Petty crime in Amsterdam fell under ex-mayor Cohen

Petty crime in Amsterdam fell under ex-mayor and new Labour party leader Job Cohen, reports Dutch News online. Annual crime figures show that incidences of the 10 most common types of crime fell by 8 per cent overall, and reports...

Smartcards only for Amsterdam’s buses and trams

Paper tickets will disappear from Amsterdam’s bus and tram public transport network from 3 June, reports Dutch News online. Then all passengers will have to use the OV-chipkaart smart card. Bus operator GVB states that 80 per cent of Amsterdam’s...

Amsterdam ‘how-to’ hotel manual

Amsterdam authorities, hoping to attract increased hotel investment in the city, have produced a how-to hotel guide for potential international investors and hotel operators. City authorities expects demand for rooms in Amsterdam to grow by four per cent per year...

Frya drops Amsterdam-Rotterdam high-speed fee

Dutch rail operator NS has been forced to drop its additional €20 fee, charged to rail season ticket holders each time they used the high-speed Frya rail link for travel between Amsterdam and Rotterdam, reports Dutch News online. Law professor...

Amsterdam Schipol airport security fails

Amsterdam’s Schipol airport has tightened its security measures again, says the Dutch security agency, after journalists managed to smuggle liquids onto flights from the airport bound for Washington DC and London. Bottles bought at the airport’s duty free were refilled...

New jobs in Amsterdam

Over 100 foreign companies opened a base in Amsterdam in 2009, according to figures released by the city council says Dutch News online, generating 1,200 new jobs for the city. Of these companies, the largest proportion were Asian, followed by...

Islamitisch College Amsterdam to close

Amsterdam’s only Islamic secondary school is to close to new pupils with effect from 1 August this year. The Islamitisch College Amsterdam, which was founded in 2001 and is located at Jacob Geelstraat, had its funding removed by junior education...

Amsterdam benefits for city employees

Amsterdam city council spent over €1.5 million in 2009 on benefit payments to former employees, reports Dutch News online. The special benefits, reserved only for former politicians, can pay more than 70 per cent of an employee’s final salary for...

Amsterdam gets tough on alcohol abuse

According to Dutch News Amsterdamcity council has drawn up a raft of new measures designed to help counteract the surge of alcohol abuse in young people in the city. As part of the measures, the city council is to make...

Amsterdam deer cull

Dutch News online reports that Amsterdam city council has been ordered to cull wild deer living in the national park dune area between the resort towns of Zandvoort and Noordwijk to the west of the city. The 3,500-hectare area between...