Society
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Surrogate pregnancies on rise in Czech Republic
An increasing number of Czech couples who cannot have a child of their own are seeking the help of surrogate mothers. However, there is currently no legislation in the…
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Anna Thu Nguyenová – The Czech-Vietnamese one-time child actress now thriving in Californian start…
Today Anna Thu Nguyenová is based in California, where she works with technology start-ups. But the young Czech-Vietnamese woman is familiar to many here in her native…
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Three-day Liberation Festival culminates in Plzeň
Celebrations marking the liberation of Plzeň by General Patton’s Army on May 6th 1945 took place in the West Bohemian city at the weekend. Despite the cold, thousands of…
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Police: Cultural gaps and language barrier make uncovering Vietnamese drug gangs hard
The majority of the methamphetamine seized by the Czech police last year was produced by Vietnamese crime gangs. Indeed, almost 70 percent of the illegal drug impounded…
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Czech entrepreneurs bring home the world’s best pepper from Kampot
Kampot Pepper, a gourmet pepper sought after by chefs around the world, comes from Kampot province on the south coast of the Kingdom of Cambodia. Klara Dohnalova and David…
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Church and social historian Tomáš Petráček on Czech secularism, Slavic paganism, and Easter as a…
In a wide-ranging interview at the start of Holy Week, leading up to Easter, the Roman Catholic priest Tomáš Petráček – a leading church and social historian – talks about…
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Moravian Easter – a celebration of new life
Traditional Easter celebrations in the Czech Republic have a strong religious connotation. However, many of the customs connected with this season date back to pre…
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RSF: Czech oligarchs, nation’s president and PM continue to undermine press freedom
The Czech Republic has dropped another six spots in the annual global ranking of press freedom published by the watchdog Reporters Without Borders. The country is now in…
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Czechs offer restoration experts to help France rebuild Notre-Dame cathedral
The world watched in horror on Monday night as the medieval Cathedral of Notre-Dame – an iconic symbol of the beauty and history of Paris – was engulfed in flames…
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“We will remember them”: Trevor Sage, the Englishman cleaning Prague’s Holocaust memorial plaques
Around Prague there are hundreds of stones inlaid in the pavement honouring the victims of the Holocaust. They are known as Stolpersteine, which literally translates as “…
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Czech “breastfeeding guerrilla” mums stage “feed-ins” over incident at Austrian bank
A group of Czech mothers known as the “breastfeeding guerrillas” – Kojící guerila – held a “feed-in” shortly before lunchtime on Monday at local branches of Austria’s…
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Czechs win regional round of Startup World Cup, ‘green’ Swede takes top European prize
Prague this week for the first time hosted the European leg of the Startup World Cup & Summit, an annual event drawing hundreds of hopefuls and thousands of…
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