The Libyan suspects of the terrorist bomb attack against an American Pan Am Flight 103 causing a huge plane crash in the Scottish village Lockerbie, are adjudged in a special court governed by Scots law in The Netherlands. After the sudden departure of Lord Hardie… Read More

When Erna and Henk found out that they had bought a fake painting of Matisse in a well-respected gallery in Amsterdam, they decided they might as well start focusing on collecting fake paintings. In the former city hall of the village Fledder, Erna and Henk… Read More

The Enschede fireworks disaster took place on Saturday 13 May 2000 in the Dutch city of Enschede. A warehouse containing fireworks from the company S.E. Fireworks caught fire and eventually exploded. There were 23 deaths, including four firefighters, about 950 people were injured and 200… Read More

During the preparation of EURO 2000, the European Football Championships in The Netherlands and Belgium, safety plays a big role. There is fear of the activities of the different hard core hooligan groups, especially in combination with the liberal Dutch culture, were soft and hard… Read More

Water is often called the new oil of the future. While the world population is growing, the quantity of drinking water is decreasing. During the World Water Forum in The Hague 5700 participants deliberate over the use and the distribution of drinking water. The event… Read More

he parliamentary inquiry into the Bijlmer disaster is set up in response to the Bijlmer disaster in which an ELAL cargo plane crashed into an apartment building in Amsterdam’s Bijlmermeer district on the 4th of October 1992.This plane crash killed at least 43 people. After… Read More

While ten orange Dutch fans from the east of The Netherlands take their crazy orange bus to see the test match Holland-Germany in the Amsterdam Arena stadium, the Dutch and German police is preparing a test to see if all measures work and equipment is… Read More

When he saw Elton John singing at the funeral of Lady Di, he thought: ‘I am not a top-singer, but I can communicate feelings.’ For years Maurice from the Dutch city the Hague tried to become famous as a model and as a Chippendale. Now… Read More

For ages the Amsterdam Taxi Service (TCA) had the monopoly of exploiting the cabs in Amsterdam. It was only the TCA that could give out the hyper expensive licences for cab drivers in Amsterdam. After a change in law new taxi companies appear on the… Read More

The ‘Wadden zee’ is one of the largest tide regions in the world and a crossroads of many different migration routes of millions of different birds. But there is also around 20 billion cubic meters of gas under the Wadden sea. The largest untapped gas… Read More