Society
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End of an era as RFE formally hands over keys to National Museum
A small piece of history was made on Monday morning as the U.S. broadcaster Radio Free Europe formally handed over the keys to their former headquarters to a new tenant…
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Mailbox
Today in Mailbox: DRM broadcasting; annual listeners’ contest. Listeners quoted: Gary Roper, Christopher Lewis.
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Magazine
A Prague clinic offers its nurses plastic surgery for free if they sign a three-year contract, British singing sensation Susan Boyle will be coming to Prague to record her…
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Popular English-language news website moves into print
A new English-language magazine has hit Czech news stands. The Prague Monitor is already something of an oddity in that the team behind it have a background in Internet…
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Experts believe extremism is being fed by media attention
With the elections to the European Parliament coming up, political parties in the Czech Republic are trying to get their issues to the fore. Out of the sidelines of that…
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Czech scientists discover link between accidents, blood group and parasite
A team of Czech scientists has come up with startling findings that a certain segment of the population could be as much as six times more likely to have car accidents…
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Coffee-table book with a difference collects photographs taken surreptitiously by communist-era…
At Prague’s Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Vladimír Bosák went through thousands of photographic negatives from the files of the StB, Czechoslovakia’s…
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Selling insects for a living
The endless sound of crickets chirping would make you think you were in a field somewhere in the Czech countryside, but in fact, this is a country attic, home to thousands…
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Shocking train fatality figures prompt Czech Railways to launch awareness campaign
Last year, a staggering 230 Czechs died when they were hit by a train, either at a level crossing or walking across a railway track. That is compared to some 21 deaths…
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Assassins of leading Nazi Heydrich finally honoured with Prague statue
It’s 67 years today since one of the most audacious acts of resistance against the Nazi occupiers – the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, acting Reichsprotektor of…
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Elementary school using scientology teaching methods to open in Brno
Czech authorities have officially registered the first elementary school that is to teach children according to the methods designed by L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the…
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Czech Republic confirms first swine flu case after young pilot becomes ill
The Czech Republic became the latest country to record a confirmed case of swine flu on Monday, with the chief hygiene official telling reporters that a 29-year-old man is…
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