (www.swissinfo.ch)
Switzerland will not deport Eritreans with rejected asylum applications to a third country such as Rwanda. On Tuesday, the House of Representatives rejected a motion calling for a pilot project for such deportations....
Swiss antibiotics prescriptions doubled during pandemic (www.swissinfo.ch)
Doctors in Switzerland prescribed antibiotics twice as often in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic as before....
Lugano accepts bitcoin and tether payments for all city invoices (www.swissinfo.ch)
Lugano city is now accepting bitcoin payment for all invoices issued by the city. This includes taxes and other municipal services....
Thousands gather in Swiss capital to show solidarity with Palestinians (www.swissinfo.ch)
Thousands of people demonstrated their solidarity with the Palestinians at the parliament square in Bern on Saturday....
Swiss commission deems climate neutrality to be false advertising (www.swissinfo.ch)
The Swiss Fair Trading Commission considers advertising that refers to climate neutrality to be unfair. As long as there are no methods for actually measuring this promise, it cannot be used for advertising purposes....
Record number of Swiss leave Catholic Church (www.swissinfo.ch)
Almost 34,600 people left the Catholic Church in Switzerland last year. That’s 300 more departures than the previous record figure from 2021....
Sweden has had enough of being confused with Switzerland (www.swissinfo.ch)
Sweden and Switzerland are too often confused – at least the tourism organisation Visit Sweden thinks so and is launching an advertising campaign to help clear things up....
Dismantling of Swiss nuclear plant will take 15 years and 300 workers (www.swissinfo.ch)
The dismantling of the Mühleberg nuclear power plant in the canton of Bern is progressing well, but there is still a long way to go before the site can be reused in 2034....
Swiss health insurers want federal government to oversee hospitals (www.swissinfo.ch)
The federal government should be responsible for Swiss hospitals, not the cantons, according to Martin Landolt, president of the health insurers association Santésuisse. The news that health premiums for 2024 will rise by an average of 8.7% next year has caused widespread consternation....
A study by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne shows - Greta Thunberg influenced third of Swiss population (www.swissinfo.ch)
Some 30% of Swiss people have changed their everyday habits because of Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg’s “Fridays for Future” movement, according to a study by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)....
Swiss parliament predicted to lurch to the right (www.swissinfo.ch)
A more right-wing parliament – the result of the rise of conservatives and the decline of environmentalists – is likely to emerge from the ballot boxes in federal elections on October 22....
School political debate ban faces legal challenge (www.swissinfo.ch)
An appeal will be lodged with the Constitutional Court of Vaud against a decision to ban political debates in schools in the canton before the federal elections....
Troubled Swiss banking sector sees drop in profits (www.swissinfo.ch)
Developments on the financial markets took their toll on Swiss banks last year. According to the Swiss Bankers Association (SBA), the profits of the local financial institutions clearly declined....
Switzerland helps Ukraine with CHF2 billion in 18 months (www.swissinfo.ch)
From the beginning of the Russian war of aggression in February 2022 until the end of July 2023, the Swiss Confederation has supported the population affected by the war in Ukraine with a total of CHF2.03 billion ($2.30 billion). This was announced by the Federal Council on Thursday....
Swiss parliamentarian calls for ‘zero-trust approach’ amid Huawei espionage claims (www.swissinfo.ch)
The Chinese network supplier is said to have deployed spies in Denmark. This has sparked concerns by Swiss politicians given Huawei’s strong presence in Switzerland....
Climate activists disrupt Locarno Film Festival (www.swissinfo.ch)
Two climate activists from the group Renovate Switzerland glued themselves to the stage during an awards ceremony at the Locarno Film Festival on Monday evening....
