De toeslagenaffaire, de vrouw die duizenden euro’s moest terugbetalen omdat haar moeder boodschappen voor haar deed: is het toezicht op de sociale zekerheid te streng geworden? In de Drechtsteden weten handhavers hoe moeilijk het is misbruik van misverstand te scheiden. Joost de Vries29 januari 2021, 18:30 ‘Meneer Sebhat, u heeft een bijstandsuitkering. Als er iets wijzigt…
Month: January 2021
Substantial growth in retail sales thanks to supermarkets and web shops
Despite the corona crisis, retail turnover last year was much higher than in 2019. According to Statistics Netherlands, it was even the second largest growth this century. Only in 2001 was the increase stronger. Still, the total figures for the past year do not show the whole picture. While the turnover of supermarkets, other food…
Sleeping in a plane on the ground: it is possible here (and that is how it feels)
When you swing open the door of room 737 (which has been thought about) of the Corendon City Hotel in Amsterdam, you step into a real plane. Until retirement, the Boeing 737 transported holidaymakers mainly to sunny places for years. Since 2014, it has stood as the hotel’s masterpiece in the room, the tip of…
Huawei phone sales plummet, ‘company seems to be played out in Europe and US’
The consequences of the US trade sanctions against Huawei are increasingly visible. The fourth quarter, which is important for sales due to the December holiday season, appears to have been dramatic for the Chinese tech giant. Market researchers CounterPoint and IDC conclude that the company saw its global phone sales drop by about 40 percent…
Australian Open welcomes 30,000 fans daily in the first week | NOW
In the first week of the Australian Open, 30,000 spectators are welcome every day, the state of Victoria announced on Saturday. That number is slightly smaller from the quarter-finals. “In a fortnight we will receive around 390,000 people at Melbourne Park. That’s half the number of spectators who were welcome in the previous years,” said…
Exit strategy: the government aims to open primary schools, provided the threatening British variant allows it
Whether and how primary schools can open depends on the advice of the Outbreak Management Team. That advice will appear on paper on Tuesday.Image ANP On Friday, the cabinet spoke about the so-called exit strategy, which should point the way out of the current lockdown. At the top of the wish list is the reopening…
Swedes take over Tata Steel, lack of sustainability
The takeover of the Dutch blast furnaces by the Swedish SSAB is canceled. The Swedes have called off the negotiations. “We cannot bring Tata Steel IJmuiden in line with our sustainability goals as we would like”, says SSAB’s top boss Martin Lindqvist. In November it was announced that the Dutch part of Tata Steel, including…
Here you can relax perfectly when you are in Dieren
On the way to Villa Veertien in Dieren, Overijssel, the question arises where we will end up. In the middle of a residential area with terraced houses, is this going well? Very well, as it appears when we open the glossy painted door of our hotel room a little later. The windows offer a wide…
GGD system still offers option to leak private data easily
A week after the GGD has been informed of a leak in its system, it is still possible to easily extract the data of a hundred people at a time. This is possible from the GGD system for source and contact research, according to research by the NOS and News hour. Although the now infamous…
De Zwaan lets Gurney escape in first round The Masters | NOW
Jeffrey de Zwaan failed to qualify for the second round of The Masters in Milton Keynes on Friday. The South Hollander missed the opportunity to provide a surprise against Daryl Gurney: 5-6. De Zwaan initially seemed to be heading for a hard defeat against Gurney, who is eleven places higher than him in the world…