The Drongo Language Festival started in 2012 as a small event, at Amsterdam central library, on a rainy Wednesday afternoon. When over four hundred people turned up the organisers knew that they were on to something.
Hundreds of Frisians participated in the Friesian Google Translate week which ran until September 26 and got translating from English into Frisian for the new translation service
A group of young Dutch entrepreneurs have devised their own plan to tackle the emerging migrant crisis fast taking its grip over Europe. The team has launched a free Airbnb-style site for refugees to help provide them with temporary accommodation across Europe.
The Dutch Red Cross is looking for volunteers to help new refugees in the Netherlands, from sorting donated clothes to interpreting and first aid. Register via www.Ready2Help.nl
It's one of the most popular exhibits at the Mauritshuis in The Hague and was nearly blown up in an explosion in 1654.
Dutch counter terrorism agency NCTV said it has ‘no information’ indicating that large numbers of jihadis are coming to Europe with migrants from the Middle East and northern Africa.
Erwten soep, poffertjes and oliebollen keep Costa Rican Javier Arias coming back for more. He's stayed in the Netherlands, in part, because it is such an LGBT friendly country.
The 35th annual dance around the Golden Calf film award kicks off today but various producers have bowed out, not because the calf is too shiny and ostentatious but because it is not shiny and ostentatious enough.
Is your Dutch terrible? Doesn't matter your level of fluency, there are still some words everyone uses.
Two incomes, no kids and good health. Unsurprisingly couples in their 20s are the happiest.
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