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Mobile phones and other devices to be banned from Dutch classrooms
Education ministry in the Netherlands says tech is a distraction from learning and will only be allowed if specifically needed
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The Dutch Textile Trade Project
This project aims to understand the circulation of globally-sourced textiles on Dutch ships around the world in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by examining data drawn from trade records alongside samples of textiles and visual culture depicting textiles in use.
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Dutch rail crash: One dead after passenger train hits crane and derails
The crash happened when a passenger train hit a construction crane near the village of Voorschoten.
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The Netherlands says it will join the US in restricting chipmaking-tool exports to China
At the end of January, it was reported that the US had completed two years of negotiations with the Netherlands and Japan to join the United States in imposing restrictions on the export of chip-manufacturing tools to China. The US says this will prevent its global rival from developing semiconductors for military applications, including supercomputers, nuclear weapons modeling, and hypersonic weapons.
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Never Be Clever · Herman Brood & His Wild Romance
This song appeared as a "stand-alone" between the albums Cha Cha and Go Nutz in 1979.
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Pussycat - Mississippi
You know you love it and so do my neighbours! :-)
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Never Completely Dutch: Flemish Writers in the Land of Freedom
Writers Ivo Victoria, Sarah Meuleman and Geert Buelens all found it liberating to move to the Netherlands. But it wasn’t long before they encountered the downsides of their destination country.
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Climate activists block private jet take-offs at Schiphol Airport
Hundreds of environmental activists wearing white overalls stormed an area holding private jets at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport and stopped aircraft from leaving for hours by sitting in front of their wheels on Saturday. Military police moved in and were seen taking dozens of the protesters away in buses. More than 100 activists were arrested, national broadcaster NOS reported.
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China accused of illegal police stations in the Netherlands
A Dutch media report says China is running an undeclared police operation to pressure dissidents.
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Netherlands researchers break the 30 percent barrier in solar cells
Using perovskite with existing solar cell technologies can increase their energy conversion efficiencies. It is only about scaling it up reliably now
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ASML's Secret: An exclusive view from inside the global semiconductor giant
In The Netherlands stands one of the world's biggest drivers of technological progress: ASML. It supplies machines that make chips on a scale of just a few nanometers. And the world is crying out for chips.
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‘Walking’ forest of 1,000 trees transforms Dutch city
It is less of a marathon and more of an amble. But then a “walking forest” of 1,000 trees was never going to move at speed. Since May, volunteers have been transporting the native trees planted in wooden containers along a 3.5km stretch through the centre of the northern Dutch city of Leeuwarden, giving people an opportunity to experience an alternative, greener future.
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Crypto exchange Binance fined $3.4 million by Dutch central bank for operating illegally
A regulator had warned last year that Binance was offering its services in the Netherlands without authorization.
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Dutch central bank chief apologizes for links to slavery
The Dutch central bank chief apologized Friday for the institution’s involvement in the 19th-century slave trade, the latest expression of contrition in the Netherlands linked to the country’s historic role in the trade in enslaved people.
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Why the Dutch embrace floating homes
Faced with worsening floods and a shortage of housing, the Netherlands is seeing growing interest in floating homes.
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Netherlands' competition regulator fines Apple another $5.6 million
The Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) said the revised conditions that Apple has imposed on dating-app providers are unreasonable, and create an unnecessary barrier.
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Facebook’s data center plans rile residents in the Netherlands
Locals say Big Tech data centers will syphon away all their green energy.
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Famed Dutch crime journalist de Vries dies after Amsterdam shooting
Peter R. de Vries, a renowned Dutch journalist who fearlessly reported on the violent underworld of the Netherlands and campaigned to breathe new life into cold cases, has died at age 64 after being…
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The Netherlands celebrates 20 years since becoming first country to legalise same-sex marriage
The Netherlands became the first country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage 20 years ago.
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Inventor of cassette tape Lou Ottens passed away
In the 1960s, Lou Ottens, then head of product development at the Belgian Hasselt branch of the Eindhoven company Philips, developed the cassette tape. In previous years, Ottens was annoyed with green and yellow tape recorders with the large reels and felt that something more user-friendly and especially something smaller should be replaced.
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