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At Least 42 Students to be Prosecuted for Theft of Exams 27 Aug 2013 | 02:21 pm
At least 42 students will be prosecuted for the stealing of final high school exams or the distribution of them. This was announced by the prosecution in Rotterdam. Of the 42 students, 11 are prosecut...
Business Leader: Government Guilty for Economic Recession 26 Aug 2013 | 01:26 pm
The government is guilty for the economic recession in the Netherlands. This was said by Dick Boer, Chief Executive of the leading Dutch retailer Ahold. He said that the cabinet doesn’t provide any pe...
Major Insurer Sends Data on Investments of its Clients to Wrong Addresses 25 Aug 2013 | 03:25 pm
Data of thousands of clients with an investment account at the largest Dutch insurer Aegon have been sent to individual clients. The NOS broadcasting unit received a package with an overview of client...
Minister: Protect Dutch Workers against Invasion from Eastern Europe 22 Aug 2013 | 01:49 pm
Dutch Minister of Social Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister Lodewijk Asscher and English publicist David Goodhart, have jointly written an article in which they claim that the European Union has to dea...
Netherlands Support Cocaine-Legalizing Bolivia 21 Aug 2013 | 03:29 pm
Tens of millions of Dutch tax money are being given annually as development aid to Bolivia. Recently, Bolivian President Evo Morales decided to increase the production of coca leaves – the raw materia...
Dutch Elderly and Sick Care Institutions Largely Fail 20 Aug 2013 | 12:37 pm
The Nieuwsuur program reported that most of the inspected elderly and sick care institutions do not meet the minimum norms. This resulted from inspections by the Inspectorate for Health (IGZ) in the p...
Subsidiary of Norwegian Firm Hid Major Leaks 19 Aug 2013 | 12:59 pm
It has now become known that the highly controversial Dutch subsidiary of the Norwegian oil tank firm, Odfjell had not reported a major leak in 2009. Thousands of liters of methanol were leaked. A lar...
Nobel Prize Winning Economist: Belgium is Governed Better Financially than the Netherlands 18 Aug 2013 | 01:02 pm
Nobel Prize winning U.S Economist Paul Krugman says that despite problems resulting from its language crisis, Belgium has been governed better financially in recent years than the Netherlands. As far ...
Merger Causes Chaos in Regional Prosecution Offices 14 Aug 2013 | 05:45 am
There are malfunctions in the administration of the Prosecution in Utrecht since it has been merged with the office in Lelystad. The prosecutors in Lelystad sent summons to Utrecht which are not sent ...
Dutch Srebrenica Soldiers want Compensation 13 Aug 2013 | 01:49 pm
Tens of Dutch soldiers who were part of the Dutch U.N. Battalion in Srebrenica in 1995, want compensation from the Dutch Ministry of Defense for the psychological damage they incurred. A few days ago,...
