More women work but inequalities remain

Feb 18, 2009

News from DutchNews.nl: Some 57% of women in the Netherlands now have jobs, up from 53% in 2005, according to new figures published on Wednesday. (Read More)

Topics: Netherlands, The Netherlands

I was forced to abduct my daughter

Feb 13, 2009

The Guardian: I spend most of my life in bed and in constant pain. I suffer from Crohn's disease, acute fibromyalgia, and epilepsy. Daily life is already a struggle, but soon I could be extradited from Wales to the United States for abducting my daughter. If the extradition goes ahead, I'm not sure I'll survive the flight, let alone a co (Read More)

Topics: Netherlands, The Netherlands

Dutch politician to defy UK entry ban

Feb 12, 2009

guardian.co.uk Politics: Geert Wilders, the right-wing Dutch politician accused of Islamophobia, said today he was planning to defy a ban on entering the UK and hoped to arrive this afternoon .Wilders was due to show his 17-minute film Fitna, which criticises the Qur'an as a "fascist book", at the House of Lords today but he said he had received a (Read More)

Topics: Netherlands, The Netherlands

Speed bumps to get new role as a source of green energy

Feb 08, 2009

www.guardian.co.uk: "Green" speed bumps that will generate electricity as cars drive over them are to be introduced on Britain's roads. The hi-tech "sleeping policemen" will power street lights, traffic lights and road signs in a pilot scheme in London that could be rolled out nationwide.Speed bumps have long been the bane of motorists' lives, (Read More)

Topics: Netherlands, The Netherlands

Offshore and out of reach to the Revenue

Feb 03, 2009

observer.guardian.co.uk: Three FTSE100 companies have quietly "offshored" legal ownership of their valuable trademarks to low-tax locations, the Guardian's tax gap investigation has found. Two drug firms, GlaxoSmithKline, and AstraZeneca, both headquartered in London, have moved title to their drug brands to Puerto Rico in the Caribbean. The Anglo- (Read More)

Topics: Netherlands, The Netherlands

EU split over taking in Guantánamo inmates under Barack Obama plan to close prison

Jan 26, 2009

The Guardian: EU countries could be willing to help the US close down Guantánamo Bay by taking in released detainees despite the doubts of some member states, the EU foreign policy chief said today ahead of a meeting in Brussels on the matter."This is an American problem and they have to solve it but we'll be ready to help if necessary … (Read More)

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20 big green ideas

Jan 11, 2009

www.guardian.co.uk: Prefacing the launch of the fourth Observer Ethical Awards, we've chosen to highlight 20 of the biggest ethical ideas around at the moment, affording some respite to the prevailing jam-side-down version of life on offer almost everywhere else. Because while there might be a paucity of cash and unadulterated resources, one t (Read More)

Topics: Netherlands, The Netherlands

The big deals that shredded fortunes and reputations in the City

Dec 31, 2008

The Guardian: The year's dramatic events made fools of some of the financial world's biggest names. Fortunes have been lost and firms laid low as a series of deals - some of which now look like little more than bets - have gone bitterly sour. Top of the list of deals that went spectacularly wrong was the RBS takeover of ABN Amro. The £47 (Read More)

Topics: Netherlands, The Netherlands

UK rides high in new index of casual sex

Nov 30, 2008

guardian.co.uk Society: British men and women are among the world's most promiscuous, an international survey of sexual behaviour and attitudes has found. In an index measuring one-night stands, numbers of partners and attitudes to sex, Britain comes out ahead of other industrialised nations such as Australia, the US, France, the Netherlands, Ital (Read More)

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Cocaine users are destroying the rainforest - at 4m squared a gram

2 days ago

www.guardian.co.uk: Four square metres of rainforest are destroyed for every gram of cocaine snorted in the UK, a conference of senior police officers as told yesterday.Francisco Santos Calderón, the vice-president of Colombia, appealed to British users of the class A drug to consider the impact on the environment. He said that while the green (Read More)

Topics: Netherlands, The Netherlands

Japan frets over growing marijuana problem

Nov 03, 2008

The Guardian: The revelation that students at the country's most prestigious seats of learning enjoy an occasional joint is hardly the stuff of headlines - unless that country is Japan.Judging by recent coverage, Japan is in the midst of a marijuana epidemic that is ensnaring everyone from students to suburban housewives and sumo wrestle (Read More)

Topics: Netherlands, The Netherlands

World is facing a natural resources crisis worse than financial crunch

Oct 29, 2008

The Guardian: The world is heading for an "ecological credit crunch" far worse than the current financial crisis because humans are over-using the natural resources of the planet, an international study warns today.The Living Planet report calculates that humans are using 30% more resources than the Earth can replenish each year, which i (Read More)

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