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Researching malaria on the ground

This content was published on Dec 11, 2015 Marcel Tanner, former director of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, journeys to Tanzania several times a year to meet with one of the Basel-based institution's partner organisations.

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Traditional Chinese medicine

This content was published on Dec 11, 2015 Traditional Chinese medicine was developed over 2,000 years ago. Its original zone of diffusion included Vietnam, Korea and Japan, and these countries eventually developed their own individual variations on it.

Could Nobel Prize for malaria drug ruin TCM?

This content was published on Dec 11, 2015 Tropical health experts in Switzerland have welcomed the awarding of the Nobel Prize for Medicine to Youyou Tu for her malaria medicine, but in China, the recognition could have double-edged consequences.

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Funds of former Haitian minister blocked

This content was published on Dec 11, 2015 The funds had eluded restitution measures concerning the assets of Duvalier, who died last year, and his entourage. Credit Suisse had waited until 2011 to alert the Money Laundering Reporting Office to the funds. Following the opening of a money laundering investigation by the Office of the Attorney General, the cabinet decided to block the…

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Terrorism suspects: search underway in Geneva

This content was published on Dec 10, 2015 Geneva officials said on Thursday that they had raised the level of alert and were looking for suspects identified by Swiss federal authorities in connection with investigations into the November 13 Paris attacks.

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Parliament rejects systematic border control proposal

This content was published on Dec 10, 2015 Both houses of parliament have rejected a proposal by the conservative right Swiss People’s Party to perform systematic checks on people crossing the Swiss border.

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Prosecutors drop Blocher probe in Hildebrand affair

This content was published on Dec 10, 2015 Prosecutors drop a probe into former government minister Christoph Blocher who was accused on involvement in a case that saw the downfall of Switzerland's top central banker.

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Swiss ski resort flourishes with fixed Euro exchange rate

This content was published on Dec 10, 2015 Back in 2011, the euro started falling during the eurozone crisis, and bookings decreased rapidly for the winter season because it was too expensive for tourists from abroad. So Grächen declared itself a financial microclimate, and introduced a fixed Euro exchange rate of CHF1.35. The situation worsened for Swiss resorts in January 2015, when the…

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The Maharaja watch

This content was published on Dec 10, 2015

The Indian Beauty

This content was published on Dec 10, 2015 The hunt finally led to the tiny state of Tripura in north-eastern India. Interestingly, the last royal to rule Tripura was a woman. The death of the maharajah of Tripura Bir Bikram Kishore Debbaraman in 1947 – he built Tripura’s only airport – meant that his son Kirit Bikram Kishore Debbaraman became the de-facto ruler…

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