GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Prince of Wales is paying a personal tribute to Queen Elizabeth, on the occasion of her diamond jubilee celebrations, in a British television broadcast to be aired Friday 1 June. In the hour-long tribute, which presents previously unreleased footage from family movies, Prince Charles shares childhood memories of the Queen. He [...]
Swiss group accuses Glencore of buying child labour copper
April 16, 2012 by
Story filmed by RTS and BBC airs in UK on “Panorama” tonight Switzerland’s largest company in lengthy rebuttal says not so ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Glencore, Switzerland’s largest company in terms of turnover and reportedly the supplier of 50 percent of the world’s copper, is accused of indirectly buying material from an “artisanal mine” in the [...]
Qaddafi family tree, Zurich tripup, ice roads
April 8, 2011 by
At long last, someone put together a picture for us of the Qaddafi family, all of whom are on lists for frozen assets in Switzerland: thanks go to Ria Novosti, Russian news agency. Aunts, uncles and the rest of the clan are not here, but the children are all here, with photos and their birthdates. [...]
The day the music, and Beeb news, died
March 26, 2011 by
Moscow’s air waves are a little quieter today after the BBC ended its live broadcasts in Russia Friday 26 March. The British radio programmes had aired since 1946 and were stopped as part of major BBC spending cutbacks in the face of UK government spending reductions. The Moscow Times carries a lengthy obituary to the [...]
WRS extends its reach beyond French-speaking Switzerland
November 3, 2010 by
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – World Radio Switzerland (WRS), public radio in English in Switzerland, is adding 27 hours of programming thanks to new partnerships with US-based public radio: National Public Radio, American Public Media and Public Radio International. The station’s partnership with Britain’s public radio, the BBC, will continue, for international news and special programmes. [...]
BBC 25% senior mgmt cuts begin
October 13, 2010 by
Marketing boss, deputy director general posts axed The marketing chief of the BBC, Sharon Baylay, is being dismissed and will not be replaced, and two board members are leaving, the British public media organization has announced. Baylay’s is one of the first significant departures in a series of expected job cuts that are part of [...]
Bilingual+technical error = Monday, duh?
May 31, 2010 by
Okay, it’s Monday, everyone was out having fun all weekend, and it’s hard to get back on track. I was reading a BBC story and my eye wandered over to the right, to the most popular stories list. The BBC’s favourites are usually good, unlike those on most sites. I thought I would read one [...]
Gnomes of Zurich: alchemists to the rescue
February 25, 2010 by
I’ve just had a good chuckle reading Chris Bowlby’s BBC article on the gnomes of Zurich, where he takes us back to 1964, when British political leader George Brown apparently used the phrase for the first time. Bowlby relates a little Swiss banking political history and mythology, ending with musings on today’s British bankers who [...]
Ban Ki-moon in Cyprus to push for settlement
February 2, 2010 by
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Larnaca, on Sunday in a bid to accelerate peace talks for the reunification of Cyprus. This current visit comes a week after negotiations organised by The United Nations were held between Greek Cypriot leader Demetris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talet. Despite progress in some [...]
Couldn’t have said it better myself, but give me an hour or 10 and I’ll try
September 24, 2009 by
Some days you just have to love certain journalists and today I love the BBC’s Megan Lane, for her superb “Short History of Long Speeches,” which reminds us that while Libya’s Leader of the Revolution Muammar Qadaffi was a bit over the top with his rambling speech at the UN General Assembly, he’s a long [...]
