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1 Innovative Dutch-designed bridge in Hong Kong
A Dutch architectural firm has come up with an innovative answer to merging traffic at the border of two countries where cars drive on opposite sides of the road. Since colonial times, traffic in Hong Kong and Macau has driven on the left, while...
02.09.2010
2 Dutch engineers make flood protection system for New Orleans
Dutch engineering firm Royal Haskoning, together with partners HKV Lijn in Water and Fugro, is playing an important role in flood protection in New Orleans. The companies have won a new contract for water control structures in the city which was...
02.09.2010
3 NXP to supply chips for German identity cards
Netherlands-based NXP Semiconductors recently announced that its SmartMX secure contactless microcontroller chip has been chosen to power the new German contactless National Identity card (Neuer Personalausweis). The German government has selected...
24.08.2010
4 Holland one of the world's best places to live and work
The Netherlands is one of the world's best countries in which to live and work, according to a list published by Newsweek magazine. The Netherlands ranks eighth overall, placing it in the top ten most liveable countries. The magazine looked at...
20.08.2010
5 Dutch company Smit Salvage cleaning up Mumbai oil spill
Netherlands-based Smit Salvage, one of the world's largest salvage companies, has been hired by Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT) to control the oil-spill caused due to a collision between two cargo ships off the Mumbai coast. Two Panamanian cargo ships, MSC...
17.08.2010
6 Dutch breakthrough in treatment of sickle cell anaemia and thalassaemia
Researchers at the Erasmus Medical Centre in the Dutch city of Rotterdam have made a breakthrough in the treatment of sickle cell anaemia and thalassaemia. Both are inherited blood diseases which occur mainly in inhabitants of the Mediterranean...
17.08.2010
7 Dutch firm Arcadis wins US Army environmental contract in Germany
Netherlands-based international design, consulting, engineering and management services company, ARCADIS, has been selected by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District as one of five prime contractors for a 45-million-euro framework...
17.08.2010
8 Dutchman pioneers MoodRadio for iPhone
Dutch sofware developer Marcel van de Kraats has created an iPhone application which allows users to listen to music that matches their mood. His 'MoodRadio' application categorises internet radio stations according to the user’s mood via themes...
17.08.2010
9 TNT increases air cargo capacity between China and Europe
Dutch international transportation and distribution company, TNT, is boosting its air cargo capacity between China and Europe in order to meet increasing demand, the company announced recently. An extra Boeing 747-400 has been put into service on...
09.08.2010
10 BAM consortium to build new NATO headquarters
Netherlands-based European construction company, BAM Group, has been awarded the contract for construction of the new NATO headquarters, according to Belgian business newspaper De Tijd. The contract is worth some 500 million euros. BAM Alliance, the...
09.08.2010

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