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Rotterdam family loses home in fire
WNYT ROTTERDAM - A family of seven is without a home after a fire broke out Monday night. The fire burned at a house on Ghents Road in Rotterdam. The Red Cross says three adults and four children are receiving help with lodging, food and infant supplies. There is no word yet on a ...
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Holland Receives Carrier Excellence Award from BNSF Logistics
. Award recipients were nominated by BNSF operations team members, then critically evaluated across a number of objective measures including: on-time service, capacity and overall customer service performance throughout the year of ...
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One in 10 firms shifts jobs abroad but most work goes to the EU
One in 10 of the Netherlands’ larger firms relocated work overseas between 2009 and 2011, largely to other EU countries, according to new figures from national statistics office CBS. Lower wage costs played a major part in the decision to offshore services, often IT and administration tasks, the CBS said on Tuesday. Company strategy was another main reason to relocate work abroad, ...
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ICC excuses Kenyas Ruto from parts of trial over workload
The International Criminal Court on Tuesday excused Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto from attending parts of his crimes against humanity trial in September because of demands placed on him in Nairobi.The Hague-based court's trial chamber "conditionally grantedthe request of William Ruto to be excused from being physically present continuously throughout the trial," ...
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€1trn bombshell for European taxpayers
Six years after the outbreak of the crisis, "more than €1trn of dubious or illiquid assets remain in "bad banks". For example, at the end of March 2013, ...
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Dutch teens convicted for killing referee
A Dutch court has convicted six teenage soccer players and a father of manslaughter for kicking a volunteer linesman to death. The game between the two teams, Nieuw Sloten and Buitenboys, took place last November in Almere, near Amsterdam. The game ended in a 2-2 tie after Nieuw Sloten came back from being down 2-0. While the players were shaking hands with the three volunteer officials after ...
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Seven men convicted following death of Dutch linesman Richard Nieuwenhuizen - video
Six teenage football players and one 50 year old man were convicted of manslaughter on Monday in a Dutch court, after kicking a volunteer linesman, Richard Nieuwenhuizen, to death. Forty-one-year-old Nieuwenhuizen was officiating in a match in which his son was playing. The defendants still maintain their innocence and have two weeks to ...
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FIFPro Opens and Bluewater breaks ground in the Netherlands Park 20|20 Development
BEUKENHORST ZUID, HOOFDDORP, The Netherlands, June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --In recent weeks, FIFPro, worldwide representative union for professional soccer players, opened its new headquarters building and Bluewater Energy Solutions, a technical service provider to the energy and industrial marketplace, broke ground for a new building at Delta Development's Park 20|20, the first full-service ...
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Income tax system needs major overhaul to be made simpler report
The recommendations, presented to junior finance minister Frans Weekers on Monday evening, were made by a special working party set up to look at ways to simplify the Dutch personal tax system.At the moment, assets are taxed 30% as if they have booked a return of 4%, but in practice this is much lower. The commission estimates the average return over the past five years to be 2.4%.Instead, the ...
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Fewer holiday jobs for students
Students will find it increasingly difficult to find work for a few weeks during the summer months because of demographic and working practice changes, website nu.nl reports on Tuesday. Automation, the ageing population and the economic crisis means manufacturing companies are less likely to take on short-term staff in the summer.However, the hospitality industry, gardening, tourism, cleaning ...
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Small farms not a good business proposition
Small farmers are finding it increasingly difficult to find someone to take over their farms when they stop work, according to Wageningen University ...
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School exam theft 26 pupils admit to cheating
In total, 26 secondary school pupils have taken advantage of an amnesty for cheaters and admitted they saw exam papers stolen from a school in Rotterdam, junior education minister Sander Dekker told parliament on Monday night. Twenty pupils from the Ibn Ghaldoun school in Rotterdam have confessed to seeing the papers, six at another school in Rotterdam and one from a school in Utrecht. Dekker ...
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Amsterdam to remain a competitive Hot Spot until 2025
Amsterdam has been ranked as the 13th most competitive city "Hot Spot" in the world by the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Hot Spots 2025 ...
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Hong Kongs Li purchases Dutch waste company for 944 mil. euros
A group of Li's companies including Cheung Kong Infrastructure said Monday they were buying AVR-Afvalverwerking BV. Li's companies said they were buying the company because it represents a "compelling long-term investment opportunity for the consortium." Van Gansewinkel Groep, which is selling the company, said the deal would close in the third quarter of 2013. The deal still ...
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Amsterdam and the Clash of Civilisations: is this city on the frontline?
There is a polarising pattern of insult and violence going round and round in Europe, and Amsterdam seems to be one of the cities leading the continent down the spiral toward a culture of intolerance toward everyone who isn't European.
The Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks is frequently in the media for his decisively controversial cartoons that seem to unremittingly try and provoke the Islamic communities across Europe. Just this week alone he was the target of two separate assassination plots that were to be carried out, interestingly, by two women who had converted to the religion he vilifies. Read more
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