February 01, 2005
Index
- Asia quake disaster.
- Davos 2005: since 1970, Davos has been home to the World Economic Forum. Swiss News interviews Andre Schneider, the Forum's Chief Operating Officer to find out what this year's meeting has in store.
- Helvetistan: when Switzerland joined the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund back in 1992, it gained some unsavoury freshman classmates. Swiss News looks at how the Swiss now leads this motley 'Helvetistan' crew.
- The face of Max Havelaar: elected as a Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in Davos in year 2000, Paola Ghillani is a pharmacist and a manager who left the world of big business and followed her personal ideals.
- Revisiting neutrality: demand for Swiss diplomacy's "good offices" has fallen sharply since the Berlin wall collapsed in 1991. But a Zurich scholar says a more activist "peace facilitator" role now fills that gap well.
- Managing FIFA: larger than life FIFA's Sepp Blatter talks to Swiss News about the association's present and future outlook, about Switzerland and about football.
- Focus on funds: Swiss News follows up on what Switzerland's biggest financial trade fair this year, FONDS'05, has in store.
- What's on: this month: your holiday. Switzerland.
- Going out: this month: the Swiss guide to food and drink.
- The bells of Carouge: their peal envelops the old town of Carouge in a floating cradle of sound. Swiss News meets the bell-master of one of Switzerland's largest carillons.
- Keeping fit and healthy: at 53 years old, Leon Van der Merwe is more active and fit than most people half his age. He owns and runs Van der Merwe Health Centre. The centre covers 10,000 square metres and is the largest health club in Switzerland.
- Indoor outings: in order to help dispel some January winter gloom, Swiss News suggests two entertaining and educational indoor outings: Glasi Hergiswil, near Luzern and the Emmentaler Show Dairy near Bern.
- Fun and fitness: when it comes to being fit and having fun at that, the Swiss are a fine community to learn from. And the new and happening place many Zurich locals are heading to is Milandia. Swiss News checks out this fitness park.
- American Women's Club of Bern.
- American International Women's Club in Geneva.
- The English Speaking Club Zurich.
- International Men's Club Zurich.
- Zurich Comedy Club.
- Zurich International Women's association.
- Murderous fixed ideas.
- Webster's campus goes residential.