Society
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Beer at James Joyce Irish pub cheaper now than in ’93, says owner Frank Haughton
Earlier this month there was a big party at Prague’s James Joyce marking the 20th anniversary of its foundation. The country’s first genuine Irish pub, the Joyce was…
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Magazine
In Magazine: fun-lovers attend a bread-rolling competition in Turnov, the Bata Museum in Zlín exhibits old shoemaking instruments and machines, a life-size statue of the…
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Prague nursing school issues hijab ban
The Czech Republic has just experienced its first controversy over Muslim headwear. Two young women studying to become nurses at a Prague school left the institution after…
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Ministry aims to employ 1,000 new officers in troubled areas
The Interior Ministry has confirmed it aims to hire an additional 1,000 police to its roughly 39,000-strong force next year. According to the ministry, many would serve in…
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Radek Boxan – owner of popular Prague game store Tomovy hry
With a month or so to go before Christmas, shoppers in the Czech Republic have begun hitting stores at a feverish pace – good news, of course, for retailers. The holidays…
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Police file charges in Prague Proton Therapy Centre dispute
The drawn-out conflict between the largest Czech health insurer VZP and the Prague Proton Therapy Centre on the validity of a multi-billion crown agreement may soon come…
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Czech shoppers asked to help feed people in need
On Saturday Czechs around the country will be encouraged to take part in the first-ever nation-wide collection of food for the poor. The event, co-organized by the Czech…
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Locals launch petition to throw Czech fugitive out of South Africa
Recent violent attacks targeting Czech fugitive Radovan Krejčíř in Johannesburg, South Africa, have caused an outcry among local residents. On Tuesday, a bomb explosion at…
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National Disability Council calls on Zeman to apologise for discriminatory remark
Czech President Miloš Zeman has in the past suggested caustically that his day wouldn’t be complete if he didn’t insult at least one person. Well on Monday, the president…
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Czechs join Philippine typhoon relief efforts
Typhoon Haiyan, which made landfall on Friday, has affected more than 10 million people in the Philippines, with thousands of fatalities and hundreds of thousands…
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NGOs draw attention to migrant domestic workers’ rights with a celeb campaign
The number of foreigners working in Czech households is on the rise, although there are few exact statistics about this relatively unofficial economic sector. More and…
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Great city – but the centre is no longer for me
When I first lived here in the mid 1990s, many Czechs would tell me that they very rarely went into the centre of Prague. It’s full of foreigners, they would say, it’s too…
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