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• A House in the Trees Is a House for Me

Who stays at the Treehotel? [Kent] says guests come from all over the world: China, New Zealand, England. A family from Spain will celebrate New Year's Eve in the Treehotel, far from the hullabaloo of noisemakers and fireworks. What will greet them instead is silence and darkness. A night for two at the Mirrorcube will cost you SEK 4200 ($633), and at the Bird's Nest sek 3800 ($573), which includes a breakfast buffet at [Britta Lindvall]'s Guesthouse (where you check in). The rooms have coffee- and teamakers, like most hotel rooms. And more rooms are in the plans. The idea for the hotel, which opened last summer, came to Kent and Britta Lindvall, the owners of Britta's Guesthouse, four years ago, after director Jonas Selberg Augustsen and his film crew shot the film The Tree Lover in Ha...

• Nordic Reach
• Vol. 23 Num. 33, Septembre 2010

• French taxi for Kabul: Nexter has recently opened the doors of its Roanne facilities in central France to unveil the production line of the new and very first production French Army armoured personnel carriers and command vehicles.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] By the time these lines are printed, the first production VBCIs will have been delivered to the French Army as part of an ini...

• Armada International
• Vol. 32 Num. 3, Juin 2008

• MEDICINE MARKET OPENED.

The Nationalrat approved with a 89 to 86 majority the parallel import of medicinal products. The bill, which originated in the Bundesrat, was mainly s...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2000, Mai 2000

• Mountain railway: ahead of its time: Switzerland's prime 2008 candidate for UNESCO World Heritage listing, the renowned Albula and gernina lines of the Rhaetian Railways, opened in the early 20th century and were greeted as spectacular engineering feats. Swiss News takes a closer look.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] High in Canton Graubunden's Albula valley, Swiss surveyor Joos Guidon demonstrates an instrument used to measure angles in to...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2007, Avril 2007

• Exporting by Design in Malaysia

Located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Veritas is an award-winning design firm backed by a team that includes more than 40 qualified professionals and over 60 support staff. Although it began as an architectural practice, Veritas now offers a full range of design services. The firm opened its first overseas representative office in Dubai in September 2005. Meanwhile, macroeconomic factors were at work. The booming South-east Asian economy made Malaysian businesses feel invincible on the global stage and they started exploring international markets. In 2004, Veritas was appointed as architects for major developments in Iran and Pakistan, and they have recently been invited for projects in India and Indonesia. There is also a proposal to policy-makers: please respect the creative output of yo...

• International Trade Forum
• Num. 4/2005, Octobre 2005

• Brussels sends its man to Bern ... finally: the European Commission has opened the doors of its delegation in the federal capital, Bern, and appointed its very first ambassador to Switzerland, Michael Reiterer. Swiss News went to meet him in his new offices located opposite the national corridors of power, the federal parliament building.

We're not even half way through 2007 and it is already proving to be a momentous period in relations between the European Union and Switzerland. The...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2007, Avril 2007

• What limit religious freedom? with its plan to lift the century-old ban on kosher ritual slaughter of livestock, the Swiss government opened up old wounds and raised painful questions it has been hard put to answer.

Last September, the Federal Council made an announcement considered long overdue by Switzerland,s observant Jewish community. The council declared its...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2002, Juin 2002

• TUNNEL OPENED.

The Vereina Tunnel in Klosters officially opened before Christmas. The world's longest narrow gauge tunnel running 19.1 km, the tunnel in Canton Graub...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2000, Mai 2000

• Conquering schizophrenia: Switzerland has made many contributions to the growing awareness of schizophrenia. The company Sandoz in Basel discovered the first psychotropic drug, while Zurich's Burgholzli clinic opened new avenues of psychotherapy.

During the whole 19th century, most insane asylums looked like visions from hell. Since the inmates, during their psychotic fits, might howl, smash fu...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2005, Janvier 2005

• Drones turn nasty: the successful firing of laser-homing Lockheed Martin Hellfire anti-armour missiles from CIA-operated General Atomics MQ-1B Predators against ground vehicles in Afghanistan from 2002 (reportedly over 40 rounds) and in Yemen in 2003 opened the eyes of the leading armed services to the possibility of avoiding the use of expensive manned aircraft in some ground attack missions.

This turnabout in the nature of aerial warfare should have come as no surprise, since the concept was evaluated by the US Air Force over 30 years ago....

• Armada International
• Vol. 27 Num. 3, Juin 2003