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Fribourg and Geneva residents triumph at Fondue World Championship
2025-11-16
Around 200 participants took part in the Fondue World Championship held in Tartegnin, canton Vaud, on Saturday. Swiss residents from Geneva and Fribourg took the top awards. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The competition was won by Benedikt Wüthrich from the Auboranges cheese dairy in canton Fribourg in the professional …
New RTS TV and radio studios inaugurated at EPFL campus
2025-11-14
The Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC) and its French-language service RTS have inaugurated a new TV and radio production site near Lausanne in western Switzerland. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new building, located on the campus of the Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), took place …
Swiss Gruyère crowned world’s best cheese
2025-11-14
A Swiss Gruyère AOP cheese was crowned the world’s best cheese at the World Cheese Awards 2025, held this year in Bern, Switzerland. The prestigious international competition brought together more than 5,000 participants from 45 countries. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The 18-month-old award-winning Gruyère comes from the Vorderfultigen cheese …
US court dismisses Credit Suisse lawsuit against Switzerland
2025-10-01
A United States court says Switzerland is not liable for losses incurred by creditors in connection with so-called AT1 bonds in the takeover of Credit Suisse by UBS. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox This was decided by a US District Court in New York. The Swiss Federal Department of Finance …
Price of gold reaches record amid fears of US government shutdown
2025-09-30
The price of an ounce of gold continued to rise on Tuesday morning. After reaching $3,850 on Monday night, it rose to $3,870 on Tuesday, buoyed by the risk of budgetary paralysis in the United States, the so-called “shutdown”. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox At around 7:35am on the last …
Swatch says ‘slanted eye’ ad was a ‘faux pas by a young team’
2025-08-28
After a botched ad campaign in China, the Swatch Group says it is back on track – yet some fundamental questions remain to be answered. In August, Swatch chose a rather unlikely image as part of its ad campaign in China: an Asian model pulling at the corners of his eyes. It quickly became apparent …
One in three new vehicles in Switzerland are plug-ins
2025-08-05
The Swiss car market grew in July, thanks to a carryover of registrations from June. Since the start of the year, the decline has been close to 5%. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox During the month under review, 19,629 passenger cars were registered in Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein, …
UBS settles Credit Suisse legacy case in the US
2025-08-04
UBS has reached an agreement in the US with the US Department of Justice (DOJ) for another Credit Suisse legacy issue. As part of the settlement concerning so-called mortgage-backed securities, UBS will pay $300 million (CHF242 million), as announced on Monday. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The mortgages in question …
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