Society
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Mailbox
In today's Mailbox: new listeners, listening to Radio Prague online and on mobile phones, comments on Radio Prague's stories on Facebook. Listeners quoted: Adita Prithika…
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Education minister says it is time to take radical action against growing aggression in schools
A recent incident at a home for children with behavioral problems where two teenagers brutally attacked their teacher with a screwdriver has sparked a debate on the…
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Czechs increasingly charitable despite economic woes
Over the past two decades, philanthropy has become an important part of Czech society, with many people being increasing generous in giving to charity. Radio Prague looks…
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New guidelines to help courts calculate bodily harm compensations
The Czech Supreme Court has devised new guidelines for calculating settlements for bodily harm. The methodology, which comes in a reaction to rather vague provisions of…
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Mystery amnesiac – found in Norway – regains slivers of memory
A Czech man suffering from amnesia, found in a snowdrift in Oslo last December, has begun regaining fragments of memory after speaking with his family over the phone. It…
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Magazine
In Magazine: cabinet ministers struggle to master the intricacies of Czech, a passer-by shames a road maintenance company by getting down to work on an unfinished pavement…
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The Dogs of Prague
When I first saw a little maltese puppy happily trotting alongside its owner, my first thought was – “where the heck is its leash?” The pair waited on the corner of a busy…
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Future metropolitan plan to try and counter urban sprawl
Prague Mayor Tomáš Hudeček and architect Roman Koucký of the Prague Institute of Planning and Development outlined on Thursday principles for a new metropolitan or zoning…
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The success story of Petr Kosiner, the dumpling king of Prague
Tram and car traffic is heavy on Prague’s Dukelských Hrdinů St. – not a very inviting location to open a business in the middle of the financial crisis. Yet the 45-year…
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Politicians consider dual-language curriculum to help Romany children overcome language barrier
Overcoming the language barrier is one of the main hurdles Romany children face on starting school and is one of the oft-cited reasons for putting them in “special schools…
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MPs push for regulation of foreign-language ads
In recent years there has been a rise in the number of outdoor advertisements in Russian, English and other languages in the Czech Republic, to the annoyance of many…
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Patients still waiting to see benefits of 2013 law on medical marihuana
When the law on medical marihuana came into force in February of last year it seemed that the way was now open for patients suffering from cancer, multiple sclerosis and…
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