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In 2014 there were about 600 Belgian phones tapped monthly on the orders of a magistrate, while four years ago there were about 450 phones tapped per month, reports La Dernière Heure.
Belgium’s suicide prevention hotline 1813 received a quarter more calls in 2014 compared with two years ago, reports VRT news.
The American writer and publisher Dave Eggers, author of the best-selling novel The Circle, has been awarded the Amnesty International Chair at Ghent University (UGent).
The number of complaints from local residents about noise caused by airplanes landing and taking off at Brussels Airport last year reached a record high of nearly 90,000 complaints.
The directors of stock market-listed companies still feel that the government shouldn’t have imposed quotas on the number of women in their board of directors, according to research released by Ha
Increasingly more toddlers and young children have to have multiple cavities filled, which usually must be done using a local anaesthetic, according to professor Luc Martens, head of the child den
The gold reserves belonging to the Belgian state will not be repatriated, as reports suggested earlier this week, the National Bank of Belgium (NBB) announced.
Based on declining bank robbery statistics, it appears that the crime is on its way to extinction in Belgium. Four banks were robbed in the country in 2014, an all-time low.
Tesla Motors, the American manufacturer of high-end electric cars, intends to expand further into Belgium.
