The City of Ghent is investing €750,000 in a new building for the International School of Ghent (ISG). The school was established in 2012 for the children of foreign staff in academic institutions and technology companies from West and East Flanders. The school, currently located at the Leopolds...

From the street, I get a faint whiff of compost. Entering through the gate, the fumes from the street fade and I am met with the smell of damp organic matter. Laid out before me are rows of wooden garden beds, test plots, vines growing over trellises. In the back of the long narrow space there is a...

The 2015 tax return form is slightly more complicated than previous versions. The new tax declaration form is longer than last year’s: it includes 43 supplementary tax codes. This change is due to the 6th State Reform, which sees a large part of property tax transferred to the competency of the...

The federal committee of the socialist trade union ABVV have voted not to strike again on 12 May. The committee’s vote means the decision need no longer go to a vote of the membership. The federal committee is made up of representatives of all sector organisations and regional branches of the union...

After touching down in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Tuesday, more than 45 hours after their departure from Melsbroek military airport, Belgium’s B-Fast aid team was due to evacuate 46 Belgians and 91 Europeans from the area on Tuesday night. Immediately after landing, the team unloaded 10 tonnes of tents,...

From 15 June to 15 September, a team of mounted and maritime police will be conducting security controls along Flemish beaches, announced West Flanders police governor Carl Decaluwé on Tuesday. Last year a pilot project, organized at the request of the provincial governor, took place on West...

The Belgian bakery company Jules Destrooper, famous for its butter waffles, has been taken over by GT&CO, the holding company of the Vandermarliere family best known as a cigar manufacturer. Vandermarliere was previously owner of Gryson, one of the last independent tobacco companies in Belgium...

Spring is in the air and Brussels is alive with circus fever. Don´t worry, not ´matted camels, depressed lions, call animal welfare now´ circus. With the 2013 ban on the use of wild animals, the future of circus in Belgium means circus crafts - anything from aerial acrobatics to juggling to fire...

Three people a day are diagnosed with HIV in Belgium, and many more are HIV carriers who do not know that they are infected. The British company BioSure has therefore launched the world’s first CE marked HIV self-testing kit. Because the test can be taken at home, completely anonymous, BioSure...

Fresh fruits and vegetables are reaching rock bottom prices at supermarkets across Belgium this week, mainly due to increasing competition between low-cost supermarket chains such as Lidl and Colruyt, reports Het Laatste Nieuws . Belgian supermarket chains Delhaize and Colruyt are in a price war...