GenevaLunch » Society http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Sun, 27 May 2012 09:11:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Lift boosts digital conversations in Geneva areahttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/23/lift-boosts-digital-conversations-in-geneva-area/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/23/lift-boosts-digital-conversations-in-geneva-area/#comments Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:04:01 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66900 GenevaLunch.com Getting a real Lift, 22-24 February by Ellen Wallace GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The number of conversations in Geneva centred around our digital lives, past, present and future, is up this week thanks to the annual Lift Conference, which opened Wednesday 22 February and ends Friday. The conference itself pulls in several hundred people from the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/23/lift-boosts-digital-conversations-in-geneva-area/feed/ 0 Zurich north autoroute bypass to be widenedhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/01/zurich-north-autoroute-bypass-to-be-widened/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/01/zurich-north-autoroute-bypass-to-be-widened/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:47:25 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66178 GenevaLunch.com View Larger Map ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – One of Switzerland’s worst spots for traffic jams will get some breathing space, with the Federal Highway Office approving a plan to widen the road from four to six lanes over 12 kilometres of the A1. A 3,300 metre-long additional tube will be added to the Gubrist tunnel. The [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/01/zurich-north-autoroute-bypass-to-be-widened/feed/ 0 Swiss stuck in gender gap rankings: enough female ministers, too little payhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/05/swiss-stuck-in-gender-gap-rankings-enough-female-ministers-too-little-pay/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/05/swiss-stuck-in-gender-gap-rankings-enough-female-ministers-too-little-pay/#comments Sat, 05 Nov 2011 16:41:22 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63239 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Switzerland is stuck at number 10 in the world’s gender gap rankings, published 10 October by the World Economic Forum in Geneva, with equal pay for men and women as one of the sticking points. Friday 10 November the country will observe “Futur en tous genres” to encourage boys and girls to [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/05/swiss-stuck-in-gender-gap-rankings-enough-female-ministers-too-little-pay/feed/ 1 3/4 tatoos in Switzerland use illegal colorantshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/18/34-tatoos-in-switzerland-use-illegal-colorants/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/18/34-tatoos-in-switzerland-use-illegal-colorants/#comments Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:25:34 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=62563 GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Three-quarters of the tatoos done in Switzerland are using colouring agents that have not been approved, according to the Swiss Cantonal Chemists Association. The situation has improved in the past year, with more publicity alerts customers and tatoo artists alike to the situation, says the group, which recently carried out safety checks [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/18/34-tatoos-in-switzerland-use-illegal-colorants/feed/ 1 W Lausanne anti-noise panels delayed due to 4th rail linehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/04/w-lausanne-anti-noise-panels-delayed-due-to-4th-rail-line/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/04/w-lausanne-anti-noise-panels-delayed-due-to-4th-rail-line/#comments Thu, 04 Aug 2011 12:40:43 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=60418 GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Panels to reduce noise from trains on the east side of Lausanne, in the direction of canton Valais, were approved in June 2011 after a five-year review, but new panels to the west of the station will have to wait, the Federal Transport Office said Thursday 4 August. The delay is due [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/04/w-lausanne-anti-noise-panels-delayed-due-to-4th-rail-line/feed/ 0 Swiss will vote on tougher roadhog penaltieshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/16/swiss-will-vote-on-tougher-roadhog-penalties/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/16/swiss-will-vote-on-tougher-roadhog-penalties/#comments Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:05:38 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=58858 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – Drive 200kph on the autoroute or 100kph in town and you might find you’re facing some stiff penalties, if a new proposal to change the Swiss constitution passes. The initiative, “protection against super-speeders”, was handed to the Swiss federal chancellery Wednesday 15 June with more than 106,000 signatures, enough to put it [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/16/swiss-will-vote-on-tougher-roadhog-penalties/feed/ 0 Women, who earn 20% less in Switzerland, fail to show up for strikehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/14/women-who-earn-20-less-in-switzerland-fail-to-show-up-for-strike/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/14/women-who-earn-20-less-in-switzerland-fail-to-show-up-for-strike/#comments Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:59:04 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=58786 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – It was mostly work as usual for women in Switzerland 14 June, a day marked for a strike to protest the 20 percent less that women earn, across the board. Small groups gathered in several places and some of them notably blew pink whistles at 14:06 to mark the 20th anniversary of [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/14/women-who-earn-20-less-in-switzerland-fail-to-show-up-for-strike/feed/ 0 Geneva sets out a menu of watches, jewels and fine winehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/16/geneva-sets-out-a-menu-of-watches-jewels-and-fine-wine/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/16/geneva-sets-out-a-menu-of-watches-jewels-and-fine-wine/#comments Mon, 16 May 2011 12:58:35 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=57708 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – This is a week where spending your spare millions will be very easy in Geneva, the week when auctions are offering rare watches, an extraordinary emerald tiara and a bottle of Château Lafite-Rothschild, vintage 1887, Pauillac, 1er cru classé that would make grandfather sit up in his grave and ask for [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/16/geneva-sets-out-a-menu-of-watches-jewels-and-fine-wine/feed/ 2 Santé! Saint Prex celebrates 100 years of making and breaking glasshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/14/sante-saint-prex-celebrates-100-years-of-making-and-breaking-glass/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/14/sante-saint-prex-celebrates-100-years-of-making-and-breaking-glass/#comments Sat, 14 May 2011 08:27:11 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=57633 GenevaLunch.com Switzerland remains the world’s top bottle recycling nation Saint Prex, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – More than one glass is being raised this weekend in Saint Prex, canton Vaud, as the village celebrates one hundred years of glass-making 14-15 May. The Vetropack Group’s “verrerie“, or glass-making factory, was set up in 1911 by Henri Cornaz to work [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/14/sante-saint-prex-celebrates-100-years-of-making-and-breaking-glass/feed/ 1 Swiss unemployment continues downward drifthttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/08/swiss-unemployment-continues-downward-drift/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/08/swiss-unemployment-continues-downward-drift/#comments Tue, 08 Mar 2011 08:22:44 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=55012 GenevaLunch.com Foreigners remain most affected, but trend parallels the overall drop Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss jobless rate continues to drop, after its five-year high of 3.9 percent in 2010, to 3.6 percent in February. January unemployment was 3.8 percent. The February unemployment figures released Tuesday 8 March show that foreigners continue to have an [...]

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