Amsterdam, Netherlands (AFP)– Plagued by ever-shrinking space to park its hundreds of thousands of bicycles, Amsterdam opened Wednesday the first of its largest-ever bicycle parking complexes, built underwater in a pioneering engineering project. The shelter is constructed beneath the Open Haven Front, an access tributary to the city’s IJ river, and will be followed by another next to the IJ itself that will open in February. They will have a combined capacity for 11,000 bikes […]
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DFA repatriates 46 Filipinos stranded in Amsterdam
(Eagle News)–The government has repatriated 46 Filipino seafarers who ere stranded in The Netherlands following the cancellation of their flight amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Philippine Embassy in The Hague told the Department of Foreign Affairs the 46 were part of a group of 53 seafarers from different vessels who were scheduled to take a connecting flight to Narita airport at Schiphol airport on June 19. The other seven decided to take other flights arranged […]
Double stabbing at Amsterdam station in possible terror attack
by Germain Moyon with Jan Hennop in The Hague Agence France Presse AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AFP) — Dutch police were investigating Saturday a suspected terror attack at Amsterdam’s Central Station, in which two people were stabbed before the knifeman was shot by police. The assailant was identified as an 19-year-old Afghan man with a German residency permit. “We are seriously taking into account that there was a terrorist motive,” Amsterdam police spokesman Frans Zuiderhoek told AFP. […]
Van Gogh Museum unveils rare picture by peer Munch
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AFP) — Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum unveiled a rare new purchase Tuesday, painted by Vincent’s contemporary Edvard Munch, the only portrait by the Norwegian artist on display in The Netherlands. The “Portrait of Felix Auerbach,” created by Munch in 1906, was bought for an undisclosed amount from a private collection, Van Gogh Museum director Axel Rueger told journalists. “It’s the only portrait by Munch in a Dutch collection,” a beaming Rueger said as […]





