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. More >
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. More >
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. More >
Now here is a novel idea to solve the Netherlands’ endless traffic jam problems – from the boss of the Dutch construction industry lobby group: build new roads, but don’t let anyone drive on them. More >
The new government has just spent 100 days doing it and now the new parliament is spending a week doing it: finding out what normal people think. More >
There are a lot of windmills in this little Dutch town that was founded more than 100 years ago. More >
The knee-jerk reaction of the world’s press to BNN’s kidney donation tv reality show is yet another example of being quick to condemn without having all the facts. Of course the show is in dreadful taste and of course it is ghoulish in the extreme, but that is exactly what the show aims to be. More >
