18-11-2014 10:07
Silva lost the captaincy after hosts Brazil's World Cup campaign, which included a humiliating 7-1 loss to Germany in the semi-finals before falling 3-0 in the third-place playoff against the Netherlands.
17-11-2014 09:35
Arjen Robben and Klaas-Jan Huntelaar both scored twice with captain Robin van Persie and Jeffrey Bruma also on target as the Netherlands claimed just their second win in four games in Group A.
14-11-2014 14:15
The cremated bodies of a Vietnamese woman and her two children who died when Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine in July were repatriated to Vietnam from the Netherlands on Thursday.
13-11-2014 09:52
The human remains will now be sent to Kharkiv for a first forensic check and be repatriated to the Netherlands at a later stage, the Dutch defence ministry said.
05-11-2014 17:11
Despite tough conditions at the crash site in eastern Ukraine, both sides said investigation into the July 17 disaster must continue.
14-10-2014 09:50
World Cup semi-finalists the Netherlands' hopes of qualifying for Euro 2016 took another blow on Monday (Oct 13) as a Gylfi Sigurdsson double gave Iceland a 2-0 win over the European giants.
25-09-2014 08:57
“Viet Nam Days in the Netherlands” was kicked off on September 23 (local time) in The Hague.
22-09-2014 08:32
Deputy PM Hoang Trung Hai will pay official visits to the Netherlands and Finland from September 22-26 at the invitation of the Governments of the two European countries.
10-09-2014 09:11
Vaclav Pilar came off the bench to score a stoppage-time winner as the Czech Republic beat the Netherlands 2-1 in their opening Euro 2016 qualifying Group A fixture on Tuesday (Sep 9).
05-09-2014 09:47
Two goals in the first 10 minutes were enough to see Italy to a 2-0 friendly victory over World Cup semi-finalists the Netherlands and launch their new era under coach Antonio Conte in style.
28-07-2014 10:16
The Netherlands on Sunday (July 27) scrapped plans to send an international armed mission to secure the crash site of Malaysian flight MH17, fearing a deployment risked being dragged into the conflict in east Ukraine.
24-07-2014 08:32
The first bodies from flight MH17 arrived in the Netherlands on Wednesday (July 23), almost a week after it was shot down over Ukraine, as the conflict flared yet again near the Malaysian airliner's crash site.
23-07-2014 19:57
The first plane carrying bodies from downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 on Wednesday left eastern Ukraine for the Netherlands following a sombre ceremony.
23-07-2014 08:02
Malaysian officials have handed over the black boxes from flight MH17 to Dutch lead investigators of the crash in rebel-held Ukraine, the Netherlands government said.
22-07-2014 21:20
The first bodies from the MH17 crash in Ukraine will be flown on Wednesday (July 23) to Eindhoven in the Netherlands, where their identification could take months, Prime Minister Mark Rutte said.