Holland Herald: Silicon canals - 25-10-2012

If you want to make movies, go to Hollywood. If you want to make apps, go to Amsterdam. That's the buzz from the Dutch capital.

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Daily Mail: Last picture of Emmanuelle star Sylvia Kristel - 19-10-2012

Sylvia Kristel, star of the 1970s soft porn Emmanuelle movies, has died of cancer at the age of 60.

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Metro: Dutch art museum heist: Are thieves in it for the money or the Monet? - 18-10-2012

This week, thieves raided a museum in Holland, making off with paintings from artists like Matisse and Gaugin. Metro examines the latest in a long list of heists and asks art security experts if pinching a Picasso is really worth it.

 

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Payment card fees: Avoiding past mistakes - 16-10-2012

STRASBOURG: A message to the European Parliament from Enrique Calvet: what you wish for can harm credit card customers with higher fees. Calvet is member of the Consultative Commission on Industrial Change at the European Economic and Social Committee.

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Huff Post: Florentijn Hofman's 'Slow Slugs' Ascend The Steep Streets Of France - 16-10-2012

For the Accroche-Coeurs performing arts festival in Angers, France, Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman has created two enormous slugs 'racing' towards a local church.

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Huff Post blogger: Free Morgan: The Ocean Wants Her Orca Back - 15-10-2012

On September 19, 2012 I had an opportunity to sit down and talk with Jean-Michel Cousteau one-on-one. I was in San Francisco to talk with him about the use of social media to advance ocean issues and to discuss his involvement with the Ocean Elders.

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Guardian: Lance Armstrong doping scandal claims another high-profile scalp - 13-10-2012

International Cycling Union (UCI) honorary president Hein Verbruggen under pressure to resign in the wake of the Armstrong revelations.

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Guardian: Edgar Davids becomes joint-head coach at League Two strugglers Barnet - 12-10-2012

The former Holland midfielder Edgar Davids has become the joint head-coach of League Two Barnet and will also play for the club.

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How 'social' is the student loan system? What the papers say - 11-10-2012

Student union LSVB’s elation at the abolition of the fine for slow students has quickly turned to anger at its likely alternative: the so-called ‘social student loan system’. The student takes out a loan and will start paying back, according to his means, once he has a job. The LSVB fears students could run up debts as high as €30,000. What the papers say.

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BBC: The Dutch feeling for eel - 11-10-2012

'There's nothing like smoked eel', says a Dutch fisherman

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Human trafficking focus of new psychology Master's - 10-10-2012

Webster University is launching a unique post-graduate degree which partly concentrates on helping the traumatised victims of human trafficking.

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Daily Mail: Gaga would probably go ga ga for these front-heeled shoes - 10-10-2012

Dutch shoe maker René van den Berg fabricated the wacky design, which landed designer Leanie a nomination for the prestigious Gerrit Rietveld design prize at her university in Holland.

 

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Toronto Sun: Dutch architect dreams of floating cities - 10-10-2012

AMSTERDAM - When Koen Olthuis finally landed his first job after graduating as an architect, his new firm wouldn’t let him work on the most historic or prestigious accounts in Amsterdam’s 17th century centre. He got houseboats. Floating boxes.

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Will criminal Holleeder 'steal the show'? - What the papers say - 08-10-2012

College Tour is a programme in which students and presenter Twan Huys interview a ‘grootheid’, or very influential person, as broadcaster NRT's website has it. On Friday the influential person will be Willem Holleeder, Heineken kidnapper, blackmailer and – allegedly – the man behind the murders of several witnesses. Should convicted criminals be given a podium? What the papers say.

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Catholic News Agency: Dutch leaders urged to investigate child trafficking case - 08-10-2012

Washington D.C., Oct 7, 2012 Witnesses at an Oct. 4 Helsinki Commission briefing called for increased pressure on the Dutch government to look into numerous sexual abuse accusations against a high ranking government official.

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MY Sinchew: Dutch city puts its jobless back to work - 06-10-2012

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, Oct 6, 2012 (AFP) - For years The Netherlands has had the reputation of being a generous welfare state, but in some cities like Rotterdam this is changing: the jobless are now put to work to earn their keep.

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GroenLinks pulls plug on Jolande Sap - What the papers say - 05-10-2012

Jolande Sap has resigned as leader of GroenLinks after a vote of no confidence from the party leadership less than two years after she took over from Femke Halsema. Sap, who pledged her party would go from ten to twenty seats, had to stand by while it nosedived to four at the last election. What went wrong? What the papers say.

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Bloomberg: Dutch Drinking Water May Be Hurt by Changing Climate, Pollution - 05-10-2012

The Netherlands, almost a fifth of which is covered by lakes, rivers and dikes, may be unable to use surface waters as a source for drinking water by 2050 due to the changing climate and contaminants.

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Huff Post: 10 Things Americans Can Learn From Amsterdammers - 04-10-2012

If you're a Seinfeld fan like me, you may remember "The Butter Shave" episode, where Jerry and George discuss the differences (or non differences) of the Netherlands, the Dutch and Holland.

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All Africa: Nigeria: Pollution - Dutch Court to Hear Nigerians Suit Against Shell - 02-10-2012

Anglo-Dutch oil giant, Shell is to appear in a Dutch court to account for alleged environmental pollution in Nigeria, environmental rights group, Friends of the Earth International has said.

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Budget: to scrap or not to scrap - What the papers say - 02-10-2012

Everybody was expecting a bumpy ride, but the negotiations that led to Monday’s amendments to the budget seem to have gone smoothly enough to bring the formation of a VVD-Labour cabinet one step closer. What the papers say.

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Montreal Gazette: Ex-Curacao PM claims creation of interim gov't 3 weeks before elections is unconstitutional - 01-10-2012

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Curacao's former leader was holed up Sunday inside what used to be his official offices, accusing the acting governor of overstepping her constitutional powers by forming an interim government three weeks before general elections on the Dutch Caribbean island.

 

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