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Pilots put to test on round-the-world solar journey

This content was published on Mar 9, 2015 The plane propelled solely by the sun took off from Abu Dhabi on Monday on a 35,000km voyage. Piccard and fellow pilot André Borschberg are taking turns to steer the plane around the world. From its first landing place, Muscat, it will make 12 stops over five months, with a total flight time of around…

Living next to a nuclear waste dump – and liking it

This content was published on Mar 8, 2015 Switzerland is planning deep geological repositories to store nuclear waste as it can be radioactive for thousand of years. But first nuclear waste goes through interim storage facilities where will be kept for up to 50 years. Zwilag is one of these facilities and it has been located since 2001 in Würenlingen, a municipality in…

Food that were collected by the dumpster divers

Dumpster diving in Zurich

This content was published on Mar 7, 2015

The Negative Way to Growth?

This content was published on Mar 6, 2015 Monetary policy has become increasingly unconventional. But now we have come to the most unconventional policy tool of them all: negative nominal interest rates.

French court rules UBS bullied ex-employee

This content was published on Mar 5, 2015 The Swiss bank denied any bullying of the ex-employee, Stéphanie Gibaud, and said the dispute between Gibaud and her boss was a simple misunderstanding. But the labour tribunal, which has no connection to ongoing investigations into UBS over whether it helped tax dodgers, said that the “alleged psychological bullying has been established”. It ordered the…

Change for women at highest levels of business comes slowly

This content was published on Mar 5, 2015 An executive headhunter in Switzerland says it will take a “generational change” to get women at the very top of Swiss companies.

Switzerland enters top ten of most globalised nations

This content was published on Mar 5, 2015 The latest KOF Globalisation IndexExternal link, published on Thursday, reflects the degree of economic, social and political globalisation in 187 countries in 2012. Switzerland did particularly well regarding social globalisation, coming fourth behind Singapore, Ireland and Austria. This was measured by assessing cross-border personal contacts in the form of telephone calls, letters and tourist flows…

Diplomacy – plus commodities – elevate Swiss role on Iran

This content was published on Mar 5, 2015 Switzerland's importance in the overlapping worlds of diplomacy and commodities trading ensure it will have a front seat when Iran's markets open.

Booming property market attracts investors

This content was published on Mar 4, 2015 The difference in the rate of return between property investments and other forms of investment is at a record level as a result of the central bank’s negative interest rate policy, say authors of “Property market 2015 – structures and prospects”, published on Wednesday. The flight into property is pushing up prices, thus increasing investment…

Fast and futuristic, but are electric cars for everyone?

This content was published on Mar 4, 2015 Marco Piffaretti started engineering firm Protoscar at the age of 22 to develop technical and design solutions for environmentally-friendly mobility. Between 2009 and 2011, the Ticino company presented three models of the Lampo, an electric sports car that can accelerate from zero to 100 km/h in 4.5 seconds. swissinfo.ch: There’s been talk of electric cars…

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