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GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The federal government Wednesday 8 May opened its public hearing into Geneva airport‘s plans to extend the east wing of the airport, which Bern calls “very important” for the future of Geneva’s international airport. It will affect mainly long-haul large planes. The airport was the scene Tuesday of the inauguration of the [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The World Trade Organization late Tuesday 7 May selected Robert Azevedo as its next director-general, Swiss public broadcaster RTS announced during the evening. RTS bases its report on diplomatic sources and says the official announcement will be made by the WTO Wednesday; its sources say the race between Azevedo and Mexican Herminio [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / EDITOR’S NOTEPAD – This just in the door, about Riadh Ben Aissa, former SNC Lavalin executive, filing charges against Swiss Federal Prosecutor Michael Lauber. Tunisian-Canadian Ben Aissa was arrested in Switzerland in April 2012 amid a scandal involving millions missing from the Canadian company’s coffers. This was no ordinary scandal with accusations [...]
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – If you want to meet rich people go to Tokyo, but if you want to meet really rich people, London is the place to be. Zurich and Geneva aren’t bad for the super-rich, either, it seems. A new list of the top 20 cities with millionaires doesn’t include any Swiss cities, but [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Pascal Lamy’s successor as head of the World Trade Organization is expected to be announced today or Wednesday 8 May, after a final week of consultations with members. The WTO has until 31 May to announced a new secretary general. The group announced 26 April that an earlier round of consultations had [...]
BERN, SWITZERLAND – Good news for the Swiss economy: figures published by the Federal Statistical Office in Neuchatel show unemployment falling again in April, from 3.2 in March to 3.1 percent. The tourism industry, which has had gloomy figures in recent months thanks to the high Swiss franc, saw a 4.7 percent increase in overnight [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A selection of headlines from media around Switzerland Tuesday 7 May: Unia, a Swiss union that is pushing for a minimum wage, finds itself in the uncomfortable position of owning hotels where some staff are paid less than the CHF4,000 a month recommended by the popular initiative the group backs, RTS, TagesAnzeiger [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – US media are just starting to cover the story of three women who were found in a house in Cleveland, Ohio after they had been reported missing as teenagers for several years in separate incidents. Expect more, a lot more coverage, on the strange tale, which has just bumped the Boston bombers [...]
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Another Swiss bank appears to have joined the ranks of the dozen already in the sights of the US Department of Justice, with a member of the board of Neue Privat Bank (NPB) confirming the information to Swiss news agency ats. A central Switzerland newspaper reported the news over the weekend, but [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Some of today’s top stories in Swiss media: The pope is asking Swiss Guards to smile joyfully while at work in the Vatican (most people would find this a tough request from their boss at the start of the week), 24 Heures A “person accident”, rail-speak for what is often a suicide [...]
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