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The Netherlands Bright Future for APM Terminals Facility at Maasvlakte 2
The APM Terminals facility at Rotterdam's new Maasvlakte 2 will probably become the world's most automated facility: unmanned (remote-controlled) Ship-to-Shore 25-wide container gantries and Automatic Guided Vehicles/AGV communicating between the StS gantries and the fully automated stacking ...
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Dutch income tax system should be simplified report states
The Dutch income tax system requires a complete overhaul in order to be simplified, a report commissioned by the government has ...
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Dutch are becoming less materialistic but more self-centered
Around one third of the Dutch have taken a decision to become less materialistic, as more people accept the downturn in prosperity, according to the latest mentality monitor from researchers at Motivaction. Fifteen years ago, 23% of the population said they had deliberately decided to adopt a less materialistic lifestyle but this has now gone up to 34%, ...
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US universities MIT Colombia Duke join new Amsterdam institute bids
Three prestigious US universities have joined consortia bidding to set up a new institute of technology in Amsterdam, Nos television reports on Wednesday. The city council invited applications to set up the new institute at the beginning of April and has now whittled the 13 entries down to a shortlist of five. The city hopes the new institute will boost the economy and lead to significant job ...
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More young parents leave labour market
There was a slight drop in the number of working parents with young children in the first three months of this year, social affairs minister Lodewijk Asscher told parliament on ...
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Netflix to expand to Netherlands later this year
LOS GATOS, Calif. -- Netflix is going Dutch.The online video giant says it will expand into the Netherlands, its 41st country, later this year.Subscribers will be able to stream Hollywood fare, local TV series and Netflix originals like "House of Cards" and "Arrested Development" on TVs, game consoles, computers and mobile devices. Netflix Inc. didn't offer details ...
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Netflix to bring video streaming service to The Netherlands
June 18 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 12:00am EDT June 18 (Reuters) - Netflix Inc will launch its TV and movie streaming service in The Netherlands later this year, expanding its reach further into Europe, the company said on Tuesday. Netflix boasts 29.2 million streaming subscribers in the United States and 7.1 million in international markets, delivering movies and television shows to Canada, ...
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Rotterdam police warn of phone scam
ROTTERDAM, N.Y. -- Rotterdam Police tell the NEWS CENTER they are investigating a telephone scam. A local business received a telephone call from a male identifying himself as an employee of National Grid. The caller stated the business had not paid for a new electric meter and the power was due to be turned off.The caller further stated that this could be avoided if the business owner went to a ...
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Roberta Vinci Carla Suarez Navarro post Netherlands victories
Carla Suarez Navarro gained the quarterfinals Tuesday at the grass-court Topshelf Open. Vinci, who titled at s'Hertogenbosch in 2011, breezed into the second round with 6-3, 6-3 decision over Estonian Kaia Kanepi. She next faces last week's Nuremberg, Germany, titlist Simona Halep. Spain's Suarez Navarro, meanwhile, posted a second-round triumph over ...
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Defending champ David Ferrer falls to Malisse in Netherlands upset
Xavier Malisse in an upset. Ferrer, ranked fourth in the world, tumbled to the Belgian grass court specialist 7-6 (7-3), 6-3 in the opening round at Autotron Rosmalen. The Spaniard was seeking to repeat in the Netherlands after downing German Philipp Petzschner in last year's finale. Malisse, meanwhile, notched just his 16th win 57 all-time matches against Top 10 players. Elsewhere ...
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Julien Benneteau upends Kevin Anderson in early Eastbourne match
Kevin Anderson in first-round play. The 32nd-ranked Benneteau, who made the finals at the Rotterdam event this year, prevailed over hard-serving South African Anderson 7-6 (7-4), 6-2 at Devonshire Park. Australian Bernard Tomic rebounded from a recent dry spell with a 6-3, 6-4 decision over British wild card James Ward, while Czech ...
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Holland frowns on two finalists for open WyCo commission seat
Wyandotte County commissioners are planning to pick a new member this week, but county Mayor Mark Holland first wants them to talk about going back and finding finalists who paid their taxes on ...
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Telephone scam reported in Rotterdam
ROTTERDAM - Police on Tuesday warned the public not to be fooled by a telephone scam allegedly attempted on a business in town.A male identifying himself as ...
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Hockey Black Sticks to face Dutch in semi
New Zealand will face hosts the Netherlands in their World League semifinal in Rotterdam early on Thursday - a replay of their Olympic Games semifinal in London last year. New Zealand lost that in a penalty shootout after the scores were locked 2-2. The Black Sticks, ranked third, advanced to the last four with a 3-1 win over No 9 Japan, while the Olympic champions and world No 1 Dutch hammered ...
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Airbnb says its Amsterdam tourists spend more stay longer
economic impact study -- this time for Amsterdam -- once again touting that its guests stay longer and spend more. The company again threw out some big claims and while it didn't include a total figure for how much money Airbnb brings to the city, the average amounts generated per tourist were slightly ...
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Malisse ousts Ferrer on grass in Netherlands
ROSMALEN, Netherlands -; French Open finalist David Ferrer lost his first-round match Tuesday at the Topshelf Open, a grass-court tournament held the week before ...
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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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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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