The siege against the search engine The Pirate Bay squeezed in Europe after the Netherlands require on Thursday (22/10) that those responsible for the service to remove all torrents that allow anybody to download multimedia content protected by copyright.
With the ban applied by Justice Foundation to Protect the Rights of the Entertainment Industry in the [...]

In the countdown to the much-awaited and carefully-prepared for climate summit to be held in Copenhagen towards the end of 2009, ‘the United Nations is planning a form of diplomatic shock therapy for world leaders this week in the hope of injecting badly needed urgency into negotiations for a climate change treaty that, it is [...]

For designers nothing’s impossible. It’s not any super power but their creativity and logic that say so! Same applies to Dutch architect Koen Olthuis from the firm Waterstudio who has developed the Citadel Floating Apartment Complex which is a 60 unit luxury structure. Floating? Yes, you heard it right because this building defies tides while [...]

How about travelling in a car that has been designed by people all across the globe… and they are not even necessarily professional? That is the aim of the “C,mm,n Project” initiated by the Netherlands Society for Nature and Environment and this urban commuter that is fast taking an innovative shape and assuming a cool [...]

The economic crisis has sure given the whole world a jerk, but it seems to have some affirmative outcomes too. Netherlands would probably thank the recession for this. Scheduled to start in December, the country is looking skywards for its largest building ever, the 150 meters high De Rotterdam to be completed by 2013.

The Dutch [...]

Three decades of tolerance to the consumption of marijuana in the Netherlands may be coming to an end. A report commissioned by the government (center-left) advises reconsider the classification of drugs for mild hashish sold in the country.
Currently, an adult, whether or not Dutch, you can legally consume up to 5 grams of marijuana in [...]

What can be better than Royal Philips Electronics and BVB Subscrates of the Netherlands joining hands together? They have just tied the friendship band to jointly develop solid-state LED lighting based applications for greenhouse based flower and vegetable cultivation. Apparently, the two companies have signed MOU (memorandum of understanding) so that they can combine their [...]

The process of enlargement of the European Union (EU) is in crisis because of the seriousness of the economic recession and the deep differences on the European integration process. Germany’s Angela Merkel was the first to call a pause in consolidation following the rapid addition of 12 countries.
This policy shift has jolted the expectations of [...]

With X’mas and New Year’s round the corner, Mc Donald’s new ad from Netherlands seems to be extending greetings with the picture of unlimited French fries stacked symbolically.
Mc Donald seems to be exploring minimalist ideas. Recently they launched burger stores in Japan without flaunting their brand name. Amazingly here too there are no signs of burgers, free [...]

Imagine if you could produce electricity while you passed through a door! Well, a coffee shop at a train station in Netherlands has proved it possible to generate electricity as you pass in and out of its revolving door.
The coffee shop hopes to generate 4,600 kVVh a year. The revolving door used in the [...]