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Photo: DutchNews.nl MPs have drawn up a list of controversial subjects which remain out of bounds to parliament until a new cabinet has been appointed after the March 17 general election. The list has been drawn up earlier than usual because the current coalition is already acting in a caretaker capacity after resigning last month in the wake of the childcare benefit scandal. The list includes opening Lelystad airport to commercial traffic, increasing paid parental leave, further limits to publ...

Building under way on the control tower. Photo: Depositphotos.com MPs have agreed to leave the issue of opening Lelystad airport to commercial traffic to the next government. The decision means the plan to start commercial flights to and from Lelystad later this year may not now happen, given that it could take months to form a new coalition after the March vote. Infrastructure minister Cora van Nieuwenhuizen told television programme Buitenhof on Sunday that as far as she is concerned, the air...

For his newest installation, GROW, Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde installed a mesmerizing lighting system in a field of leek to create a surreal visual effect.

GROW, which was developed with partners Wageningen University and Rabobank, is trialling its vertical ‘light recipe’ across an enormous field of leek at

Long after the sun sets on a quiet farm in the Dutch town Lelystad, one of its fields comes to life with a beautiful display of red, blue and ultraviolet LED light beaming across its crop of leeks.

DIPA Global B.V. (Lelystad, The Netherlands) has announced the launch of its new online platform of substrates for digital printing – Substrate Bank. The platform brings together print-media manufacturers and their products on a pure B2B industry platform “making the sourcing and specifying of substrates easy, fast and transparent,” said the company. Substrate Bank takes into account the intended usage to find and source products in a digital way. Users can easily source print substrates ...

Date Time WUR launches first large-scale research facility for agroforestry in Netherlands in Lelystad The large-scale 15-hectare multidisciplinary research facility for agroforestry in Lelystad is the first of its kind in the Netherlands. It concerns a form of mixed cultivation in which trees and arable as well as horticultural crops are grown on the same plot. In Lelystad, various species of trees are planted in hedges, in combination with annual crops such as potatoes, grains and cabbage whi...

comments Josh Reid, 23, picked up a Giant bike from the companys factory in Shanghai - after a slap-up lunch He then rode it for four months across  Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and then Europe He cycled along a road known as the roof of the world and was welcomed into the homes of strangers Here Josh recounts the astonishing solo trip in his own words, accompanied by pictures he took himself Chinese factories make most of the worlds bicycles, even those marketed in the UK ...