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Essay: who cares about Unesco? 27 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
When I wrote Unesco pulls trigger on Amsterdam in 2010 I was unaware that a day later urbanist Michiel van Iersel would tackle the same subject a day later in NRC. At the time Unesco had added Amster...
Double toilet stage for photographic antics 26 Aug 2013 | 01:48 pm
The Toilet Diaries is a photo series by two photographers from Utrecht, Gerben Grotenhuis and Marc Marselje, in which they themselves and the toilets of the former bank building they used to live in a...
Dutch house owners spend their holiday bonuses on mortgage payments 25 Aug 2013 | 07:11 pm
ABN Amro’s mortgage portfolio has decreased by 0.3 billion euro because house owners have been making extra payments using their holiday bonuses, the troubled bank writes in its interim financial repo...
Diederik Stapel for hire as a chauffeur 24 Aug 2013 | 08:01 pm
The Netherlands’ favourite scientific fraudster, Diederik Stapel, is at it again. The former psychology professor, whose name ironically also means ‘crazy’, has started offering zinritten, ‘mind ride...
Wolves return to the Netherlands 23 Aug 2013 | 03:45 pm
When a dead wolf was found in Flevoland last July, it was originally thought that pranksters had planted it there. Wolves hadn’t been spotted in the Netherlands since 1897. Now there are indications ...
Creative camping in fancy design objects 22 Aug 2013 | 01:47 pm
From 16 August to 30 September visitors can stay in one of the ‘creative shelters’ created by contemporary industrial designers. Each of the 15 mobile units on the campground are equipped with a comfo...
Experts deem Second Coen Tunnel dangerous and even deadly 21 Aug 2013 | 04:07 pm
The Coen (pronounced ‘coon’) Tunnel which runs under the North Sea Canal in Amsterdam built in 1966 is currently being fully renovated, a project that should run until 2014. The Second Coen Tunnel (th...
Sotheby’s knowingly sells stolen Dutch work 20 Aug 2013 | 06:40 pm
A work by Dutch artist Jan Schoonhoven stolen from the Museum van Bommel van Dam in Venlo last March was auctioned off by London auction house Sotheby’s in what the Dutch media has called the ‘gaffe o...
Dutch banks rush mobile payments system into production 19 Aug 2013 | 04:06 pm
The three major Dutch banks—ING, ABN Amro and Rabobank—are set to introduce ‘mobile payments’ to unsuspecting consumers in two weeks, Volkskrant reports. To use the system consumers must have an NFC-...
Unclaimed public transport deposits a ‘goldmine’ for operators 18 Aug 2013 | 07:23 pm
Telegraaf reports that public transport operators are making megabucks off of passengers that forget to swipe their public transport card (OV Chipkaart) when checking out. The paper calls the thirty ...
