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

While a new Dutch conservative government is formed, with possible support of the Party of Freedom from populist Geert Wilders, the Austrian background TV-program Weltjournal sends senior reporter Alexander Steinbach to make a reportage about the Wilders phenomena. The reportage is part of a series… Read More

Sam Champion, the weatherman from the TV program Good Morning America from the American TV channel ABC, plans to do a few weather forecasts from the centre of Amsterdam. An ABC research team comes over to Amsterdam to find the right live locations, a good… Read More

For a background reportage about the innovative Dutch food branch Japanese public TV channel NHK sends journalist Ryusuke Kimura to the Netherlands. He reports about the modern and durable Dutch greenhouse sector, visits the Restaurant of the Future at the Agricultural University Wageningen in the… Read More

In the Netherlands, Denmark and in Cameroon NHK Sports journalists Yuki Ohba produces a series of portraits of the teams that the national football team of Japan will face in the first round of the World Cup in South Africa. The NHK crew films at… Read More

The collapse of the Dutch government has presented the Dutch electorate with a problem to which no easy solution seems obvious. The government has split over the question of troops in Afghanistan, but this can be seen as merely the explosive element that has blown… Read More

There is a bicycle revolution going on. Cities in North America have suddenly begun to provide cyclists with facilities (bike lanes, secure lock-ups, etc.) and are looking at Public Bike systems for their citizens. The Canadian documentary production company Cogent Benger Productions Inc. produces a… Read More

In Japan students of a well-known university are arrested because they were growing cannabis plants. While in the Netherlands a cannabis summit is organised and suddenly many coffee shops are threatened with closure, correspondent Go Kamosiha from the Japanese public broadcaster NHK travels to Amsterdam… Read More

The Dutch Taskforce Management Floods organises the ‘Water Test’, a national flood simulation exercise. The participants of the ‘Water Test’ are administrators, national-, regional- and local emergency services and the water board districts On the basis of the worst imaginable floods the involved departments and… Read More

They have taken over the world. We love them, but now that we have so many of them, they are destroying our cities and our lives. Cars and gridlock. This documentary weaves through the choked cities of North America and Europe seeking solutions to the… 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