Dutch pension fund Paerel Leven offers smokers lucrative interest pay outs that can go up to 16% because of a lower life expectancy. A heavy smoker, already missing one long, the owner of Paerel Leven and a doctor explain what they think of the new… Read More

Fitna, the controversial anti-Koran short film by anti-immigration Dutch MP Geert Wilders was finally released on the internet on Thursday evening the 27th of March. Most of the Dutch and foreign media report that the film is milder than expected and lacks surprises. No problems… Read More

Fulcrum TV and Medialab are producing a documentary about mummification. Michael, an American man who is terminally ill, will donate his body to science that is exploring the technology behind mummification. His wife is accompanying him to Egypt to be part of the story about… Read More

Aquapol is an European partnership of ten countries for police work at inland waterways, on the seas and in seaports, aimed at advancing safety and fighting crime in Europe. In 2008 Aquapol’s presidency was given to the Netherlands. One of the areas of attention for… Read More

Since November 2007 it is known that the far right wing politician Geert Wilders has a plan for an anti-Koran film. The film with the name Fitna will probably be launched on the internet before the first of April 2008. The Freedom Party (PVV) leader… Read More

After the local elections in 2006 Ahmed Marcouch became the first Muslim mayor of the Amsterdam district Slotervaart. The Social Democrat is a man of action, resolutely pushing through tough measures – something that doesn’t always win him friends. Most of Slotervaart’s 45,000 inhabitants have… Read More

During the opening of the new exhibition ‘Amsterdam and the House of Orange’ at the Amsterdam Historical Museum, Queen Beatrix saw her life reflected. Although most of the exhibit shows the centuries of often testy relations between Amsterdam and the princely, later royal family, there… Read More

Johannes Heesters, a 104-year-old Dutch cabaret singer who once performed in Nazi Germany has given a concert in the Netherlands for the first time in four decades. It was Heesters’ first performance in his homeland since the 1960s. There were protests and tight security around… Read More

Municipal Police will hold a reconstruction of five stolen statues of the Radya Pustaka Museum collection in the Indonesian town Solo, today. In their testimony, the suspects said the hundreds of year-old statues were taken from the museum in three stages. In July 2006, two… Read More

ABC reporter Chris Cuomo and two colleagues on the island Aruba reconstruct the last hours of Natallee Holloway, the American girl that disappeared on Aruba in 2005, using the secretly taped admissions from the main Dutch suspect Joran van der S. in a Dutch crime… Read More

At the end of last year the Dutch populist politician Geert Wilders announced that he will produce a critical film about the Koran. The Dutch society and politics fear the consequences of a film that has not yet been launched. For a reportage for the… Read More

In the Dutch year of the religious heritage, a new foundation devoted itself to save churches from demolition. In the upcoming 5 years around 1200 Dutch churches will go out of use because of the secularisation. Many of these churches have to be demolished to… Read More