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
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Author: Sjoerd de Vries
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
The New York based documentary production company Kontentreal produces a series of documentaries with the title e² design. The series covers eight different topics – from sustainable architecture to water culture to alternative energy to organic farming, recycled clothing and more – are each presented… Read More
Since a while the status of the multicultural society is under discussion in Germany. A German documentary maker from the broadcaster Südwestrundfunk comes to the Netherlands for research and the set-up of filming for a documentary about the status of the multicultural society in The… Read More
Since helping to die is legal in Switzerland a lot of foreigners travel to Switzerland to be helped to die. The neighbours of the locations where the dying takes place protest against the constant stream of corpses taken out in coffins. The organisations that helps… Read More
The council of the Amsterdam Centre district declared that the tree behind the Anne Frank house, has to be cut down on due to the risk that it could otherwise fall down by itself and cause damage. But a second opinion analysis by the Dutch… Read More
The Anne Frank tree is the horse-chestnut tree in the inner garden behind the Anne Frank House in the centre of Amsterdam. A tree that featured in Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl. Anne Frank described the tree from the annex, the building… Read More
In Austria the legalisation of gay marriage is discussed. Europe correspondent Sonja Sagmeister from the Austrian public TV broadcaster ORF visits the Netherlands to see how the Dutch gay marriage is doing. She finds out that Dutch married gays even can adopt children. Sonja Sagmeister… Read More
For the first time in 40 years the Dutch, English and Germans expect an extremely heavy storm and high tide. The complete Dutch coast is monitored by dyke inspectors and the dams of the Delta Works, the Dutch Delta coast protection system are closed. For… Read More
Europol give a press conference in The Hague to announce the dismantling of a worldwide child sex offender’s network. The case, named ‘Operation Koala’, began in 2006 when a child abuse video was discovered in Australia. This particular video had been produced in Belgium. A… Read More