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Country singer Jade Holland signed to UK label
JADE Holland's boots were made for something much more than walking. It didn’t take long before the world caught on to the North’s best kept country music secret after the singer, 23, was signed to a UK-based record label this week, launching her onto a worldwide platform.Thumbprint Music offered the Townsville-based star a six-year deal after they discovered her on ...
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Raytheon UK upgrading Dutch air force radar sites
Four additional radar sites of the Netherland's air force are being upgraded by Raytheon in Britain. The upgrade will include improved technology such as WiMax interference filtering for discerning true from false targets caused by the blades of wind turbines at wind farms. The award, the value of which wasn't disclosed follows Raytheon's successful implementation of the first ...
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Saudis say Dutch patent on MERS virus hampers research
The normally civil world of international health diplomacy was shattered yesterday, when Saudi Arabia complained that a patent taken out by Dutch scientists who isolated the Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus was impeding Saudi efforts to track the virus within its own ...
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The Netherlands leads the way in approving refugee requests IND
The Netherlands is more likely to give asylum seekers residency papers than the rest of the European Union, according to the head of the Dutch immigration service. Rob van Lint said at the presentation of the IND's annual report on Friday the organisation does not refuse as many people asylum as is often suggested. 'The Netherlands honours 40% of requests compared with 27% in the rest ...
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Painters’ district stigmatised once again
A Labour senator has deplored the stigmatisation of The Hague's working-class Schilderswijk district in a Trouw investigative feature that describes the neighbourhood as a hotbed of ...
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Dutch independent retailer Free Record Shop files for bankruptcy
Dutch independent retail group Free Record Shop on Friday filed for bankruptcy but hopes are high for a restart. 'Together with the curator, we will assess if a restart is possible,' the company said in a statement. 'We are also looking to see if the shops can be kept open in the meantime. There is a very good chance the Free Record Shop will remain a high street fixture.' ...
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Much beef and veal contaminated with ESBL virus
Some 40% of Dutch veal and 13% of steak is infected with the ESBL virus, an antibiotic-resistant virus which can cause urinary tract infections and blood ...
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Fewer families plan a summer holiday
In total, some 10.6 million people are planning a summer break, of whom 2.5 million will holiday in the Netherlands, according to research by the Dutch tourist board. Spain, Italy and France remain the most popular foreign ...
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Daycare market leader to cut over 10 of its jobs
The Netherlands' daycare market leader Estro is cutting 400 out of 3,300 jobs because of falling demand for places, the Financieele Dagblad reports on Friday. The Estro group, which is owned by private equity firms KKR and Bayside Capital, has already cut its workforce by 750 as rising creche fees force parents to find cheaper alternatives. The company operates nearly 600 daycare centres. ...
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Rotterdam Fest Unveils Script Development Grant Winners
HONG KONG – The International Film Festival Rotterdam has announced the first batch of recipient projects for its script development grants for the ...
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Photos An Exclusive Look into the Dutch Chef Andrew Carmellini’s Gourmet French Vacation
A hyperactive child, Andrew Carmellini once told a reporter that--to keep him busy--his mother used to give him polenta and measuring spoons. "She said it was the only thing that would calm me down." That unyielding energy lasted into Carmellini's adult years, taking him from cooking school to a gig making meals for New York's governor Mario Cuomo, to a nomadic voyage across ...
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Four arrested in Maastricht cannabis cafe raids
Four people were arrested in Maastricht on Thursday night after police raided two of the city's 11 cannabis cafes for selling soft drugs to tourists in a new get tough policy ordered by the mayor. So far there have been seven raids on the southern city's coffee shops since they announced plans to ignore the ban on serving non-residents. In one cafe, police found 13 tourists, in the ...
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The Netherlands to sell stake in uranium enricher
The Netherlands is to sell its stake in Urenco, the uranium-enriching company owned by the Dutch and British governments and German energy companies. However, the sale can only take place when nuclear safety, non-proliferation and assured delivery have been guaranteed, the finance ministry said in a statement. The German firms and British government have already said they want to sell their ...
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Tropical institute to break up 900000 book and document library
Amsterdam's Royal Institute for the Tropics is being forced to dispose of its library because the government has withdawn all funding for the institution, the Volkskrant reports on Friday. The 900,000 books, maps and documents, the earliest dating back to 1469, are being offered to other scientific institutions. Those that are not given away will be dumped, ...
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Utrecht a step nearer to European football
FC Utrecht beat Twente 2-0 on Thursday night in the first leg of their battle for a place in the Europa League preliminary rounds. The second leg takes place on Sunday at home, but Utrecht will be without captain Nana Asare, who was given a second yellow card in last night's match. Meanwhile, Deventer club Go Ahead Eagles are a step nearer moving up to the premier division after beating ...
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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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