Dutch media services
Yleisradio Oy, abbreviated as Yle, translated into English as the Finnish Broadcasting Company, is Finland’s national public broadcasting company, founded in 1926. It is a joint-stock company, which is 99.98% owned by the Finnish state and employs around 3,200 people in Finland. Yle shares many of its organisational characteristics with its British counterpart, the BBC, on which it was largely modelled.
The Dutch cabinet is pushing forward with a new regulation to enable euthanasia for terminally ill children aged 1-12 who experience unbearable and hopeless suffering. Health Minister Ernst Kuipers announced in a press release that he expects the regulation to be implemented within the year…. Read More
The number of foreign and domestic tourists in the Netherlands rose above 42 million in 2017, an increase of 9% and the sharpest growth rate since 2006, the national statistics office CBS reported earlier this month. The figures are based on overnight stays but do… Read More
A Dutch supermarket chain has launched ‘the world’s first plastic free supermarket’ and the Plastic Whale offers boat tours to fish plastic out of the Amsterdam channels. Ekoplaza, a Dutch organic supermarket chain, opened its ‘Ekoplaza Lab’ just off a major shopping street in the… Read More
Buurtzorg (Neighbourhood care) is a Dutch pioneering healthcare organisation established 10 years ago with a nurse-led model of holistic care that revolutionised community care in the Netherlands. Client satisfaction rates are the highest of any health care organisation, staff commitment and contentedness is reflected in… Read More
The Finish public broadcaster YLE is producing a series of international reportages about climate change to be broadcasted and published during the Paris Climate Summit 2015. Foreign YLE correspondent Maria Tolsa also visits the Netherlands to see how the Dutch cope with the changing climate…. Read More