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FeaturesQueen's father a creature of his own myths - 09-03-2010 A new biography of the late Dutch prince Bernhard, the current queen’s father, reveals more of his Nazi past. Islamophobia on tour: Wilders comes to Britain - 06-03-2010 When the far-right Dutch MP Geert Wilders came to the UK to promote his brand of Islamophobia last year, he made it only as far as Heathrow before being unceremoniously turned away and flown back to his native country. Stuyvesant collection finally under the hammer in Amsterdam - 01-03-2010 A team of experts from London and New York will come to Amsterdam to assist the local Sotheby's branch where the most important collection of modern art ever on sale in the Netherlands will be auctioned on March 8. Generosity is contagious, study finds - 23-02-2010 In the Netherlands, citizens and businesses give away four million euros to charities, churches or other faith-based organisations every year. And the amount donated has been rising for decades. Dutch government's collapse is a setback for Obama - 22-02-2010 The downfall of the Netherlands' government didn't make headlines in the US. But those involved in the president's Afghanistan policy are very concerned about it. On Canada's home ice, Dutch dominance takes over - 22-02-2010 So much for home-ice advantage. Canada is mostly getting frozen out at the speed skating oval despite logging the most practice time of any country. A Dutch Town That Nurtures Its Quirks - 20-02-2010 On stage at Acu, a bar and music club in Utrecht, Noam Cohen stopped briefly to address the crowd. “There’s so much room!” Mr. Cohen, the lead singer of the hardcore band This Routine Is Hell, yelled into his microphone, surveying the gap between the band and the crowd, clad mostly in black. Plenty of Spilled Milk to Cry Over for Dairymen Lured to U.S. - 17-02-2010 From a strip mall in this town of 7,200, Willy van Bakel built a multimillion-dollar business bringing fellow Dutch dairy farmers to America. They're 'dreamers' like himself, he says. Dutch Fishermen Join Their Catch on Endangered List - 16-02-2010 Doede Visser’s eyes grow misty when he recalls eating eel as a child. “Only the children of fishermen know what it’s like to have it, when still warm, and the skin puts a tingling feeling on your lips,” said Mr. Visser, 63. Explaining the crazy Dutch love of speed skating - 14-02-2010 They approach the starting line, two at a time, before an official with a French accent asks them if they're "re-dee?" The gun goes off, and they skate quietly around a 400-meter oval, swaying side-to-side, one hand on resting on their lower back. Opinion: Atlantic Reflex? Gimme a Break - 11-02-2010 George Harinck, Professor in History at the Free University in Amsterdam and an all-round nice guy, has written a piece in Nederlands Dagblad on the knee-jerk Atlanticism of Dutch foreign policy that I just can’t leave alone. All Dutch people over 70 years of age who feel tired of life should have the right to professional help in ending it, a citizens' initiative in the Netherlands calling itself “Out of Free Will” demands. Vast Offering of De Stijl Art in London - 05-02-2010 Tate Modern has a whopper of a show, with a title to match its size: "Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde: Constructing a New World." Though this is the first major exhibition in the U.K. dedicated to the Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931), its early Modernist scope is larger than the one man, who worked in practically all the art forms extant in his lifetime. Dutch, Belgians Pressure Swiss Banks - 03-02-2010 European governments kept up the pressure on Switzerland and its famed banking secrecy laws, with fresh reports from the Netherlands and Belgium raising the stakes in the battle to find tax evaders. Students protest to keep Dutch student grant - 03-02-2010 Political parties across the board want to do away with the Dutch system of paying every student a grant. Angry students held sit-ins at university buildings in several cities on Monday. Saab's new owner has history of unpaid debt - 03-02-2010 Victor Muller, the man behind Spyker's acquisition of Swedish car maker Saab deal, has never been shy to put other people’s money to use, sometimes losing it in the process. Green light for CO2 storage under Dutch town - 27-01-2010 In spite of residents' protests, Dutch parliament approved the construction of an experimental underground carbon dioxide storage facility beneath the town of Barendrecht on Tuesday. Winning the Afghan war, Dutch style - 24-01-2010 In a remote river valley surrounded by jagged mountain ranges stands a modest white building seen by some strategists as a symbol of how to win the war in Afghanistan. Dutch sisters survived Holocaust death camp - 24-01-2010 Wednesday marks 65 years since the Allies liberated the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp from the Germans. Despite the date's international significance, it is just another day on the calendar for two Vallejo sisters who lived through the events now detailed in memoirs and history books. The King center goes Dutch - 24-01-2010 Last week, the King Center here in Atlanta officially launched its partnership with the City of The Hague in the Netherlands. The short-term goal is to establish a King Center for those engaged in the fight for equality and civil rights in Europe. Promise of greatness in Dutch chess prodigy - 15-01-2010 Grandmaster Anish Giri (15) is the great hope of Dutch chess. He will be competing in the Corus Chess Tournament, which starts this Saturday. Dutch 'defriended' as far back as 1626 - 15-01-2010 Social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and their ilk, have spawned a host of new jargon. Surprisingly, one of these terms was already in use in 17th century Holland. Obama's men scorn Dutch tactics - 08-01-2010 At the Netherlands’ military base in the Afghan province of Uruzgan, Obama’s troops are often at odds with the Dutch way of doing things. 'Anything is possible' for Pauw - 07-01-2010 The Netherlands marked their first major female football finals by reaching the Uefa women's Euro 2009 semi-finals last summer, earning professional contracts. Coach Vera Pauw discusses those feats. Historic Amsterdam financial centre revisited - 31-12-2009 A new exhibition at Amsterdam’s City Archives chronicles its tumultuous history as one of the world's main financial centres. Pedalling for climate change - 09-12-2009 The Dutch Union has published in a special English edition of its magazine to coincide with the climate conference in Copenhagen. Dutch defense against climate change: Adapt - 07-12-2009 With the Copenhagen summit starting Monday, chances remain uncertain for a historic breakthrough in the fight to prevent climate change, but the Netherlands is leading a fight of a different kind: How to live with global warming. Jiri Kylian, a life in dance - 28-11-2009 Time: a sunny day in November Eurobest: Four (m)ad men in Amsterdam - 27-11-2009 Four Amsterdam-based international creative directors discuss the future of their profession and Amsterdam as a creative capital. ‘The city council is skating on thin ice.’ Tracking dogs are major Dutch export product - 24-11-2009 From the explosives dog sniffing around Barack Obama's car, to the drugs dog discovering a cocaine shipment on the Mexican border, wherever dogs are at work around the world, there is a good chance they came from the Netherlands. Amsterdam tries to shed its seedy reputation - 13-11-2009 The project to turn Amsterdam's centre from Sodom and Gomora into a bourgeois bohemians playground is well underway, but replacing a brothel by a 5-star restaurant is not done overnight. World War II food-drop airman, Dutch youth meet 64 years later - 13-11-2009 In 1945, Bob Lawrence was an Alabama boy turned World War II flyboy. Ruud Veltman was a youngster coming of age in war-weary Amsterdam. That their lives intersected that year was a matter of chance; that they met face-to-face in Greenville more than 60 years later was downright uncanny. Dutch troops' method in Afghanistan gains new prominence - 13-11-2009 The soldiers from the Netherlands deployed in Oruzgan province have been focusing more on development work and civilian protection and less focus on fighting. Red light art - 10-11-2009 London's National Gallery, home of the nation's Old Masters, is about to exhibit its first contemporary art installation, by recreating a street scene from Amsterdam's Red Light district. Dispatch from Drachten - 09-11-2009 In a nondescript business park on the edge of an obscure Dutch town, a small group of revolutionaries is plotting to change the world. The security agencies have not yet investigated, but the goings-on might be of some interest to the traffic cops Brits battle Aussies in solar car race, Dutch hot favourites - 23-10-2009 After winning back the Ashes, the Brits are gunning for the World Solar Challenge, the race across Australia for cars powered only by the sun. Dutch ban frees eels, angers fishermen - 13-10-2009 When Aart van der Waal chose 20 years ago to fish for eel rather than join the legal profession, he didn't expect to be told someday to make a choice between making a living and breaking the law. Dutch Seize Bank After Run on Assets - 13-10-2009 The Dutch central bank shuttered DSB Bank NV, a struggling consumer and mortgage lender, after a run by depositors that followed a call from a consumer group to pull money out of the controversial institution. Dutch Soccer Coaches Make A Mark Around The World - 13-10-2009 Blunt manners, a willingness to adapt to local surroundings and the love of adventurous, attacking football make Dutch coaches favourites around the world. Camels new cash cows for Dutch farmers? - 29-09-2009 Landscapes don't get much more typically Dutch than the one just outside the southern city of Den Bosch. Vast farmlands, cows, cornfields, a modern farm here and there and the outline of a small village on the horizon. But there's one element that doesn't seem to fit in the picture: a herd of forty camels, quietly grazing in a meadow next to a traditional dairy farm. New York City’s ‘Birth Certificate’: $24 and All That - 11-09-2009 Beginning Sunday, not far from where the saltwater of the sea and the freshwater of the river bearing Henry Hudson’s name intermingle in an estuary that nestles along the island of Manhattan, the documents that began it all will be on display: meticulously preserved ledgers with ornate scripts, delicately colored maps and drawings, an official government pronouncements that gave birth to New Amsterdam and led ultimately to the creation of the City of New York. 400 years later, another Dutch island in New York - 11-09-2009 QUICK: What do you think when you think of Holland? Windmills, tulips and clogs, for sure. Maybe sleek bicycles and good social services, soccer and canals, Genever gin and Vermeer. But experimental theater? Probably not. People get red-dy - 10-09-2009 The idea of a ginger festival may sound like little more than a bit of fun, but when 3,000 redheads came together for a recent gathering it became a bonding experience. Dutch royals visit NY 400 years after Henry Hudson - 09-09-2009 Dutch Prince Willem-Alexander and his wife, Princess Maxima, met dignitaries up and down the Hudson River, lunched with military cadets and lauded their country's long friendship with the United States as they marked the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's historic voyage. Dutch royalty appears, but not to reclaim the island - 09-09-2009 All of this could have been his. But when Crown Prince Willem-Alexander of Orange, the presumptive next king of the Netherlands, strode the warship deck on Tuesday to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s arrival at New York Harbor and the subsequent founding of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, he was about 345 years too late to stake a territorial claim. Going Dutch, and Saying It Right - 04-09-2009 These days New York is a (mostly) English-speaking locale, but Dutch influence is all over the city. It pops in the majority of our boroughs (Brooklyn, Staten Island and the Bronx), neighborhoods from north to south (Harlem, Coney Island, Flushing, Bushwick) and in famed street names (Bowery, Broadway). Dutch learn to live with, instead of fight, rising seas - 04-09-2009 The watermark column inside Amsterdam's city hall is more than just a tourist attraction, it's a reminder that the Dutch capital like much of the rest of the Netherlands is well below sea level. Madrid's Dutch-detox - 20-08-2009 After Real Madrid plundered the summer transfer market and filled the dressing room with new stars, it's now time for the Spanish club to prune their squad down. With the season kicking off in a week's time the Dutch contingent are being pushed out of the door. 'Loverboys' child prostitution scandal back in Dutch spotlight - 18-08-2009 Phenomenon of young men pimping underage schoolchildren prompts national wave of soul-searching Calvin's 'true heirs' thrive in Dutch Bible Belt - 18-08-2009 A 90-minute drive from liberal Amsterdam, a pocket of orthodox Calvinism thrives where women shun trousers, swearing is banned and television is scorned as an ungodly intrusion. Strep throat may have killed Mozart: study - 18-08-2009 The death of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the age of 35 may have been caused by complications stemming from strep throat, according to a Dutch study published on Monday. An unlikely gathering place - 07-08-2009 Amsterdam, considered by many as one of Europe's biggest party towns (with more than 1,000 nightclubs, including one called "Sinner's Heaven), is the seemingly unlikely site of this year's World Congress of Families conference, Aug. 10-12. Stroke Doubles Risk of Hip, Thigh Fractures - 07-08-2009 THURSDAY, Aug. 6 (HealthDay News) -- The risk of a hip or thigh bone fracture is doubled for people who have a stroke, a new Dutch study finds. Netherlands' 'little brown bars' buck anti-smoking regulations - 06-08-2009 Smokers have found some friendly legislative ground in the Netherlands. A series of district court decisions, one most recently handed down in July, has partially rolled back a 2008 smoking ban, allowing customers in thousands of small bars to once again light up at their barstools. Dress rehearsal for a flu pandemic - 06-08-2009 General practitioners from the Rotterdam area gathered at the World Port Center this week for an exercise in how to deal with a flu pandemic. "Can you handle 90 extra patients a day? No, you can't." Netherlands looks into Chile bribes allegations - 05-08-2009 Two Chilean military officials are being prosecuted for taking bribes for the sale of 202 Dutch tanks to Chile in 1998. As same-sex marriage bill stalls, 2 local men head abroad for vows - 30-07-2009 Gay activists Patrick Decker, a native New Yorker, and Stephan Hengst, a Dutch citizen, will be wed in the Netherlands in a ceremony taking place in the middle of Amsterdam Pride, the city's annual gay pride festival What the Netherlands can teach Florida - 29-07-2009 Living with water -- whether it is enduring the wettest month on record in May, experiencing one of the most severe droughts to affect our water supply or preparing for this year's hurricane season -- is something with which Floridians grapple. Dutch return head of Ghana king - 24-07-2009 Dutch officials have handed back to Ghana the head of a king who was executed by colonists in the 1830s. Tribal elders led a ceremony in The Hague to hand over the head of Badu Bonsu II, stored in formaldehyde in a Dutch museum for 170 years. Dutch drama: antipirates sue Pirate Bay, are sued in return - 24-07-2009 A Dutch antipiracy tried to sue The Pirate Bay admins in a Dutch court, notifying them by "mail, e-mail, Twitter, and Facebook." But the antipirates got more than they bargained for—a Swedish defamation lawsuit from The Pirate Bay crew. The entire saga could only get stranger if Ewoks were somehow involved. 'Banking will never be the same again' - 13-07-2009 Dutch finance minister Wouter Bos is now also a bank owner, but his powers are limited. Much is decided in Brussels or Basel. "It's very frustrating." The Ike Dike: a Dutch perspective - 12-07-2009 No one really knows exactly how long the Dutch have been fighting back the North Sea. Dutch gov't returns stolen antiquities to Iraq - 12-07-2009 The Dutch government turned over dozens of antiquities stolen from Iraq to Baghdad's ambassador on Thursday and urged other countries to clamp down on the illicit trade of artifacts. Dutch banks still invest in arms companies-report - 03-07-2009 Despite some progress in the last two years, six major Dutch financial institutions still invest their own money or client money in companies that either make controversial weapons or trade arms with a select list of nations, a consortium said on Wednesday. Exploring Dutch Legacy 400 Years After Hudson - 03-07-2009 “Dutch New York: The Roots of Hudson Valley Culture,” an ambitious exhibition at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, reveals how New Yorkers have both embraced and mocked their Dutch heritage since 1609, when Henry Hudson first sailed up the river that now bears his name. Traditional Dutch fishermen turn to innovation - 23-06-2009 Sixth generation Dutch fisherman Louwe de Boer is part of a small group of pioneers abandoning traditional, wasteful methods and embracing innovation as a means of protecting their livelihoods. In tough times, new Hermitage Amsterdam offers gilded oasis - 22-06-2009 The Russian satellite about to debut on the banks of the Amstel River this month will never take flight: its mission is cultural and its structure includes massive stone blocks. US environment chief praises Dutch water systems - 27-05-2009 The U.S.' chief environmental official said Tuesday that America can learn much from the way the Dutch manage water — focusing more on living with it than on trying to control it at every turn. Polaroid Lovers Try to Revive Its Instant Film - 26-05-2009 In this small town just across the border from Germany, a small group of Dutch scientists and one irrepressible Austrian salesman have dedicated themselves to the task of reinventing one of the great inventions of the 20th century — Polaroid’s instant film. Dutch-Jewish poet masks Israeli roots to win Arab prize - 26-05-2009 One name sticks out from the list of winners in the prestigious El Hizjra poetry competition intended for Dutch Arabs, which was announced two weeks ago - Tuvit Shlomi, press officer for Holland's largest Zionist group. Dutch firebrand aims to bring down European parliament - 24-05-2009 Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders, who has gained international notoriety with his attacks on Islam, is now aiming to bring down the European parliament -- from the inside. Johan Cruyff: What's the Dutch word for 'hypocrite?' - 24-05-2009 English football has been criticized for many years, from hooliganism to financial irresponsibility, and from the tactical naiveté of the homegrown players to the the influx of foreign talent into it's game. Voyaging Up the Hudson to Rediscover the Dutch - 09-05-2009 A lot has changed in the century since New York celebrated the tricentennial of Henry Hudson’s pioneering 1609 voyage up the river that bears his name. Going Dutch - 04-05-2009 PICTURE ME, IF YOU WILL, as I settle at my desk to begin my workday, and feel free to use a Vermeer image as your template. Looking for Dutch NYC 400 years after Hudson - 21-04-2009 New York City is constantly being rebuilt, paved over and reinvented, so it's not easy to find remnants of the colony of New Amsterdam 400 years after Henry Hudson sailed up the river that bears his name. In "Africa Wax" war, Dutch take on China - 13-04-2009 A new trade war is unrolling across Africa: a battle between Chinese textile-makers and a colonial-era company from The Netherlands, original maker of the eye-catching "Dutch Wax" fabrics often known as "Africa Wax." Dutch Recognize the Limits of Their Afghan Approach - 09-04-2009 As President Barack Obama tries to change the course of the war in Afghanistan, the Dutch Army's gains there against the Taliban have captured the attention of his advisers. Temper your enthusiasm, say the Dutch. Dutch museum shows New York's 'birth certificate' - 06-04-2009 To see some of the most important documents in the early history of New York, you need to go to Amsterdam. The Dutch are coming: Holland-based design firm brings fun and function to SoHo - 20-03-2009 With an indoor loft swing, a wooden wall where furniture has been cut out, as with a child’s paper play set, and a bath mat that doubles as after-shower slippers, the Dutch design company known as droog has brought a home décor-themed adult playpen to SoHo’s Greene St. Tale of Return, Vividly Illustrated - 20-03-2009 “Reclaimed: Paintings From the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker” at the Jewish Museum is many exhibitions in one. It’s a portrait of an enormously successful art dealer who shaped tastes and markets between the wars. It’s a marriage of Northern Baroque and Southern Renaissance painting. Most of all, it’s an extraordinary, continuing tale of looting and restitution. Humble Dutch clog stands the test of time - 19-03-2009 As stereotypically Dutch as windmills and tulips, the wooden clog is not just a modern-day tourist souvenir. It is still worn by thousands of farmers and factory workers. Dutch leave messages on God phone - 08-03-2009 An artist in the Netherlands sets up a telephone number to allow people to call God - but they will have to leave a message. Dutch manager singing to its own tunes - 03-03-2009 How do you seek diversification with almost €200bn in assets under management? This is always the dilemma facing the world's biggest investment houses. It is one that Amsterdam-based APG Investments has attempted to solve in conjunction with Britney Spears. Dutch immigrant traces family's journey - 23-02-2009 HOLLAND TOWNSHIP -- Klaas deBoer knows the feeling of being at the mercy of strangers following his family's move from Kollum, the Netherlands, to the United States 53 years ago. He relives those unanticipated adjustments he grappled with as a young immigrant to the U.S. in his self-published book, "Rough Seas: An Immigrant's Journey from Holland to Holland." Willem Kolff (1911-2009) missed out only on the Nobel prize - 16-02-2009 Willem Kolff developed the artificial kidney during World War II. He passed away on Wednesday at the age of 97. Meet the Glamorous Dutch Royals - 03-02-2009 When Her Majesty Queen Beatrix "by the Grace of God Queen of the Netherlands" celebrated her 70th birthday earlier this year, the Dutch press was feverish with speculation about whether she would abdicate. Totally Tolerant, Up to a Point - 30-01-2009 If it were not for his hatred of Islam, Geert Wilders would have remained a provincial Dutch parliamentarian of little note, writes Ian Buruma in the New York Times Dutch magazine celebrates menswear - 19-01-2009 In a set of neat new offices in the center of town, a gray, rectangular, cardboard box that once contained Chanel perfume is flattened and nailed to the wall for inspiration. A Rare Deep Freeze Warms the Dutch Soul - 16-01-2009 Canals in the Netherlands no longer freeze every winter, so the chance to ice-skate outdoors created a frenzy in Kinderdijk and elsewhere in the south. “Everybody took days off,” said one mayor. From the left, a call to end the current Dutch notion of tolerance - 29-12-2008 Two years ago, the Dutch could quietly congratulate themselves on having brought what seemed to be a fair measure of consensus and reason to the meanest intersection in their national political life: the one where integration of Muslim immigrants crossed Dutch identity. Krol, a Dutch legend in Africa - 10-12-2008 The Dutch 'total football' maestros of 1974 are popular choices as the most talented side not to emerge victorious at a FIFA World Cup™. And a vital cog in the famous Oranje machine, alongside Johan Neeskens, Johnny Rep and the inimitable Johan Cruyff, was the dashing left-back Ruud Krol. Smoking ban leaves coffee shops in legal limbo - 08-12-2008 Almost everyone knows coffee drinking is the last reason anyone visits an Amsterdam Coffee House. Dutch and British: beef up EU Zimbabwe sanctions - 05-12-2008 The Dutch and British governments want tougher EU sanctions against Zimbabwe in an attempt to pressure President Robert Mugabe into sharing power with the opposition, the Dutch Foreign Minister said Thursday. Dutch Sea Kale Grown in Salty Soil Offers Peek at Food Future - 05-12-2008 At Jef Schuur’s restaurant on the Dutch resort island of Texel, guests dig in with gusto to an unusual vegetable grown in the salty soil next to the North Sea. Sex education: why the British should go Dutch - 24-11-2008 Britain's Schools Minister plans to introduce sex lessons for five-year-olds. They already have them in the Netherlands. Is that why they also have the lowest teenage pregnancy rate in Europe? Dutch Home Sellers Cut Prices in Market That Would ‘Never Fall’ - 24-11-2008 Inge Fransen last month cut the asking price for her house in the Netherlands by 11 percent, as one of the final holdouts in Europe’s housing boom capitulates. Kader Abdolah: “I learned this arrogance from the Dutch” - 17-11-2008 In the interviews he’s given to the media, the Iranian born writer Kader Abdolah says that he hopes that his books will lead to a better understanding of Islam and help promote the dialogue between Muslims and non-Muslims. A touch of the Dutch Golden Age - 16-11-2008 If you had the money to begin collecting the greatest of the Dutch old masters, the targets at the top of your list would most likely be Rembrandt and Vermeer. Back in the 18th century, however, the talents we admire so much today were looked down upon as also-rans. Instead, you'd be shopping for such unfamiliar names as Adam Pynacker, Nicolaes Berchem and Aelbert Cuyp. Drop: reviled by outsiders, Dutch delicacy stands the test of time - 16-11-2008 A black and chewy, often salty candy that turns most foreigners' stomachs, drop is savoured in near daily handfuls by the Dutch who hardly leave home soil without it. Dutch outcry over naming giant ship after Nazi - 10-11-2008 It ought to be a proud milestone in the Dutch seafaring heritage — the construction of a new ship its owner claims will be the world's largest. But there's one problem: its name. Dutch backpacker defies politics to invest in Iran - 06-11-2008 Sebastian Straten is going against the flow. As some Western corporations pack up and mothball projects in Iran under pressure of sanctions, the entrepreneurial Dutchman is preparing for the day when tourists flock to the Islamic state. Science in search of the top banana - 05-11-2008 To get it to market ripe but unblemished by brown sugar spots takes careful timing, a slight fiddling with nature's rhythms and a delivery system that is increasingly computer-driven and technical. Dutch donations pay for commercial healthcare in Africa - 29-10-2008 An innovative Dutch project which gives development aid not to African governments, but to commercial healthcare companies seems to be booking success. Dutch Citizen Works Behind Scenes in U.S. Presidential Campaign - 27-10-2008 As the 2008 U.S. presidential election stirs intense interest overseas, a Dutch native hopes her ripple effect on American politics will spur global policy changes. Partying Helps Power a Dutch Nightclub - 24-10-2008 If you felt that the atmosphere in the new hip Club Watt was somehow electric, you would be right: Watt has a new type of dance floor that harvests the energy generated by jumps and gyrations and transforms it into electricity. Dutch political parties to be made more accountable - 17-10-2008 Following in the wake of a damning report from the European Council on the Dutch government’s funding of political parties published earlier this year, the Dutch government is working on a new set of rules which should increase accountability and bring the Netherlands into line with the rest of Europe. Small investors learn the lessons of Fortis carve-up - 16-10-2008 It is hard not to feel sympathy for the thousands of Fortis small shareholders who are all joining forces to file multiple lawsuits against the management and directors of the banking and insurance group, and against the Belgian and Dutch governments. Dutch factory farms could move to the city - 01-10-2008 There are 200 huge livestock ‘factory’ farms in the Netherlands and in ten years’ time this will have increased to over one thousand. But this is not necessarily bad news for animal welfare or the environment. Parliament urged to get tough on Wilders - 25-09-2008 Geert Wilders, leader of the populist PVV, uses parliamentary debate to spew out blatant racism, in flagrant defiance of the normal standards in parliament. Dutch policeman posthumously recognized as Righteous - 23-09-2008 A 23-year-old Dutch military policeman who refused to obey the orders of his superiors to arrest Jews in a Dutch village during WWII and then deserted the police force to join the resistance was awarded the State of Israel's highest honor for non-Jews on Monday at Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial. Worried Dutch investors call their asset managers - 22-09-2008 There are four types of investors when there is a financial crisis. Those who cannot sleep, the ‘bargain hunters’, those who do nothing and clients who just want information. Survivors of massacre demand compensation - 22-09-2008 Relatives and survivors of a massacre in the Indonesian village of Rawagede in 1947 are demanding an apology and compensation from the Dutch government. Dutch Female Politicians On Sarah Palin - 22-09-2008 Elsevier, one of the best political magazines in the Netherlands, decided to ask female politicians - members of Parliament and cabinet ministers - what they think of Palin. The answers may surprise you. Mother hits out at Dutch 'blunders' in son's murder probe - 22-09-2008 THE MOTHER of a Scot murdered in the Netherlands has criticised the police investigation into the killing as "shambolic" after officers failed to search the flat where his body was hidden, lost forensic evidence and allowed the chief suspect to go on the run for five months. Dutch venue makes clubbing environmentally friendly - 05-09-2008 A club where dancers generate power to light the floor, drinks come in recyclable cups and toilets flush with rain water opened in the Netherlands on Thursday, hoping to lure environmentally conscious clubbers. Paul Polman named as new Unilever chief executive - 05-09-2008 A former top executive of Procter & Gamble and Nestlé will take the helm at Unilever, bringing to an end almost a century of groomed internal inheritance in the Anglo-Dutch food and soap multinational group Van Basten bolsters Ajax to take on McClaren and co - 25-08-2008 Before any European Championships or World Cup we Dutch ask for only two things: first, that our team play good attacking football, and second, that Germany don't make it to the final. Steve McClaren goes Dutch in TV interview - 15-08-2008 New FC Twente manager Steve McClaren has been mocked, maligned, ribbed and ridiculed more than any other England manager. But nowhere near as much as he deserves. Dutch 100m specialist Van den Hoogenband calls it a career - 14-08-2008 Pieter van den Hoogenband announced his retirement Thursday after Alain Bernard took away his chance at an unprecedented third straight victory in swimming's signature race, the 100-meter freestyle. Srebrenica: Worst European atrocity since WWII - 23-07-2008 It is now remembered as the worst atrocity in Europe since World War II. In a five-day orgy of slaughter at Srebrenica in July 1995, up to 8,000 Muslims were systematically exterminated in what was described at the U.N. war crimes tribunal as "the triumph of evil." Netherlands works the 'Dutch touch' in Afghan conflict - 03-07-2008 A Dutch soldier snaps a photo of an Afghan elder for his security clearance at the local army base and tells a seated ring of village leaders that he later intends to pass the picture to Taliban insurgents Dutch ban smoking tobacco — but rules on marijuana are still hazy - 03-07-2008 Coughing and spluttering resonated around Tweede Kamer coffeeshop in Amsterdam yesterday as customers got to grips with new Dutch smoking regulations that prohibit tobacco but not marijuana. CT scans may explain Stradivarius violins' sweet sound - 03-07-2008 Growth rings in the wood used to make Stradivarius violins in the 1700s may hold the explanation for their unparalleled sound, say Dutch scientists. Remkes adds name to Dutch dominance of Scottish events - 30-06-2008 Scotland has become a remarkably happy hunting ground for golfers from the Netherlands. After Reinier Saxton won the 113th staging of the Amateur at Turnberry nine days ago, Taco Remkes completed a Dutch double in the Scottish Challenge at the MacDonald Cardrona near Peebles yesterday. Dutch marijuana coffee shops brace for smoking ban - 30-06-2008 This city's famed marijuana bars have weathered many challenges over the years and are still smoking. But now they face an unwelcome blast of fresh air: On July 1, the Netherlands will be one of the last European countries to ban smoking in bars and restaurants in compliance with EU law. One of Brooklyn’s Last Dutch Farmhouses To Come Before Landmarks Commission - 20-06-2008 One of the last remaining Dutch farmhouses of Brooklyn, “Hubbard House” in Gravesend, will be coming before the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) on Tuesday, June 24. The Big Question: Why are Dutch soldiers being sued for the massacre at Srebrenica? - 19-06-2008 Relatives of the dead have brought a civil action alleging that the Dutch state is liable for the deaths of 8,000 Muslim civilians who were executed when Bosnian Serb forces overran the town during the Bosnia War in July 1995. Dutch art forger proudly exhibits his works - 09-06-2008 Notorious Dutch art forger Geert Jan Jansen's fortunes have turned around. Once rebuked for his fakes of Picasso, Matisse and other masters, this copy-cat is now making an honest living. Why can't the English be more like the Dutch? - 22-05-2008 If we want better schools for our children we need to spend more money, don't we? Well actually, no. Dutch get a kick out of baseball, too - 21-05-2008 Robert Eenhoorn's cellphone rang to the tinny tune of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," interrupting a discussion of the vigorous state of honkbal in his native land. "Honkbal" is the Dutch word for baseball, and Eenhoorn, 40, the coach of the Dutch national baseball team, should know something about it. Dutch sack race begins at the top - 21-05-2008 Nothing fails like success for managers in Holland as the top three's bosses are all shown the door. EURO 2008: Always a threat, the Dutch hope to finish off the job - 19-05-2008 The Netherlands is famous for two things on the soccer field: playing brilliantly without winning trophies, and producing world class quarrels that have dragged more than one team down. How six years of Dutch courage transformed BT - 16-05-2008 Seven years ago the idea that anyone, let alone its competitors, would ever have anything positive to say about BT or its senior management was unthinkable. Dutch Q1 growth at slowest rate in three years - 15-05-2008 Dutch economic growth cooled in the first quarter of 2008 to the slowest rate in three years, expanding just 0.2 percent compared with the previous three months as the global downturn weighed, data showed on Thursday. Fanny Blankers Koen, Dutch Olympic champion - 15-05-2008 I'm pretty sure that in the immediate aftermath of giving birth to our two sons, my wife wasn't thinking of nipping to the local park for one of her regular 5km jogs. Rights group attacks Dutch immigration policy - 15-05-2008 A Dutch policy of forcing some would-be immigrants to pass a language and culture test before seeking a visa is discriminatory, Human Rights Watch said Thursday. Dutch gymnasts practice for Olympics on Long Island - 14-05-2008 Ayla Wilbrink teetered on one leg on the 4-inch-wide balance beam, her arms outstretched. Sensing the inevitable, she steeled herself for the 41/2-foot drop to the mat Seedorf withdraws from Dutch squad - 14-05-2008 Clarence Seedorf added another twist to his turbulent international career when he withdrew from the Holland squad for Euro 2008 on Tuesday Dutch move to limit big payouts for chief executives - 14-05-2008 As a young executive at Procter & Gamble, Jan Bennink regularly brought home large packets of diapers, poured water over them, then cut them open to check on the absorbency of the material inside. Euthanasia still a dilemma for Dutch doctors - 08-05-2008 "I am not a monster. I'm also not a God. In the best case I'm an angel," muses a doctor in a Dutch play about euthanasia, before delivering a lethal injection to an old friend, a cancer patient. Dutch League says it wouldn't extend season - 08-05-2008 The Scottish Premier League found an ally yesterday in the bitter row with Rangers over the failure to find a compromise to the hectic schedule, when the Dutch Professional League revealed that it would never bend to the will of a club and put back the end of the season simply because of a fixture backlog. A Dutch-Canadian Holocaust survivor explains what Israel means to him - 08-05-2008 This week marks Israel’s 60th birthday. It also happens to mark the 63rd anniversary of the liberation of Holland — and my personal liberation after nearly three years in hiding with my Dutch saviours, Albert and Violette Munnik and their daughter, Nora. Iranian Artist Fights to Have Muhammad Art Displayed in Dutch Museums - 05-05-2008 For the third time in four months, the controversial work of an Iranian artist has been suddenly yanked from a Dutch museum exhibition.
Orange pride and prejudice - 25-04-2008 Any foreigner arriving in Amsterdam on April 30 to be confronted with a sea of orange wigs, beer and loud music would be forgiven for thinking that he had either landed on another planet or that the traditional image of the sober, modest and hardworking Dutchman was a myth. Dutch, part-time champions, fight labour shortage - 24-04-2008 The Netherlands must get more women, immigrants and older people into jobs and make everyone work longer hours if the economy is to avoid a return to steeply rising wages which choked off growth five years ago. Dutch plan to shift coffeeshops worries neighbors - 21-04-2008 Sitting among the mellow smokers in a coffeeshop in Maastricht it is easy to forget that a plan to relocate half of the cannabis-selling outlets to the city limits has aroused fury. No pain, no gain? Giving birth Dutch-style - 27-03-2008 When I discovered I was expecting a baby during my posting to the Netherlands, I spent much of my pregnancy trying to work out how to avoid a traditional Dutch birth -- at home and with no pain relief. Dutch anti-Islam filmmaker refuses to be silenced - 19-03-2008 The last time a high-profile Dutchman made a film critical of Islam he paid for it with his life. Volleyball: British team going Dutch for 2012 - 19-03-2008 How best to prepare the fledgling British volleyball team for the heat of Olympic competition in 2012? By standing in for a club in the Netherlands, of course, and competing in their league, as Mike Rowbottom discovers in Amstelveen Dutch swimmer wants IOC chief to address human rights in China - 06-03-2008 Three-time Olympic swimming gold medalist Pieter van den Hoogenband wants IOC president Jacques Rogge to speak out on human rights in China ahead of the Beijing Games. Cruijff's Return to Amsterdam Sparks Soccer Championship Hopes - 25-02-2008 Dutch soccer fan Omar van Ommeren remembers the first time he heard the name Johan Cruijff. ``A friend said, Omar, you have to see this,'' the 70-year- old Van Ommeren said in an interview at the Amsterdam ArenA stadium, home to AFC Ajax NV. ``There's this skinny kid who can play football like nobody you've ever seen.'' Red hot and Dutch: The designers who are moving into former brothels in Amsterdam - 25-02-2008 In the heart of Amsterdam's red-light area, prostitutes have been kicked out to make way for a controversial new scheme promoting the city's young fashion talent Dutch anti-Semitism revisited - 20-02-2008 A poll taken earlier this month found that only 53 percent of the Dutch would consider voting for a Jewish prime minister. In the rankings, Jews figured far behind women (93%), homosexuals (78%) and blacks (75%), but well before Muslims (27%) and people over 70. Nazi-era singer returns to stage - 17-02-2008 A 104-year-old Dutch cabaret singer who once performed in Nazi Germany has given a concert in the Netherlands for the first time in four decades. There were protests and tight security around the theatre in Amersfoort where Johannes Heesters appeared. Iran urges Dutch not to air Koran film - 17-02-2008 Iran has urged the Netherlands to prevent the screening of a film in which a right-wing populist lawmaker plans to lay out his view of the Koran, a news agency in the Islamic Republic said on Saturday. Under the Knife - 17-02-2008 At the ABN Amro head office in Zuidas - Amsterdam's futuristic new business hub on the southern outskirts - lights burn long into the night. The area was planned in the 1990s around this monument to Dutch financial power. That centrepiece has now fallen. The building is now field headquarters to a Scottish-led invasion force. Singer, 104, Takes Stage Amid Protests - 17-02-2008 Several dozen people protested outside a theater Saturday where a 104-year-old singer who once performed for Adolf Hitler took the stage in the Netherlands for the first time in four decades. Safe as houses? Dutch history says otherwise - 14-02-2008 The house sugar merchant Cornelis Sasbout built in 1617 at number 150 on Amsterdam's Herengracht canal tells a cautionary tale about investing in property -- prices fluctuate wildly, but are ultimately flat. The Dutch restaurant that's really a laboratory - and the diners are the guinea pigs - 12-02-2008 Although the university canteen in the Dutch town of Wageningen looks like an upmarket eatery – with its floor-to-ceiling windows, black marble worktops and minimalist fixtures and fittings – it is in fact a laboratory in disguise. When hating elites transforms itself into xenophobia - 11-02-2008 When "tolerance" becomes a term of abuse in a place like the Netherlands, you know that something has gone seriously wrong, writes Ian Buruma. Dutch refuse to sign off on EU accounts - 11-02-2008 Financial Times: The Netherlands is to refuse to sign off on the European Union's accounts, in an attempt to force national governments to take more responsibility for the European money they spend. In the land of the Dutch Black, the cyclist is king of the road - 10-02-2008 The Age (Australia): I'd heard the stories about the Dutch Black, but nothing prepared me for the alternative universe that is Amsterdam. It was clear from the moment I stepped off the train that my wildest fantasies were about to become reality. I'm not talking about the sex and drugs; heaps of cities have that. It was the bikes — they were everywhere and in every shape and size imaginable: bikes for cruising, bikes for shopping, bikes for couples, bikes for carrying a whole tantrum of toddlers, and even bikes for the frail and wobbly. Dutch-American conference set - 10-02-2008 The Sheboygan County Historical Research Center will be hosting a conference titled "The Dutch-American Experience in Wisconsin: 1840-Present" Sept. 25-27. Experts from the Netherlands and the U.S. will work side-by-side with local historical groups and historians to present a picture of the vibrant Dutch-American culture which thrives in Wisconsin. Dutch unveil robotic petrol station attendant - 07-02-2008 The days of pulling up to a petrol station, having a nice young chap called Chuck come over and ask you how much "gas" you want, before filling your motor up (and, if you were lucky, washing your windscreen) are well over. However, the Dutch have come up with an alternative in a new robot, which is programmed to be able to fill a car gas tank. Dutch seek islands to combat rising sea threat - 05-02-2008 Dutch water industry experts on Monday backed proposals to build several off-shore islands to protect the nation's coast, much of which lies below sea-level, from rising seas caused by global warming. When having a baby, it pays to go Dutch - 05-02-2008 'The Dutch approach to childbirth has proved relaxed and liberating,' says a Times Online journalist. 'Two years ago I gave birth in Amsterdam. Pelham, my son, was born in hospital at 4:25am. By 7am my husband, Paul, had got us back to our flat. I rang a nursing agency that I had chosen, and our state-subsidised maternity nurse was at our door within the hour....' Holloway Mom: Dutch Student Not Innocent - 04-02-2008 THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Secret camera footage of a Dutch student saying he believed missing teenager Natalee Holloway was dead and asking a friend to dump her body at sea in Aruba proves he is not innocent, her mother said in an interview Monday. Dutch mayor sounds warning on intolerance - 01-02-2008 Fear and suspicion among ethnic groups in the Netherlands are at a postwar peak, according to Job Cohen. Amsterdam’s leftwing mayor blames Geert Wilders, the anti-immigration MP, for fuelling the tension. Dutch Queen's 70th birthday fuels abdication talk - 30-01-2008 Dutch Queen Beatrix turns 70 on Thursday, prompting speculation she is preparing to abdicate and hand the throne to her son Prince Willem-Alexander just as her mother did on her birthday 28 years ago. Dutch dig farmer-seeks-wife show - 25-01-2008 There is no sex, no scandal, no sniping and no foul language, but a new Dutch reality show is getting ratings TV bosses dream of, with a quarter of the country glued to their television sets. Dutch film about Koran could spark new clash - 23-01-2008 Uh-oh... The clash of civilizations may fire up again with the possible release of a short film by an ultra-rightwing member of Holland's parliament who has likened the Koran to Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf." Dutch Fashion Shops Open in Ex-Brothels - 21-01-2008 Instead of selling sex, Amsterdam is trying to sell sexy. The city unveiled its "Red Light Fashion" project on Saturday, having converted 16 buildings that used to house prostitutes in the city's ancient red light district into studios for young fashion designers. Robin Haase displays Dutch courage to brush aside Ivan Ljubicic challenge - 16-01-2008 Roger Federer emerged from convalescence in the wake of a stomach virus without a mark on him but left a fair few on Diego Hartfield, of Argentina, his hapless first-round opponent. The comic who won’t mind his language - 15-01-2008 He’s Holland’s most famous comedian, but from now on Hans Teeuwen will work only in English Former suspect in Holloway case throws wine at reporter - 13-01-2008 Dutch student Joran van der Sloot, a former suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway on Aruba, threw wine in the face of a crime reporter after they appeared together on a Dutch television program. Protests halt Dutch science park - 09-01-2008 A Dutch council has condemned a campaign of harassment by animal rights protesters which forced a developer to withdraw from a science park project. Dutch get uneasy about liberty - 04-01-2008 In the Netherlands, the mood has shifted away from its famously broad tolerance and permissiveness, bringing about curbs on drugs and prostitution. Learning Dutch lessons on teen pregnancy - 31-12-2007 Holland has the lowest rate of children born to teenage mothers across Western Europe - six times lower than Britain's statistics at the opposite end of the league table. Dutch Christian party wins gender rights row - 17-12-2007 The Netherlands' oldest political party is celebrating an unusual victory -- the right to receive state funding while continuing to bar women from standing as candidates. After centuries of keeping water out, the Dutch now letting it in - 12-12-2007 For centuries the low-lying Netherlands has fought to reclaim land from water by creating polders. Now, with flood risk increasing thanks to climate change, it is giving the land back. Dutch diplomat in Hong Kong returns South Korean girl adopted 7 years ago - 11-12-2007 Hong Kong authorities are searching for a new home for a 7-year-old South Korean girl after the Dutch couple who adopted her just months after she was born changed their minds, officials said Tuesday. Dutch schools link-up is a sign of the global times - 03-12-2007 Business schools have long had loose affiliations with each other via joint programmes or faculty and student exchanges. But earlier this year, six of the Netherlands’ leading schools decided to go a step further. Dutch Consider New Ways of Holding Back the Waters - 03-12-2007 With over half of its population living below sea level, the Netherlands is particularly at risk from the effects of climate change. One new idea is to build an island in the North Sea -- in the shape of a Tulip. Van der Sloot's Book Gives His Version of the Night Natalee Vanished - 28-11-2007 As prosecutors prepare again to question Dutch student Joran van der Sloot in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, readers in the Netherlands can simply go to a bookstore to find out what he is likely to say. Dutch struggle to maintain their football reputation - 28-11-2007 Euro 2008 will provide important testing ground for the Dutch football team which has run into trouble in recent years. Despite ranking seventh in the world, Marco van Basten's team appears neither as strong, let alone glamorous, as previous Dutch sides - highlighted by a meagre 15 goals in 12 qualifying games. Study Says Nobelist Obeyed Nazi Rules - 28-11-2007 Historians investigating the life of a Dutch Nobel chemistry laureate who worked in Germany during Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime found the scientist complied with anti-Jewish dictates while sometimes helping Jewish colleagues. Dutch court rules Srebrenica families can sue U.N. - 28-11-2007 Families of Srebrenica massacre victims have cleared a legal hurdle in their lawsuit against the Dutch state and the United Nations, which they argue allowed the killing of thousands of Muslims, their lawyers said. The radicalization of 'Eillen' - 25-11-2007 BOGOTA, Colombia: The army stumbled on the handwritten diary during a raid on a guerrilla camp. It lay near the embers of a communal kitchen where fleeing rebels left their breakfast untouched. Goin Dutch - 25-11-2007 IT IS 11am on a cold but sunny Tuesday in the Dutch city of Eindhoven. Queues of people are lining up to enter the Witte Dame exhibition centre. From the outside, it looks rather drab and functional - all concrete, glass and steel. However, inside the building lies a veritable treasure-trove of spectacularly colourful items. Seeking Golf's Origins on Dutch Links - 23-11-2007 A velvet green fairway slices through dunes composed of heather, gorse and sand. The air tingles with the salty smell of the sea. Crashing waves are audible in the distance. And 353 meters away, a red flag whips in the wind. Dutch companies still attractive after buyout spree - 22-11-2007 After two years of wrenching, multi-billion euro buyouts, the Dutch corporate world is becoming more efficient and is likely to see further growth and investment opportunities, supported by a resilient economy. After Harry Potter - 19-11-2007 As part of the release of the Dutch translation of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," author J.K. Rowling has given a new interview to the Dutch newspaper "The Volkskrant." Dutch identity does exist - 18-11-2007 Unlike Princess Máxima, two thirds of all Dutch people in the Netherlands and abroad think that a Dutch identity does exist. More than half of them are also proud to call themselves Dutch. Dutch float 'migrant prison' scheme - 17-11-2007 In the middle of an industrial estate in Zaandam, just north of Amsterdam, stands the newest prison in the Netherlands. Dutch campaigners in last bid to save Anne Frank tree - 16-11-2007 Campaigners fighting to save a diseased tree in Amsterdam that was fondly described by Anne Frank in her diary about life in hiding under Nazi occupation made a last bid Thursday to stop it being felled. Cuban bananas storm Dutch beaches - 09-11-2007 On the Dutch island of Terschelling, beaches are often awash in treasures—like the bunches of Cuban bananas that floated ashore this week. Dutch Jews slam Germany over Shoah payment loophole - 09-11-2007 Germany is unjustly withholding money from Dutch Holocaust survivors, an umbrella group for Dutch Jews told Haaretz. Yesterday, on the eve of the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the group's leaders presented Germany with a petition protesting "injustice to 2,000 Dutch survivors." Former Dutch star Gullit will be Galaxy's new coach - 09-11-2007 Former Dutch star and current television analyst Ruud Gullit was named coach of the Los Angeles Galaxy. Gullit is expected to take charge of the Galaxy ahead of its trip to Australia and New Zealand later this month. NATO promises just enough to keep Dutch on Afghan mission: former commander - 27-10-2007 AMSTERDAM - NATO defence ministers seem to have done just enough with meagre offers of additional troops to convince the Dutch to carry on the fight in southern Afghanistan, a former military commander said Friday. Retired Dutch Maj.-Gen Frank van Kappen's observation appeared supported by remarks from a senior member of the ruling party in the Netherlands. Senior US Democratic lawmaker offends Dutch counterparts with historical remarks - 27-10-2007 Dutch lawmakers who visited the Guantanamo Bay military prison this week said they were offended by a testy exchange in Washington with a senior congressional Democrat. The lawmakers said that Tom Lantos, chairman of the House of Representatives' Foreign Affairs Committee, told them that "Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay." Jan Wolkers, Dutch novelist, poet and sculptor dies at 81 - 20-10-2007 Dutch novelist, poet and sculptor Jan Wolkers — whose sex-charged books helped shake off the shackles of postwar conservatism in the Netherlands — died on Friday at his home on the North Sea island of Texel, his publisher said. Widows of Srebrenica bitter towards returning Dutch - 18-10-2007 The widows of Srebrenica gave Dutch soldiers a bitter reception on their return to the scene of Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two. Dutch business seen most risky in ABN break-up - 18-10-2007 After an intense takeover battle, the carve-up of ABN AMRO is about to begin, with the biggest risks seen in Fortis' plans to take over ABN's Dutch operations. Sense of loss for Dutch as ABN tussle nears end - 01-10-2007 For the Royal Bank of Scotland-led consortium striving to buy ABN Amro, this week should mark a final stage in the biggest financial services deal. The €71bn ($101bn) offer for the Dutch lender is due to close and, if the trio of banks completes its mammoth fundraising effort, it is expected to win ABN’s hand after a six-month scrap. Small town of Urk exemplifies pious heart of the Dutch Christian right - 30-09-2007 Though its population is not quite 18,000, the Dutch town of Urk already has more Protestant churches than some small cities. For this remote and traditional fishing community, though, 19 established places of worship are not enough, so plans are afoot to build two more. The Soldier of Orange dies at 90 - 30-09-2007 A tiny urn of ashes – bearing only the inscription, Soldier of Orange –will solemnly be carried from an aeroplane at Amsterdam airport on Thursday. For Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, who is rumoured to have planned a royal reception, it will be a poignant moment: the return to his native soil of the remains of Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, Holland's most heroic and decorated Second World War resistance fighter. Dutch zoo can breed jellyfish - 25-09-2007 It has been hailed as a major breakthrough: Burgers' Ocean, the marine section of Burgers' Zoo in the Dutch city of Arnhem, has successfully bred jellyfish in captivity. Referendum issue splits country and coalition - 22-09-2007 The Dutch government rejected mounting calls for a referendum on Europe's new reform treaty last night, two years after Dutch voters killed off the European constitution in a referendum that stunned the EU. The Dutch government takes a stand -- against cars, for bikes - 22-09-2007 The Dutch government has taken a trend to promote eco-friendly cities a step further than its European neighbors by announcing firm measures to discourage cars and driving. Dutch probers arrive to build case on Sison - 17-09-2007 A delegation of investigators from The Netherlands arrived in Manila yesterday to verify details and confer with local authorities on the case of Jose Ma. Sison, the founding chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing, the New People’s Army. Dutch Labor Shortage Might Crimp Growth - 17-09-2007 The Netherlands prides itself on having the lowest unemployment rate in the European Union, but as labor capacity nears its limits, economic growth is under threat. In Holland, some see model for US health-care system - 06-09-2007 The Netherlands is using competition and a small dose of regulation to pursue what many in the U.S. hunger to achieve: health insurance for everyone, coupled with a tighter lid on costs. 'You're a woman, because you're not a man' - 04-09-2007 Karima Tieleman's first 'conversion' was from male to female; six years later she converted to Islam. Dutch build towering wind turbines out at sea - 03-09-2007 There is no shortage of wind in the densely-populated Netherlands but there is a shortage of space and in a nation which likes its houses small and its gardens cosy, opposition to wind farms is immense What the Dutch Can Teach Us About Weathering the Next Katrina - 28-08-2007 A 1953 storm that killed 1,835 people forced the Netherlands to change the way disaster protection is done. The same can't be said of the U.S., where innovation has been stymied by pork-barrel politics. Dutch plan to combat youth radicalisation - 28-08-2007 The Dutch cabinet has earmarked 28 million euros to combat the increasing radicalisation of Muslims and right-wing extremists. Interior Minister Guusje ter Horst launched the initiative at a press conference in the Amsterdam district of Slotervaart on Monday. Tolerant Dutch would balk at our chaotic city - 28-08-2007 I really couldn't care less about Youth Crime. I do care a great deal about Crime. When walking the cobbled streets, I suspect that no-one is particularly fearful of being youth mugged or youth knifed. They are concerned about being mugged or knifed. ABN Amro battle a 'wake up call' for the Dutch - 27-07-2007 As the battle for control of ABN Amro enters its fifth month, the Telegraph's Ben Bland finds nervousness in the Netherlands about yet another foreign takeover. Soggy Amsterdam's Test: Digging a Subway - 24-07-2007 Seventeenth-century masons built Amsterdam on a foundation of wooden poles planted in soggy, sandy ground, leaving behind a beautiful architectural museum - but one with walls prone to sinking or crumbling without warning. So how do you dig a subway under it? Uruzgan, were the Dutch hoodwinked? - 12-07-2007 Tuesday's suicide attack in southern Afghanistan, which left at least 17 civilians dead and a number of Dutch soldiers injured, has again raised questions about Dutch involvement in Afghanistan. Why Dutch Kids are Happier Than Yours - 12-07-2007 Dutch children are the happiest children in the industrialized world. Don't take my word for it, that was the finding of an extensive survey in UNICEF's Report Card 7. Dutch cycling is high in the Low Country - 09-07-2007 Whether it's over the stone bridges and through the hectic traffic of Amsterdam, or across the windmill-dotted pastures of the countryside, the Dutch cycle everywhere. Dutch museums put their surplus art on eBay - 07-07-2007 Part of the Dutch national art collection featuring some 1,000 paintings, statues and other objects has gone on sale through Internet auction site eBay, officials said Friday. Dutch courage - 23-06-2007 Hollandophobes like Ruskin were wrong to dismiss the painters of the Golden Age as prosaic materialists. Bold artists such as Frans Hals and Rembrandt transformed portraiture by capturing the poetry of daily life, argues Simon Schama. Dutch military chief says Taliban executed civilians - 22-06-2007 Taliban fighters executed Afghan civilians, including women, who refused to join them during a recent fierce battle against NATO and Afghan government forces in the south, the Dutch military chief said Friday Heroic Dutch backpacker nearly died - 22-06-2007 Dutch backpacker Paul de Waard came very close to dying after being gunned down in a Melbourne street, his surgeon says. The 25-year-old - hailed a hero after being shot while trying to help a woman in distress - was bleeding to death as doctors fought to save his life. Dutch ISAF troops 'failing' in Afghanistan - 21-06-2007 Unease about Dutch involvement in the ISAF mission in Afghanistan is steadily growing in the Netherlands and the director of a Dutch aid organisation has warned that the mission may be doing more harm than good. Why Dutch women don't get depressed - 11-06-2007 French women, says a recent bestseller, don't get fat. Japanese women, says another, don't get old or fat. But their sisters in the Netherlands may have one up on both of them. Washington state's real Dutch treat - 05-06-2007 There are a lot of windmills in this little Dutch town that was founded more than 100 years ago. The Dutch immigration pendulum - 22-05-2007 The Netherlands has a long history of being a haven for people fleeing persecution. But it was only after the Second World War that large numbers of foreigners started arriving in Holland. Today over five percent of Dutch society is of foreign origin. Dutch missing out on UN pie - 15-05-2007 The United Nations is big business - its various organisations spend billions a year on goods and services provided by international companies. But Dutch businesses haven't had much luck in getting a share of those billions - in 2005, the Netherlands was 19th on the list of countries doing business with the UN. The red-hot Dutch furniture-maker's burning ambition - 06-05-2007 Maarten Baas found fame by torching some of the 20th century's most important design works. Now celebrities and collectors are scrambling to snap up his artfully scorched creations. Miller in Holland is grinding for Dutch certification - 02-05-2007 The black Dutch cap that is faded to a deep purple and coated with a flour patina hides Alisa Crawford's long, blonde hair. She has lost her fear of heights as she regularly climbs 40-foot windmill blades to set the sails of Holland's windmill. Dutch Rub-Out: Wolfowitz and the World Bank's Euro-cabal. - 30-04-2007 World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz faces an "ad hoc committee" investigating his alleged ethics violations today, but it seems the committee has reached its conclusions even before he has a chance to defend himself. This fits the pattern of what is ever more clearly a Euro-railroad job. Dutchman's Noah's Ark opens doors - 30-04-2007 A half-sized replica of the biblical Noah's Ark has been built by a Dutch man, complete with model animals. Dutch creationist Johan Huibers built the ark as testament to his literal belief in the Bible. Right said Fred, let's go Dutch - 29-04-2007 It was a rare setback for Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive Sir Fred Goodwin when ABN Amro snubbed his consortium's bid for the bank. But the straight talker from Paisley will not stand by and watch Barclays take the prize. Dutch intelligence agency says terror threat is receding - 27-04-2007 The threat of terror attacks is receding in the Netherlands thanks to tough new laws and the prosecution of key Islamic extremists, the head of the country's national intelligence service said on Friday. Muslim women glad Hirsi Ali quit Netherlands - 25-04-2007 For three years Somali-born Ayaan Hirsi Ali galvanised the Dutch society with a frank account of her traumatic past and her conviction that Islam is a violent, misogynous religion. Dutch flower growers aim to keep pace with the times - 23-04-2007 Jaap Leenen, a 60-year old flower grower and the biggest daffodil breeder in the Netherlands, says seashells from the North Sea are the best thing that has ever happened to his daffodils. Who we are: Food preserves flavor of region's Dutch roots - 21-04-2007 Americanization clouds role of original settlers in our area. An undeniable aroma seeps out of the gymnasium and into the hallway at the East Palmyra Christian School. Okken emerges as a Dutch 800m star of real quality - 10-04-2007 At last month's European Athletics Indoor Championships in Birmingham, Arnoud Okken finally emerged out of the shadow of his good friend and training partner Bram Som. Midwives central to Dutch belief home is best - 07-04-2007 At an antenatal class in south-east Amsterdam, Petra de Buins tries to persuade her students of the advantages of home birth. Home is more comfortable than hospital, where the tense atmosphere can prolong labour, she says. "It's like finding yourself wanting to do a number two at a motorway service station but being put off until later because of the state of the toilets." Barclays CEO, Dutch cenbank chief talk about ABN - 06-04-2007 Dutch central bank governor Nout Wellink said on Thursday that he spoke several times with Barclays Plc Chief Executive John Varley about the British bank's merger talks with Dutch bank ABN AMRO. Dutch Soldiers Stress Restraint in Afghanistan - 06-04-2007 QALA-E-SURKH, Afghanistan — The Dutch infantrymen stood on a ridge near the Baluchi Valley, an area in south-central Afghanistan controlled by the Taliban and tribes opposed to the central government. Land of the Giants: Dutch Tower over Americans - 01-04-2007 When you think tall, you probably think America. Tallest buildings. Tallest athletes. Tallest population. But no longer. Today, to find the world's tallest people, you have to look beyond the windmills, wooden shoes, and wheels of cheese … to tiny Holland. US filmmakers silent on Dutch director's death - 30-03-2007 It is a particularly hateful comment on the state of American cinema that one of the most egregious examples of Islamofacism since the unspeakable events of 9-11 has gone virtually unacknowledged by the filmmaking community. 'Black Book’ takes a second look at Dutch Resistance - 29-03-2007 Rarely does a filmmaker have a chance to make a ground-breaking film and then, 30 years later, return to the same subject and remake it. Urban Marijuana Farmers Spark Dutch Crackdown on Power Thefts - 27-03-2007 Joop van der Zeeuw isn't a fan of indoor gardening. The civil servant will evict anyone he finds growing more than five cannabis plants in a Rotterdam apartment. Dutch hope to invent foods that prevent obesity - 22-03-2007 Scientists in the Netherlands are developing a new generation of foods that can help prevent obesity by making people eat less, a research institute said on Thursday Anglo-Dutch alliance: Barclays and ABN Amro talk about a merger - 22-03-2007 Marriages are not made in heaven, especially when it comes to mergers between large international banks. Dutch freestyler Veldhuis in top form - 22-03-2007 If Australia gets Euro-trashed at the swimming world championships next week, it could be partly their own fault. Prize harvest for Dutch water initiative - 20-03-2007 Two Dutch organisations and their African partners have won a prestigious award for a rainwater-harvesting project to be carried out in Ethiopia. US heirs to Nazi-looted art sell four paintings to Dutch state - 06-03-2007 AMSTERDAM, Netherlands: The US heirs to a major collection of art looted by the Nazis and finally returned last year after years of legal wrangling have sold four paintings back to the Dutch government for €3 million (US$4 million) and donated a fifth work as thanks. Little fish in a 'multiculti' pond - 05-03-2007 One of the new words added to the latest edition of the Dutch dictionary is "multiculti" - short for multicultural. It's a term which can aptly be applied to the neighbourhood in Amsterdam where I've lived for the past twelve years. Dutch pioneer floating eco-homes - 02-03-2007 Small and densely populated, the Netherlands is one of the countries most at risk from climate change and rising sea levels. But in one village in the south of the country, they are trying out a new way of living with an increased risk of floods. The Dutch have had their moments, but probably not this time - 02-03-2007 The Dutch cricketers have a special place in South African cricketing lore, but not a particularly nice one. If you ask any players who represented SA in the early ’90s about the Netherlands, one black day will spring to mind — September 5 1994. The Money Maker - 27-02-2007 Robert Deodaat Emile Oxenaar – or Ootje as he’s known – is, at 76, still teaching in the graphic design department of the Rhode Island School of Design. At Dutch National Pastime’s Top Event, Mother Nature Wields the Starting Gun - 26-02-2007 LEEUWARDEN — This is the town from which, when it is run, a grueling 125-mile race takes off across frozen canals and ice-locked lakes and under quaint bridges and past trim brick villages. When there is ice, that is. Dutch Holocaust survivor to become U.S. citizen - 24-02-2007 The questions could have stopped her quest for citizenship cold. "Have you ever tried to topple the government of another country?" Answer: "Yes." "Have you ever been in prison?" Answer: "Yes." Dutch Cabinet gets its first Muslims amid signs of progress for immigrants - 21-02-2007 As a city councilman, Ahmed Aboutaleb, the son of a Moroccan clergyman, helped immigrants find jobs, put their toddlers in school to learn Dutch, and doled out some stern advice: integrate or leave. The Prince's crazy dream - 20-02-2007 Prince Claus, the Dutch Queen's late consort, had what some would call a crazy idea. Right up until his death in 2002, he dreamed of creating an opera in the Sahel; the band of African countries along the southern Sahara stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea. Lawyer’s €12m fee in looted art case too high: Dutch court - 17-02-2007 A lawyer’s fee of €12m for negotiating the return of art stolen by the Nazis was too high, a Dutch court ruled Friday. Otto Frank's hunt for a visa - 16-02-2007 About a year before Anne Frank began her diary in June 1942, her father started a writing project of his own. Dutch Trafigura Settles Toxic Waste Case - 14-02-2007 A Dutch-based oil trading company paid $197 million to secure the release of three executives from an Ivory Coast prison and settle claims that it dumped toxic waste that killed at least 10 people in the West African nation Will Sun shine for PSV? - 14-02-2007 PSV Eindhoven has become the first football club in the Netherlands to sign a player from China. A commercial masterstroke, because when Sun Xiang appears on the field as a left-back, some 100 million extra pairs of eyes will be watching the match. Dutch freedom and respect allow youth to flourish - 14-02-2007 'Let them be free' is the golden rule for child-rearing in the Netherlands. No wonder Dutch kids have been rated Europe's most fortunate. Dark Secrets - 12-02-2007 Ayaan Hirsi Ali blames Islam for the miseries of the Muslim world. Her new autobiography shows that life is too complex for that. Tea and talk tactics to charm the Taliban - 11-02-2007 They are being called The Lucky Dutch. They haven't lost a single soldier in combat. Their tactics are said to include tea for the Taliban and Talking to the Dark Side. Dutch directness boosts BT - 11-02-2007 Ben Verwaayen’s high-energy approach has transformed the stodgy BT into a modern, confident company, with its focus on the future. Somali-born 'infidel' bares all - 09-02-2007 Infidel is the aptly titled autobiography of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, probably the most famous atheist in the world |
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