Travel Leader Leonieke Glasbergen, despite the tensions between North Korea and the US, is definitely not going to stop organized holidays to North Korea. Even now, the wording between US President Trump and dictator Kim Jong-un is unprecedentedly high.
Two German alpinists were found dead in the Mont Blanc massif on Wednesday. The two mountaineers succumbed to undercooling during the climb of the Mont Blanc du Tacul.
Hackers managed to crack a fire truck's communication car. At a hackers festival in Flevoland, the North and East Gelderland fire brigade had set two fire trucks to test the security by visitors. Within one and a half hours, one of them had access to the Internet router aboard one of the cars, the NOS writes.
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 small 2000 cruise gangers stood out for ten days during their pepper trip.
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.
In ten eastern and southern European countries, the highest alert 'Code Red' came into force in relation to the heat wave that meteorologists have attributed the aptly named Lucifer.
Dating app Tinder asks users to stop taking and placing selfies with tigers. The selfies are made with tigers living in captivity to entertain tourists who make a selfie to use them as an attractive and adventurous profile picture on Tinder.
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 power supply in Europe is at risk by a leak in the protection of solar poles. That's what ICT security officer Willem Westerhof says in the security company ITsec.
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.
Scientists have managed to change the DNA of a human embryo with a genetic cleavage method to remove a hereditary disease.
The Dutch Food and Welfare Authority recalls the statement made by Freek van Zoeren of the NVWA on Tuesday evening in Nieuwsuur.
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.
Film distributor Dutch Filmworks wants to detect illegal uploaders and downloaders. The company has submitted a plan to the Personal Data Authority. The supervisor intends to grant permission, according to a privacy guard dog's document. Stakeholders can comment on this decision until August 25th.
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.
KPN has stopped handling data limits for Internet Outside Area Subscription. People living in a place where a fixed connection is not an option can thus use unlimited internet access through a 4G connection.
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.
Travelers to the United States may no longer include devices that have been openly visible in the hand luggage. These are electronics, for example, the screws are missing or whose housing is damaged. That confirms KLM and Schiphol versus Tweakers.
An elderly resident of the Watermolen flat in Amsterdam-North was seriously injured this morning after a suspected property robbery.
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.
A Facebook page that puts homemade photos of random women into skirts has been taken offline.
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.
Pete Hoekstra has been nominated to become the new ambassador of the United States in the Netherlands. The vacancy had been open for some time, as former Ambassador, Timothy M. Broas, began his own initiative at the beginning of last year.
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.
