Society
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Foremost Czech organisation in NYC still going strong after 116 years
The Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association is one of the oldest and most important Czech organisations in New York. Founded as a kind of umbrella body for a large…
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Czech authorities aim to curb animal smuggling
Australian customs officers recently uncovered 15 geckos in parcels that someone had attempted to smuggle to the Czech Republic, most of them dead due to the lack of feed…
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Migration into Czech Republic reaches record levels
According to new figures released by the National Security Council of the Czech Republic, more than 392,000 foreigners legally came to live and work in the Czech Republic…
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A trip to the Czech Republic’s first shop for left-handers
For years, Czech left-handers have been grappling with ill-designed pens and pencils, vegetable peelers, scissors and secateurs. But they need not any longer. The country’…
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Prague’s American Center exhibition shows “Life with the Radar”
The Czech and American governments have reached a deal under which a US radar base would be based in central Bohemia. With most Czechs opposed to the project, Prague’s…
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Hollywood to Czech Republic: “Give us a break!”
In 1996, Mission: Impossible put the Czech Republic on the international map of film-making locations. It wasn’t just that the city provided a backdrop to much of the…
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Critics lambast “clichéd” Prague tourist ad for Fashion TV
You wouldn’t think they’d need to from the hordes of tourists, but Prague city council is constantly on the lookout for new ways to get people to visit the Czech capital…
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Winton Train to retrace route of kindertransport that saved the lives of hundreds of Jewish children
This Monday, Sir Nicholas Winton, the British stock exchange clerk who quietly saved more than 650 Czech Jewish children from the Holocaust and told no one for more than…
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Rent-a-husband business boom
Anyone who has visited the Czech Republic before and after the Velvet Revolution will have noticed how much the country has changed. Although it was always hauntingly…
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Mailbox
Welcome to Mailbox on this very special day for Czech Radio. Eighty-five years ago today, on May 18, 1923, regular radio broadcasts began in Czechoslovakia from a tent in…
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Take your legs on your shoulders
Hello and welcome to another edition of SoundCzech – Radio Prague’s Czech language series in which you can learn idioms through song lyrics. Today, we’ll be listening to a…
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Magazine
Banished by the communist regime as a bourgeois vegetable, asparagus makes a come-back in the Czech Republic. Fakir Petr Fiedor spends ten days lying on a bed of broken…
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