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TOP STORIES & ONE LINERS
[EDIT: Eijsden, August 15]
Ch'in Shih-huang-ti, the great emperor of the Ch’in Dynasty, was not only responsible for the Terracotta army of which we shall soon be able to see a few figures in Maaseik. He was also responsible for the institution of China’s famous...[more]
FÊTE DE MARIE
[EDIT/LEI: Liège August 15]
The Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Liège’s major feast day – ‘la fête de Marie’ - is today. This is always a pleasant time to wander around Outremeuse and drink the odd glass of Pèkèt (a gin that needs no tonic)...[more]
RUSSIANS ATTACK EUX.TV
[EDIT/MEDIA: Maastricht, August 14]
The TV Station run by Raymond Frenken, which produces the Meuse-Rhine Journal's webcasts, is being attacked by the Russians. Read the story at the link....[more]
CITOYEN VAN DER LINDEN
[EDIT/GOV: Liège, August 14]
Mayor Willy Demeyer of Liège introduced René van der Linden as "Ons Renéke", using a Limburg dialect form, which added a level of intimacy to a ceremony that already had the appearance of a meeting among friends, in La Violette (Liège’s...[more]
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NUVO CANADA TO AACHEN
[BIZ/LIFE-SCI: Aachen August 15]
Nuvo Research Inc., an exchange-quoted Canadian pharmaceutical company, with its HQ in Mississauga, Ontario, has decided to set up an office in the Aachen Region to coordinate its German and European activities. MD Dr. Henrich...[more]
KLM DROPS MAA-SCHIPHOL
[BIZ/LOG: Maastricht, August 15]
KLM is to end its 3 daily flights between Schiphol and Maastricht Aachen Airport (MAA) effective October 29 2008. This brings to an end KLM’s last domestic route, which had been operational since 1966. KLM blames the economy...[more]
VAL SAINT LAMBERT BANKRUPT?
[BIZ: Val Saint Lambert, August 12]
On August 8, it was reported that Val Saint Lambert was suing for bankruptcy because they had not been able to find a suitable partner and because of the rise in the cost of raw materials and production. There are also 58...[more]
M-SOFT IN ITALIAN HANDS
[BIZ: Overpelt, August 11]
The software group M-Soft, a part of the ArcelorMittal steel group, is being taken over by an Italian investment group, according to De Tijd. M-Soft was the IT department of the Belgian metal industry Metalim, later called AND -Steel...[more]
AMB GENERALI H1
[BIZ: Aachen, August 7]
The AMB Generali Corporation in Aachen, one of the biggest and most successful primary insurance groups in Germany, reports a first half with the positive premium development in the negative capital market with a strong impact on net...[more]
IRIS GROUP TAKES OVER ACTIEF
[BIZ: Lummen, August 6]
The Actief Cleaning Company from Lummen in Belgium Limburg, active in the cleaning, service checks and general technical maintenance market, is being taken over by the Iris Group from Evere. Actief Cleaning currently employs 350, but...[more]
KEEPING WEHMEYER GOING
[BIZ: Aachen, August 6]
A new financing idea and new investors could save the insolvent Aachen textile company Wehmeyer, according to WDR German Radio. Forty branches of the company are being inspected by the receiver. The first figures for the branches looked...[more]
EVS IN PEKING TOO
[BIZ: Liège, August 6]
The specialist Liège firm EVS, which focuses on instant tapeless technology, is one of eight Belgium companies which are official partners of the Chinese organization responsible for the Olympic games. EVS is the world market leader in...[more]
MUEHLNER DOUBLE AT SPA 24
[BIZ/LEI: Francorchamps, August 6]
The Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium based Mühlner Motorsport Team ran two Porsche 911 GT3 Cup S cars in the GT3 class of their home race, the 24 hour race at Spa-Francorchamps.Car number 123 was driven by Heinz-Josef Bermes (D), ...[more]
HOTEL-RESTAURANT VERVIERS
[BIZ/LEI: Verviers, August 2]
The Vandervalk group is to open its Toucan Hotel in the summer of 2009. The old 19th century railway station in Verviers will be the location for this new hotel — close to motorways, the cinema, the town and the shopping center....[more]
RISK MANAGEMENT
[BIZ: Maastricht, August 2]
The increase volatility of commodity and energy markets are a growing threat for profits, shareholder value and sometimes a continuation of companies. FS-Innovators BV is accordingly organizing a two-day course — Risk Management in...[more]
FN BOSS: LEGION OF HONOR
[BIZ/GOV: Liège, August 2]
Philippe Tenneson of the Herstal group was appointed a Commander of the Legion of Honor (Légion d'honneur) in France in June. Mr Tenneson has headed FN for the past ten years and was also, in 2004, president of Socran, a Liège business...[more]
FLEMALLE AC
[BIZ: Flémalle, August 2]
A viticulturalist in Flémalle is about to receive a certificate of Appellation Contrôlée for his wine, which goes by the name of Côte de Sambre et Meuse. It is finding its place among the grands crus that come from Belgium’s French...[more]
RECORD NUMBERS AT LIBRAMONT
[BIZ/LEI: Libramont, August 2]
The 74th Agricultural Fair at Libramont achieved a record number of visitors, with 185,000 coming to see the latest trends in agriculture. This means at some times 10,000 people were coming through the gates each hour. The balance...[more]
NEAPOLITAN GARBAGE
[BIZ: Weisweiler, August 2]
Garbage from Naples arrived at the local garbage incinerator in Weisweiler at the end of July. It is not yet known how much Italian rubbish they will be consuming there; estimates are for around 15,000 tons. The delivery of garbage...[more]
VOLKSWAGEN IN THE US
[BIZ: HERNDON, Va. August 2]
Russ Froneberger, President of Global Consulting & Affiliates, an American-based economic development consulting firm, well known in Meuse-Rhine, reports that the US city of Chattanooga, Tennessee has been named the home of Volkswagen's...[more]
SUSTAINABLE INITIATIVES
[BIZ/GOV: Maastricht, August 2]
Those concerned with sustainability as thinkers and doers in the province of Limburg can receive professional support in developing their ideas in the context of ‘Sustainable Tuesday’. This day is being celebrated on a national...[more]
QUALIBOUW H1 2008
[BIZ: Heusden-Zolder, August 2]
‘We can be well pleased with H1 2008,’ says project coordinator Dirk Smeets. The last six months have revealed considerable progress in the use of the quality label. Behind the scenes a great deal is being done to develop a strong,...[more]
TECHNOMED GENERAL MANAGER
[BIZ: Maastricht/Beek, August 2]
Technomed, founded in 1980 by John Paes, started by importing medical accessories for the Dutch domestic market. Today core business is the development and production of neurodiagnostic accessories and the worldwide marketing...[more]
GIMV DOUBLES SCANA STAKE
[BIZ: Hasselt, August 2]
In June the Belgian venture capital company GIMV doubled its stake, dating from 2004, in Scana Noliko from 46.3% to 92.6%, by taking over LRM’s (Limburg Investment company's) stake in the company. Scana Noliko is Limburg’s leading producer...[more]
TAXMAN IN BELGIUM
[BIZ: Brussels, August 2]
A report in Belgium’s Trends magazine says that the Flemings and businesses in Flanders are more likely to be checked on by the tax man than there colleagues in the Walloon country or Brussels. Statistics from the Minister of finance...[more]
ARCELORMITTAL Q2 & H1 RESULTS
[BIZ: Luxembourg, August 2]
The Q2 & H1 results for ArcelorMittal, the world’s biggest steel company with branches in Gent, Genk, Charleroi and Liège in Belgium, reported figures 65% up on the same period for the previous year. Revenues of ArcelorMittal were...[more]
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LE JEUNE LEAVES DILLEN
[LOG: Aachen August 14]
Jeroen Le Jeune, co-founder 8 years ago of Dillen & Le Jeune Cargo (DLC), has left the company. In 2002, DLC was the first competitor for SNCB (Belgian Railways) on the Belgian rail network. Co-founder Ronny Dillen will remain as CEO....[more]
RAIL LINK TO AVANTIS
[LOG: Aachen, August 6]
In an article by Sarah Siemons in the Aachener Zeitung an overview is given of improvements in public local transport as it effects the Aachen and Meuse-Rhine Region. It is pointed out that cross-border traffic has potential and importance...[more]
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HISTORICAL EXCERPTS
[GOV/EDU: Aachen, August 12]
A book of excerpts from the archives from the City of Aachen and the Abbey of Burtscheid has just appeared in the form a sixth volume by Dr Thomas Kraus, who heads the archives in Aachen. It has the contents of documents and information...[more]
VEN, VIDI, VICI, FUNDS
[EDU: Maastricht, August 6]
Eight researchers are receiving a subsidy for innovation from the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). These are ‘Veni’ subsidies for young, recent PhDs with striking and original talent for innovative and academic research,...[more]
NEW MAYOR FOR AACHEN
[GOV: Aachen, August 5]
As we have already noted in an earlier issue, Jürgen Linden will be stepping down from his post as the mayor of Aachen and the SDP have proposed Karl Schultheis as their candidate. The CDU (the Christian Democrats) will be proposing Marcel...[more]
SME R&I
[GOV: Berlin, August 5]
The German federal organization for Research and Innovation (R&I) is now offering SMEs quicker access to development programs. There is a free phone and universities, research centers and businesses can use if for simple and fast access...[more]
NEW RECTOR AT AACHEN
[EDU: Aachen, August 4]
Ernst Schmachtenberg (56) is to be the 48th rector of the RWTH University in Aachen when he took over from Professor Rauhut on August 1. The first thing he did was to turn on his laptop, and this is a symbolic move to show that there’s...[more]
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY
[GOV: Namur, August 2]
The Walloon regions investment service B.E.Fin is going to invest and support environmental biotechnology, bio-fuels and sustainable energy. The current budget is EUR 1m per annum. ...[more]
TIMBER BUSINESS
[GOV/BIZ: Marche-en-Famenne, August 2]
The Walloon region is setting up a Walloon business office for the timber industry. It will be established in Marche-en-Famenne but the actual site has not yet been determined and will be concerned with encouraging and...[more]
AACHEN SUPER C
[EDU: Aachen, August 2]
The retiring Rector of Aachen’s RWTH University, Professor Rauhut, officially opened the university’s new Super C Study Service Center in Aachen. The new building is the first large inner city building in Germany to be heated geo-thermally...[more]
MARKET ORIENTATION
[EDU: Maastricht, August 2]
After a period at a foreign university, students who take a master’s degree in International Business in 2009 at the University of Maastricht will have the option of an additional degree from top business schools, like Queens in Canada...[more]
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WINNING AGAINST WHIPLASH
[LIFE-SCI: Maastricht, August 14]
The whiplash foundation known as Stichting Whiplash de Baas is organizing an information evening on Tuesday, September 23 with the patient information service of Maastricht University Hospital, in the Greep Hall of the hospital,...[more]
COATINGS REDUCING INFECTION
[LIFE-SCI: Maastricht, August 11]
The surface of biomaterials, such as prostheses, changes; so that it attracts fewer bacteria and does not cause infection. At least tht is the objective of the NANTICO research program in which the orthopedics department of...[more]
EUR 100M HOSPITAL UPGRADE
[LIFE-SCI: Aachen, August 6]
There is an ongoing hospital upgrade at Aachen’s University Hospital Das Klinikum. This is a hospital with 1,280 beds, thousands of patients and about 6,000 employees. It’s a king-size logistical challenge. It will even include cutting...[more]
JULIANA: KIDNEY DIALYSIS
[LIFE-SCI: Valkenburg, August 5]
There is to be a kidney dialysis center in Valkenburg, run by the MUMC+ from Maastricht at the former Michelin starred restaurant Juliana in Valkenburg which is now to be turned into a clinic.(Source: Dagblad de Limburger, ...[more]
HARDENING OF THE ARTERIES
[LIFE-SCI: Maastricht, August 5]
Cardiologists and radiologists at the Maastricht University Medical Center (MUMC+) are making new patient friendlier computer scans of the heart. Patients with chest pain who are thought to be suffering from hardening of the...[more]
NEW CHAIR FOR LIFE-TECH
[LIFE-SCI: Aachen-Jülich, August 2]
Dr Andreas Herrmann is to chair the LifeTec Aachen-Jülich association. His company Celonic GmbH has just celebrated its tenth anniversary. For a biotech company, this is indeed a mature age, because biotechnology has been...[more]
NRW HEALTH CAMPUS
[LIFE-SCI: Aachen, August 2]
The Ministry for Labor, Health and Social Affairs of the state of North-Rhine Westphalia has decided to establish a health campus where the forces of the health economy will be bundled, networked and made transparent. Many people...[more]
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ADVANCED BLIND TASTING
[SCI-TECH: Aachen/Barcelona, August 4]
Researcher’s in Jülich and Aachen have developed, with Spanish colleagues, an electronic tongue that is able to detect the type of grape and also the year of a specfic wine. The tongue has six sensors which detect characteristic...[more]
BRIGHT STAR IN HEERLEN
[SCI-TECH: Heerlen, August 2]
A 25-year-old school teacher from Heerlen, Hanny van Arkel, has made a startling astronomical discovery earlier this year, thanks to the website called Galaxy Zoo. While examining photographs of galaxies on the Galaxy Zoo website...[more]
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IN AND OUT EXHIBITION
[LEI: Liège, August 14]
The Madmuseum partnership of the City of Liège is holding an exhibition of more than 1,400 works, paintings, sculpture, collage, videos and drawings, by artists who are largely mentally handicapped. This is an interesting new development...[more]
XI’AN* TERRACOTTA ARMY
[LEI: Maaseik, August 13]
There will be an exhibition in Maaseik of 14 statues from the famous Terracotta Army excavated in the 1970s in China, dating from the Ch’in dynasty (221 BC - Remember, when Scipio beat Hannibal at Zama – to 207 BC). The exhibition is...[more]
ACROSS THE BORDERS
[LEI: Aachen, August 12]
The cultural program ‘Across the Borders’ shows the future Charlemagne Route through Aachen’s inner-city, this includes art, music, theatre, and dance in urban and public spaces and gives a completely new view of the city. In August...[more]
DIANA RAMAEKERS IN EURODE
[LEI: Herzogenrath, August 6]
There is an exhibition of the works of Diana Ramaekers at the Eurode station with light installations and drawings in the Herzogenrath Forum for Art and Culture. There are 18 drawings and a light installation which all come from...[more]
CNN AWARD: CHRISTIAN ESSER
[MEDIA: Stolberg/Konzen, August 6]
A journalist from the Aachen region has been proposed as ‘Journalist of the Year’ for the US news broadcaster CNN for the German-speaking world, this is Christian Esser. He was born in Stolberg in 1973 and works for the Aachener...[more]
SOUTH LIMBURG CYCLING
[LEI: Valkenburg, August 6]
There are seven new free cycling routes with the assistance of 14 Limburg municipalities and on September 7 there will be the second edition of the South Limburg tourist authorities cycling day. Check the website for more information.
The...[more]
ANTONIO MARO AT 80
[LEI: Hauset, August 6]
The Peruvian artist, Antonio Máro, resident for very many years in East Belgium, celebrated his 80th birthday on July 23. On July 25 in the context of an exhibition at the Aula Carolina in Aachen, he received a eulogy from Werner Janssen....[more]
EXQI TV
[MEDIA: Brussels, August 2]
Exqi, which is also available on Belgacom TV, Coditel and Telenet, started a high-definition TV cultural channel in October 2007. Thus far it’s been available via satellite and on cable in The Netherlands, and new recent distribution...[more]
EURONEWS ON MEUSE-RHINE
[MEDIA: Lyons, August 2]
There was an eight-minute webcast on cross-border cooperation in Meuse-Rhine on Euronews on July 25. It dealt with cross-border police and emergency services and interviewed both Karl-Heinz Lambertz, the prime minister of the German-speaking...[more]
TOURIST GUIDE FOR LIEGE
[LEI: Liège, August 2]
A new tourist guide to the chateaux of the Meuse, with 80 areas of special focus, is being presented as part of an Interreg III project which was carried out between 2005 and 2008 at a cost of EUR 472,000. The new guide will be freely...[more]
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