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A wanted criminal makes a fatal mistake. Sick of Prague’s rude, unscrupulous taxi-drivers? Try a taxi service with a difference! And, a huge chunk of ice from the sky…
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Prague could see five million crown fine over Opencard system
Prague’s Opencard, a multi-functional chip card system introduced by Prague City Hall, has long been the subject of controversy. Overshadowed by allegations of corruption…
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New tome captures genius of pioneer of Cubist architecture Josef Gočár
In Prague’s Old Town, on the corner of Celetná Street and Ovocný trh, you will find the House of the Black Madonna, one of the most distinctive structures in a city known…
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Czech hobbyists celebrate inclusion of falconry on UNESCO heritage list
Last week UNESCO added two Czech traditions to it list promoting the safeguarding of so-called ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage’. One of them was a tradition also shared by…
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Highways authority signals end of road for roadside billboards
After years of procrastination and foot dragging the Czech highways authority has announced the end of the road for advertising billboards along the country’s main routes…
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Jiří Pehe pens first political biography of post-89 heavyweight Václav Klaus
President Václav Klaus has been a dominant figure on the Czech political scene ever since the early 1990s. The founder of the Civic Democrats was finance minister and…
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Specialists welcome tough decision in road rage case
A regional court on Monday handed down one of the toughest sentences ever for dangerous driving in the Czech Republic: five years behind bars. The court found motorist…
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Locals indignant and saddened at theft of part of memorial to Lidice children
Part of a monument to the child victims of a notorious World War II massacre has been stolen. One figure from a group of life-sized bronze statues at the Lidice memorial…
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It’s nearly yearly pass time once again
Next month thousands of Prague residents, myself included, will be paying in advance for a year’s travel on the city’s very reliable, easy-to-navigate integrated public…
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Mailbox
This week in Mailbox: The 21st anniversary of the 1989 Velvet Revolution, a “Czech” week in Denmark, the Czech hard candy Hašlerky. Listeners quoted: Ruth O'Connor, Hans…
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Magazine
A French pilot lands on a busy motorway near Brno. A Czech beauty queen shows off a dress made of plastic bottles and, and what do Czechs say when they smile for a…
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Researchers look for descendants of medieval “vampire”
Czech scientists have launched an unusual project that might lead them to the descendants of a medieval “vampire”. On Tuesday, they collected DNA samples from around a…
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