Several Dutch scouts were treated in an emergency hospital on Wednesday during and after the opening ceremony of the World Jamboree in South Korea. It concerned eight participants who became unwell due to the heat, said Iris Brummelhuis, spokesperson for Scouting Netherlands. Two of them were sent to a hospital outside the event area. It is exceptionally hot and wet in Saemangeum, where the World Jamboree is organized in South Korea. Until 12 August, 43,000 scouts from almost 160 countries will gather there. The temperature has already risen to 38 degrees.
Several Dutch citizens who had autism or other intellectual disabilities have died by physician-assisted suicide in recent years after doctors determined their afflictions were untreatable obstacles to a normal life.
Several Dutch news outlets have derided American website 21Ninety for referring to Rotterdam Central Station as the “largest train station in Amsterdam.” The reference was made in an article about Moments Contained, a nearly four-meter tall statue of a Black woman installed outside of the second largest city's main train station. The website referred to it as a “must-see piece of art in the Netherlands’ capital of Amsterdam.”
Several Dutch media outlets are unhappy about the "charity fee" journalists must pay if they want to cover the Lowlands Festival. NOS, AD, and ANP will not report at all if a "charity fee" has to be paid, they claimed. Concert organizer MOJO charges accredited media 10 euros per person in return for access to the festival site. According to MOJO, the money goes to charities the festival works with. Those who do not pay will not be allowed to enter the grounds.
Several Dutch banks were suspicious of “miracle investor” Max R., who was arrested last month on suspicion of stealing 26 million euros from at least 80 customers in a Ponzi scheme, as early as 2019 and reported their suspicions to the Financial Intelligence Unit, Financieele Dagblad reports.