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This content was published on September 23, 2017 11:00 AMSep 23, 2017 - 11:00 It's not surprising that many foreign directorshave chosen to film in Switzerland, with its chalets, mountains and banks. It's a land of spies and lawyers, of Heidi and Chaplin, of DrFrankenstein and St Beards. Switzerland, in the movies, is a land of adventure where James Bond drivesthrough an...

Besides the honorary award, Ganz was also nominated for his role in 'A Jew Must Die'.(AFP)It was a big night for Swiss actor Bruno Ganz, who won the nation's top acting award and was recognised for his life's work with the Swiss film industry's Honorary Award.In its laudatory as part of the Swiss Fi...

See Siang Wong moved to Switzerland in 1998 and has now conquered the classical charts in Britain (See Siang Wong) See Siang Wong, a Swiss-based classical pianist, is delighted that his latest album, “Cinema Classics: The Piano At The Movies”, is number one in the British classical music charts. He tells swissinfo.ch about his favourite films and why he’s not ashamed to “cross over” into other genres. “I really stand behind the project and the music,” Wong tells me on the balcony of his sun-filled and Asian-inspired flat in Zurich West, a fashionable area in Switzerland’s largest city. “Of course the idea has a commercial interest – crossover is very popular, as we can see by the charts ...

Progress, or a step too far? With its ethical implications, the preimplantation diagnosis issue goes far beyond left versus right. (Keystone) One year after the Swiss electorate accepted a constitutional amendment allowing preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), the question is again being put to the vote. Pro-life groups are attacking the law implementing the amendment via a referendum, but they are not the only ones going into battle – parliamentarians across the political spectrum also believe the new text goes too far. As soon as the constitutional article was accepted (by 61.9% of voters), conservative Christian circles called for a referendum against changing thelawon medically...