Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The 27,000 runners who participated in the Escalade race in Geneva Saturday 4 December can now download films of their finish, available Tuesday 8 December, a project by supermarket Migros and the Escalade race organizers. GenevaLunch was there, with runners, their families and friends sporting our distinctive colours!
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Harvard and Yale universities posted heavy losses in their endowment funds in the fiscal year to 30 June. Harvard lost $11 billion, or 27.5 percent, and Yale lost 30 percent to $16b. The university endowment funds invested heavily in hedge funds and private equity, which have suffered during the financial crisis. Both universities have responded by cutting costs and curtailing planned investment. Harvard has laid off staff and is stopping an ambitious construction project. Yale has projected a $150 million operating budget deficit for the next three years. The universities’ investment managers were among the world’s top investment performers over the past 10 years. Harvard Crimson, Reuters
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The World Health Organization (WHO) reported a 16 percent increase in 24 hours in the number of A/H1N1 (swine flu) cases worldwide, from 6,497 confirmed cases Thursday 14 May to 7,500 Friday. During the previous week, the increase was 200 percent. The statistics hide a more complex picture than the dramatic rise in numbers at first appears to show.
This is the second of three articles that together make up the English version of a feature published 2 April 2009 by Swiss news weekly L’Hebdo magazine on expatriates in the Lake Geneva region. GenevaLunch, a partner of l’Hebdo brings you the English version.
French version © 2009 l’Hebdo
English version © 2009 GenevaLunch (may not be reproduced in part or whole without written permission.
[Part 2, continued] By Julie Zaugg and Mehdi Atmani In Geneva alone there are 65,000 expats, of whom 40,000 are international organization employees and their families. Philip Morris in Lausanne employs 180 of them, Japan Tobacco International, also in Lausanne 157, Procter & Gamble in Geneva 500 and Nestlé in Vevey 584.
Where do they come from?
Americans were still the majority of expats just a few years ago, but they’ve given way to Europeans, with the Schengen Area and the free movement of people as the impetus. Read more…
Cartoonist Patrick Chappatte
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GenevaLunch welcomes Ago Cluytens, who will regularly share as a Guest Blogger (his first post is now there) his ideas on branding and marketing, from his blog Branding Through People. In the next few days you will also see a new blog starting on GenevaLunch, “New to Geneva? Me too,” the perfect helping hand as you settle in.
Saint Prex, Switzerland (La Côte, Fre, available with subscription) – GenevaLunch (GL) features on the front page of the Lake Geneva area regional newspaper La Côte today. The article focuses on GL’s development as a regional community online newspaper in English and the new community news association, announced 11 December, that is being created to support GL and other future projects.
(Ed. note: please contact the editor of GenevaLunch if you would like to receive an e-mailed copy of the article.)
GenevaLunch is growing up, shifting into a more sophisticated community newspaper format to meet the demands of our readers, who have grown steadily in number each month since we began. GL has been free to everyone, entirely online, five days a week for two years and we would like to thank our readers by offering you an even better service.
What has changed Read more…
