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Small country huge as a world supplier of seed potatoes
Where the Netherlands rates high
Publish Date: Apr 10, 2012
Tags: Excerpts from the Windmill
For a small country such as the Netherlands to be the world’s leading supplier of seed potatoes is, pardon the pun, no small potatoes. The Dutch grow a high quality product, thanks to good climate conditions, suitable soil, strict and high ...
Famed Dutch organist Feike Asma followed immigrants abroad
Hamilton, Ontario friend organized early N.A. tours
Publish Date: Apr 10, 2012
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Tens of thousands of organ fans attended and enjoyed the concerts given by master organist Feike Asma on his (annual) tours through Canada and the U.S.A. Invited by his friend Gerard de Lugt, who had settled in Hamilton, Ontario, Asma went ...
Beijng training institute to open branch in The Hague
Chinese mayors academy goes Dutch
Publish Date: Apr 10, 2012
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BEING - Chinese authorities want to set up an outlet in The Netherlands for the National Academy for Mayors of China. They are interested in working together with existing advisory and academic institutes in The Hague in the area of public ...
Former Greenpeace activist new Dutch Labour Party leader
Arrested ten times and paid fines
Publish Date: Apr 10, 2012
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AMSTERDAM - Diederik Samsom, who was elected leader of the Dutch Labour party (PvdA) recently, has been arrested ten times by police during his tenure as a Greenpeace activist, he revealed in a recent daily newspaper interview.
Sam...
EU’s Foreign Affairs ministers take up freedom of religion role
Publish Date: Apr 10, 2012
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COPENHAGEN – The European Union needs to be more active in defending threatened and oppressed religious minorities elsewhere in the world. That is the conclusion of EU’s council of ministers of Foreign Affairs (FA). Dutch FA minister Uri Ro...
Minister Spies in hot water over Lower Saxon language rights
Publish Date: Apr 10, 2012
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ASSEN – The eastern and north-eastern Dutch provinces are not satisfied with the answer to their request for an upgrade to the current status of the Lower Saxon regional language, now generally considered a dialect. Groningen, Drenthe, Over...
Dutch pope Adrianus victim of a hostile opposition campaign
Publish Date: Apr 10, 2012
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AMSTERDAM - The only Dutch pope, Adrianus VI, who was elected in January 1522 as a compromise candidate, has been characterized as an unmannered barbarian, a hater of the arts and an egoist, who disliked Rome. Not true, writes Birgit Emich,...
Police crack down on illegal aliens
Publish Date: Apr 10, 2012
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THE HAGUE - The police will step up its supervision of aliens in order to reduce the number of illegal residents in the Netherlands. This year, the Aliens Police plans to transfer 4,800 illegal aliens to the Repatriation and Departure Servi...
Surplus sand from new filtration system keeps sea at bay
Publish Date: Apr 10, 2012
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EGMOND AAN ZEE - A new underground water filtration system on the grounds of the "Prins Hendrik Stichting" has produced a large quantity of surplus sand, which has been used to upgrade Egmond’s eroding coastline. A contractor sifted thousan...
Next biennial security summit destined for the Netherlands
Publish Date: Apr 10, 2012
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SEOUL, Korea - World leaders pledged to secure all vulnerable nuclear material by 2014 and to boost security to keep the ingredients for atomic weapons out of the hands of terrorists. U.S. President Barack Obama, his Russian counterpart Dmi...