It turns out that hundreds of copies of the famous diary of Anne Frank have been vandalized in libraries in Japan. More than 300 copies of the diary of Anne Frank and other books related to Anne Frank were found in public libraries in and… Read More

The Conference of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention has its Eighteenth Session in the first week of December 2013 at the World Forum in The Hague, next to the OPCW Headquarters. As requested by The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons… Read More

Presentation destruction plan chemical weapons Syria On November 15, the The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Executive Council approves a detailed plan of destruction to eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile. In the plan, Syrian chemical weapons will be transported for destruction outside… Read More

It suddenly turns out that not the Pakistani Malala Yousafzai will receive the Nobel peace prize 2013, but the OPCW, the Organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons, which has its headquarters in The Hague, the Netherlands. At a press conference the Nobel committee states… Read More

Japan’s Economic Revitalization Minister Akira Amari visits the Netherlands and Denmark. He is hoping to find out how those countries boosted their economies. Revitalizing the agricultural and medical industries is a key part of the growth strategy of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. While in the… Read More

Steve Jobs‘ yacht was unveiled in a Dutch shipyard, where the unusual boat designed by Jobs and famed minimalist designer Philippe Starck, was christened “Venus,” after the Roman goddess of love, beauty, sex, fertility, prosperity and victory. The finished ship was launched at shipbuilder Koninklijke… Read More

In Rotterdam, ‘the city of Pim Fortuyn’, the PVV kicks off its campaign for the upcoming national Dutch elections. Surrounded by an army of security guards- and accompanied by the song ‘The eye of the tiger’ Geert Wilders makes his appearance and clearly expresses his… Read More

A three times 50 minute documentary with the title ‘A clean sweep for the Red-light district’ (De Bezem door de Wallen) is broadcasted on March 19 and 26, and the 2nd of April 2012 by the Dutch public TV program NCRV Dokument. In the summer… Read More

While North Korea is known to operate dozens of restaurants across Asia, it is the first time a North Korean restaurant has opened in Europe. The “Pyongyang Restaurant” was opened in the Netherlands last month under a joint venture between North Korea and two Dutch… Read More

Spain based Justin Webster Productions is producing a documentary for the BBC on the Madrid bombings. One of the suspects of the Madrid bombings lived in Amsterdam for a while. Since the apartment block where the suspect lived is about to be demolished, the street,… Read More

With the slogan ‘The rules of the game’ the multinational IT and management consultancy company Logica CMG organises a seminar on Global & Managed Testing in the old Van Nelle factory in Rotterdam. For promotion, analysis and internal presentation, reportage footage of the speeches, lectures… Read More

A young Irish citizen, called Derek Cooper, is found dead on a toilet in a youth hostel in the centre of Amsterdam. The cause of death of the young Irish man whose body was found in a locked toilet in an Amsterdam hostel on the… Read More