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China Switzerland sign off on preliminary free trade deal
China China has signed the framework for a free trade deal with Switzerland - a deal which could become Beijing's first with a major Western economy.China's Premier Li Keqiang said the landmark agreement underscored Beijing's growing openness to the world."This free trade deal is the first between China and a continental European economy, and the first with one of the 20 ...
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Jim Armitage Alone and unloved Swiss provide a salutary lesson for the Eurosceptics
Jim Armitage is an adviser to Evgeny Lebedev, owner of the Evening Standard and Independent titles, and a former Deputy City Editor of the Evening ...
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Lake Zurich Rotary fundraiser
*/ The Lake Zurich Rotary Club hosts its third annual Roll with Rotary bowling fundraiser at Brunswick Bowl on Route 12 in Deer Park on Friday, May 31. This event benefits the Rotary scholarship program for Lake Zurich High School seniors. A tax-deductible donation of $35 entitles each person to a buffet dinner, bowling shoes and three games. There will also be a gift raffle of more than a ...
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Swiss nanotechnology pioneer Heinrich Rohrer dies
Heinrich Rohrer, a Swiss nanotechnology pioneer who helped invent the scanning tunneling microscope to observe and manipulate individual atoms, has died. An announcement Thursday from the IBM Research Laboratory in Zurich, where he had worked, said Rohrer died May 16 at his home in Wollerau, Switzerland, the Los Angeles Times reported. Heinrich Rohrer and colleague Gerd Binnig invented their ...
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Syria’s opposition says may take part in Geneva conference
ANKARA, May 25 (Itar-Tass) - National Coalition for Syrian Opposition and Revolutionary Forces is ready to take part in the Geneva-2 talks on resolving the conflict in Syria but it puts forward certain conditions, Haled Hojja, a representative of the coalitions participating in a conference of irreconcilable oppositionists in Istanbul ...
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Former Nba Player Visits Swiss Guard Basketball Team
VATICAN CITY, April 19 (CNA/EWTN News) .- The former Los Angeles Lakers player Vlade Divac was thrilled to meet with the Swiss Guard to discuss sports and learn about their work at the Vatican."I was very excited to be here, and they have a basketball team here with very tall people," the 7-foot, 1-inch Divac joked in the Swiss Guard's barracks."I also told them that if they ...
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Chinese leader holds out promise of more deals
Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang says a free trade accord with Switzerland should serve as an example for closer relations with other European countries. He believes a deal with the Swiss finance industry will also boost the economy in ...
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Organizations Demand in Geneva End to Blockade Against Cuba
Geneva, May 24 (Prensa Latina) Non-governmental organizations are calling in this capital for the U.S. blockade against Cuba to be eliminated, and for the Human Rights Council to create a special procedure to investigate the impact of this unilateral policy. That U.S. aggression, in existence for more than 50 years, is inhumane and intolerable, and violates the content and spirit of the United ...
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Premier enjoys his day on Swiss farm
With the sound of a traditional alphorn as background music, a Swiss family farm, Guldenberg, welcomed Premier Li Keqiang and the Chinese delegation on Friday morning. Situated in Embrach, half an hour's drive from Zurich, Guldenberg was founded in 1966 and has adopted the most modern agricultural systems to produce and market many kinds of products including milk, cheese and fruit ...
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Swiss enquire into Czech Skoda Holding deal besides MUS - server
Prague/Bellinzona - The Swiss detectives dealing with the suspicious privatisation of MUS coal mining company also investigate the privatisation of another Czech firm, the Plzen-seated Skoda Holding, Internet daily Insider writes today, adding that this ensues from a Swiss partial verdict on the MUS ...
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Switzerland world's most competitive country
Switzerland is frequently pointed to as a model of good governance, prosperity, innovation and stability and is one of the happiest countries in the world. The recent competitive survey by the WEF underscored this, but came with a warning.
Switzerland truly is an impressive country, landlocked and small with no natural resources; it has developed into one of the richest countries in the world and was recently named the most competitive economy in the world. This is due in large part to its banking sector, which is one of the most advanced and its government structure, which is efficient in comparison to many other developed countries. Read more
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