As every year, the Geneva Amateur Operatic Society performs a traditional British pantomime. This year will be Sinbad the Sailor, which is packed with all the usual ingredients of a classic English pantomime: the struggle of good to overcome evil, love at first sight, and loads of magic, songs, daft comedy and innuendo. Location: AuladuCollègedeSaussure,Petit-LancyLink out: [...]
Lausanne murderer arrested, confesses
November 1, 2012 by
Brother-in-law shot in family feud LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – A 27-year-old Kosovar man who lives west of Lausanne was arrested in canton Neuchatel shortly after midnight Thursday 1 November for the murder Monday of a 29-year-old man in Chavannes-près-Renens, west of Lausanne. Vaud police had a suspect soon after the crime and carried out a number [...]
Lift boosts digital conversations in Geneva area
February 23, 2012 by
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 [...]
Zurich north autoroute bypass to be widened
February 1, 2012 by
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 [...]
Swiss stuck in gender gap rankings: enough female ministers, too little pay
November 5, 2011 by
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 [...]
3/4 tatoos in Switzerland use illegal colorants
October 18, 2011 by
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 [...]
W Lausanne anti-noise panels delayed due to 4th rail line
August 4, 2011 by
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 [...]
Swiss will vote on tougher roadhog penalties
June 16, 2011 by
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 [...]
Women, who earn 20% less in Switzerland, fail to show up for strike
June 14, 2011 by
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 [...]
Geneva sets out a menu of watches, jewels and fine wine
May 16, 2011 by
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 [...]
