Few holidays can boast a kitsch factor as high as Valentine’s Day, which makes Neo Retro Agency the ideal party planner. The anything-but-subtle events team has risen to the occasion, putting on a host of very Valentine events across Belgium throughout the week. On the big day itself the Agency is...

To appreciate the number of Brussels’ bikes lost or stolen, all one needs to do is visit a warehouse in Schaerbeek where nearly a thousand bikes are waiting for be reunited with their owners. The capital’s location for wayward bikes is out of space, leaving officials scrambling to find alternatives...

A select group of Brussels students will soon have the chance to exercise in world-class facilities. The international British School of Brussels has received the go-ahead from Brussels’ Tervuren commune to begin construction on a €25 million sports complex. The elite private school for children...

The president of the Flemish Groen party, Wouter Van Besien, has criticised Antwerp’s controversial Oosterweel Link plan because it solves the city’s traffic congestion at the cost of public health. “We have to find a solution to mobility, the traffic jams have to be eliminated, but we also have to...

Police in Brussels are investigating 23 alleged incidents of rape involving men pretending to be taxi drivers. The incidents took place over the last three years in the area of Ter Kamerenbos park and in each case involved a young woman travelling home alone after an evening out in the city. “The...

Staff of the Brussels public transport authority MIVB will demonstrate on Friday morning in front of the Justice Palace in Brussels, in protest of yesterday’s outcome of the trial of a man accused of killing an inspector. The Brussels court found Alexandre Vander Elst guilty of unintentional...

The headlines covering the first week of the Olympics in Sochi have been dominated by photos of unfinished hotel rooms, faulty infrastructure, and exploding budgets, but the main issue closer to home has been chocolate. Until this past weekend, the Belgian delegation was prohibited from brining the...

An investigation by the Federal Police Services focused on the past five years of refuge companies’ activities has uncovered illegal practices. News reports reveal that upwards of 500 refuge companies have been operating without required business licenses to dispose of certain waste materials,...

Patients with a rare or very complex cancer should only be treated in hospitals with a special statute, said the Federal Knowledge Centre for Health Care in a report released yesterday. At the moment, all 119 Belgian hospitals are allowed to treat all kinds of cancers. But pancreatic cancer, for...