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[EDIT: Eijsden, February 27]
The EU Committee of the Regions is to hold a summit on March 5 through 6 in Prague.

There will be Walloon Competitive Cluster Assessment Seminar March 2 & 3 at Liège Business School (HEC).

Heusden-Zolder’s P&V Electrotechniek is producing power distribution systems for Belgium’s Princess Elizabeth ‘passive house’, base at the South Pole.

A version of Belgium’s favorite ‘Tintin’ comic strip has been published in the Hasselt dialect.

The 130th anniversary of the Iron Rhine railroad is the subject of an exhibition at the Roerstreek Museum in St Odiliënberg through September 1.

Housing construction in Maastricht will be planned to take account of the cross-border
situation in Belgium’s Riemst and Lanaken. In the past, the trend has been for large groups of Dutch house purchasers to buy in these areas, thus reducing the options for local people.

Philips Healthcare Systems in Heerlen - with a focus on radiography - is scheduled to be sold on April 1 to Argus Health systems, a provider of health care information systems from Kansas City.

[Added March 3]

[The English language press is full of reports claiming that the following poem by John Skelton, written in 1533, shows that Cricket was inventented by the (Flemish) Belgians]

O lorde of Ipocrites
Nowe shut vpp your wickettes
And clape to your clickettes!
A! Farewell, kings of crekettes!

i-MIEV (Mitsubishi In-wheel motor Electric Vehicle) or MiEV (Mitsubishi innovative Electric Vehicle) (pronounced /ˈmiːv/)[1] is the name given by Japanese automaker Mitsubishi Motors to its alternative propulsion technologies and might soon be coming to Nedcar in cooperation with Peugeot. Check the link below.

(Sources: HBVL, Dagblad de Limburger, Liège U, BBC)
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