The Dutch trade minister has said the Dutch tech giant ASML’s exports to China have been blocked because of concerns its computer chip technology could be used to advance the Chinese regime’s military. NTD spoke with Charles Parton, former British diplomat and associate fellow at three think tanks.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands—Two people died and two others were injured Wednesday when part of a bridge being built over a canal in the eastern Netherlands collapsed, emergency services said. The accident happened in Lochem, 130 kilometers (80 miles) east of Amsterdam, as workers lifted a large metal arch into place. Nieke Hoitink, a journalist with […]
BERLIN—Three Dutch citizens were found dead in western Switzerland after an apparent hiking accident, police said Saturday. The mother and her two adult children, who had been reported missing Thursday, were found near the Rochers-de-Naye mountain in the canton of Vaud, local police said in a statement. The 57-year-old woman, her 25-year-old daughter and her […]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands—Historical treasures that were stored for years at an Amsterdam museum during an ownership dispute sparked by Russia’s annexation of Crimea have been safely transported to Ukraine, the museum announced Monday. Their transport ends a nearly decade-long legal tug-of-war over the artifacts including a solid gold Scythian helmet from the 4th century B.C. […]
EEMSHAVEN, Netherlands—Tugboats towed a freight ship that burned for a week on the North Sea while carrying thousands of cars into a Dutch port on Thursday for salvaging, laying to rest fears that it could sink close to shipping lanes and a protected habitat for birds. The Fremantle Highway was taken to the northern port […]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands—Salvage crews started towing a burning cargo ship loaded with thousands of cars to a temporary anchorage location off the northern Dutch coast on Sunday after smoke pouring from the stricken vessel eased, authorities said. On Saturday night, the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management had said the Fremantle Highway was unlikely […]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands—Dutch voters will go to the polls on in an early general election on Nov. 22, the caretaker government announced Friday, a week after Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s four-party coalition quit over its failure to agree a package of measures to rein in migration. The vote for the 150 seats in the lower […]
I a surprise move following the collapse of his government, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Monday that he will not run for a fifth term in office and will leave Dutch politics altogether. On Friday, Mr. Rutte announced the sudden collapse of his four-party coalition government owing to disagreements over immigration policy, but […]
The Dutch government agreed to block China from having access to chip manufacturing technology, heating up a longstanding conflict over semiconductors with Beijing. Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities slammed The Hague and accused the European Union state of siding with the United States in an ongoing chip war. The Minister for Foreign Trade and Development […]
OMMEREN, Netherlands—A hand-drawn map with a red letter X purportedly showing the location of a buried stash of precious jewelry looted by Nazis from a blown-up bank vault has sparked a modern-day treasure hunt in a tiny Dutch village more than three quarters of a century later. Wielding metal detectors, shovels and copies of the […]
AMSTERDAM—Amsterdam police said they had identified a torso found wrapped in blue plastic in the IJ river in 2013 as belonging to missing Russian art dealer Aleksandr Levin. Police spokesperson Wendy Boudewijn said on Jan. 6 that the Dutch authorities identified the remains by DNA testing in 2021, but did not initially release the identity […]
An old map is believed to mark the spot where German soldiers hid millions of dollars of treasure in the Netherlands during World War II. Now, amateur treasure hunters comb through fields in the east of the country, looking for the loot.
SCHIPHOL, Netherlands—It still happens to Silene Frederiksz-Hoogzand after more than eight years. Walking down the street, she will see a girl with long, dark hair or a young man in a baseball cap and think, that’s my son Bryce or his girlfriend, Daisy. But the grim reality quickly kicks in. Bryce and Daisy were among […]
AMSTERDAM—The Netherlands is investigating offices that have been operating illegally in the country on behalf of the Chinese communist regime, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. The investigation follows reports by RTL Nieuws and website “Follow The Money” that two such offices have carried out functions, including remotely renewing Chinese citizens drivers’ licenses. The Chinese […]
Just west of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, another line has been breached in the global “war on meat.” For fear of its impact on the climate, the city of Haarlem has moved to outlaw at least some advertisements for meat in public areas. The resolution, which refers to “bioproducts” rather than meat, came from Ziggy […]
INDIANAPOLIS—A 22-year-old Indiana man was charged Thursday with murder in the fatal shooting of a Dutch soldier and the wounding of two others in downtown Indianapolis. Shamar Duncan was charged with murder, two counts of attempted murder, and disorderly conduct in the shootings early Saturday, Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears said. The soldiers had been […]
INDIANAPOLIS—The 22-year-old man accused of fatally shooting a Dutch soldier and wounding two others in downtown Indianapolis over the weekend told a friend who was with him that morning that he opened fire on the soldiers because he “just spazzed,” according to an arrest affidavit. The friend told police that he, Shamar Duncan and another […]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands—One of three Dutch soldiers wounded in a shooting outside a hotel in downtown Indianapolis over the weekend has died, the Dutch Defense Ministry said Monday. The commando died of his injuries “surrounded by family and colleagues,” the ministry said in a statement. The soldier was one of three members of the Dutch […]
Dutch farmers have been protesting for more than a month, and their movement is showing no signs of running out of steam. They have received support from right-wing parties inside and outside of Europe, but the discussion with the government doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. NTD spoke to a Dutch journalist who has been reporting […]
