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With an increasing number of English language companies, language-no-problem shows and internationally focussed festivals popping up...

Haseeba Saban (45) is a British national who lives in Rotterdam and works as a freelance marketing consultant.

Go to any park in the Netherlands on a sunny Wednesday afternoon and you will find a good sprinkling of dads and their offspring enjoying...

Kenyan National, Elizabeth Njeru, 39, came to Amsterdam in 2000 for love and now runs her own catering company. She is surprised by how willing successful people are in the Netherlands to help each other...

´Urgent and Political´ is how Artistic Director, Ruth MacKenzie, describes the 69th edition of The Holland Festival which opens in Amsterdam on June 4th.

Free wifi? A given. Wireless earphones for better audibility, handy. Live streaming, top notch. Mobile charging lockers, genius. Seaweed burgers, stilt walkers and live music? Awesome.

What started out as a couple of tech entrepreneurs trying to promote their new startup to a gathering of some 220 people has metamorphosed into one of the biggest and most important technology events in the world.

It´s 40 years ago that Punk first burst upon the public imagination and left its indelible mark on pop culture. The music, artists and, most of all the attitude are celebrated this month in a special programme of events at the EYE cinema in Amsterdam.

When we started Quint waaay back in 2013 we threw a lot of spaghetti at the wall to see what would stick. Now three years on, quite a bit of it is still hanging there, and some of it is a messy puddle on the floor. But you know what?

It´s gonna be the cars. Mark my words. Driverless cars are going to the innovation that brings in the biggest wave of social change since Luddites started smashing looms.

Tulips have long been synonymous with Amsterdam and yet in recent years, despite tourists being able to buy everything from soap to marracas in tulip form, the real things have largely been absent from our streets.

At the end of last year, Dutch start-up The Things Network raised €295,000 through a crowdfunding campaign to launch an open, free and decentralised internet of things network.

The Netherlands is flat and has a lot of straight, overcrowded roads, so it is perhaps hardly surprising that the government has made experimenting with driverless vehicles a central part of its infrastructure policy.