The video below, created by Tony Johnston Media, whips through a few interesting facts on Switzerland, including its languages, political system, trains, gold, and a selection of its famous international residents. More detail on the information covered in this video can be found in these articles on Swiss wealth, Swiss trains, and the relative cost of Big […]
This year’s best Swiss cheese, selected from over 800
Over the weekend a group of judges sniffed and tasted their way through more than 800 different cheeses at the tenth Swiss Cheese Awards hosted in the Vallée de Joux, in Vaud, Switzerland. The most pleasing to nose and mouth was an Alpine gruyère AOP (Appellation d’Origine Protégée) made by Jean-Claude Pittet, from Brassus in […]
Two confirmed dead after attack on Swiss train
Le Matin. The 27 year old perpetrator of the train attack near Salez-Sennwald in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen, has died from his injuries, according to St. Gallen’s police. Earlier in the day a 34 year old female victim died from injuries resulting from the same attack. Doctors reported that two of the remaining […]
Swiss police search the house of train attacker
Tages Anzeiger. Around 2:20pm on 13 August 2016, a 27 year old man attacked passengers on a train travelling through the St. Gallen Rhine Valley as the train approached the town of of Salez, according to the Swiss-German newspaper Tages Anzeiger. Salez is in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen, close to the border with […]
Swiss gay divorce rate higher than heterosexual
20 Minutes. Since 1 January 2007, gay couples in Switzerland have been able to register their partnerships under Swiss federal law. At a federal level, same sex partnerships are governed by rules known in French as LPart and in German as PartG, rather than by laws covering heterosexual marriage. A number of Swiss cantons offered […]
Swiss football – Euro 2016 – progress and next match
The Swiss football team, won its first match against Albania (1:0) and drew its second against Romania (1:1). So far they have a total of 4 points – teams get 3 for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss. This score places them second in their Group behind France, on 6, but […]
Surprisingly, Swiss think the grass is greener in this country
A recent study by Geneva-based Livewhat, asked people from nine european nations what they thought about living conditions in one another’s country on a scale of 0 to 10. A score of 6 or more was considered good. The countries included were: Italy, Greece, UK, Spain, Poland, Germany, France, Sweden and Switzerland. In addition, each group was asked […]
New Swiss police cat
On 1 April, Vaud Police presented their new police cat. The cat dressed in a police harness had its pictures posted on the Vaud Police’s Facebook page. The point of the post was to use April fools day and a cat in uniform to remind people not to believe everything they see online and maintain […]
Most Afghan girls don’t go to school. How grit and dad got this one to the top.
This week Renu Chahil-Graf goes for a walk in the park with Afghanistan’s UN Ambassador in Geneva Dr. Suraya Dalil, and learns about her journey to the top, and of the men who helped her succeed in a place where only 5% of girls finish school. It started out as a normal school day in Kabul in 1978, […]
Swiss eat ever more cheese and favour homegrown extra-hard ones
According to the Swiss farmers union, 2015 was a bumper year for cheese consumption in Switzerland. The Swiss ate 21.49 kgs each, 260 grams more than in 2014. In total, 180,746 tonnes of cheese were eaten in 2015, 4,314 tonnes more than in 2014. Consumption of fromage frais, soft white cheeses like mozzarella and quark, a cheese […]