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Amsterdam - Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman was due in the Netherlands Wednesday for meetings with his Dutch counterpart Maxime Verhagen, with Gaza, the deadlocked peace talks and Iran all on the agenda. Lieberman also requested to meet wi...
Dutched Pinay on Expatriation (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
(FOTOS TO FOLLOW, SOON!) The long weekend in Sintra was a blast for me. I love, love pretty antiquated little villages and I’m always looking for new ones to add to my list of places to visit. Sintra is not very far from Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. It’s about 45 minutes by train from Rossio train station. It is the last stop of the Sintra line. Public transport in Portugal is cheap...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Madrid - Spanish giants Real Madrid announced late on Wednesday that Cristiano Ronaldo is not yet fit to return to action, and will shortly travel to Amsterdam for treatment. Ronaldo, 24, has been out since badly spraining his right ankle playing for...
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Despite all the complicated stuff, Canadians are actually pretty simple folk. We like our brief summers and our coffee hot, and our ice hockey and our beer cold. Canadians drank 68.3 litres of beer per capita in 2004, good for 19th best on the planet. A nd if you’ll notice , almost all of the countries who beat Canada in that consumption are going to be showing up in Vancouver for the 2010 Olympic...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS (MARKET WIRE) AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group N.V. ("AMG", EURONEXT AMSTERDAM: "AMG") announces that the proposed class action which commenced in the Ontario, Canada Superior Court on June 11, 2009 by Robert Gowan against AMG, its 44.5% owned affiliate, Timminco Limited ("Timminco"; TSX: TIM), certain of AMG's and Timminco's directors and officers,...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Amsterdam - A small ceremony was due to take place on Monday to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the brutal murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh by a muslim extremist. On November 2, 2004 Moyammed Bouyeri murdered filmmaker Theo Van Gogh - kno...
France 24 (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Five years after Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered by a Muslim extremist in Amsterdam, where half the population is of immigrant origin, the city is grappling with social integration. "It was as if, before Van Gogh, they had never seen a Muslim in the Netherlands," Ahmed Marcouch, the Moroccan-origin mayor of Amsterdam suburb Slotervaart, told a recent press event. "From one...
Darker My Love (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Dear Blog, We are in Holland, or, the Netherlands, whatever the difference is. Conundrum: starting a month in Europe with three nights in Amsterdam, and realizing all you wanna do once you get there is sleep. Solution: get over it, lazy American. Played in Eindhoven on Tuesday and Amsterdam on Wednesday and Rotterdam (aka Rotown) on Thursday. This whole opening-for-White-Lies thing means we're playing...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Amsterdam - Young adults in the Netherlands have been hit hardest by the economic crisis, the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) said in a report released on Tuesday. Between July and September, 11.5 per cent of people aged 15 to 25 were looking for ...
My Herd (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Benelux (Formerly known as Belgium, Netherlands and Luxemburg) A reminiscing ramble As a family we took up residence in The Hague (den Haag) in 1963 and, still as a family returned to Bromley in 1966. It was quite an experience, particularly the move to Brussels, where we found that we were leaving Holland - a country in which (almost alone in Europe) the British were admired, arriving in a French...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Amsterdam - Dutch politician and Islam-critic Geert Wilders is due to travel to Britain later this week, the Netherlands' Freedom Party said Wednesday, following the lifting of a British travel ban on him. The announcement came a day after Britain's ...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Amsterdam - Export from the Netherlands continued to drop in August, the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) said in a monthly report released on Tuesday. With a drop of 7.9 per cent, the downfall is larger than the 5.9- per-cent drop reported in July...
Working Class Tory (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Thomas Byrne has found this little piece of information . Something to think about: When Muslim population remains around 1% of any given country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone: United States -- Muslim 1.0% Australia -- Muslim 1.5% Canada -- Muslim 1.9% China -- Muslim 1%-2% Italy -- Muslim 1.5% Norway -- Muslim 1.8% At 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Amsterdam - The Netherlands' DSB Bank on Monday denied reports that it is on the brink of bankruptcy and that it has come under the control of the Dutch Central Bank DNB. Finance Minister Wouter Bos and top officials from DSB and the central bank met...
IceViking (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
From The Brussels Journal : Fingers in the Dyke: Dutch Fear Rising Ethnic Tensions From the desk of Paul Belien on Sun, 2007-01-14 23:02 "In Amsterdam 55% of those under18 are immigrants, mainly Moroccan, Turkish or Antillean (West Indian). In Rotterdam the number has surpassed 50%. Everywhere this percentage is rising dramatically." "There are 1 million Muslims on a total of 16 million...
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salense | 09/30/2009
Do you want to make part of the new I AM KANI campaign and follow the footsteps of noted celebrities such as Redman, Three 6 Mafia, Bang Bang and Duvel Duvel? Come to one of the Britain Shops in the Netherlands during the I AM KANI Tour @ Britain. Fill in the flyer, pose for a picture and maybe you’ll win first prize! First prize: * Karl Kani clothing gift coupon worth 250 EUR to be spend @Britain...
davidship | 02/25/2009
A Turkish airplane breaks up after corridor short of the landing strip at Amsterdam airstrip, killing nine citizens and injuring eighty-four. The plane, carrying 127 passengers and seven crew, gone down short of the runway near the A9 highway. It bust into three pieces, but did not hold fire. Three of those killed are crewmembers.
axigen | 12/15/2008
Amsterdam, Netherlands and Bucharest, Romania, December 15, 2008 – AXIGEN ( http://www.axigen.com ), the professional messaging solution vendor, and AVG Technologies ( http://www.avg.com ), a global Internet security software provider, announce today their technological alliance aimed at providing businesses with a higher level of security over email communications and preventing ever-increasing messaging...
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