After it came to light this week that malware was discovered on the computer network of Belgian telecoms giant Belgacom, now the goverment appears to be the target of a major computer break-in. The federal prosecutor is investigating an intrusion into the network of the Belgian Ministry of Foreign...

Currently, some 600 people in Belgium are professionally involved in the development of mobile apps, 200 more than a year ago. The development of apps didn't take off in Belgium until 2010, but since then the sector has grown to include nearly 85 companies, according to the survey "Belgian Mobile...

Rue Neuve remains the most popular shopping street in Brussels with a daily average of 43,000 visitors. The Chaussée d'Ixelles and Rue des Fripiers complete the top three with 31,200 and 28,200 passersby per day, respectively. This is evident from the third Atrium barometer of market sentiment...

Bancontact/Mister Cash is about to make it easier to pay small amounts with a bank card. The Proton function, previously used to make small payments, will disappear by the end of this year. To compensate, Bancontact/Mister Cash worked out an alternative: From 2014 it will be possible to make small...

Juan Carlos Garrido has been sacked at Club Brugge. The Spaniard, who has only been coaching in Bruges for 10 months, is the first coach this season in Belgium to lose his job. Interestingly, Club haven't been performing poorly at all. The 13-time champions are currently number two in Belgium and...

A shorter working week, based on the Belgian model, should become the norm, enabling people to get better value from their time, according to a new book published by independent think-tank the New Economics Foundation, reports the London Evening Standard . "It's time to make 'part-time' the new '...

There will be no ‘soda tax’ in Belgium after all, De Tijd reports. The office of health minister Laurette Onkelinx has confirmed that the tax on sugar-heavy soft drinks, first mooted in May , has now been abandoned, adding that in Denmark the initiative had been scrapped while the French seems to...

The Union of Flemish Film Producers (VFPB) and the website UniversCine.be have, in collaboration with the Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds (VAF) and Flanders Doc, have launched a new diffusion platform for Flemish films going back as far as 1945, making them available by paying download or online...

Welsh first minister Carwyn Jones will today announce his government’s financial backing for a new memorial in Belgium to remember Welsh people who served during in the First World War, reports Wales Online . On a visit to the site of the new memorial in Langemark, West Flanders, he will announce...

A high-end chocolate emporium in Australia has brought over six chocolatiers from Belgium to work at the popular attraction, which opened in December last year and now employs 72 people, writes the Weekly Times’ Johanna Leggatt . But the Belgian ‘imports’ at the new Yarra Valley Chocolaterie and...