Yeap, you read correctly today is World Toilet Day, the continued trend to highlight problems by celebrating the issue has now reached the problem of toilets. 2.4 billion people have to deal with this problem worldwide and whereas Sudan ranks at the top of the […]
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The Allianz insurance company released its “Global Wealth Report” and it shows several interesting facts. Firstly the worldwide household wealth has grown by 8.1% to a staggering 136 trillion Euros, which would be enough to wipe all the world sovereign debts three times over .
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Let’s quickly remind ourselves of the difference between an asylum seeker and a refugee. Anyone fleeing their country and asking for asylum in any country is considered an asylum seeker and only when their case has been approved do they officially become a refugee. In
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Yesterday the parliament voted in favour of the asylum seekers new reform, the aim being to make the whole process a lot smoother and faster. One of the motions passed is that asylum seekers cases will be processed within 140 days maximum (including appeals). They
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With the votes in on all the referendums it seems as if the business minded side of Switzerland prevailed with the three national initiatives (Ecopop, End of tax privilege for millionaires and The Gold initiative) all being turned down. Perhaps unusually not one canton voted
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Yesterday many people received a letter pertaining to inform about the distribution of iodine tablets, this in fact was a campaign by Greenpeace to raise awareness about the nuclear plants in Switzerland and their high risks; as well as to point out that iodine tablets
Iodine tablets, hoax or real? Read More »
The SIS Swiss International School Rotkreuz-Zug is very attractive to the region’s local and expatriate families alike, thanks to its pioneering bilingual education model. The new facility was opened just in time for the start of the new school year. SIS Rotkreuz-Zug opened its new
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In a recent study conducted by the Bern University it was found that foreigners have a lesser chance of getting an apartment especially if their names sound Serbo-Croatian, Tamil or Arab. The study involved answering 1000 ads for an apartment, once with a Swiss name
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