January 15, 2012
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks with journalists at Tehran's Mehrabad airport after his visit to Latin American countries January 14, 2012. Iran said on Saturday it had evidence Washington was behind the latest killing of one of its nuclear scientists, state television reported, at a time when tensions over the country’s nuclear program have escalated [...]
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September 3, 2011
General Vo Nguyen Giap (C, sitting) in 1986 in Zurich with representatives from Swiss non-governmental organizations. In autumn 1986, General Vo Nguyen Giap visited Switzerland, following an invitation by the City President (the mayor) of Zurich. During his official visit, activists of the Vietnam movement and friends of Vietnam were given the opportunity to meet [...]
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December 4, 2010
Picture shows a page of the website WikiLeaks featuring its founder Julian Assange. The WikiLeaks website was fighting to stay online Saturday after Sweden issued a new arrest warrant for its elusive chief and it battled cyber attacks and government attempts to silence it. The whistleblowing website’s founder Julian Assange briefly broke cover to say [...]
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January 29, 2010
One of the urgent demands in the world today was to generate bigger democratisation in global governance, said Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in Davos yesterday. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung meets Swiss President Doris Leuthard on his working visit to Switzerland.Dung, addressing the 40th Davos plenary session on reshaping global governance, said this was [...]
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September 10, 2009
To initiate talks with six major powers on global issues, Iran handed over its new package of proposals on Wednesday. Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki (1st R) meets with the four ambassadors of China, Russia, France and Germany, the British charge d’affaires, and the Swiss envoy representing the United States, in Teheran, Iran, Sept. 9, [...]
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August 21, 2009
People enter and leave the building of Swiss bank UBS in Midtown Manhattan in New York City on Wednesday The Swiss government is selling its 6 billion-Swiss franc investment in UBS AG, the countryâs biggest bank, a day after signing an agreement with the US on data on bank clients suspected of evading taxes. The [...]
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August 20, 2009
Swiss Justice Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf. Switzerland has agreed to reveal the names of about 4,450 wealthy American clients of UBS AG to US authorities in a tax dispute settlement that pierces Swiss banking secrecy and threatens to spill over to other banks. The deal promises to end years of investigation and uncertainty for UBS, the [...]
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July 9, 2009
Switzerland has vowed to prevent UBS from handing over client information to US authorities, in an attempt to defend bank secrecy, saying a tax case targeting its main bank is souring diplomatic ties. Wealth management giant UBS is facing a court hearing in Miami next week after refusing to disclose data on 52,000 Americans holders [...]
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July 7, 2009
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked Switzerland to provide assistance in human resource development, especially in vocational training and university faculty in a meeting Monday in Hanoi. This was one of the main issues highlighted during a meeting between the Prime Minister and the Swiss Secretary of the Economy Jean Daniel Gerber.Dung welcomed the [...]
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July 7, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked Switzerland to provide assistance in human resource development, especially in vocational training and university faculty. PM Nguyen Tan Dung welcomed the visit by Gerber and a delegation of leading business executives as a boost to bilateral relations in economics, trade and investment.This was one of the [...]
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