Amsterdam will close almost a fifth of its marijuana cafes to comply with a national ban on having them near schools, the city’s mayor said today.

Amsterdam has announced a major clean-up of its infamous city-centre red light district where prostitutes ply their trade from behind long glass windows.

The notoriously easy-going Dutch drug laws will be changed to ban the sale of "magic" mushrooms, the government announced today.

MEP Simon Coveney’s campaign to address the sexual exploitation of women (Irish Examiner, March 28) seems at odds with the views of other members of his party.

HOLLAND is internationally famous for its tolerance.

A Islamic fundamentalist with alleged terrorist ties was being held in a prison hospital today for the murder of a Dutch filmmaker who criticised the treatment of women under Islam.

TO the disgust of police and politicians, the body of the man who kidnapped beer billionaire Freddy Heineken was paraded through Amsterdam in a horse-drawn carriage ahead of his burial yesterday.

To the disgust of police and politicians, the body of the man who kidnapped beer billionaire Freddy Heineken was paraded through Amsterdam in a horse-drawn carriage ahead of his burial today.

Dutch voters appeared evenly split between the country’s two major parties as they voted today, raising the prospect that the next government may be a “grand coalition” of the rival camps.

The Netherlands’ Labour Party appeared poised to return as the country’s biggest party today as Dutch voters cast their ballots.

Crown Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands has married an Argentine economist.