Posthumus provided a comprehensive history of Amsterdam's drinking culture, including the Netherlands' role in introducing coffee and tea to the world through the Dutch East Indies Company. "Along the ...

The proposal of the latter, in 1857, included the organisation of hourly observations at Batavia and the establishment of secondary stations at some places in the East Indian Archipelago ...

It sealed the emergence of a new Sunni-led Middle East order - one that eclipses Iran's shattered 'axis of resistance', and leaves Israel sidelined, according to three regional and two Western sources ...

The Koning Willem de Tweede was meant to do trading between the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies, a former colony that’s now Indonesia. However, just before returning home, the crew picked ...

And on 15 August, the Kingdom of the Netherlands observes the official end of the Second World War in Asia, commemorating the victims of the Japanese occupation in the former Dutch East Indies and the ...