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FeaturesGuardian: Ratko Mladic war crimes trial plunged into confusion - 18-05-2012 The Hague war crimes tribunal, already under fire for its slow pace in dealing with Balkan war crimes cases, has been thrown into confusion by the revelation that lawyers prosecuting the Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic had failed to turn over hundreds of thousands of pages of evidence to the defence. Sponsored feature: How to beat poor bank deposit rates - 16-05-2012 Fed up with poor bank deposit rates and looking for a way round them? Many people are asking the question; why are bank deposit rates so low? The Sun: Van Nistelrooij calls it a day - 14-05-2012 Former Manchester United striker Ruud van Nistelrooy has called time on his career. Van Nistelrooy, 35, has endured a difficult time since joining Malaga from Hamburg last summer, scoring just five times in 32 appearances. Huff Post: Going Dutch a great idea for the Internet - 12-05-2012 The Dutch open Internet law is 'truly radical', writes Art Brodsky. Guardian: Car parks and playgrounds to help make Rotterdam climate proof" - 11-05-2012 The Dutch city is pioneering new ways of dealing with water as climate change brings with it heavier rains and rising tides. RNW: RNW's Dutch-language service falls silent - 11-05-2012 After 65 years, Radio Netherlands Worldwide today ends its broadcasts aimed at Dutch people abroad. From messages for sailors to special programmes for expats - what has Radio Netherlands meant for the Dutch overseas? Daily Mail: Dutch cult lingerie designer launches in Harrods - 10-05-2012 Cult Dutch lingerie label Marlies Dekkers is the go-to purveyor of power underwear and we’re not talking Spanx. Previously a trade secret for those in-the-know, her under the radar status is rapidly diminishing with a newly opened four week pop-up in Harrods. Huff Post: As Dutch Churches Close, Sacred Art Finds New Use Abroad - 07-05-2012 When Christianity fades, it doesn't just leave empty pews behind. With each church that shuts, the statues, crucifixes, chalices, paintings or vestments that were part of regular Sunday services suddenly have no liturgical home. BBC: Spoking the fire in Amsterdam - 02-05-2012 According to Amsterdam’s tourism board, the canal-crossed Dutch port is one of the most cycle-friendly cities in the world, with a total of 600,000 bikes and 750,000 residents. New York Times: Dutch Troupe’s Long Road to the Joyce - 01-05-2012 In many ways, Roel Voorintholt and Ton Wiggers seem like an old married couple. The two men spend a great deal of each day together. They also live in the same house. Times of Oman: Dutch universities woo Omani students - 26-04-2012 Ten Dutch universities participating at GHEDEX, the international university fair, are hoping that Omani students will flock for their faculty in the Netherlands. Irish Times: Merkel holds firm at the tiller as Dutch crisis rocks the boat - 25-04-2012 GERMAN CHANCELLOR Angela Merkel held firm to the policy that fiscal rectitude is the answer to Europe’s financial woes as the Dutch political crisis fuelled anxiety about the return of disruption to debt markets. Wall Street Journal: Holland, not Hollande, is Europe's latest worry - 24-04-2012 The collapse of the fiscally hawkish Dutch government after seven weeks of budget wrangling could be a bigger shock for Europe. Reuters: Dutch debt leads broad sell-off as crisis spreads - 23-04-2012 French vote, Dutch political problems add to crisis nerves. New York Times: Northern Light - 21-04-2012 The first English translation of “Amsterdam Stories,” by the Dutch author Nescio (1882-1961), should have a much more vibrant cover. The book’s most enduring effect is of color, as Nescio attempts to do with words what the Impressionists did with paints — to record the play of light on water, the beauties of a sunset. Royal Greek villa: Sun, sand and Sean Connery - What the papers say - 19-04-2012 King Juan Carlos of Spain’s latest tumble landed the monarchy in a great deal of trouble recently. The king had to be flown back post-haste with a broken hip from Botswana where, it turned out, he had been killing elephants for sport. Holiday home shopping crown prince Willem Alexander has learned his lesson and steered clear of Africa and, indeed, elephants, but has he now committed a similar royal blunder in Greece? What the papers say. Daily Mail: Daniel Craig shaken but not stirred over Heineken sponsorship - 19-04-2012 Daniel Craig has stepped in to defend a sponsorship decision which will see James Bond drink beer rather than his usual shaken, not stirred, Martini.
Express Tribune: Dutch bug cookbook launched to stir taste for insects - 18-04-2012 Need more protein in your diet? Try adding worms to your chocolate muffin recipe mix, or spice up a mushroom risotto with a sprinkling of grasshoppers. Der Spiegel: The Busy Life of a Prolific Sperm Donor - 16-04-2012 Eighty-two children with another 10 on the way: That is the prodigious output of Netherlands native Ed Houben, a private sperm donor. CTV News: U.S. board urge limits on data in Dutch bird flu study - 16-04-2012 The U.S. biosecurity panel that recently lifted its objections to the publication of controversial bird flu studies has raised additional concerns about one of the papers, work conducted by a Dutch research team.
Washington Post: Dutch Vermeer named best cheese - 14-04-2012 MILWAUKEE — A 24-pound Dutch cheese named the best in the world last month has been auctioned off for $8,400, or $350 per pound, in Wisconsin. Wall Street Journal: A tale of two oil slicks - 13-04-2012 On Thursday, Royal Dutch Shell announced it was investigating a potential leak in the Gulf of Mexico. On the same day, it reported a more than sevenfold increase in the amount of crude spilled over the last year in Nigeria, one of its major host countries. But only one of these events is believed to be the catalyst for investor fright. Guardian: More Floriade, in pictures - 12-04-2012 Can't go? Here's some pictures courtesy of the Guardian 90.9wbur: Time for a 'bug mac'? - 11-04-2012 Diners who merely flit over the menu at the Specktakel restaurant in the Netherlands are sometimes shocked when their plate arrives. Did William of Orange really say that? And does it matter? - 11-04-2012 The murder of William of Orange, the founder of what became the Netherlands of today, is still under investigation four centuries later. Hawaii News Daily: Looming Dutch Khat ban draws criticism - 11-04-2012 The Dutch conservative coalition government has signaled since January that it intended to prohibit khat, the mild stimulant plant from the Horn of Africa, and now, indications are that the ban will happen soon. But the move is drawing heat from critics who charge it is based more on political considerations than hard science. ABC News: Alzheimer's disease: Dutch village doubles as as nursing home - 11-04-2012 A Dutch village dubbed "The Truman Show" for dementia patients is getting praise from Alzheimer's experts in the U.S. NYT: Dutch cuts take romance out of language studies - 10-04-2012 The decision to close a Portuguese language program at Utrecht University seemed to exemplify the type of change the Dutch government envisioned when last year it demanded efficiency from the country’s universities, writes the New York Times. BBC:The Floriade on video - 09-04-2012 Here's some more info on the Floriade, the largest garden show in the world. The lame helping the blind - 09-04-2012 In Emmen, in the province of Drenthe, home help for the elderly and chronically ill is no longer going to be a one way street. ‘What can you do in return?’ the council wants to know. De Volkskrant reports. Sponsored feature: To buy or not to buy - 04-04-2012 Buying a house can be a complex process, especially if you’re doing it for the first time and in a foreign country. Sponsored feature: How safe is your pension? - 04-04-2012 It seems pensions are never out of the news in the Netherlands at the moment and many expats and internationals must be wondering if they have made proper provision for their retirement. Reuters: Recession, austerity spur Dutch frugality - 04-04-2012 Child psychologist Denise Dulcic has suffered first-hand the economic downturn and fiscal squeeze that is gripping the Netherlands and says she is "just surviving", Reuters writes. Huff Post: Flying car unveiled by Dutch enigineers - 04-04-2012 DN checked the date and thinks this one is not a hoax or April Fool.. Guardian: Mediaset sells final holdings Endemol - 04-04-2012 Silvio Berlusconi-owned Italian media company offloads last share of debts in Big Brother maker after reporting difficult year, writes the Guardian. Floriade: from Agro technology to Zen garden - 03-04-2012 There’s a Floriade show, a Floriade kids week, a Floriade fashion show…This year's edition of the biggest Dutch horticultural expo, which will be open to the public on Thursday, is about much more than just flowers, writes FD. BBC: Dutch design challenges Fifa's football hijab ban - 01-04-2012 A Dutch designer has created a hijab aimed at convincing the world football governing body Fifa to overturn its ban on women wearing headscarves on the pitch. Guardian: Survivor of boat tragedy arrested in Netherlands - 30-03-2012 Abu Kurke Kebato, who was one of just nine people to survive two weeks adrift in Mediterranean, set to be deported to Italy. PC World: Dutch Police Arrest 17-year-old Suspected of Breaching Hundreds of KPN Servers - 29-03-2012 The Dutch High Tech Crime Team has arrested a 17-year-old suspected of compromising customer account data on hundreds of servers belonging to telecommunications operator KPN. Foreign Confidential: RNW leaving the airwaves after 65 years - 28-03-2012 The Dutch government is about to do to its legendary international broadcasting service what the Nazis could not do--kill it. Reuters: Dutch politician puts government on notice - 25-03-2012 Anti-immigration politician Geert Wilders holds in his hands the fate of the Dutch government and of austerity measures meant to save the country from economic crisis. Immigrant groups fear, however, they could pay the price he demands for his support. NYT: The Eurocrisis is hurting cultural groups - 25-03-2012 European governments are cutting their support for culture, and American arts lovers are starting to feel the results. European governments are cutting their support for culture, and American arts lovers are starting to feel the results, writes the New York Times. Bill Gates to Wilders: Come to Africa with me and see what development aid can do - 25-03-2012 Microsoft founder turned philanthropist Bill Gates has been busy trying to persuade the Netherlands not to cut its development aid budget, with interviews and columns in most Dutch papers this week. Guardian: Vincent van Gogh's London home up for auction - 24-03-2012 The Brixton house where the artist lived as a young man is all the better for being in need of modernisation Daily Mail: Trying to shift a few pounds? Stick to a 'smelly food' diet - 24-03-2012 The smell of food can affect how much of it you eat, according to research carried out in the Netherlands.
NYT: Who doesn't love Boerenjongens? - 22-03-2012 Food writer Mark Bittman discovers the joys of Boerenjongens. Daily Beast: Dutch Castration Scandal: How Journalists Broke the Story - 22-03-2012 For fifty years, Cornelius Rogge tried to tell the world this story. "People thought I was crazy," he says. It was a story about a man he once knew who had been sexually abused by a Roman Catholic brother—and who was then castrated, when he dared to report the crime. Huff Post: Jarno Smeets flies like a bird - 21-03-2012 Dutch engineer Jarno Smeets cobbled together a set of wings and took flight. He managed to flap his way across a hundred meter distance. Sponsored feature: An MBA from Nyenrode can elevate your career - 20-03-2012 An MBA degree from Nyenrode Business Universiteit can be an asset to any professional looking to elevate their career- regardless of academic or professional background. Guardian: Dutch diplomat writes walks guide to Palestine - 20-03-2012 With foreign visitors and local people blazing a trail in West Bank, diplomat Stefan Szepesi publishes guide to 25 walks. |
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