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Successful FTA negotiations inject vigor into Sino-Swiss cooperation says Chinese premier
The successful negotiations over a free trade agreement (FTA) between China and Switzerland will inject new and strong vigor into the two countries' further cooperation, visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said here Friday.Addressing business and financial leaders at a luncheon, Li said the FTA deal would have wider implications, as Switzerland will be the first continental European country ...
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Li gives speech at luncheon in Zurich
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang gives a speech at a luncheon with business and financial leaders in Zurich, Switzerland, May 24, 2013. ...
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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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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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