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A right-wing Dutch lawmaker has suggested that the Netherlands and the northern Belgian region of Flanders should be reunited. Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende should sound out his counterpart in the Dutch-speaking Flanders about unification, Geert Wilders, leader of the anti-Islam and...
Using single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), researchers in The Netherlands were able to detect biochemical differences in the brains of individuals with generalized social anxiety disorder (also known as social phobia), providing evidence of a long-suspected biological cause for the...
As a young executive at Procter & Gamble, Jan Bennink regularly brought home large packets of diapers, poured water over them, then cut them open to check on the absorbency of the material inside. The workaholic Dutchman later prospered as a top executive at Danone, the French food giant, before...
Among the earnings stories for Tuesday, May 13, from AP Financial News: Top stories: BOSTON (AP) -TJX Cos. says its first-quarter profit rose nearly 20 percent as it continues to draw shoppers increasingly looking for bargains in a tough economy. AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -The bank and...
Posted to the web 13 May 2008 Julio Godoy Bremen The Panamanian flagged ship Probo Koala unloaded more than 550 tonnes of toxic waste at Abidjan port in Cote d'Ivoire a month back. The deadly cargo was shipped to Abidjan from Amsterdam, where port authorities rejected the tanker Jul.2 because of...
In this April 14, 2005 file photo, Craigslist.org CEO Jim Buckmaster, left, and founder Craig Newmark, center, are photographed outside of their office in San Francisco. Craigslist's complaint, filed in Superior Court in San Francisco, claims eBay broke laws in a series of actions relating to its...
The application developers say the mobile VoIP service enables users to communicate with each other around the world, often free of charge. By W. David Gardner InformationWeek A Netherlands-based startup is offering a sort of Swiss Army knife VoIP-IM-chat-texting program that can operate on...
Posted to the web 13 May 2008 Ben Sanga And Anunda Nyarang'o The Port of Mombasa does not feature among the top 30 in the competitive global container trade, the Containerisation International report indicates. The top 30 container ports accounted for a throughput of 274 million TEU, equivalent...
Over the last month or so, residents of Tilburg in the Netherlands have bore witness to artist John Körmeling's bizarre artistic vision. The project, nearly a decade in the making, involves a rotating house sitting smack dab in the Hasselt roundabout—a spot that has been designated to showcase...
WASHINGTON, May 13 (OneWorld) - Bike production took off in the 1970s, and after a brief dip, has been soaring since 2001, according to an ''Eco-Economy Indicators'' report issued Monday by the Earth Policy Institute. Although more than 80 percent of all bicycles produced today are made in China,...
