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Government proposes Big Brother-type motorway toll system
The government unveiled plans for a revolutionary change in the country’s motorway toll system on Monday, featuring a new Big Brother-style microchip attached to car…
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V+W+J - three letters that changed the history of Czech music
In this month's Music Profile, we go back in time to the 1930s and the Liberated Theatre, where political satire and dadaist cabaret collided head on to a soundtrack of…
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Prague stock exchange shaken by Bear Stearns emergency bailout
Stock markets around the world recorded heavy losses on Monday in reaction to the emergency bailout of US investment bank Bear Stearns. The Prague Stock Exchange was no…
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Prague restaurant becomes first in region to win coveted Michelin star
Now, feeling peckish? Not sure what to have for dinner tonight? How about duck foie gras "au torchon" on a quince compote and spice bread pan-fried escalope with cardamom…
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Václav Klaus promises “conservative” use of presidential power in second term
President Václav Klaus was inaugurated for a second five-year term at Prague Castle on Friday morning, in a ceremony that included the national anthem and a 21-gun salute…
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Paroubek warns Social Democrat MPs over radar base ratification vote
The leader of the Social Democrats, Jiří Paroubek, issued a stern warning to his 71 MPs on Wednesday – vote in favour of the plan to allow a U.S. radar base on Czech…
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Plzeň braces - again – for neo-Nazi march
For the second time this year, the city of Plzeň in West Bohemia is bracing itself for a march by neo-Nazi skinheads. As many as 400 skinheads will march down a route that…
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Radar base treaty “three words” away but many obstacles remain
The Czech Republic and the United States are just “three words away” from a treaty on basing a U.S. anti-missile radar facility in Central Bohemia, according to the…
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Communist advisor – ‘stubborn facts’ prove Czechs benefited from 1948
Not everyone who marked the 60th anniversary of the communist takeover on Monday was mourning the victims of the regime. Several hundred mostly elderly Communist Party…
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“Heparin killer” gets life in prison
A court in Hradec Králové sentenced a male nurse to life in prison on Thursday for murdering seven patients and trying to kill ten more. Petr Zelenka, 31, will spend the…
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