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Media bid farewell to watch industry’s “messiah”

This content was published on Jun 29, 2010 Several papers devoted their entire front pages to Hayek, a dual Swiss-Lebanese national who is credited with reinventing the Swiss watch industry in the 1980s with the introduction of his cheap and colourful timepieces. Le Temps newspaper gave over its first three pages to the man. Its editorial commented that Hayek had “pushed the great…

Time stops for Swatch founder

This content was published on Jun 29, 2010 Hayek was the founder and most recently the chairman of the Swatch Group, the number one manufacturer of finished watches in the world. He was often cited as the saviour of the Swiss watchmaking industry. Hayek died “completely unexpectedly while working for his beloved Swatch Group”, the company announced on Monday evening. Considered one of…

Transitions

This content was published on Jun 28, 2010 In between there was a steep abandoned trail through lush forests, bushwhacking through flowering knee-high rhododendrons, alpine meadows and rocky ridges. It wasn’t exactly easy. We felt the heaviness of our packs filled with mountaineering gear while scrambling up steep and terribly loose ridges and steep snowfields, too. We were planning to go my usual…

High street prices unaffected by weak euro

This content was published on Jun 28, 2010 Research has shown that Swiss shoppers still have to pay substantially more than European counterparts despite the euro losing ground to the franc for several months. Traders have blamed this on the rising cost of raw materials. Switzerland has traditionally been known as a high price island for consumers thanks to a higher earning potential…

Banking on bunkers in the Swiss Alps

This content was published on Jun 27, 2010 Sheltered deep within the Bernese Oberland, two old military bunkers now serve as maximum security vaults for the use of an international clientele.

Swiss get a breath of summer – at last

This content was published on Jun 27, 2010 Various outdoor events have enticed large crowds. In the biggest such, about 100,000 people watched the firework display over Lake Lucerne on Saturday night as part of the Lucerne festival. As for music fans, nearly 82,000 attended the St Gallen Open Air event and more than 50,000 trucker and country fans gathered in Interlaken for…

Charging it

This content was published on Jun 27, 2010 By 7 I was out and up to actual summit of the Dents Blanche. an incredible view of Mont Blanc and the Chamonix area peaks greeted me. How I wish I‘d made it to the summit last night! But then life changed. The descent down the west side was a knife edge that turned into…

What does the “God particle” sound like?

This content was published on Jun 26, 2010 The LHC Sound project aims to raise awareness about the work deep under the French-Swiss border and to develop a way for scientists to listen to the data and identify the Higgs particle, if and when they detect it. One of the widely publicised aims of the LHC, the world’s biggest atom smasher, is to…

Alpine tourism strategy approved

This content was published on Jun 25, 2010 Tourism is a key industry for the mountain regions and has a huge potential for economic growth, according to a statement published by the economics ministry on Friday. The government strategy, to be reviewed every four years, seeks the creation of high-quality employment and to improve Switzerland’s competitive edge as a tourist destination in the…

Spain confirms probe of 3,000 Swiss bank accounts

This content was published on Jun 25, 2010 Swiss authorities also confirmed they were investigating the information published on Wednesday by Spanish newspapers El País and Expansion about up to €6 billion (SFr8.16 billion) hidden in Swiss accounts. Spanish Finance Minister Elena Salgado said the owners of the accounts had been notified and asked to clarify whether they had declared the money in…

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