By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF As part of a broader commemoration of 75 years of bilateral diplomatic relations between Switzerland and Mexico, the Swiss Embassy in Mexico City is sponsoring a 26-piece exhibit of watch and clock designs at the Franz Mayer Museum. The exhibit, titled “Design around the Clock,” presents pieces of watchmaking made between 2015 and 2020.
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Back in early 19th century, Auguste Agassiz, the soft-spoken second son of a conservative Protestant family that had, for centuries, lived in same rural Swiss village of Agiez, near Lake Neuchatel, in the mountainous canton of Vaud, decided to break with tradition and move to the western canton of Bern. For Auguste – who, it had been
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XINHUA Hong Kong and Mexico signed a bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (IPPA) to strengthen mutual economic ties, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government announced on Friday, Jan. 24. The agreement, signed in Davos, Switzerland, one day earlier by representatives of the two sides on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, is intended to
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The Real Border Wall at Guatemala While Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard has consistently rejected the idea that there is a crisis at Mexico’s Guatemalan border, new caravans of various sizes continue to arrive there, looking to cross through Mexico to the United States. Their crossing, however, is being impeded by the armed Mexican National Guardsmen,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The world’s wealthiest 1 percent increased their financial income by 12 percent in 2018, to an average of $2,500 a day, while the underprivileged half of workers that make up the world’s 3.8 billion poorest saw their earnings drop by 11 percent, according to a report released by the nonprofit development organization Oxfam on Monday,
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS For some people, a watch is nothing more than a convenient body adornment that comes in handy for not missing the bus or being on time for a business meeting. For others, it is a precision mechanical instrument that represents a legacy of artistic expression and creative engineering that serves as a personal statement of who the wearer is and what
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It’s like that old sleight-of-hand shell game where the magician keeps switching the location of a tiny ball under one of three cups and, time and time again, some sucker falls for the rouse and bets he knows where the ball really is. Most of the time, he doesn’t. And even if he does, the magician will
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS When it comes to financial transparency, Switzerland has a pretty miserable record. For more than 300 years, the country’s financial institutions have prided themselves on their tight-lipped discretion and no-questions-asked deposits. In fact, in 1713, the Grand Council of Geneva adopted a formal code of secrecy prohibiting banks from divulging information with anyone except the account holder.
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A year’s tuition at a private boarding school in Switzerland can run between $50,000 and $200,000 a year, and scholarships are few and far between
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