Czechs abroad
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‘Maoriavian’ Frank Tomas Grapl Junior: It’s important to know where you come from and where you’re…
Haka is a traditional Māori dance, which became world-famous thanks to the New Zealand rugby team All Blacks, who perform the dance during their pre-match ritual. It was…
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Prague SVU honours Pomahač, Passer and seven others for promotion of Czech science and culture
The Prague branch of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences has just bestowed its annual awards to nine well-known figures who have served to promote Czech science…
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Bohemian born priest John Neumann who became US saint
A humble man born in South Bohemia later became one of the first saints in the United States. John Neumann actually studied for the priesthood in what was the then Bohemia…
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Czech UK residency rejection highlights foreigners’ fears in Britain
The exit of Britain from the European Union, sealed in last year’s Brexit vote, has left many Czechs living in the UK wondering whether there will be a place for them…
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Minister queries UK court’s acceptance of self-defence plea in case involving death of Czech
The Czech minister of foreign affairs, Lubomír Zaorálek, has called on UK prosecutors to reconsider a court ruling that cleared a British man of killing a Czech national…
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Czechs today need cosmopolitan model, says author of novel exploring J. A. Baťa’s exile in Brazil
A freshly published Czech novel reimagines episodes from the life of Jan Antonín Baťa, a Moravian business tycoon who built four cities in Brazil after being forced to…
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Jan Antonín Baťa always said he put his people first, says granddaughter Dolores Bata Arambasic
The Baťa family – who built a shoemaking empire in Zlín, Moravia – were perhaps the most important industrialists in interwar Czechoslovakia. One of the best-known members…
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Bronislava Volková: A ravine halts my speech
Bronislava Volková is a woman of many talents. She has had numerous collections of her poetry published and translated into no less than eleven languages, at the same time…
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Czech govt. official: UK must “very quickly” say how it will deal with EU residents
UK Prime Minister Theresa May has outlined uncompromising plans for her country’s exit from the EU, including restricting workers from member states and quitting the…
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Last man on the moon Eugene Cernan remembered
US astronaut Eugene Cernan, the last person to set foot on the Moon, died on Monday at the age of 82. Cernan was the commander of the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, who…
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David Koubek: Czech Radio’s former man in Brazil on the World Cup, the Olympics and the country’s…
While most of us can only dream about attending a World Cup or Olympic Games, David Koubek got to experience both as Czech Radio’s correspondent in Brazil. In his two and…
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Czech Brisbane community tunes in to local roots
The Czech expatriate community in the Australian city of Brisbane only counts several hundred people, but they have always been very active in maintaining the Czech…
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