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Calmy-Rey outlines development priorities

This content was published on Aug 22, 2008 Calmy-Rey was speaking in Fribourg on Friday at the annual conference of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. “The only solution is with a revolution of productivity and efficiency. It a question of achieving the best results with the same if not fewer means of production.” She said the Mekong region was a good…

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Bern continues normalisation efforts with Libya

This content was published on Aug 22, 2008 In a statement released on Friday, the ministry said it wanted to continue discussions “in the spirit of good faith, cooperation and mutual understanding” to restore bilateral relations between the two countries. It added that two Swiss citizens facing allegations of immigration violations had still not been given permission to leave the oil-producing North African…

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Record number of Swiss tourists take flight

This content was published on Aug 22, 2008 A study released by the Institute for Public Services and Tourism at St Gallen University said that while Swiss tourists are increasingly holidaying abroad, domestic travel remained most popular. Some 88 per cent of people took at least one overnight trip in 2007, the study revealed. Around 1,900 households were surveyed. Switzerland remained the top…

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Where is home?

This content was published on Aug 22, 2008 He asks me that loaded question I find increasingly difficult to answer: “Where are you from?” After a few glasses of Sake, I take a more original approach: “Well I was born in Yorkshire. My parents are Swiss. I’m now at home in Spain. My heart beats to the rhythm of a Brazilian drum and…

Horse court holds off on Olympic yea or nay

This content was published on Aug 22, 2008 Four horses, including one from Norway’s bronze-medal team, were provisionally suspended for doping with a pain-relieving substance during the competition earlier this week. But the Court of the International Equestrian Federation will take weeks to render a final decision. The federation will test the second blood samples this weekend. All parties have until September 8…

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Livestock project breeds rewards in Vietnam

This content was published on Aug 22, 2008 It is just one of the schemes benefitting from Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) funds under its Mekong programme. The region is the focus of the SDC’s annual conference, which starts on Friday. Vietnam – which along with Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar makes up the Mekong – has been undergoing a huge boom…

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Police raid Alstom properties

This content was published on Aug 22, 2008 In a statement, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office said one person had been arrested, “strongly suspected” of abuse of administrative duties, corruption and money laundering. Swiss officials were acting on a request from their counterparts in France, and several French police officers took part in the raids. The premises searched included homes of individuals associated with…

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DJ Antoine: 2008

This content was published on Aug 22, 2008

New details emerge about Neolithic age in Alps

This content was published on Aug 21, 2008 Archaeologists said in Bern on Thursday that the oldest of the organic materials uncovered on the Schnidejoch pass date back to 4,500 BC. Radiocarbon dating of 46 of the more than 300 objects revealed that they were 1,500 years older than previously thought. “We know now that the finds in the ice are the oldest…

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Medals, records… and question marks

This content was published on Aug 21, 2008 But Swiss former Olympians claim that people would have to be “naive” to think that every jaw-dropping performance was down to good old-fashioned hard work. On Saturday Ukrainian weightlifter Igor Razoronov was kicked out of the Beijing Olympics, only the sixth athlete caught for doping during the Games. Another Ukrainian, Lyudmila Blonska, was stripped of…

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