Society
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Women from around world coming to Czech Republic for IVF treatment
Thanks to relatively low costs – and liberal legislation – the Czech Republic has in recent years become an increasingly attractive destination for what could be called…
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The Czech Republic and Tibet
Several weeks ago, the Czech Republic raised eyebrows by celebrating the International Day for Tibet with particular enthusiasm. Politicians hung the Tibetan flag from…
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New Lidice education centre offers detailed catalogue of Nazi horrors
The Lidice museum, which stands on the site of the Czech village that was infamously razed to the ground by the Nazis in 1942, opened a new education centre on Monday…
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Prague City Hall gives green light to congestion charge
Prague Mayor Pavel Bém has announced that motorists in the Czech capital can expect to pay a congestion charge as of 2010. Following the lead of several other European…
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Government proposes Big Brother-type motorway toll system
The government unveiled plans for a revolutionary change in the country’s motorway toll system on Monday, featuring a new Big Brother-style microchip attached to car…
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Chess maestro visits Czech Republic
Russian chess legend and opposition politician Garry Kasparov has been doing the rounds during a visit to the Czech Republic. Apart from meeting with Czech political…
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Mohammed Abbas: anti-Islamic provocations fuel mistrust
In the past couple of weeks two incidents have threatened to disturb the peaceful coexistence between Czechs and the country’s Muslim community, centred mainly in the…
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Dr Jana Švehlová – helping other daughters of the persecuted, five decades later
When Dr Jana Švehlová’s father was imprisoned by the communists for political reasons it left a deep impression on her life. After doing research into the psychological…
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Mailbox
In Mailbox this week: fraudulent e-mails to Česká spořitelna clients; listening on shortwave in the US; stories on Radio Prague on Petr Ginz and Chava Pressburger; and how…
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Iva Drápalová: AP’s woman in Prague during the normalisation years
Iva Drápalová has lived through, and documented, some of the most important moments of modern Czech history. Cut off from her family at boarding school - and then…
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Magazine
Czech scientists have invented paint that lowers the concentration of harmful substances in the air. Across most of the country boys whip girls on Easter Monday, but in…
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Expedition North Pole 2008
The L-200 Morava is a Czech-made retractable four-seat light aircraft designed in the mid 1950s. It was one of the few light aircraft to be exported from behind the Iron…
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