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(Keystone) Here’s a look back at some memorable statistics from swissinfo.ch stories over the past year,...

How much do “ordinary” Swiss ea, how much money do they spend, and what does it go on? Money diaries gives us an insight. The average gross wage for a full-time job in Switzerland is CHF6,...

All the votes are counted and the last seats in the Swiss parliament been allocated. (Keystone / Peter Klaunzer) ...

In 2017, a total of 2,404xa0tonnes of gold were imported to Switzerland, with a value of about CHF70 billion (Keystone) Most of the gold in the world passes through Switzerland. This is a business...

While thesexa0foot-shaped plates helped women cross gratingsxa0outside a German department store in the 1960s, women at the SBC were asked to leave high-heeled shoes at home (Keystone) Since its cre...

(swissinfo.ch) Today, on World Radio Day, we celebrate the power of radio and its role in bringing people together.xa0It is also an occasion to look back at how swissinfo.ch began... with radio.Beginning in 1935, special programmes for the Swiss abroad were broadcast over short wave.xa0In 1939, the Short Wave Service got its own antenna, located at Schwarzenberg in canton Be.Here is a sample programme from May 3, 1949, withxa0a speech in Swi...

This content was published on January 26, 2018 5:00 PMJan 26, 2018 - 17:00 The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos has always attracted movers and shakers from a wide range of countries and fields. This year, however, the number of A-list guests was particularly high, with one attendee in particular happy to grab thexa0headlines.xa0Presidents, prime ministers, kings and queens have all gathered this week in the mountain resort of Davos in easte Switzer...

The Solar Impulse round the world flight is one example of how technology can be put to good use in the environment(Keystone) Transforming smoke-belching, river-polluting industrial dinosaurs into environmentally-friendly businesses is key to achieving the targets of the Paris climate accord, the World Economic Forum is hearing in Davos.“The good news is that this is the biggest business opportunity that we have ever seen, but it is only an ...

Gondo used to be frequented by gold miners and cross-border smugglers, as immortalised by thexa0statue in the foreground. (Keystone) A new kind of mine is providing hope for a Swiss mountain village that has seen its share of misfortune over the years. Gondo, with 40 inhabitants, is no longer mining for gold, but for cryptocurrencies. On the face of it, Gondo - an isolated community on the Swiss-Italian border - is hardly the most likely location for such a cutting-edge, disruptive and div...

Here is a selection of stories we're looking ahead to in the week of January 8, 2018. (Keystone) Monday The trial of thirteen financiers accused of funnelling more than CH15 million to the Sri Lankan Tamil separatist group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) will start at the Swiss Federal Criminal Court. (swissinfo.ch) Tuesday Switzerland is home to several long-running English-language comedy and drama groups. swissinfo.ch profiles the actors, producers and audiences and exami...

Three blue barracks - known as "Conference Row" - connect North Korea (visible across the street) and the South. It's here that the armistice agreement between the countries was signed in 1953, though the conflict between them technically still persists(swissinfo.ch) For more than six decades, Swiss soldiers have been based on the border between North Korea and South Korea, known as the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ). Despite its name, it is ...

Susan Tiberghien saysxa0life in Switzerland was difficult at first(Jeannie Wurz) I came to Europe to do graduate work in Contemporary Literature. I was 21, just out of university, with a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and Literature and a minor in French. I had studied French for three years in high school and four years at college, but when I arrived at Grenoble University in the French Alps, I realized that I couldn’t make myself und...

An Afghani boy leas to walk again thanks to his prosthesis.( Handicap Inteational ) On December 3, 1997, over 120 countries gathered in Ottawa, Canada, to sign one of the most far reaching arms control conventions the world has ever seen: the ban on anti personnel landmines.xa0The exhibition, which moves from Plain Palais to the Place des Nations on December 4th, traces the tireless wo...

... Print comment The turkeys spend their daysxa0in the meadow; at night they are housed in so-called igloos to protect them from the cold and from foxes The turkey enclosure can be...

The picturesque hamlet of Taveyanne in the Vaudoise Alps is a place frozen in time.xa0(RTS/swissinfo.ch)Above the clouds at 1,649 metres (5,400 feet), it’s a listed historical monument, with its timber chalets and wooden shingle roofs. Its residents have to manage without mains electricity.xa0To guarantee the long-term future of the hamlet and its environment, the locals teamed up with thexa0Vaudoise Le...

(swissinfo.ch) Having left his native Broye in canton Fribourg 15 years ago, Raphael Knopf, 38, has since found happiness in the antipodes. Knopf has built his home in the wilds of New Zealand’s North Island, where he cultivates organic honey in harmony with the savage nature of his adopted country. swissinfo.ch: Why did you leave Switzerland?...

luca1 Luca Luca Orduña, 27, put all his eggs in one basket. At the age of 22, he went to Japan for the first time and set himself up in business. Fascinated by the varied cuisine and the natural environment, this adventurous entrepreneur still isn’t thinking about retuing to Switzerland. As the manager of a company that distributes Swiss clocks...

In times of climate change and melting permafrost, mode surveillance systems are a matter of life and death. Researchers are developing new waing systems to givexa0mountain residents more time to evacuate when the rocks start tumbling.xa0(SRF/swissinfo.ch)In August 2017, eight people went missing, believed to have been buried under 4xa0million cubic metres of debris. The landslide in Bondo, close to...

From field to the plate: Swiss voters on September 24 decide what role the govement should play in ensuring there is enough agriculture foodstuffs produced in Switzerland (Keystone) Voters will have the final say on an integral plan for ensuring Swiss food security on September 24. The content of the text spans the entire agricultural and food-supply chain. Opposition against the amendment is very limited and seen as merely cementing the existing situation, while supporters argue it is cru...

(Patrick Lo Giudice/Wikipedia) More than 200 years after her execution, the story of the “last witch in Europe” still fascinates. To this day, the case of Anna Göldi causes discomfort. He thinks long and hard before actually saying it. Walter Hauser knows that his words could sound sensational, or even cynical. After some hesitation, he finally utters: “It’s like a curse. I just can’t let go of this story.” Talking about a curse when referring to Göldi is somehow ironic. She was the last ...