FILMAR Festival stands out from other film festivals held in Switzerland. It specializes in Latin American films – the global importance of films from this region cannot be overestimated. The festival will, to be held from 18 November to 4 December in both Geneva, as well as Ferney-Voltaire, St Julien en Genevois, Divonne and Versoix. […]
Comedy: well-known Canadian comic Mike Wilmot to bring mirth to Switzerland
Brought to you by International Comedy Club. Already an established comedian in his home country Canada, Mike Wilmot started working in the UK as a stand-up comedian in 1995. For over a decade Mike has built up a reputation as one of the unsung heroes of the UK comedy scene achieving rave reviews throughout the […]
A high fat diet can stunt the development of young brains, says Swiss research
A study, published in the medical journal “Molecular Psychiatry”, and released today by researchers at ETH Zurich, seems to suggest yet again that we are what we eat. This study is focussed not on waistlines but brainwaves. The results suggest an excessively fatty diet can prevent adolescent brains from fully maturing. The pre-frontal cortex, a late-to-develop […]
Anger rises in Bern over Clinton donation
24 Heures. Over the weekend the newspaper Schweiz am Sonntag revealed that the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), a government agency, made a large payment to the Clinton Foundation, at a politically delicate time when Switzerland was in the middle of difficult discussions over Swiss banking activities related to US citizens. In February 2011, […]
Birds confined as avian flu arrives in Switzerland
The Swiss federal office of food security and veterinary affairs (OSAV) announced that from tomorrow, all of Switzerland will become a controlled zone. The agency aims to avoid all contact between wild birds and domestic ones. Adding that nothing so far indicates Swiss bird farms have been affected or that the virus has been transmitted […]
One year in Bern a little-known patent office worker changed our view of the universe. He was Einstein.
By Bill Harby In physics circles, 1905 is known as the “Annus mirabilis,” the “Miracle Year” of Albert Einstein’s astounding rush of discoveries in modern physics. That year, the little-known 26-year-old genius, while working in Bern at his day job in the Swiss patent office, submitted his Ph.D. dissertation on the size of atoms, and […]
New Zealand earthquake leads to tsunami alert
Those, with friends or family in New Zealand, living in Switzerland, may be unaware of the recent earthquakes that hit New Zealand, or may have been confused by some reports. According to GeoNet, New Zealand’s official source of geological hazard information, six severe1 earthquakes have been recorded since midnight New Zealand time. The most severe […]
SMI: Trump win boosts pharma and financials
11 November 2016 – Swiss and global market roundup. Brought to you by Investec Switzerland. A rally in pharmaceutical and banking shares helped boost the Swiss Market Index this week as investors weighed the prospect of a Trump’ presidency in the United States. Stocks in the healthcare sector jumped after Donald Trump’s victory as drug pricing […]
Swiss National Bank agrees to pay out 1 billion francs annually
Brought to you by Investec Switzerland. Today, the Swiss National Bank (SNB) announced a new agreement with the Federal Department of Finance, to pay the Swiss confederation and cantons CHF 1 billion per year, as was previously the case. The deal will run from 2016 to 2020, according to an official press release. The deal […]
European break up now looks more likely, says Blond
Brought to you by Investec Switzerland. If there’s one country with reason to resent the rise of populist movements, it’s Switzerland. Twenty-two months after it abandoned its 1.20-per-euro exchange-rate cap, the Swiss National Bank still finds the franc in focus every time there’s a major event that threatens to upset markets. Donald Trump’s ascendancy to […]
