Society
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Member of group who shot their way across Iron Curtain in 1950s Milan Paumer dies at 79
Milan Paumer, a member of a group who made a dramatic escape from communist Czechoslovakia in the 1950s, has died in Prague at the age of 79. He, Josef and Ctirad Mašín…
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Ivo Laurin, head of the Czech Republic’s only word-of-mouth marketing agency, on new ways to reach…
Ivo Laurin is the director of Outbreak, the Czech Republic’s only word-of-mouth marketing agency. Instead of what’s called above-the-line or ATL advertising, meaning…
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Super Špek Me – man loses six kilos after month of Czech pub food
You might remember the 2004 documentary Super Size Me, where filmmaker Morgan Spurlock spent a month eating nothing but McDonalds; the film documents the drastic effects…
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Army embarrassed over headquarters break-in
The General Staff of the Czech Army has had its headquarters on Prague’s Vítězné Náměstí since 1937. It is a massive building which had never been broken into – until last…
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Czech noble slams mooted sale of historic palace to Germany
A Czech noble has weighed into ongoing talks about whether the Czech state should sell one of Prague’s Baroque architectural masterpieces to its current tenants: the…
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Czech company re-issues forgotten toy classic from the 1970s
A Czech toy manufacturer has recently bought the rights to a classic line of toy figurines – Igráček, a communist era knock-off of the well-known German Playmobil brand…
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Jakub Patočka, editor-in-chief of left-wing news website Deník Referendum
Jakub Patočka is the editor-in-chief of an online magazine called Deník Referendum, and a leading Czech left-leaning journalist. He made national headlines at the end of…
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Englishman completes 175 km swim down Vltava
Paul Whitaker arrived in Prague on Saturday from a swimming challenge that took him 18 days to complete. The 41-year-old Englishman decided to swim 175 kilometers from the…
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New parent-school contract to tackle poor behavior in classroom
Recent years have seen a number of publicized cases of bullying in Czech elementary and high schools which left teachers largely powerless to act. But if the new education…
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Heat wave
One of the high points of my week was getting soaked to the skin on a tram stop platform by a passing municipal truck sprinkling water to keep the dust down. With the…
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Mailbox
This week in Mailbox: Czech farmers facing tough competition, the quality of Radio Prague's internet broadcasts, a collapse of a road tunnel construction in Prague, Radio…
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Magazine
Heat, animals, hot animals and jailbirds, even a bit of what you can find in a leading politician's mobile phone, all in today's Magazine with Christian Falvey.
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