Новости по теме Netherlands

Are the open-minded Dutch in denial over Black Pete? A passionate debate around Black Pete in the Netherlands has highlighted the prickly subject of racism, often denied in a country proud of its open-minded values.

26 October 2013

Chinese oil firms, Europe's giants win Brazil auction China's CNOOC and CNPC, Anglo-Dutch giant Royal Dutch Shell and France's Total joined Brazilian state operator Petrobras on Monday in winning production rights to the huge "Libra" Atlantic oilfield.

22 October 2013

Kazakhstan's opera singer in world Top Ten sopranos Kazakhstan's Mariya Mudryak entered the world Top Ten sopranos at the Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

18 October 2013

Senior Dutch diplomat beaten up in Russia: official A senior Dutch diplomat at the Netherlands embassy in Moscow was beaten up at his home in the Russian capital by unknown individuals who scrawled the letters "LGBT" on a mirror.

17 October 2013

Get richer, die younger: study We all live longer when times are good, right?

08 October 2013

When diseases have a bad name, change is hard Some diseases just have a bad name. But even when their commonly known labels glorify Nazi doctors or slander certain ethnic groups, old habits are hard to change.

03 October 2013

Space Cadets line up for one-way Mars trip More than 200,000 people from 140 countries have applied to go to Mars and never return.

10 September 2013

Dutchman dies in car accident in Karaganda oblast A citizen of Netherlands was killed in a car accident in Karaganda oblast in central Kazakhstan.

26 August 2013

How stolen Dutch art fooled even Sotheby's expert eyes A cunningly disguised stolen work by Dutch contemporary artist Jan Schoonhoven managed to fool experts at the world's largest art broker Sotheby's.

24 August 2013

Kazakhstan's state service reform concures with development of European countries Kazakhstan State Service Agency is interested in the state service reform experience of Great Britain and the Netherlands.

19 July 2013

Dutch duo peddle old bikes as fashion, furniture Two Dutch entrepreneurs have found a novel way to make money out of the thousands of bicycles abandoned in the Netherlands each year, by turning them into designer fashion items and furniture.

08 June 2013

Dutch enthrone '21st-century king' Willem-Alexander Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander becomes Europe's youngest monarch on Tuesday when his mother, Queen Beatrix, abdicates and his country hails the avowedly 21st-century king with a massive, orange-hued party.

30 April 2013

Dutch love their Argentine queen despite father's past Maxima, the Argentine-born future queen of the Netherlands, has worked hard to win over Dutch hearts and is immensely popular despite her father's murky role in his country's military junta.

27 April 2013

Dutch crown prince vows less protocol as 21st century king Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander vowed to be an approachable, 21st century monarch, insisting in a wide-ranging interview.

18 April 2013

Ice Hockey: Kazakhstan women’s team lost first match in World Championship The Dutch team moved up to the second line and the Kazakhstan team moved down to the third place in the general ranking of the Championship.

17 April 2013

Benckiser group to buy Dutch Masterblenders for 7.5bn euros Dutch tea and coffee producer D.E. Masterblenders said Friday that it has reached a conditional agreement with a German investor group led by Johann A. Benckiser on a 7.5-billion-euro ($9.8-bn) takeover deal.

12 April 2013

Austerity putting children at risk: UN The UN warned Wednesday that austerity measures are hitting children hard, as it published a ranking of kids' well-being in rich countries topped by northern European countries and showing Britain climbing out of the bottom tier.

10 April 2013

Arctic 'greening' seen through global warming Land within the Arctic circle is likely to experience explosive "greening" in the next few decades as grass, shrubs and trees thrive in soil stripped of ice and permafrost by global warming, a study said on Sunday.

02 April 2013

TNT Express to shed 4,000 jobs after UPS takeover fails Dutch post and courier company TNT Express said Monday it would shed around 4,000 jobs over the next three years as it restructures after US rival UPS' takeover bid failed in January.

25 March 2013

3 million flowers delivered to Almaty for March 8 Flowers are mostly supplied from the Netherlands, Germany, France, Israel, Ecuador, Kenya and Colombia to Almaty.

08 March 2013

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