In stark contrast to the president of the United States, the Swiss president was shown in a photo, taken by Le Temps journalist Serge Jubin, standing on a railway platform in Neuchâtel waiting along with the general public for his train to arrive. No armour plated limousine in sight. Jubin’s tweet reads: “Switzerland, a wonderful […]
Archives for 2014
Courage and company – dealing with cancer
On a rather cold and windy lakeside, a dozen or so corporate teams prepared to take each other on in the English Speaking Cancer Association’s (esca) annual dragon boat race at the Lac de Joux. All great fun and for a good cause – the event is esca’s major fund-raising event of the year. Hundreds […]
Ronald McDonald House overnight stays up by 10%
The Ronald McDonald House Charity provides families of seriously ill children with heavily subsidised accommodation close to the major hospitals in seven Swiss cities including Geneva, Bern and Basel. The service greatly assists families that have other young children and those that live far away. It allows parents and siblings to be together close to […]
Spotlight – Caveman
Le News is the media partner for Caveman’s performances throughout its current tour of Switzerland. Two of our team had already seen it and so we jumped at the opportunity to get involved. It is a brilliant play that explores with humour, wit and glorious perception the differences between men and women. With a primal […]
Payot’s best sellers of the week
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green is staying firmly on top of Payot’s top 10 this week. A new entry is Personal, the nineteenth book in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child. Released this week by publisher, Doubleday Bantam, it has already jumped to fourth position in the local best seller’s […]
easyJet: new schedules, new destinations
easyJet has announced its new flight schedules and destinations for the rest of this year and for Spring 2015. “People can now book their flights for Easter and Spring,” a spokesperson told Le News yesterday. Increased flights from Geneva to Barcelona (five times a day), Bordeaux and Porto (three times a day) and Brindisi (five […]
Explaining Switzerland’s issues
Earlier this week, I had lunch with an expat friend from Vaud at one of Geneva’s leading hotels overlooking the Rhone River. He has been living in Switzerland for nearly 30 years, including a nearly decade-long stint in the German-speaking north. So he is very much aware of the divides that exist within Switzerland itself, […]
Hostages: To pay or not to pay, that is the question
The grotesque assassination of the American journalist James Foley has publicly raised the complex question of whether or not governments, companies or individuals should pay a ransom to free hostages. There are supportable arguments on both sides of the issue and, not surprisingly, there are differences on to how to deal with the problem. There […]
On the beach
One morning during our recent summer holiday in England, my husband leaped out of bed, joyfully announcing, “It’s a Beach Day today!” “Really?” I asked, peering out of the window at the grey sky and the trees bending horizontally in the wind. “Why do you say that?” “Because it’s not raining!” The children and I […]
Top ranked Switzerland’s Achilles heel
GENEVA Broadly confirming the findings of IMD’s World Competitiveness Report last May, the World Economic Forum’s latest global competitiveness report once again ranks Switzerland, for the fifth time in a row, at the head of the 148-country listing. But there is a serious caveat. One of the country’s biggest problems is to maintain this lead […]
