I have had the opportunity to organize and run a conference and demonstration of Japanese martial arts at the Musée National du Sporet in Nice (Fraqnce) on 07 September 2024. Both classical martials (Kobudo) such as Kenjutsu and Jodo, as well as modern martial arts (Shinbudo) such as Judo and Aikido were demonstrated and explained. The panel…

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SITA Paris was locatred at 112 avenue CHarles De Gaulle since 1968. In March 2023, SITA is moving to a new buiulding (see https://www.carre-suffren-paris.com/) in the 15 th district of Paris.
On this occasion, a (hybrid) Town Hall event has been organized on 09 March 2023. Here is the presentation which I have prepared for this celebration.

In 2001 I was working in Beijing and joined a group of 20 people on a mission to Qinghai in northern Tibet, to take school supplies and support the children of Tibet. The Swiss ambassador to China had acted as a go-between Tibet and China after the invasion. The Swissair station manager in Beijing, Marcus Shmidt and his wife Anne-Marie carried on…[Read more]

Coming from Indochina I had been appointed Manager for Thailand on the 1st of February
1964 and one of my first jobs at Bangkok was the recruitment of Khun Salak with whom,
although I did not expect it at that time, I was going to work closely with for more than three
decades expanding our organization all over the Far East and Pacific area.
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Cet article, transmis par Jean-Pierre Gaudard, du journal le Monde, parle d’une exposition d’instruments scientifiques au musée Bernard d’Agesci de Niort. Ruedi Bebié, dont la passion était la collection d’instruments scientifiques et livres anciens a fait don à ce musée de ses collections à ce musée de Niort et a participé à la création…[Read more]

Many of us know that SITA has inspired the creation of SWIFT, the bylaws of which were a copy of those of SITA, which resulted in some turmoil for SITA. WE can see that strangely this poroximity between the two organizations continue, as in this article from The Economist about SWIFT facing pressure to disconnect Russians banks as part of economic…[Read more]

The first time I went to Tibet the country was already in a transition period
and in full effervescence, the people were handling the move towards a
more modern world. Since that time, like in the whole Far East, the
changes have been tremendous.