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“Bilingualism is good for the brain,” Ghent researcher concludes

Bilingualism trains the brain and leads to cognitive advantages among children, adults and patients with neurological conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease. That’s the conclusion of researcher Evy Woumans of Ghent University in her PhD thesis. Two years ago, Woumans selected 54 children with a...

Court sentences Tournai man for 2011 murder of neighbour

A Tournai resident, Thomas Couvreur, 29 has been sentenced to life in prisonfor the 2011 murder of his neighbour Caroline Vyncke (pictured). Vyncke, 42, was stabbed to death in Moorsele, West Flanders, on 8 February, 2011. Although her boyfriend reported her disappearance the following day, it was...

Jazz city: a guide to jazz in Belgium

Coming up next week is the Brussels Jazz Marathon , (22-24 May). All over the city, you’ll be able to catch acts of blues, jazz, soul, funk, swing and beyond entirely in a free festival that pays tribute to Belgium’s rich jazz history. Since before the Second World War, Belgium has been a hotbed of...

K’s Choice comeback

Siblings Gert and Sarah Bettens of K’s Choice have been making music together for more than two decades. But, until a few years ago, they wrote their songs separately. Sarah has been living in the US for many years, but even when they were both living in Belgium, they penned songs alone, presenting...

Maasmechelen Village VIP Day Out!

Would you like to be pampered by the professionals of shopping haven Maasmechelen Village? We have several spots to give away for VIP treatment: lunch, a styling session, shopping and high tea. The Maasmechelen chauffeur will even transport you from Brussels and back! To win a spot for VIP Day Out...

Kinepolis Belgium visitor numbers down by 10%

The Kinepolis Group, a Belgian chain of movie theatres consisting of 23 cinema complexes across Europe, welcomed 2.2 million visitors to Belgian theatres in the first three months of 2015, reports De Standaard . That is a 10.2% decrease compared to the same period last year, according to quarterly...

Map of Brussels’ new regional cycle network revealed

The Brussels-Capital Region is planning a network of cycling thoroughfares to be finished by 2020, according to documents obtained by La Libra Belgique . The main feature of the plan is the provision of a separate path alongside all major roads, where at present only a dividing line is painted on...

Stromae kicks off African tour in Dakar

Stromae is in the Senegalese capital Dakar today to kick off his first African tour, reports Het Laatste Nieuws . The Belgian singer told the newspaper that he expects to experience a lot of emotions, especially at the end of the tour. That will take place in the Rwandan capital Kigali with a...

Federal government shifts military priority towards Nato

Federal government budget cuts are forcing Belgium’s defence minister Steven Vandeput to make critical choices about the Belgian army’s priorities, according to De Morgen . As a result, the army is increasingly called upon to carry out missions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) and...

Michel and Peeters woo investors in Japan

Prime minister Charles Michel and federal foreign trade minister Kris Peeters are on an economic mission to Japan this week, hosting industry at a seminar to discuss why Belgium is the right place to invest. Michel told the crowd that memories of institutional crises in Belgium belong firmly in the...

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