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Bankruptcies down by 18 percent year-on-year in June
Since March 2025, the focus of the news release on bankruptcies has been on the change compared to the previous year and on the bankruptcy rate. This is the number of declared bankruptcies per 100 thousand businesses. The bankruptcy rate provides...
Business : Sianlon Aquatic Eyes Japan Market Expansion
By Abdul Hamid A Rahman KUALA LUMPUR, July 11 (Bernama) -- Sianlon Aquatic Sdn Bhd, one of Malaysia’s leading ornamental fish breeders, is exploring new export prospects in the Japanese market following its participation in Expo 2025 Osaka. In a...

Dutch Court Sentences Russian to 3 Years for Sharing Microchip Technology
A court in the Netherlands has sentenced a Russian national to three years in prison for violating EU sanctions by transferring sensitive semiconductor technology to Russian intelligence. German Aksenov, 43, had worked as an engineer in the Dutch...

Dutch football association withdraws Vitesse of Arnhem’s licence
The Dutch football association KNVB has decided not to renew Vitesse’s professional licence following a buyout by investors last month.The Arnhem club had already been deducted 12 points for the third season in succession for their ongoing failure...

A Dutchman’s Guide to the Netherlands: Local Wisdom from a Nile Encounter
The Netherlands through Dutch eyes—where local insight beats any guidebook and leads to hidden gems like Naarden's star-shaped fortress. Photo by Malcolm Lightbody, Unsplash While sailing down the Nile with my mom, a trip full of temples,...

Netherlands to cut on asylum, development aid to achieve NATO defense spending norm
The Dutch government is considering cuts to development cooperation and asylum to increase spending on defense gradually to meet the new NATO standard, caretaker Finance Minister Eelco Heinen (VVD) told BNR. At the NATO summit in The Hague, the...

Dutch gov't planning four new neighborhoods with at least 3,500 homes each
The Dutch government is planning four new, large-scale residential neighborhoods in the areas around Alkmaar, Hengelo/Enschede, Apeldoorn, and Helmond in the coming years. Each location will have at least 3,500 homes, and the national government...

GLOBAL MARKET OVERVIEW STONE FRUIT
The 2025 stone fruit season across key global regions is marked by contrasting trends in production, pricing, and market dynamics. Weather impacts, shifting acreage, and strong demand continue to shape outcomes for producers and exporters alike....
UK GDP Falls In May Amid Growing Concern About The Economic Outlook
Friday, July 11, 2025 7:10 AM EDT Image Source: Pexels The UK GDP figures have been incredibly volatile this year, and May's decline looks more like noise than signal. But there are growing concerns about the UK economy, driven by weakness in the...

Netherlands buys eight V-BAT unmanned aircraft systems from Shield AI
Deep-tech company Shield AI has revealed that the Netherlands Ministry of Defence has procured eight V-BAT unmanned aircraft systems. Credit: Shield AI As disclosed, the aim is to enhance maritime intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance...

Dutch Days festival returns July 23
Photo courtesy of RICHFIELD DUTCH DAYS Two boys enjoy one of the many rides Richfield Dutch Days offered during last year’s festivities.RICHFIELD — For 57 years Dutch Days has been a staple in the community, with yet another year of festival fun...

The Dutch MDMA multinational falls into Amposta
BarcelonaBags and bags of crystal meth were guarded by a dozen police officers, rifles in hand. The National Police force was heavily deployed, and around twenty officers from the Verneda police station in Barcelona watched curiously from a...

Dutch state gas firm NAM paid €3 Billion to Shell, ExxonMobil amid Groningen shutdown
The Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij (NAM) has paid out a total of 3 billion euros to its owners Shell and the American company ExxonMobil, according to the 2024 annual report. This is the first payout to the two shareholders since 2017. Each...

Trump escalates trade war with new tariffs on Canada. Latest updates here.
In an open letter to Prime Minister Carney, U.S. President Trump announces 35 per cent tariffs on goods imported from Canada. U.S. President Donald Trump promised to strike Canada with a 35 per cent blanket import tariff on Aug. 1 in a letter to...
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How teenagers lured into cocaine trade with designer clothes and bikes
Aged as young as 13, they are often paid with what teenagers want most — designer labels, iPhones or fat bikes — to pick up cocaine shipments for some of Europe’s most-prolific drug gangs. As cocaine cartels switch to smaller shipments, often...

The Sports Report: What will Dodgers do before trade deadline?
From Jack Harris: The Dodgers have been here before. This time last year, in a season that bore so many similarities to their current one, a first-place and highly touted Dodgers team temporarily lost its way. Amid a deluge of pitching injuries...

Nintendo Switch ROM site seized by FBI, as company's crackdown against piracy continues
A popular Nintendo Switch piracy site has been seized by the FBI, as Nintendo continues its crackdown against piracy. Nsw2u was a repository for Switch ROMs online, meaning players could download games without purchasing them to play on a hacked...
NATO is deploying Dutch and Norwegian F-35s over Poland in major boost to air defenses
NATO is set to boost its air defense along its eastern flank with Dutch and Norwegian F-35 fighter jets scheduled to patrol Polish skies from September through early December. The mission, announced by the Dutch Ministry of Defence, aims to secure...

XTransfer: Pioneering AI-Driven Transformation in B2B Foreign Trade Payment
HONG KONG SAR - Media OutReach Newswire - 11 July 2025 - In the era of global economic integration, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) face both unprecedented challenges and exciting new opportunities. XTransfer, the World's Leading &...