Foreigners and the Czech Republic
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Prague Playwriting Contest holds 3rd annual event
Recent statistics revealed that every tenth inhabitant in the Czech capital is a foreigner. Ever since the fall of communism, the English-speaking community has been one…
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Authorities reject Vietnamese plea to be allowed remain without jobs and support one another
The Czech authorities recently launched a scheme to send home workers from non-EU states who lose their jobs. But members of the country’s sizable Vietnamese community say…
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A Mosaic of Books
This week Czech Books talks to a popular bookman about town, Miroslav Peraica. Miroslav is originally from Croatia but has worked in the book trade in Prague for well over…
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Business News
In Business News this week: an extraordinary media intervention by the national bank; Škoda Auto steps up a gear; Green Cards look less rosy; another high speed rail link…
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Gordon Lovitt – an English director of programming at one of the main Czech TV stations
Gordon Lovitt has an unusual position in that he is an Englishman who is director of programming at one of the Czech Republic’s four main TV channels, the commercial…
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Scheme to pay laid-off foreigners to leave sign of “panic”, says human rights lawyer
With unemployment rising fast in the Czech Republic, it is often guest workers from states like Vietnam and Mongolia who are the first to be laid off – with redundancy…
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Vietnamese nail salons something of phenomenon in Czech Republic
While in the 1990s immigrants from Vietnam ran many of the Czech Republic’s outdoor markets, in recent years they have won an increasingly large share of the corner store…
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Young Czech journalist receives European award for article on Mongolian guest workers
On Thursday evening the young journalist Jan Gebert received an award from the European Commission’s “For Diversity. Against Discrimination” campaign. The Czech national…
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Czech authorities considering scheme to pay laid-off immigrant workers to return home
Rising unemployment spells bad news for the hundreds of thousands of non-nationals working in the Czech Republic. Things are especially difficult for workers from outside…
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Genealogist Tom Zahn on reuniting emigrants with their Czech relatives
My guest for today’s One on One is Tom Zahn, an American who has been living in Prague for most of the last fifteen years, and who has, during his time in the capital…
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Police officers face trial after death of Vietnamese man in custody
Interior Minister Ivan Langer has condemned the actions of three police officers being prosecuted over the death of a Vietnamese man in their custody. The man was arrested…
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Business News
In Business News this week: with Czech industrial output falling by 17.4 percent, the vice-governor of the central bank says growth this year could slow to as low as 0.5…
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