While the Japanese society is recovering from the last earthquake, the tsunami and the disaster with the Fukushima nuclear power plants, reporter Ryusuke Kimura from the Japanese public TV channel NHK is send on a trip through Europe to investigate the actual situation in the… Read More

Professor Merel Kindt from the University in Amsterdam (UvA) managed to reduce fear. By administering the Beta-blocker Propranolol, the UvA research team managed to weaken the memories of fear of testees. A very interesting research result is the fact that the fear response does not… Read More

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

For a few live weather forecasts in Amsterdam by the ABC weatherman Sam Champion from the American TV channel ABC program Good Morning America , filming licences and cooperation of a local café owner and a chocolate maker and some boats that need to sail… Read More

Because of huge problems with rioting football supporters in Switzerland, resulting in serious vandalism in trains, a team from the Swiss Federal Railways visits the Netherlands to see how the Dutch transport supporters by train. For many years the Dutch have the so-called ‘Combi-arrangement’. In… Read More

In two days both princess Maxima and Queen Beatrix open and visit two exhibitions in the Netherlands. Princess Maxima opens ‘The treasures from the forbidden city’, an exhibition of 18th century musical clocks, of which many have been restored by restorers from the Dutch Musical… Read More

The Amsterdam Public Prosecutor summons successful populist Dutch politician Geert Wilders for offending a group of people and inciting to discrimination and hatred. In June 2008, the Public Prosecutor decided that statements from Wilders were not liable to punishment and dropped the case. Those who… 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

Since every ten minutes a bicycle is stolen in Switzerland, the authorities decided to find a way to fight the theft. A possibility is to start the registration of bikes, just like cars. In the year 2000, the ATC, the Anti-Theft Chip, was introduced in… Read More

Two United States residents of Yemeni descent flying from Chicago to Amsterdam are detained by the Dutch police after landing on Schiphol Airport. The news program from the American TV channel ABC to know all details about the arrest, where the detainees are locked up,… Read More