Thursday, January 06, 2005
Under-fire Dutch interior minister to visit disaster-hit Phuket
Channelnewsasia.com | "Dutch Interior Minister Johan Remkes, under fire for being on holiday in Thailand and not visiting Dutch victims of the massive tsunami waves, has announced he is now to visit a team from the Netherlands identifying bodies in Phuket. "
Dutch MP flown to safety after threats
IOL | "Somali-born member of the Dutch parliament Ayaan Hirsi Ali, an associate of murdered filmmaker Theo van Gogh, has been flown out of the Netherlands for her own safety, the Volkskrant reported on Tuesday.
Hirsi Ali, 35, who is seen as an apostate by many Dutch Muslims, assisted Van Gogh in making his film Submission, which criticises violence against Muslim women in the Netherlands.
According to the Volkskrant, she was flown out of the country from a military airbase on November 10, as Dutch police and secret services were raiding a house in The Hague, where they made arrests in connection with suspected terrorist offences."
Monday, January 03, 2005
Marin's $45 million royal secret
Marin Independent Journal | "Alicia De Bielefeld has lived quietly and anonymously in Fairfax for more than two decades. Throughout the relatively close-knit community it is difficult to find anyone who knows her or, among the few that do, anyone who knows her well.
Her world is about to change.
De Bielefeld, whose half-sister is Beatrix , the queen of the Netherlands, is soon to inherit $45 million from her recently deceased father, Prince Bernhard, a flamboyant and storied royal who cut a wide swath across Europe, leaving in his wake charm, mysteries and rumors."
Dutch discover Vermeer studio in Delft garden
Netscape News | "An art restorer says he has solved a centuries-old mystery with the discovery of the studio of the 17th-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer.
Ironically, Daan Hartmann had been working in the same studio for over two decades before he made the Vermeer link.
Hartmann started working in the building in 1980 with the late Dutch artist Anton Pieck and another friend. "
