Participants in first aid courses can now practice with virtual reality glasses so they are better prepared for emergency situations. For example, by the special glasses they are 'eyewitnesses' of an accident, the aftermath of extreme weather or an attack.
A paraglider was seriously injured in the dunes at Zandvoort on Saturday afternoon. At 14.30 it went wrong and the man, a German, hit the dunes hard.
Job Witteman, founder of Dutch internet node AMS-IX, leaves the company. He is one of the driving forces behind high-quality Dutch web connections.
Royal Bank of Scotland wants to establish its European trading business after the brexit in Amsterdam. Topman Ross McEwan said Friday that RBS had a conversation with supervisors about the move.
The top of big companies must do it with millions of less rewards. Listed directors in the British FTSE, including Shell topman Ben van Beurden, lost a fifth of income last year.
The European Internet traffic on the smartphone has taken a massive flight in the past one and a half months. That is what the NOS reports on the basis of figures from the Amsterdam Internet Exchange.
The second 'black saturday' is coming. Especially in France, Germany and Italy, it is busy on the roads, the ANWB predicts.
Retrieval requests from suspects to Belgium are temporarily arrested until further clarification about detention conditions in Belgian prisons.
An action of Booking.com site to recruit new holiday home owners has led to bad reactions from D66 and the SP in Amsterdam. Both parties find that the company Amsterdammers is engaged in the illegal rental of housing.
In no more than 24 hours, twenty thousand people have signed the petition to name the bridge over the IJ to mayor Eberhard van der Laan. The mayor of Amsterdam is incurably ill, but who saw him at sundowners last Sunday evening admired his lifetime pleasure. 'I hope to be your mayor for a while.' He made such an impression that a group of townspeople launched an online petition to link Van der Laan's name to the future bridge over the IJ.
Thousands of people attend Amsterdam in Amsterdam on the Pride Walk, a demonstrative parade that draws the annual Pride Amsterdam (formerly Gay Pride). According to the organization there are 5000 participants.
UPDATE 10.11 o'clock Black Saturday also had consequences in the Netherlands. It was also fast at Schiphol. On the A4's exits, traffic was wall-mounted for a while. It drives again, but it is still busy. The Traffic Information Service advises motorists to leave in good time.
Cabaretier Ronald Snijders is on September 14th with colleagues Mike Boddé, Dolf Jansen, Niels van der Laan and Jeroen Woe and Pieter Jouke in the Amsterdam theater Carré for the benefit of The Lachspierbal. The proceeds from the show are intended for research on the FSHD muscle disease.
Ziggo customers continue to pay a higher fee for a subscription to Fox Sports than with other television providers. This is the result of a preliminary ruling from the Amsterdam Court of Appeals in a lawsuit between Ziggo and Fox.
The agreements between the municipality of Amsterdam and Airbnb seem to be beneficial. According to Het Parool, another 5 per cent of the houses offered on the website are rented for more than sixty days. A year earlier, in May 2016, it still occurred in 13 percent of the offered accommodations.
The city council of Amsterdam has agreed on the 'Jump over the IJ' on Thursday evening. This is the arrival of the Javafiets bridge and later the bicycle bridge at the Stone Head. There are coming hundreds of millions for the project, which has to connect North with the city center.
A confetti canon during a party sank panic among Dutch air passengers at Olbia, Sardinia airport this afternoon.
Russia has to pay nearly 5,4 million euros to the Netherlands because it put the greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise under the Dutch flag in 2013. The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague has determined that.
Lewis Hamilton launched his own app on the World Emoji Day, the Hamoji. The Hamoji app works on both iOS and Android.
The train traffic between the Limburgs Landgraaf and Haanrade (Kerkrade) runs more slowly than usual on Sunday evening. People walk on or off the track and that's dangerous. And in Veenendaal, cows run along the rails so that's not how the trains run so fast. The railroad driver of ProRail will tell you on Twitter.
Doctors Without Frontiers (ASG) relief team have evacuated their employees in a Central African Republic (CAR) clinic after a brutal murder. Two armed men attacked the hospital in Zemio on Tuesday and killed a baby. The girl lay in her mother's arms when she was shot by her head. AzG decided to evacuate the team in Zemio to the capital Bangui.
Turkish Dutch people have remembered the failed coup in Turkey last year in Apeldoorn on Tuesday evening. There is a disappointment that the deputy prime minister should not come. 'But we called on our back to keep calm,' said Mustafa Aslan, Secretary of the Organizing Union of European Turkish Democrats (UETD).
Amsterdam is going to help shipowners who have become dull from the failed licensing system. Their cruise ships are given a proof of consent, according to responsible councilor Udo Kock on Tuesday to the city council.
Amsterdam dodges shipwrecked by the failed licensing system for cruise boats. They get a consent for consent, reports The Parole on the basis of Alderman Udo Kock (water).
The investigation into the shooting party Friday afternoon in Breukelen is still underway. A thirty-year-old Amsterdammer died in the hospital on Friday night after being taken to a parking lot by a still unknown perpetrator.
A witness for the parliamentary interrogation committee on tax structures may have lied to it.
The Amsterdam police are massively on the Amsterdam Dijkgraafplein on Friday night because of the control of various catering business. The Royal Marechausee is also present.
A couple of people walking on the railroad saw it on Friday at the end of the afternoon that the train traffic around Amsterdam Centraal walked in the hundred.
Because of a stalker, Neelie Kroes has left her house in Wassenaar for a secure apartment in Amsterdam. That's what the former euro-commissioner says in a women's specialist of HP / De Tijd on Friday.
Willem Holleeder is afraid he has already been convicted before the court heard his defense. That he said this morning at a brief, twelfth preparatory session in his case in the Amsterdam court.
