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Dutch kids flock to British school in Amstelveen [28 January 2012]
Amsterdam's international schools are filling up with the children of wealthy Dutch parents who are fed up with the Dutch system and the way kids are categorised at the age of 12, says Saturday's Parool.
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Panama bankrupt? [24 January 2012]
Trouw is reporting that Panama is bankrupt. The club has been felled by legal procedures (neighbours objecting to the noise), high ground rent (thanks city council) and the lack of parking spaces (ditto).
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Internet killed the peep show star [23 January 2012]
Amsterdam's red light district has just one peep show left - a live sex show where you put money in a slot to watch girls doing whatever.
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No Radio 538 Queens Day party in Amsterdam [23 January 2012]
Amsterdam city council's decision to stop the traditional Queen's Day festival on the Museumplein but to try to find an alternative location has proved to be the kiss of death for the event.
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Amsterdam fashion week 'escapes the crisis' [22 January 2012]
The 16th edition of the Amsterdam Fashion Week kicks off on Wednesday and the organisers say the economic crisis is barely noticeable, the Volkskrant reported at the weekend.
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Shooting in Zuid [21 January 2012]
A coffee shop on the Churchillaan in Amsterdam-Zuid was hit by at least 14 bullets fired by an unknown gunman in the early hours of Saturday morning, says AT5. The Scylas cafe was closed at the time and no-one was hurt.
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In Amsterdam, everybody's happy [21 January 2012]
Not all of Amsterdam is pretty, tree-lined canals and elegant buildings. Take the Overtoomse Veld - a maze of post War soulless apartment blocks in the far west of the city - subject of a major urban renewal effort over the past few years.
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Gone fishing [20 January 2012]
Was phoned a few minutes ago by someone with a very strong accent telling me the money my friend had asked him to make over to my bank account was now there.... Luckily I could hardly understand him, but did get message it was one of those jolly phishing expeditions so said I did not know what he was talking about.
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New taxi rules to cover the entire city [20 January 2012]
Amsterdam council's new get-tough-on-dodgy-taxis campaign will cover the entire city not just designated taxi ranks in the city centre, says council executive Eric Wiebes in Friday's Parool.
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Amsterdam server farm raided in Megaupload case [20 January 2012]
The raids and arrests in the FBI onslaught on file sharing site Megaupload.com have caught more than just a Dutchman programmer - there were raids at Leaseweb server farms in Amsterdam and Haarlem on Thursday, according to the Parool.
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Youthful fans watch AZ put Ajax out of the cup [19 January 2012]
These are some of the thousands of under-12s who witnessed AZ of Alkmaar knock Amsterdam club Ajax out of the Dutch Cup on Thursday with a 2-3 victory.
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All-night shopping in Amsterdam? [19 January 2012]
Amsterdam city council needs to designate some shopping areas in the city to be open round the clock, say D66 councillors.
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