61.   One Belgian and five Dutch nationals have been arrested in a cross-border operation to stop the international smuggling of banned livestock hormones, legal sources said Tuesday.

62.   Seven Dutch nationals have been arrested in the Philippines for allegedly running an unlicensed labor recruitment agency, the immigration bureau said Thursday.

63.   Sixteen of those arrested were Dutch nationals.

64.   The captors still hold four Britons, two Dutch nationals, a German and eight other Indonesians.

65.   The Dutch government has almost given up hope of saving Dutch national Johannes van Damme from hanging in Singapore early Friday for drug trafficking, officials said here Thursday.

66.   The Derniere Heure newspaper said investigators had evidence of a Belgian paedophile network with connections in Germany and the Czech Republic and had arrested a Dutch national in Brussels.

67.   The drugs were confiscated and the driver and a passenger, both Dutch nationals, were arrested by Hungarian authorities.

68.   The hanging on Friday in Singapore of a Dutch national, Johannes van Damme, for heroin trafficking had unleashed a storm of protest in Europe.

69.   The health of the hostages -- six Indonesians, four Britons and two Dutch nationals -- has been a particular concern.

70.   The foreigners kidnapped by Yemeni tribesmen are believed to be Polish rather than Dutch nationals, contrary to what police reported earlier, diplomats said here Sunday.