Pharmaceutical manufacturers Roche are to build a new skyscraper in Basel which if the computer generated image is anything to go by looks like a cross between a gherkin and an apple core.
We already have one skyscraper - the Messeturm - which blocks out the rather pleasant view we used to have of St. Chrischona. [...]
Filling in my Baselstadt tax return I was drawn to a Guardian essay by Richard Adams in which he has a go at those pesky people who just won’t give the taxman free reign on their bank accounts, and accuses those who arrange their affairs in a tax efficient way of being unpatriotic.
Now that summer is over (though nobody has told the weather) we’re now into the second week of the clique’s “Obligatorisches Ãœbungen”. If you thought that the Cliques and the Gugge go silent after the last strains of Ändestraich, you couldn’t be more wrong.
The fourth official language of Switzerland, Romansh has its roots in “Vulgar Latin” which was spoken by as spoken by Roman soldiers, officials and merchants. Romansh is spoken by the Rhaetian people of the canton Graubunden, whose origins remain the source of speculation.
The website swissinfo.org has published a series of articles about the language [...]
Friends, Baslers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes as I have exciting news for you! Shakespeare’s forgotten masterpiece, the cult musical which has taken much of the world by storm is scheduled to play in Basel! Yeah Yeah.