Dutch: Ajax keeps heat on league-leader Twente Nov 23, 2009
The points were shared in two other games as Willem II drew 1-1 with ADO The Hague and NAC Breda finished up 3-3 with NEC Nijmegen. Copyright 2009. (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- Soccer)
People get red-dy Sep 10, 2009
By Clare Spencer Breda, Netherlands ... The photo shoot is the culmination of celebrations for Redhead Day - an annual day - which has spilled across a weekend - to mark all things ginger, paid for by the local government in Breda, a city in the south east of the Netherlands ... The dermatologist's class - redheads tend to have very fair skin - is so popular it has to move to the main part of Breda's cathedral to accommodate all those who want to attend. (BBC News -- UK)
* Sport Soccer Shorts Sep 1, 2009
In other games, Balazs Dzsudzsak set up two goals for Danny Koevermans as PSV downed FC Groningen 2-0, and Kees Kwakman scored one goal and created another for Matthew Amoah to give NAC Breda a 2-0 win over SC Heerenveen. PORTUGAL Sporting grab first victory Liedson showed the form that earned him his first call-up to the Portugal national side on Sunday after leading Sporting to a 2-0 win over Academica X their first victory of the season. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
* EUROPA LEAGUE: Villa make Rapid Europa exit Aug 29, 2009
Francesco Totti scored a hat-trick as AS Roma crushed MFK Kosice of Slovakia 7-1 for a 10-4 aggregate, while Spains Villarreal defeated NAC Breda of the Netherlands 6-1 for a 9-2 win over two legs. This story has been viewed 236 times. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Netherlands' 'little brown bars' buck antismoking regulations Aug 6, 2009
Then, two brown bars Cafe Victoria in Breda and De Kachel in Groningen, a college town in the north of the country beat the ban with separate court cases that were upheld on appeal in different appeals courts on the grounds that the law unfairly targeted smaller businesses. "The appeals court ... [concluded] there is no juridical basis to forbid smoking in one-man bars," concedes Evert Boerstra, a spokesperson for the public prosecutor in The Hague. (Christian Science Monitor)
Dutch: Koeman loses opener as Alkmaar coach Aug 2, 2009
New Feyenoord coach Mario Been has his first match against his former club, NEC Nijmegen, and ADO The Hague hosts NAC Breda. Copyright 2009. (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- Soccer)
Tulips & windmills evoke delightfully authentic images of Holland Jul 16, 2009
This 69 metal key organ was played in Breda, Rotterdam and Amsterdam, and was gifted to the city of Holland, Michigan by Amsterdam in 1947 as a gift for helping liberate Netherlands in WWII.. As there were crowds waiting to take a closer look at the antique, we too awaited our turn to enter and listen to the music. (India Times)
How Green Is Ecotourism? May 29, 2009
"I would suggest that to, by far the majority of tourists, that sustainability continues to be of little import," says Brian Wheeller, visiting professor of tourism at NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands and the University of Tasmania, Australia. "Far more pressing are matters of price, value for money and fun, fun, fun.". (Fox News)
Ballast Nedam Trading Update - First Quarter 2009 May 6, 2009
- The Singelveste housing association awarded Ballast Nedam a contract for the renovation of 494 homes in the Biesdonck neighbourhood of Breda. - The heavy lifting vessel Svanen will be deployed during the second quarter of 2010 for the installation of 22 foundations for the Baltic I offshore wind farm, commissioned by the German energy company EnBW.Ballast Nedam has taken over a water pipeline project in Ghana from Taylor Woodrow Construction. (PR Newswire)
Playlogic Announces Fairytale Fig... Apr 29, 2009
Its in-house game development studio "Playlogic Game Factory" is based in Breda (the Netherlands). Playlogic's portfolio includes games that are being developed by several teams at the Playlogic Game Factory, as well as games developed by a number of studios throughout the world with approximately 400 people of external development staff. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Football First XI: Best goals ever Mar 4, 2009
9 Zlatan Ibrahimovic, AJAX v NAC Breda, Eredivisie 2004. There are only a few players in world football capable of scoring a goal of such impudence. (CNN -- International)
