Amsterdam - Airtricity is to build the Netherlands' largest wind turbine park on sea, the subsidiary of the British utility group, Scottish & Southern Energy Plc (SSE) announced on Wednesday.

The new wind farm, Breeveertien 2, would be built 55 kilometres from the coast near IJmuiden in the north-west Netherlands. It would have a capacity of 350 megawatts, providing electricity to 390,000 homes, Airtricity said.

Existing wind turbine parks in the Netherlands have a capacity of no more than 141 megawatts.

Amsterdam - Dutch electronics manufacturer Philips is taking over led-light producer Italian Ilti Luce, the Dutch company announced on Tuesday, without releasing financial details.

Amsterdam  - Dutch satellite-navigation-device manufacturer TomTom suffered a loss of 989 million euros (1.265 billion dollars) in the fourth quarter of 2008, the company announced on Tuesday.

TomTom had to write off more than 1 billion euros on the value of electronic mapmaker Tele Atlas, which it took over last year for 2.9 billion euros.

Reduced prices of TomTom's navigation products also contributed to the loss.

TomTom sold 44 million navigation systems in the fourth quarter of 2008, an increase of 4 per cent compared with the same period last year.

However, with sales prices for units being up to 100 euros lower than last year, total turnover dropped 17 per cent to 528 million euros in the fourth quarter.

Amsterdam  - Dutch police on Monday confirmed they had detained two men and a woman suspected of having thrown shoes at Israeli army spokesman Ron Edelheit.

Edelheit was hit on his legs by the shoes at a lecture in Amsterdam late Sunday evening entitled "After the Gaza war, what next?" which was picketed by pro-Palestinian demonstrators.

It was unclear if Edelheit had pressed charges after the incident or not.

Amsterdam police spokesman Charmene van Damme on Monday confirmed the Dutch police had detained two man and a woman, all three in their early twenties.

"They were taken to the police station and interrogated but sent home afterwards," she said.

Amsterdam - Swedish energy provider Vattenfall has made a bid of 8.5 billion euros (10.70 billion dollars) for Dutch energy provider Nuon, the Dutch company confirmed on Monday.

London, Feb. 20 : Dutch-born football coach Guus Hiddink has stressed that he will leave Chelsea in the summer but will give everything he has to win the Premier League title from Manchester United.

Addressing his first press conference since replacing Brazil's Luiz Felipe Scolari as coach at Stamford Bridge, Hiddink reiterated that he would return to his international duties with Russia when the season is over.

Hiddink faces a tough away trip to Aston Villa in his first match in charge on Saturday lunchtime. Villa would go five points clear of fourth-placed Chelsea if they can avenge a 2-0 loss at Stamford Bridge earlier in the season and Hiddink is eager to get his Chelsea tenure off to a winning start.