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Regulator to evaluate Orange/Sunrise merger

This content was published on Dec 28, 2009 In a statement on Monday, Comco said there could be reason to believe the merger would give the new company a dominant position in some mobile telephony sectors. Orange’s parent company France Telecom agreed last month to buy three-quarters of Sunrise from the Danish group TDC in a deal worth €1.5 billion (SFr2.26 billion). The…

The tram that takes you on a dream journey

This content was published on Dec 28, 2009 For him it was the controls that were fascinating, but the yellow and red number 10 tram is fascinating too for lovers of records. Perhaps the boy didn’t realise it, but he was travelling on the longest international tram ride you can find. It stretches over 25.9 kilometres, taking in two countries and three Swiss…

Swiss plot escape from economic doldrums

This content was published on Dec 27, 2009 Unemployment is set to rise next year and the financial sector still faces uncertainty. But economists believe the structural strengths that protected Switzerland from the worst of the recession will aid recovery. Economic output declined 1.6 per cent in 2009, according to government figures, as financial giants bore the pain of past misjudgments and the…

Christmas taught travellers to be patient

This content was published on Dec 27, 2009 There were also problems on the railways and air rescue services had their hands full. Bright sunshine on Boxing Day was a magnet to attract the Swiss to ski areas but this led to kilometre-long traffic jams and long waiting times on many access roads. The road between Küblis and Klosters was particularly affected, with…

Swiss Post puts its stamp on Christmas parcels

This content was published on Dec 27, 2009 Swiss Post said that parcel volumes reached their peak in the week before Christmas when one million parcels were going through sorting centres every day. In a statement, the group said that the success was due to the “commitment of its employees”. On normal working days, about half a million parcels are processed at the…

Migros boss attacks Aldi and Lidl

This content was published on Dec 27, 2009 Herbert Bolliger told the Sonntag newspaper that price cutting in Germany was spilling over into Switzerland with negative results. “The owners of Aldi and Lidl get richer and richer and put pressure on prices at the cost of producers and employees,” he said. “The economic damage is enormous and the brutal price war is destroying…

Nestlé receives security pledges from Zimbabwe

This content was published on Dec 26, 2009 The state-controlled Herald newspaper reported that the government had guaranteed the operations of the firm and its staff from interference. Nestlé, which has its headquarters in Vevey on Lake Geneva, said it had received an unannounced visit from government officials and police on December 19 and was forced to accept milk delivery from non-contracted suppliers.…

“Lothar has made the forests more stable”

This content was published on Dec 24, 2009 Forester Jakob Zaugg told swissinfo.ch he still has vivid memories of the storm that took its toll of countless woods in Switzerland. “Trees flew with their roots like arrows 80 metres into the air and then fell to the ground. I’d never seen anything like that before.” Zaugg, who has been self-employed in the special…

Providing warmth and company for the homeless

This content was published on Dec 23, 2009 “In winter we have more guests than usual,“ said Brigitte, who has been working in the Sleeper, an emergency shelter in Bern, for nearly ten years. Brigitte is on the day shift, and has to see to breakfast and to the cleaning. It is also her duty to make sure that the all the guests…

French showdown looms over stolen bank data

This content was published on Dec 23, 2009 The Geneva-based HSBC private bank case has so many sub plots and has thrown up so much conflicting information that it could read as spy novel. Both sides accuse the other of encouraging criminal behaviour. At the centre of the affair lies the ongoing dispute between Switzerland and other countries over banking secrecy and the…

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