Society
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Chocolatier Melinda Varga: Making chocolate pralines is an art
Chocolate is high in demand ahead of St. Valentine’s Day, and sweetshops have pulled out all the stops to attract customers. However the real gourmets will head for one of…
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Cross border medical care beginning to thrive in border regions
People living in the Czech border regions have gradually got used to the concept of cross-border medical care within the EU. For many locals, clinics in neighbouring…
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"My Czech kebab shop is an embassy for a positive image of Islam"
Chez Amis is an Arab-Oriental grocery store that also doubles as a fast food establishment selling kebabs, falafel, hummus, couscous and other such delicacies. Situated on…
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Ombudswoman uncovers serious failings in old age homes operating outside of the law
The Czech Ombudswoman Anna Šabatová is ringing the alarm regarding the conditions in which some senior citizens live in old people’s homes that fail to provide adequate…
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Dealing with the Czech press and PR jungle
All in all, the Czech Republic is pretty well journalist trained right now. Press conferences usually begin at a civilized time, the optimum being around 10 o’clock; you…
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Unwanted Czech bikes helping African children – and elephants
The Ostrava-based project Kola pro Afriku, Bikes for Africa, has just dispatched 200 bicycles to Cameroon. They will be used by locals to monitor elephant populations in…
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Czech Republic on brink of nationwide flu epidemic as vaccine proves largely ineffective
The Czech Republic is on the brink of a nationwide flu epidemic with all 14 regions severely affected. This year’s strain of flu is reported to be exceptionally aggressive…
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Czech exhibition showcases controversial Charlie Hebdo cartoons
The French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo recently made world headlines when Islamic radicals killed its editor-in-chief and leading cartoonists. Now Czechs have a unique…
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President Zeman warns of “appeasement” of Islamic radicals
Czech President Miloš Zeman has called on the world to deal with Islamic radicalism the same way it ultimately had to deal with Nazism in the 1940s. The comments were made…
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Masaryk, tech visionary?
One is so used to black-and-white photographs depicting Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the founder of Czechoslovakia, as stern, dignified, even iconic looking that a video posted…
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Up-and-coming Czech designer: The only limitations are in our heads
Michaela Hořejší is a young Czech designer whose ambition it is to bring a breath of fresh air into people’s homes. Her design studio Natureza provides customized interior…
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Reformed Pionýr children’s movement marks 25th anniversary
After the Velvet Revolution of 1989, everybody thought that the country’s biggest children’s organizations, Pionýr, would fall into oblivion, being replaced by the more…
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