GenevaLunch » Paris France http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Sun, 27 May 2012 09:11:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Switzerland praised for its development aidhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/15/switzerland-praised-for-its-development-aid/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/15/switzerland-praised-for-its-development-aid/#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:44:00 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=33788 GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland/Paris, France (GenevaLunch) – Switzerland’s official assistance to developing countries obtains high marks in general in an evaluation by the OECD’s committee on development aid. The committee notes that Swiss official development aid (ODA) was 0.42 percent of GDP in 2009, still short of the 0.7 percent recommended by the UN, but 6 percent [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/14/hsbc-data-theft-may-involve-more-than-10-clients/feed/ 0 Unigestion opens fund in France to escape “tarnished Swiss image”http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/23/unigestion-opens-fund-in-france-to-escape-tarnished-swiss-image/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/23/unigestion-opens-fund-in-france-to-escape-tarnished-swiss-image/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:30:29 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=30216 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Unigestion, a Geneva-based asset manager specializing in alternative investments like hedge funds, has opened an office in Paris, France in order to be able to offer its clients a fund that is not Swiss. Chief executive officer Patrick Fenal says in an interview with Bloomberg 21 October that Unigestion lost a [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/23/unigestion-opens-fund-in-france-to-escape-tarnished-swiss-image/feed/ 1 Kidnapped woman jogger discovered strangled in French woodshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/02/kidnapped-woman-jogger-discovered-strangled-in-french-woods/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/02/kidnapped-woman-jogger-discovered-strangled-in-french-woods/#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:53:46 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=29015 GenevaLunch.com Paris, France (GenevaLunch) - Police have located the strangled body of the kidnapped woman jogger in woods near Boissy-aux-Cailles, south of Paris, France with the help of the presumed murderer, Wednesday evening 30 September. The suspect was taken into custody soon after the victim alerted police by cell phone from inside the trunk of the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/02/kidnapped-woman-jogger-discovered-strangled-in-french-woods/feed/ 0 Irina Bokova new head of Unescohttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/22/irina-bokova-new-head-of-unesco/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/22/irina-bokova-new-head-of-unesco/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:03:45 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=28296 GenevaLunch.com Bulgarian Irina Bokova withstood five rounds of voting in Paris, France Tuesday 22 September to become the new director-general of Unesco, the UN agency for education, culture and science, the first woman to do so. She beat out her Egyptian challenger, Culture Minister Farouk Hosni, who was favourite to win at the outset, and supported [...]

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