The national rail authority, SNCB, should prepare itself for an opening up of the market in passenger transport, federal mobility minister Jacqueline Galant said this week as she presented her department’s policy intentions for the coming legislature. Part of that preparation, she said, must...

The rich strains of the n´goni filtered out into the brisk November air at the Solbosch campus of the ULB Free University of Brussels earlier this week. His roots may be in Algeria but for Brussels-based singer Yani Aït Aoudia it was the music of the Mandinka cultural region that stirred his soul...

Europe is filled with impressive art from across empires and centuries. But tiny Belgium holds its fair share of the continent’s cultural riches. Here are five essential pieces of Belgian art that any visitor or resident should see at least once in their lifetimes. 1. The Ghent Altarpiece, Hubrecht...

Twitter has announced it will open an office in Brussels at the beginning of 2015, where it will employ about five people, reports De Tijd . As Belgians becomes increasingly active on the social network, Twitter has decided it is time for a local office, in order to better reach advertisers...

Two in three Walloons (66.1%) feel 'rather different' or 'very different' from Flemings, reports RTBF, according to a study by The Walloon Institute for Evaluation, Prospective and Statistics (IWEPS). In a survey of 1,200 people from French-speaking Wallonia, the majority of respondents said they...

Brussels cinemas last year counted about 209,000 less visitors than in 2012, a decrease of 5.4%, reports brusselnieuws.be, according to figures from the FPS Economy. Throughout Belgium, movie audience numbers fell by 4.1% between 2012 and 2013. The Brussels cinemas hold up better than those in the...

Eddy Bruyninckx, CEO of the Antwerp Port Authority for the last 22 years, has been awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the professional periodical International Bulk Journal . The award is one of several given out annually by the industry journal. Bruyninckx was given the award for his...

The results of a mass colon cancer screening in Flanders shows that slightly more than 10% of participants, who were aged 66 to 74, had irregular results. They were referred to specialists for further tests. The results of the population screening were announced by the region’s public health...

When I meet Sachli Gholamalizad in a diner in Antwerp, one of the first things she tells me is that, although A Reason To Talk tells the story of a young Iranian family finding their way in a small town in Belgium after fleeing the Iranian Revolution, she doesn’t want to be pushed into that little...