Staff party: Speedboats with Dutchmen collide in Antwerp, 20 wounded
On the Scheldt in Antwerp, two speed boats that were rented for a Dutch company party collided head-on. Several people ended up in the water. Twenty Dutchmen were injured, three of them seriously, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports. Nobody died.
The Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws reports that two people have been rescued by a fire team diving team. The rest of the drowning people were taken from the Scheldt by a water taxi. According to eyewitnesses, everyone was wearing a life jacket and there was no panic.
A field hospital has been set up in the Left Bank district, where the victims are treated. After a check, they are taken to hospitals in the region, the newspaper reports.
How the two zodiacs could collide is unclear. Eyewitnesses say to the Nieuwsblad that the two boats were racing together and doing dangerous maneuvers.
Video: https://www.nu.nl/268308/video/omstander-filmt-crash-tussen-twee-speedboten-op-de-schelde.html?jwsource=cl
Source: https://nos.nl/artikel/2279189-speedboten-met-nederlanders-botsen-in-antwerpen-20-gewonden.html
ASML says it suffered intellectual property theft, rejects 'Chinese' label
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch ASML said on Thursday it had been the victim of corporate espionage in 2015 involving employees from countries including China but said it had not been the target of any "national conspiracy".
ASML said the perpetrators took "large files" on memory sticks from its Silicon Valley software subsidiary that develops software for machine optimization. It said it had since taken action to make such theft much more difficult.Following publication of a story in Dutch daily newspaper Financieele Dagblad (FD) that said ASML had been struck by Chinese espionage, the company took issue with that label.
"The suggestion that we were somehow victim of a national conspiracy is wrong," CEO Peter Wennink said in a statement.
"We resent any suggestion that this event should have any implication for ASML conducting business in China. Some of the individuals (involved) happened to be Chinese nationals," he added.The Dutch company welcomed a Sino-European agreement earlier this week, which promised that Beijing would no longer force foreign companies to share sensitive know-how when operating in China.
"Can we prudently do business in China? Yes of course. This was a rotten apple," ASML said in an earlier statement. ASML is the dominant maker of lithography systems, used to trace out the circuitry of semiconductor chips. Its sales to China more than doubled to 1.8 billion euros ($2 billion) in 2018 as Beijing drives growth of its domestic semiconductor industry, now accounting for about a sixth of ASML's total sales.
CALIFORNIA CASE
The FD story was based in part on ASML sources and in part on documents from the Santa Clara, California Superior Court that showed six former ASML employees, all with Chinese names, breached their employment contract by sharing information on ASML software processes with a company called XTAL Inc.
The FD reported that XTAL, which makes electrical design automation for semiconductor systems, is a subsidiary of a China-based company called Dongfang Jingyuan, which it said in turn has ties to the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology. In its reaction, ASML said XTAL's funding came from "South Korea and China". It said the aim of the theft was to create a competing product and sell it to an existing ASML customer in South Korea. The company confirmed the FD's report that the court had awarded ASML $223 million in damages.
"It is unclear to what extent these damages can be collected from the now bankrupt company XTAL," ASML said.
ASML shares slipped 1.5 percent by 1210 GMT to the bottom of a flat European technology index. ASML's major customers include Samsung of South Korea, TSMC of Taiwan and Intel of the United States. The Dutch intelligence agency has included warnings in its annual threat assessments for the past several years, saying that China is targeting tech companies in the Netherlands, as it does in other countries, for intellectual property theft. In a reaction, the intelligence agency AIVD said it could not comment on individual cases."In a broader sense, the greatest threat of economic espionage comes from China," it said in an email to Reuters. "The Netherlands is an attractive target, other countries are interested in our information in science and technical expertise."
(Reporting by Anthony Deutsch and Toby Sterling; Editing by Georgina Prodhan and Keith Weir)
Source: https://whtc.com/news/articles/2019/apr/11/chinese-spies-stole-secrets-from-chip-equipment-maker-asml-dutch-newspaper-fd/
Lampposts in eighty municipalities off due to IT failure summer time
In at least eighty Dutch municipalities, street lighting has not worked during the past two nights. The cause is probably an ICT malfunction due to the transition from winter time to summer time. Lampposts were not used in parts of the municipalities, reports energy network company Alliander. Summer time started on night from Saturday to Sunday. On Sunday evening, the lampposts in parts of the municipalities did not come on and they did not turn up a day later. This concerns municipalities in Flevoland, Gelderland, Friesland, Noord-Holland and Zuid-Holland. Parts of Barneveld, Ede, Harderwijk, Heerenveen, Lochem, Overbetuwe, South-West Friesland and Wageningen remained unlit.
Switch type
"We work with two types of switches," explains an Alliander spokesperson. "We think something went wrong with one of these switches. The switches normally ensure that lampposts turn on and off automatically. We are now looking for a solution." Which municipalities and neighborhoods were affected depended on the type of switch in the lampposts.Alliander will now switch on all lampposts manually. The company continues to do so until the solution to the problem is found. People reported the problem on Twitter.
Source: https://nos.nl/artikel/2278692-lantaarnpalen-in-tachtig-gemeenten-uit-door-ict-storing-zomertijd.html
Lots of enthusiasm for petition against 'racist' Hornbach commercial with Asian woman
A petition against a commercial from the Hornbach hardware store has been signed more than 20,000 times. The campaign is aimed at the campaign 'This is how spring smells', which is said to be discriminatory against Asian women. The number of signatories is increasing rapidly.The video shows how an Asian woman sniffs the sweat from a T-shirt that was first worn by a handy white man. She appears in ecstasy while she does that. Critics call the commercial on social media "racist, sexist and disgusting". The petition is an idea of a South Korean woman who lives in Cologne. She calls the advertising a humiliating portrayal of an Asian woman. She says the campaign makes life difficult for Asian women in Germany and wants it to be stopped immediately.
"Our advertising is not racist"
The initiator also wants the Hornbach summit to apologize, but the hardware store does not seem to intend. In a response to Twitter, the company writes that the advertising is not racist, but is intended "as an indictment of increasing urbanization and declining quality of life in cities". "The scent of spring is only available in vending machines there. That applies to everyone, not just Asian people," adds Hornbach. The company then placed two more versions of the objectionable fragment on social media, but with a white woman and white man. Critics point out that those spots cannot be seen anywhere else.Our ad is not a racist. View the ad as a discourse on the increasing urbanization and decreasing quality of life in cities. The smell of the spring is only available in vending machines. For everyone. Not only asian people. The hardware store does not seem to be planning to stop the advertising campaign either. The Dutch branch of the company was not available for comment. Hornbach has said on social media that he wants to talk to people who take offense at the commercial.
Source: https://nos.nl/artikel/2278813-veel-animo-voor-petitie-tegen-racistisch-hornbach-spotje-met-aziatische-vrouw.html
Giraffe nuts look too much like tiger nuts, court prohibits sale
The court of Gelderland prohibits the sale of Giraffe nuts from Intersnack, because the snacks are too similar in appearance to the Tiger nuts from manufacturer Frito-Lay, the court said Wednesday. Tiger nuts have been produced by Frito-Lay since 1993 and traded under the name Duyvis. In 2015 the Giraffe nuts came on the market. The nuts have a similar appearance with characteristic spots. But the maker of Tigger nuts has previously recorded that. According to the court, Intersnacks infringes Frito-Lay's trademark right with the Giraffe nuts. Frito-Lay believes that the names and packaging of the products are too similar, but according to the court there is no question of that.
Source: https://www.nu.nl/economie/5824656/girafnootjes-lijken-te-veel-op-tijgernootjes-rechtbank-verbiedt-verkoop.html
Second entrepreneur wind farm in the Northern Netherlands stops after threatening letter
An entrepreneur who was involved in the construction of a wind farm in Groningen withdrew after he received a threatening letter, the police reported Thursday. The same thing happened at the end of last month with a man who worked on the De Monden windmill project in Drenthe. According to Dagblad van het Noorden , the letter "We have less patience with you" wrote, thus referring to De Monden's entrepreneur. The man would have been given 48 hours to ignore his duties. The police confirm that a threat report has been made and that the man has chosen not to continue working on the wind farm. The agents investigate whether the threatening letters have been sent by the same person or persons. It is striking that the entrepreneur who decided last month to withdraw, also made a declaration earlier. Mid-February, asbestos was dumped in the neighborhood at Delfzijl station, where his company was busy with work.
NCTV: "It's starting to take extremist forms"
Both in Drenthe and Groningen the arrival of wind farms has been denounced by campaigners for years. Among other things, they claim that their enjoyment of living will be spoiled. The National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security (NCTV) said in September 2018 that the actions are starting to take on "extremist forms", particularly in the Northern Netherlands. It is not known who is behind the threats.
Source: https://www.nu.nl/binnenland/5826546/tweede-ondernemer-windmolenpark-noord-nederland-stopt-na-dreigbrief.html
Tata Steel executives must take safety seriously after industrial accidents
IJMUIDEN - Tata Steel director Hans van den Berg demands that managers should take reports about unsafe situations at the company seriously. "I regularly receive signals that employees do not always hear," he writes in the staff magazine Over Staal. Van den Berg regrets that 28 people were injured in the financial year until 1 April who had to put down their work at the factory for at least one day. "There are more than average," explains spokesperson Robert Moens.
"That while we are committed to the theme of safety. Unfortunately, you cannot rule out these fluctuations." Van den Berg says that people are not always heard when reporting unsafe situations. "I demand from all managers that they listen and take it seriously when someone raises something," said the director.
On March 20, another four people were injured after an explosion at Kooks and Gas Factory 1. One of them got burns in the face. Both Tata Steel and the labor inspectorate investigate the incident.
Improvement
The director hopes for improvement in the new financial year. "Make sure you get heard. It's about safety ..." He concludes with: "Let's do what we promised. And let's do it safely."
Source: https://www.nhnieuws.nl/nieuws/243757/leidinggevenden-tata-steel-moeten-veiligheid-serieus-nemen-na-bedrijfsongevallen
Thousands of files of vulnerable children leaked at Bureau Jeugdzorg
Files of thousands of children have been leaked due to an error at Bureau Jeugdzorg Utrecht. This is evident from documents in the hands of RTL News.
In total it concerns 3,278 files of 2,702 children. The documents contain data such as full names and birth dates. Information such as mental disorders, data on sexual abuse and suicide attempts is also provided.
RTL Nieuws received the documents from two whistleblowers. They say they want to warn against carelessness in the healthcare sector. According to the whistleblowers, the files were sent in plain text by e-mail without security. This made the files clear.
Three quarters of the files concern children under the age of eighteen. A quarter is younger than twelve. In addition to files, internal e-mails and hundreds of voicemail messages from emergency workers also leaked. The data breach came about because an old domain name of Youth Care Utrecht was not renewed. Because the organization sent patient files unsecured and automatically to old employee e-mail addresses, the new owners of the website, the whistleblowers, could request all sensitive information. Youth care has stopped the leak and has started an investigation. Those involved are informed and the leak has been reported to the Dutch Data Protection Authority.
Source: https://www.nu.nl/internet/5836644/duizenden-dossiers-van-kwetsbare-kinderen-gelekt-bij-bureau-jeugdzorg.amp
On the Scheldt in Antwerp, two speed boats that were rented for a Dutch company party collided head-on. Several people ended up in the water. Twenty Dutchmen were injured, three of them seriously, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports. Nobody died.
The Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws reports that two people have been rescued by a fire team diving team. The rest of the drowning people were taken from the Scheldt by a water taxi. According to eyewitnesses, everyone was wearing a life jacket and there was no panic.
A field hospital has been set up in the Left Bank district, where the victims are treated. After a check, they are taken to hospitals in the region, the newspaper reports.
How the two zodiacs could collide is unclear. Eyewitnesses say to the Nieuwsblad that the two boats were racing together and doing dangerous maneuvers.
Video: https://www.nu.nl/268308/video/omstander-filmt-crash-tussen-twee-speedboten-op-de-schelde.html?jwsource=cl
Source: https://nos.nl/artikel/2279189-speedboten-met-nederlanders-botsen-in-antwerpen-20-gewonden.html
ASML says it suffered intellectual property theft, rejects 'Chinese' label
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch ASML said on Thursday it had been the victim of corporate espionage in 2015 involving employees from countries including China but said it had not been the target of any "national conspiracy".
ASML said the perpetrators took "large files" on memory sticks from its Silicon Valley software subsidiary that develops software for machine optimization. It said it had since taken action to make such theft much more difficult.Following publication of a story in Dutch daily newspaper Financieele Dagblad (FD) that said ASML had been struck by Chinese espionage, the company took issue with that label.
"The suggestion that we were somehow victim of a national conspiracy is wrong," CEO Peter Wennink said in a statement.
"We resent any suggestion that this event should have any implication for ASML conducting business in China. Some of the individuals (involved) happened to be Chinese nationals," he added.The Dutch company welcomed a Sino-European agreement earlier this week, which promised that Beijing would no longer force foreign companies to share sensitive know-how when operating in China.
"Can we prudently do business in China? Yes of course. This was a rotten apple," ASML said in an earlier statement. ASML is the dominant maker of lithography systems, used to trace out the circuitry of semiconductor chips. Its sales to China more than doubled to 1.8 billion euros ($2 billion) in 2018 as Beijing drives growth of its domestic semiconductor industry, now accounting for about a sixth of ASML's total sales.
CALIFORNIA CASE
The FD story was based in part on ASML sources and in part on documents from the Santa Clara, California Superior Court that showed six former ASML employees, all with Chinese names, breached their employment contract by sharing information on ASML software processes with a company called XTAL Inc.
The FD reported that XTAL, which makes electrical design automation for semiconductor systems, is a subsidiary of a China-based company called Dongfang Jingyuan, which it said in turn has ties to the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology. In its reaction, ASML said XTAL's funding came from "South Korea and China". It said the aim of the theft was to create a competing product and sell it to an existing ASML customer in South Korea. The company confirmed the FD's report that the court had awarded ASML $223 million in damages.
"It is unclear to what extent these damages can be collected from the now bankrupt company XTAL," ASML said.
ASML shares slipped 1.5 percent by 1210 GMT to the bottom of a flat European technology index. ASML's major customers include Samsung of South Korea, TSMC of Taiwan and Intel of the United States. The Dutch intelligence agency has included warnings in its annual threat assessments for the past several years, saying that China is targeting tech companies in the Netherlands, as it does in other countries, for intellectual property theft. In a reaction, the intelligence agency AIVD said it could not comment on individual cases."In a broader sense, the greatest threat of economic espionage comes from China," it said in an email to Reuters. "The Netherlands is an attractive target, other countries are interested in our information in science and technical expertise."
(Reporting by Anthony Deutsch and Toby Sterling; Editing by Georgina Prodhan and Keith Weir)
Source: https://whtc.com/news/articles/2019/apr/11/chinese-spies-stole-secrets-from-chip-equipment-maker-asml-dutch-newspaper-fd/
Lampposts in eighty municipalities off due to IT failure summer time
In at least eighty Dutch municipalities, street lighting has not worked during the past two nights. The cause is probably an ICT malfunction due to the transition from winter time to summer time. Lampposts were not used in parts of the municipalities, reports energy network company Alliander. Summer time started on night from Saturday to Sunday. On Sunday evening, the lampposts in parts of the municipalities did not come on and they did not turn up a day later. This concerns municipalities in Flevoland, Gelderland, Friesland, Noord-Holland and Zuid-Holland. Parts of Barneveld, Ede, Harderwijk, Heerenveen, Lochem, Overbetuwe, South-West Friesland and Wageningen remained unlit.
Switch type
"We work with two types of switches," explains an Alliander spokesperson. "We think something went wrong with one of these switches. The switches normally ensure that lampposts turn on and off automatically. We are now looking for a solution." Which municipalities and neighborhoods were affected depended on the type of switch in the lampposts.Alliander will now switch on all lampposts manually. The company continues to do so until the solution to the problem is found. People reported the problem on Twitter.
Source: https://nos.nl/artikel/2278692-lantaarnpalen-in-tachtig-gemeenten-uit-door-ict-storing-zomertijd.html
Lots of enthusiasm for petition against 'racist' Hornbach commercial with Asian woman
A petition against a commercial from the Hornbach hardware store has been signed more than 20,000 times. The campaign is aimed at the campaign 'This is how spring smells', which is said to be discriminatory against Asian women. The number of signatories is increasing rapidly.The video shows how an Asian woman sniffs the sweat from a T-shirt that was first worn by a handy white man. She appears in ecstasy while she does that. Critics call the commercial on social media "racist, sexist and disgusting". The petition is an idea of a South Korean woman who lives in Cologne. She calls the advertising a humiliating portrayal of an Asian woman. She says the campaign makes life difficult for Asian women in Germany and wants it to be stopped immediately.
"Our advertising is not racist"
The initiator also wants the Hornbach summit to apologize, but the hardware store does not seem to intend. In a response to Twitter, the company writes that the advertising is not racist, but is intended "as an indictment of increasing urbanization and declining quality of life in cities". "The scent of spring is only available in vending machines there. That applies to everyone, not just Asian people," adds Hornbach. The company then placed two more versions of the objectionable fragment on social media, but with a white woman and white man. Critics point out that those spots cannot be seen anywhere else.Our ad is not a racist. View the ad as a discourse on the increasing urbanization and decreasing quality of life in cities. The smell of the spring is only available in vending machines. For everyone. Not only asian people. The hardware store does not seem to be planning to stop the advertising campaign either. The Dutch branch of the company was not available for comment. Hornbach has said on social media that he wants to talk to people who take offense at the commercial.
Source: https://nos.nl/artikel/2278813-veel-animo-voor-petitie-tegen-racistisch-hornbach-spotje-met-aziatische-vrouw.html
Giraffe nuts look too much like tiger nuts, court prohibits sale
The court of Gelderland prohibits the sale of Giraffe nuts from Intersnack, because the snacks are too similar in appearance to the Tiger nuts from manufacturer Frito-Lay, the court said Wednesday. Tiger nuts have been produced by Frito-Lay since 1993 and traded under the name Duyvis. In 2015 the Giraffe nuts came on the market. The nuts have a similar appearance with characteristic spots. But the maker of Tigger nuts has previously recorded that. According to the court, Intersnacks infringes Frito-Lay's trademark right with the Giraffe nuts. Frito-Lay believes that the names and packaging of the products are too similar, but according to the court there is no question of that.
Source: https://www.nu.nl/economie/5824656/girafnootjes-lijken-te-veel-op-tijgernootjes-rechtbank-verbiedt-verkoop.html
Second entrepreneur wind farm in the Northern Netherlands stops after threatening letter
An entrepreneur who was involved in the construction of a wind farm in Groningen withdrew after he received a threatening letter, the police reported Thursday. The same thing happened at the end of last month with a man who worked on the De Monden windmill project in Drenthe. According to Dagblad van het Noorden , the letter "We have less patience with you" wrote, thus referring to De Monden's entrepreneur. The man would have been given 48 hours to ignore his duties. The police confirm that a threat report has been made and that the man has chosen not to continue working on the wind farm. The agents investigate whether the threatening letters have been sent by the same person or persons. It is striking that the entrepreneur who decided last month to withdraw, also made a declaration earlier. Mid-February, asbestos was dumped in the neighborhood at Delfzijl station, where his company was busy with work.
NCTV: "It's starting to take extremist forms"
Both in Drenthe and Groningen the arrival of wind farms has been denounced by campaigners for years. Among other things, they claim that their enjoyment of living will be spoiled. The National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security (NCTV) said in September 2018 that the actions are starting to take on "extremist forms", particularly in the Northern Netherlands. It is not known who is behind the threats.
Source: https://www.nu.nl/binnenland/5826546/tweede-ondernemer-windmolenpark-noord-nederland-stopt-na-dreigbrief.html
Tata Steel executives must take safety seriously after industrial accidents
IJMUIDEN - Tata Steel director Hans van den Berg demands that managers should take reports about unsafe situations at the company seriously. "I regularly receive signals that employees do not always hear," he writes in the staff magazine Over Staal. Van den Berg regrets that 28 people were injured in the financial year until 1 April who had to put down their work at the factory for at least one day. "There are more than average," explains spokesperson Robert Moens.
"That while we are committed to the theme of safety. Unfortunately, you cannot rule out these fluctuations." Van den Berg says that people are not always heard when reporting unsafe situations. "I demand from all managers that they listen and take it seriously when someone raises something," said the director.
On March 20, another four people were injured after an explosion at Kooks and Gas Factory 1. One of them got burns in the face. Both Tata Steel and the labor inspectorate investigate the incident.
Improvement
The director hopes for improvement in the new financial year. "Make sure you get heard. It's about safety ..." He concludes with: "Let's do what we promised. And let's do it safely."
Source: https://www.nhnieuws.nl/nieuws/243757/leidinggevenden-tata-steel-moeten-veiligheid-serieus-nemen-na-bedrijfsongevallen
Thousands of files of vulnerable children leaked at Bureau Jeugdzorg
Files of thousands of children have been leaked due to an error at Bureau Jeugdzorg Utrecht. This is evident from documents in the hands of RTL News.
In total it concerns 3,278 files of 2,702 children. The documents contain data such as full names and birth dates. Information such as mental disorders, data on sexual abuse and suicide attempts is also provided.
RTL Nieuws received the documents from two whistleblowers. They say they want to warn against carelessness in the healthcare sector. According to the whistleblowers, the files were sent in plain text by e-mail without security. This made the files clear.
Three quarters of the files concern children under the age of eighteen. A quarter is younger than twelve. In addition to files, internal e-mails and hundreds of voicemail messages from emergency workers also leaked. The data breach came about because an old domain name of Youth Care Utrecht was not renewed. Because the organization sent patient files unsecured and automatically to old employee e-mail addresses, the new owners of the website, the whistleblowers, could request all sensitive information. Youth care has stopped the leak and has started an investigation. Those involved are informed and the leak has been reported to the Dutch Data Protection Authority.
Source: https://www.nu.nl/internet/5836644/duizenden-dossiers-van-kwetsbare-kinderen-gelekt-bij-bureau-jeugdzorg.amp