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The visa application of Geert Wilders to Australia still has not gone through, but the debate whether he should be allowed into the country has heated up. According to Jack Smit who works for the Human Rights organisation Project Safe Com there's ...

The murder of the South African boxer Corrie Sanders has caused a great deal of consternation. Alet van Rensburg talks about the reaction in Soutrh Africa. Interview: Josine Tonen

The incident of an out of control facebook party in the village of Haren, caused a great deal of commotion in the Netherlands and gained attention world wide. There is a raging discussion about how this could have been allowed to happen. Our corre...

The image of the pet loving Australian doesnt stack up with the fact that a quarter of a million pets are killed in pounds each year. The figure reported by the organisation 'Death Rowe pets' does not include the 56.000 pets killed by the RSPCA ...

A city farm, a new concept of the group "Out of your own city" , aims to bring produce growing back into the city, by using vacant land. This week the first restaurant and farm opened in the centre of Rotterdam. One of the initiators of this proj...

The severe austerity measures announced in Greece and Spain this week have resulted in unrest and demonstrations. Dr Holman Eu expert with the University of Amsterdam thinks the fall out of these measures could cause social and political disinteg...

In our series about the true Dutch breeds of dogs, Rob Cordes talks about the Dutch Shepherd.   Interview: Josine Tonen

Typically Dutch: today, Wouter Waldus, head of the Maritime Team of the 'Archeologisch Diensten Centrum' talks about the 1400 year old rowing oar that was recentely found in The Netherlands.   Interview: Josine Tonen..

Language exert Frans Hertoghs looks at how the Dutch politics and the Dutch Language are linked.

Femke Verleg, Communications adviser for Brabant water talks about the return of the village water pump, but now the more contemporary version. Do the Dutch, who live in a much colder climate also know the importance of drinking water?  

Typically Dutch: this week we visit "Het Grachtenhuis" in Amsterdam, with Wite de Savornin

It is useful to import sun-energy from The Sahara to The Netherlands on a large scale? On www.tallo.nl experts were asked to participate in the internet-dialogue Sun in Europe. Bas Eickhout, Europarlementarian for the Greens talks about this dialo...

Adelaide Henriette den Haan, better known as Ada Swinkels-den Haan was born in Eindhoven in 1941. She is a former top swimmer in the breast stoke who one time represented The Netherlands at the Olympic Games in Rome, 1960. Even though she trained ...

The number of small breweries has increased dramatically in the past few years, which helps to educate the beer drinker.

The new iPhone5 has not got the wow-factor, but the worldwide launch was still successful.