Society
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Daily reports thousands of motorists lack valid licences
Almost two years ago the government introduced new legislation aimed at improving safety on Czech roads. A new points system and increased police vigilance at first made a…
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Monika Koblerová – director of New York’s Czech Centre
One of my first ports of call on a recent visit to New York was the city’s Czech Centre, which is at Madison Avenue and 83rd St in Manhattan. At least that’s where it’s…
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Magazine
A ten-year-old Czech girl has made headlines with her ability to talk backwards. Czechs have taken a fancy to sponsoring animals at the zoo. And Speaker’s Corner at…
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Czech wines excel at international wine contest
Czech wine producers returned from an international competition in Bordeaux recently with an impressive haul of awards. Facing competition from 47 other wine-growing…
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Czechs celebrate ‘Čarodějnice’ – an annual witch-burning festival
April 30 is ‘Čarodějnice’ in the Czech Republic, the day that winter is ceremonially brought to an end. How? By the burning of rag and straw witches on bonfires around the…
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Blob highly unlikely on Letná Plain
Last year a design for the new national library by architect Jan Kaplický promised to bring an unprecedented architectural edge to the centre of Prague. But almost from…
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Brooklyn shop showcases classic Czech 20th century furniture
Prague Kolektiv is a shop in New York which sells nothing but Czech furniture, lighting and decorative objects from the pre-war avant-garde and mid-century social realism…
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Olga Fikotová-Connolly: 1956 Olympic champion dubbed “traitor” in communist Czechoslovakia over…
Olga Fikotová won gold in the discus at the Olympic Games in 1956, less than two years after taking up the discipline. At the Olympics she met and fell in love with an…
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Czechs mark Holocaust Remembrance Day
Yom HaShoah or Holocaust Remembrance Day victims - a day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews who perished during the Second World War - was marked in…
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SAPA: Prague’s ‘little Vietnam’
SAPA is about as close as you are going to get to feeling like you are in Hanoi, or Ho Chi Minh City, while you are still, in fact, in Prague. At certain moments, and from…
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No dumplings please, we’re Czech – local cuisine throws off shackles of drab past
The Czech capital Prague has just become the first city in the former eastern bloc to receive a coveted Michelin star. The world-renowned guide to fine dining singled out…
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Government and City Hall officials planning to transform the city centre
Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek and Prague Mayor Pavel Bém on Tuesday signed a memorandum on a proposed makeover of the Prague city centre. The plans include revamping the…
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