After the first very successful Googoosh Music Academy, an Iranian television reality music competition to find new singing talent, a second episode is produced by the British production company Unique TV for the Iranian satellite broadcaster Manoto TV. The show is an X-factor like format… Read More

While the Japanese society is recovering from the last earthquake, the tsunami and the disaster with the Fukushima nuclear power plants, reporter Ryusuke Kimura from the Japanese public TV channel NHK is send on a trip through Europe to investigate the actual situation in the… Read More

Two Blokes, Two Bikes and well over two thousand miles – the Hairy Bikers are baking their way around Europe. From Baguettes to Black Forest Gateaux, Croissants to Ciabatta, the boys are on a road trip to find the very best of baking in continental… Read More

After It turns out that Martin N. from Hamburg admitted killing the 9 year old Dennis in 2001. He probably killed more boys and for a while he was also suspect in the unsolved murder on the 10 year old Dutch boy Nicky Verstappen in… Read More

Since a few years the seize of Dutch pig-, chicken- and cow farms is seriously increasing. Although it is not clear what the size of a mega farm exactly is it usually farms with around 12.500 pigs or for example 120.000 chickens. Since these kind… Read More

On the day of the verdict in the former Croatian general Ante Gotovina trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, the Swiss public broadcaster Schweizer Fernsehen needs an interview with the former Swiss public prosecutor Stefan Waespi for a… Read More

After arriving on Amsterdam Airport Schiphol it turns out the airliner lost the tripod of a BBC Panorama crew that has an interview at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. The BBC needs a replacement tripod within an hour, the interview at the… Read More

The BBC documentary series History of the World covers the story of the tulip trade in Amsterdam, on the first stock market of the world. Also the famous Tulip Mania is covered in the documentary. Tulip mania was a period during the Dutch Golden Age… Read More

Professor Merel Kindt from the University in Amsterdam (UvA) managed to reduce fear. By administering the Beta-blocker Propranolol, the UvA research team managed to weaken the memories of fear of testees. A very interesting research result is the fact that the fear response does not… Read More

The Provincial Elections are especially important because the Dutch have a minority government with the support of the Party of the Freedom from Geert Wilders. Although the delegates from the provinces only vote for the Senate at the end of May, it is exciting to… Read More

The Netherlands has offered life benefits to Bosnians who settled in the country in the wake of the 1992-1995 war, if they decide to return home. The Dutch government would pay travelling expenses to returnees of up to 1,500 euros and life benefits to persons… Read More

Many concerns have been raised in Europe about the high quantity of Ritalin use in Europe. Ritalin is a medicines that is prescribed for ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) . In the Netherlands ten times more Ritalin is prescribed in comparison with ten years ago…. Read More