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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....

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....

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....

Should Switzerland achieve climate neutrality by 2050? On June 18 the Swiss people vote on the new climate law. What's at stake?

The new measures, which come into force on February 1, include a gradual ban on the purchase and import of Russian diamonds, as announced by the Swiss government on Wednesday....

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”....

Switzerland feared retaliatory measures from China but kept the decision quiet for undefined legal reasons, reports the NZZ am Sonntag newspaper. China’s ambassador to Bern, Wang Shihting, warned Switzerland last November not to impose sanctions. “Anyone who really cares about the friendly relations between the two countries...

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....

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....

A wisent, or European bison, has been born in the Jura mountains of Solothurn for the first time in 1,000 years.

Has anyone else the feeling that this will become a very long term thing of needing to protect shipping vessels and that it will affect prices of imported goods for the unforeseeable will rise ?

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....

Doctors in Switzerland prescribed antibiotics twice as often in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic as before....

Lugano city is now accepting bitcoin payment for all invoices issued by the city. This includes taxes and other municipal services....

“The Helvetii, a Celtic tribe who battled Julius Caesar, gave their name to the Swiss territory. The Latin name for the country, Helvetia, still appears on Swiss stamps. The letters CH appearing on Swiss cars and in internet addresses stand for the Latin words Confoederatio Helvetica, meaning Swiss Confederation.”

Thousands of people demonstrated their solidarity with the Palestinians at the parliament square in Bern on Saturday....

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....

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 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....

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....

Since president Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, China’s increasing use of repressive domestic policies, from Xinjiang to Tibet and Hong Kong, has been a growing source of concern for NGOs and United Nations experts who took notice of the second world power’s disregard for international human rights law.