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Geneva Airport scoops award

This content was published on Mar 18, 2013 “This is a great honour which rewards many years of sizeable investment to move the airport from one era into another,” said the airport’s CEO Robert Deillon on Monday. The awards were presented at a ceremony in Montreal. “We’ve managed to keep up with the growth in traffic at Geneva by offering our passengers and…

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Swiss know-how helps fight Beijing smog

This content was published on Mar 18, 2013 “The government isn’t doing enough to reduce pollution. There is too much black smoke, too many exhaust fumes,” says Mr Ma, a Beijing pensioner who, along with his granddaughter, is taking advantage of a brief interval of clear sky to get some fresh air into his lungs. “I have lung cancer, I can hardly breathe,”…

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All eyes turn to Geneva Motor Show

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Asylum by the numbers

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Foreign ministry ‘shocked’ by India rape

This content was published on Mar 16, 2013 The woman and her husband, who were on a bicycle tour in the state, were attacked by a group of seven or eight men, according to a ministry statement issued on Saturday. Swiss diplomats in India have “demanded that those responsible be quickly identified and brought before the courts,” the ministry said. The embassy in…

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Moving China’s Terracotta Army

This content was published on Mar 15, 2013 The planned Dortmund exhibition was the most comprehensive presentation to be shown outside of Switzerland. Fifteen warriors and horses, including a quadriga and many other finds, were put on display. Preparations lasted two years and the exhibition was supposed to have been staged in 1989. But then came Tiananmen. The bloody suppression of students in…

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The man who dug a well and found an army

This content was published on Mar 15, 2013 A selection of the 2,000-year-old Qin warriors, discovered in 1974 in China’s central Shaanxi province, are now on display in Bern’s history museum. swissinfo.ch tracked down Yang, who is now 75, and spoke to him by phone. It was March 1974, not long after the Chinese New Year, and as it was particularly dry at…

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Terracotta warriors arrive in Bern

This content was published on Mar 15, 2013 The museum negotiated for two years with the Chinese authorities. The exhibition ‘Qin – the immortal emperor and his terracotta warriors’ presents the enigmatic figure of the first emperor and his monumental mausoleum complex guarded by the Terracotta Army. The complex, discovered in Shaanxi Province 40 years ago, was added to the Unesco World Heritage…

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UN rights council adopts Swiss report

This content was published on Mar 14, 2013 The final report of Switzerland’s second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) – a human rights peer review exercise carried out every four years – was adopted by the 47-member Geneva-based council on Thursday. Switzerland has agreed to implement 99 out of 140 recommendations put forward by 69 states last October. The adoption of the report follows…

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