There will be no ‘soda tax’ in Belgium after all, De Tijd reports. The office of health minister Laurette Onkelinx has confirmed that the tax on sugar-heavy soft drinks, first mooted in May , has now been abandoned, adding that in Denmark the initiative had been scrapped while the French seems to...

The Union of Flemish Film Producers (VFPB) and the website UniversCine.be have, in collaboration with the Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds (VAF) and Flanders Doc, have launched a new diffusion platform for Flemish films going back as far as 1945, making them available by paying download or online...

Welsh first minister Carwyn Jones will today announce his government’s financial backing for a new memorial in Belgium to remember Welsh people who served during in the First World War, reports Wales Online . On a visit to the site of the new memorial in Langemark, West Flanders, he will announce...

A high-end chocolate emporium in Australia has brought over six chocolatiers from Belgium to work at the popular attraction, which opened in December last year and now employs 72 people, writes the Weekly Times’ Johanna Leggatt . But the Belgian ‘imports’ at the new Yarra Valley Chocolaterie and...

The 2013 edition of Car Free Sunday takes place this weekend and it is heartening to note that the initiative gains in popularity every year. From its inception in 2000 (when it mirrored the French initiative "En ville sans ma voiture" ) to the well-oiled operation it has become, Car Free Sunday...

Australia’s new minister for finance, Mathias Cormann, was actually born in Belgium and only learnt English in his twenties, several Belgian media were quick to report. Cormann, 42, was born and raised in Eupen and studied at KU Leuven, only learning English as an exchange student at the University...

Martin Scorsese will team up with Harry Belafonte to tackle a television mini-series about king Leopold II of the Belgians and his reign over Congo, reports TV Rage . Scorsese is looking to continue with his portrayal of violent historical figures on television, while Belafonte’s interest stems...

Viohalco, Greece's biggest metals processing group, has announced it is moving its headquarters and stock market listing to Belgium, the third big firm in a year to flee the austerity-hit country for a more stable, lower-tax jurisdiction, reports Reuters’ Harry Papachristou . Viohalco, with sales...

A Belgian believes the temperature at which we serve our food affects the way it tastes, writes the Guardian’s Amy Fleming . According to Karel Talavera Pérez, professor of molecular and cellular medicine at the University of Leuven, studies recording the electrical activity of taste nerves...

Belgian furniture company BuzziSpace is considering a site in the south end of High Point, in North Carolina’s Triad region, for its manufacturing operations, reports W FDD's Keri Brown . “BuzziSpace is considering opening up a 113-job furniture manufacturing facility,” the High Point Economic...