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Soccer-Ajax coach De Boer extends contract until 2017
Ajax Amsterdam coach Frank de Boer has agreed a four-year deal to extend his contract until July 2017, the Dutch champions said on Tuesday. De Boer succeeded Martin Jol in December 2010 and has guided the club to a title hat-trick in his time at the helm. The 43-year-old, who enjoyed a distinguished playing career at clubs including Ajax and Barcelona, started his coaching career as ...
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Discovering A Family Members Lost Time In Amsterdam
Suzanne Hoogendijk, shown here in 2009, hid for two years with her mother in Amsterdam to escape the Nazis. When I found out that one of my cousins -- now 88 -- had hidden from the Nazis in Amsterdam, just like Anne Frank, it was a revelation. It made me want to know more about my cousin's life and story. "I like to analyze what happens and to put it in writing; that gives ...
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Health reforms will give too much power to insurers dentists
Plans by health minister Edith Schippers to allow health insurers to restrict patient access to approved providers will give them too much power, according to Dutch dentists' association NMT. The minister plans to allow insurers to refuse to pay for treatment carried out by practitioners not on their approved list. Some 95,000 people have now signed a petition against the changes, which ...
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Prison spending cut plan will hit public safety say legal experts
The government's plans to slash spending on the prison system will hit public safety, the influential council for criminal law and youth protection (RSJ) said on Tuesday. Junior justice minister Fred Teeven plans to cut €340m from the prison budget. The plans include the closure of a number of the country’s 29 prisons, increasing the number of prisoners who share cells and ...
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Dutch-based AkzoNobel management to be brought together in new AkzoNobel Center in 2015
AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS--(Marketwired - May 21, 2013) - AkzoNobel intends to concentrate its Dutch-based management personnel in a new office building in the Zuidas business district of Amsterdam from the end of 2015. The move will bring the majority of corporate and business management and their supporting staff in the Netherlands together at a single location, promoting ...
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Netherlands seeks continued F-16 training
The Netherlands is seeking to continue training its F-16 pilots in the United States through a $191 million Foreign Military Sales arrangement. The U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency, in a required notification to Congress, said the package deal sought covers the Royal Netherlands Air Force F-16 Formal Training Unit in Arizona, associated equipment, parts, training and logistical ...
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Dutch Film The Marathon a Hit in Cuba
Havana, May 21 (Prensa Latina) The combination of comedy and tragedy makes the Dutch film "El Maraton" (The Marathon) a hit with moviegoers in Cuba, a country where people often laugh at their problems. "Maybe that was the key, in the perfect combination of tears and laughter, because the joke on its own doesn't work," the film's actor and screenwriter, Martin van ...
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Chief Executive of Royal Dutch Shell plc - Peter Voser to retire in 2014
The Board of Royal Dutch Shell plc ("Shell") today announced that Peter Voser, as Chief Executive Officer, has elected to retire from the Company in the first half of 2014. Peter Voser was appointed CEO with effect from July 2009 and has been an Executive Director since 2004. Shell’s Chairman Jorma Ollila said "Peter’s leadership of Shell over the last 4 years ...
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Quintiq and ePocket Handyman Partner to Offer a Mobile Supply Chain Planning Solution for Field Service Technicians
ePocket Handyman , Europe's leading software solution for mobile field service, have released an integrated mobile platform to enable remote field service technicians and improve resource planning. The solution enables technicians to view schedules, record time and attendance, order parts, check inventories, log progress and obtain customer sign-off. The information is then available in ...
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Letter from the Netherlands bright bulbs
gardens for the past 35 years, had never visited them.It seemed that every time I mentioned this beautifully landscaped garden to the Dutch, they would smile uncomfortably as if to say, "Oh, that place full of tourist buses where you have to pay to see tulips. No thanks." No matter how hard I tried to convince them of the wonder and unique beauty of viewing seven million bulbs in ...
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uniQure and Consortium to Receive EUR 2.5 Million Eurostars Grant to Develop RNAi Gene Therapy for Huntingtons Disease
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- uniQure B.V., a leader in the field of human gene therapy, today announced that with its consortium partners it is to receive a EUR 2.5 million Eurostars grant to develop an RNA interference (RNAi) gene therapy for Huntington's disease. The consortium is a pan-European collaboration consisting of uniQure as the coordinator, Lausanne ...
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Laura Dekker victim of ageism in Netherlands?
Laura Dekker’s future plans to sail around the world solo hang in the balance as her emotional and mental stability is argued over by two national child care agencies that are in disagreement about her state of mind.
Laura Dekker, 14, has been trying since August last year to sail around the world on her own and in so doing become the youngest person to accomplish the feat. When she first announced her plans, the courts quickly intervened and according to Netherlands news reports, she was placed under the custody of the Child Protection Board in order to be assessed. Read more
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