The federal Privacy Commission is starting a series of lessons to teach primary school students how to surf safely on the internet. Youngsters learn that they should always think twice before sharing personal data, like their address or GSM number. Although social media such as Facebook are...

From every €100 donated to the Haiyan 21-21 consortium made up of NGOs Caritas International, Handicap International, Oxfam Solidarity, Unicef Belgium and Doctors of the World, €87 goes to aid requirements on the ground, according to consortium chairman Erik Todts. De Standaard newspaper checked...

The Red Star Line Museum is an exciting, multi-layered project. As a cultural and heritage landmark, it breathes new life into the shipping company’s original warehouses overlooking the Scheldt in Antwerp. By presenting the story of the Star boats, as they were known in Antwerp dialect, it...

The Belgian first aid and support team B-Fast has arrived in Tacloban in the Philippines, one of the areas hardest hit by typhoon Haiyan, and been reunited with its material. The 30-strong team originally arrived in the area without materials, which had to be transferred to a freight ship after the...

The ports of Zeebrugge and Antwerp have signed a memorandum of understanding with the port authority of Singapore to harmonise procedures for the provision of liquid natural gas (LNG) as a fuel for ships. The ports said the choice of LNG was made because of new tougher sulphur emissions standards...

The education system can play an important role in dealing with child poverty, but it needs help from the government. That is the message of a press statement issued yesterday by the Flemish Education Council (Vlor). Vlor recommends increasing the school subsidies for parents with low incomes and...

About one-quarter of the squatters last week evicted from the Gesú convent in Saint-Josse in Brussels – some 50 people from a total of nearly 200 – are expected later this week to move into new temporary accommodation offered by the Brussels region, housing minister Christos Doulkeridis said. The...

A 58-year-old woman from Binche has been defrauded of €26,000 because of her affection for the prime minister, Elio Di Rupo. Nicole Van Den Meerschaut met a man in an internet chat room, ostensibly named Marcel Dubois. First he borrowed money from her, claiming a banking error had denied him access...

Pop culture is a boneyard and it takes a palaeontologist to inventory it properly. Artist Floris Vanhoof is up to the task. His solo exhibition My Family’s Fossil Collection at Hectoliter showcases a generation’s worth of bric-a-brac accumulated by him and his family. You’ll see curios, slides,...

Debbie Quinn (pictured): This is our first house in Belgium and it’s our dream home. It was built in 2009 and has 3 hectares of land. We will probably downsize in the future as the house is quite big, but hopefully keep the same amount of. Property is good value in Belgium, certainly compared to in...