More than 20 million toys made in China have been recalled worldwide over the past four months, because of potentially dangerous levels of lead or choking hazards due to small magnets. Some of these toys were manufactured using paints from unauthorized suppliers of paints with… Read More

The TV-program Monitor from the German public broadcaster ARD is producing a reportage about the German links to the PKK (The Kurdistan Workers’ Party), a Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla movement, primarily based in the mountainous Kurdish-majority regions of south eastern Turkey and… Read More

Just before the new EU treaty is signed, the Japanese NHK correspondent checks out why the Dutch government decided to skip a second referendum on the treaty. The Dutch opposition is busy to organise support for a new referendum, while the Minister of European Affairs… Read More

Because an asylum seeker girl in Austria threatens to kill herself, after her family is send back to Kosovo, ORF correspondent Sonja Sagmeister reports on the actual situation in The Netherlands, where a general amnesty for asylum seekers is given. An Angolan couple with a… Read More

The American production company NASH Entertainment produces a show called ‘World’s Most Daring Rescues caught on tape.’ One of the clips they want to use concerns a Dutch paraglider who was rescued after getting stuck in high-voltage cables in New Zealand in 2001. At the… Read More

After the last Dutch local elections Ahmed Marcouch became as Dutch Moroccan mayor of the Amsterdam neighbourhood Slotervaart. Marcouch is a social democrat, an ex-policeman and a very outspoken man. The mayor wants to fight prejudices and so-called radicalization and fight for a good future… Read More

It seems to be a trend, the establishments of ex-Muslim committees in Europe. With the German and English founders of these kinds of committees, the Dutch student Ashan Jami erects a Dutch committee of ex-Muslims in The Hague. For the reportage about ex-Muslim committees for… Read More

Over the last years the cultivation of fish on land is seriously increasing. One of the most striking Dutch companies that breeds fish on land is ‘Happy Shrimps’. It cultivates large exotic shrimps in the Rotterdam harbour by using the surplus heat of a power… Read More

An epic landscape experiment is underway in the Netherlands. Its aim is to make the Netherlands, the most developed country of all European states, wild again. Its method is to establish a vast network of natural habitats and wildlife corridors. Frans Vera, one of the… Read More

After the implementation of the new Dutch naturalisation law around 250 thousand migrants, who often already live in The Netherlands for years, are obliged to do a naturalisation course, including an exam. The costs for the course and the exams have to be partly paid… Read More

Five years ago the Dutch city The Hague started with a special dentist visiting hour for homeless people. The formula turns out to be a huge success. Getting rid of the homeless cliché, namely bad teeth, helps homeless to take the next steps to a… Read More

In 2003 Dutch Iraqi Wesam Delaema visits his mother country Iraq after the US and UK invasion. He marries his wife in Bagdad and wants to finally see his family again. To show his friends in The Netherlands the other side of Iraq, he decides… Read More