Dübendorf, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Solar Impulse pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg will each make a 25-hour flight, one after the other, at the controls of a new flight simulator from 12-16 May. The simulated flights will be the first for the solar-powered plane project and will take place in the construction hangar of the […]
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20,000 fans pack out Crans-Montana for Caprice Festival
Crans-Montana, Valais, Switzerland (TSR, Fre) – The Caprices music festival opens Wednesday night to a packed resort: 20,000 people, which is twice as many as in 2007, are expected. Concerts Wednesday and Saturday nights are sold out. The heavy snowfall of the past few days followed by cold air and now blue skies has created […]
Russian mega-project in Valais resort takes form
Mollens and Aminona, Valais, Switzerland (TSR, Fre and Sixieme Dimension in Valais, Fre) – Three hundred citizens of Mollens turned out Tuesday night to look at building plans for a proposed CHF350-400 million luxury resort in nearby Aminona. The Russian developers, Mirax, presented their drawings and models for a resort that will add 1,600 beds […]
Fine particles pollution: Ticino goes slow, Lake Geneva region takes precautions
Ticino and Lake Geneva region, Switzerland (TSR, Fre) – Canton Ticino on Monday mandated slower speeds on the A2 autoroute to reduce fine particles pollution, which tend to rise to dangerous levels during warm, sunny winter weather. The Lake Geneva region, which was on alert at the end of last week, has seen its levels […]
Switzerland wins the train race: 12 trains a minute!
Bern, Switzerland (TSR, Fre) – Switzerland does it again – the country runs more trains than any other in the world, with 93.8 a day on every line, and on average 12 trains a minute. Japan, number two in the race to see how much rail traffic a country can move, has only 75.3 trains […]