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A journey without maps
I must admit I am somewhat in two minds about my girlfriend’s Christmas present to herself: a global positioning system device. It is not that I can find too much fault…
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News
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Business News
In this week’s Business News: the government seeks to get to grips with corruption; deflation at factory and farm gates; car makers buck the trend with production figures…
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Environmentalists warn over damage to wildlife from salt on roads
Thousands of tonnes of salt have been spread on roads in the Czech Republic and the rest of Europe during recent heavy snowfall. So much so, that stocks threaten to run…
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Prague conference seeks to help NATO chart new course
The world’s most powerful military alliance, NATO, is in the middle of a far reaching and overdue rethink of its strategy. Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright…
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Czech government approves package of measures to attack corruption scourge
The Czech Republic last year slipped down the rankings of more or less corruption free countries. Politicians’ failure to tackle what it almost universally recognised as a…
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Mike Ostler: the Bata reminiscence and resource centre in East Tilbury
East Tilbury on the Thames estuary in Essex is a piece of the old Czechoslovakia planted in England. It was here in 1933 that the Zlín-based shoe empire Bata opened its…
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Business News
In this week’s Business News: sobering state deficit figure announced, Prague airport sees passenger decline, bankruptcies climb in 2009, statistics office fuels recovery…
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Legendary Czech broadcaster Ivan Medek remembered
A legendary Czech exile from communism and radio broadcaster has died. Ivan Medek’s voice became a vital link to the outside world after he began broadcasting back to his…
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Václav Havel gets closed door reception at protest supporting Chinese dissident
Former Czech president Václav Havel headed a delegation to the Chinese embassy to protest against the harsh prison sentence handed down by the Chinese government to a…
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