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Swiss and German railways sign new deal

This content was published on Jul 9, 2010 The government-owned service and Germany’s Deutsche Bahn signed a memorandum of understanding in Basel on Friday. This deal will improve services between the two countries greatly according to the two companies, increasing train numbers as well as upgrading the current fleet. High-speed trains will run from the end of 2014 but will only reach their…

Solar power: the sky’s the limit

This content was published on Jul 9, 2010 Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard, the initiator of the project, pilot André Borschberg, and the host of designers and developers who made the flight possible may have entered the history books, but what does their achievement mean in practical terms? “I hope that in two years time at the next Green Aviation Show we shall be…

Hollywood to star in Swiss charity golf bash

This content was published on Jul 8, 2010 The big-screen star will invite the public to bid to play golf with himself and a host of other celebrities in Switzerland in September. The event aims to raise around €500,000 (SFr666,600), part of which will go to Cambodia. The proceeds would go some way to funding the SFr3 million rebuilding project of the over-crowded…

Up with the sun

This content was published on Jul 8, 2010 Packed with Swiss technology and backed by a host of personalities, the Solar Impulse plane completed the highest, longest flight of a solar-powered plane on July 7-8, 2010. It is a prototype for another version that pilots Bertrand Piccard, famous for his round-the-world balloon flight, and André Borschberg, a former fighter jet pilot, hope to…

“It was a very zen flight”

This content was published on Jul 8, 2010 The experimental solar-powered plane, known as Solar Impulse, landed safely at 9am on Thursday after completing its first night test flight, powered only by solar energy stored during the day. The organisers said it was the longest and highest flight in the history of solar aviation. Helpers rushed to steady the revolutionary aircraft as it…

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Remote villages show effects of inbreeding

This content was published on Jul 8, 2010 The findings by a team led by evolutionary biologist Erik Postma from Zurich University revealed that, contrary to popular belief, parents who are closely related to each other do not have fewer children. Rather, the effects of inbreeding can be seen one generation later, when their children have children. Previous studies have looked at societies…

Solar “lab” flies through the night

This content was published on Jul 8, 2010 The revolutionary new plane conceals a wealth of state-of-the-art technology and innovative design. Some 80 partners, including many Swiss companies, have helped conceive, build, test and fly the prototype. A jubilant and exhausted André Borschberg, the Swiss pilot and CEO of Solar Impulse, touched down at Payerne airfield north of Lausanne at 9am after a…

German newcomers struggle with Swiss German

This content was published on Jul 7, 2010 On the other hand, Germans who have been here for a while say dialect opens up the secret places of the Swiss heart. Recently, there has been a wave of German immigration to Switzerland, mainly because of the EU-Swiss agreement allowing free movement of people to take up jobs. One now meets Germans everywhere in…

Swiss Post “must not cut” services

This content was published on Jul 7, 2010 Presenting his annual report for 2009, Marc Furrer said that although more letters had arrived more punctually last year, ongoing cuts were alienating customers. “Service to citizens should not be subject to more savings,” Furrer told the media on Wednesday. Examples from abroad have shown that opening up the market should not mean cuts at…

Banks snub ombudsman’s Lehman complaints

This content was published on Jul 7, 2010 The 14 per cent increase in gripes to 4,757 was dominated by the sale and subsequent failure of products linked to failed banks Lehman Brothers and Kaupthing. But a quarter of complaints sent on to banks were met with a brick wall. Banking ombudsman Hanspeter Häni told a conference in Zurich on Tuesday that most…

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