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D1 motorway pile-up: the biggest traffic jam in Czech history
The biggest pile-up in Czech history happened on Thursday after one of the country’s busiest motorways, the D1, was blocked by more than a hundred vehicles. They crashed…
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Czech bank subject of biggest ever e-mail scam
Hundreds of thousands of people in the Czech Republic have been bombarded in recent weeks by fraudulent e-mails in what is the biggest attempted internet fraud scam in the…
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Canadian ambassador: jump in asylum claims “a concern”
It has only been five months since Ottawa dropped visa requirements for Czechs, but since then Canada has seen a marked jump in asylum applications by Romanies from the…
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Former prime minister fails bar exam
News has emerged that the former Czech prime minister Stanislav Gross has failed his bar exam. For Gross, this latest story is just one of a series of negative reports…
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Will Czech lawmakers have to pay for public transport?
Free plane tickets around the Czech Republic, generous travel allowances, low- rent luxury flats in Prague– those are just a few of the many perks enjoyed by Czech…
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New exhibition brings old Prague café culture back to life
Many capital cities are famed for their café culture, and Prague is no exception. At the turn of the twentieth century, writers like Karel Čapek and Franz Kafka would meet…
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First Czech soldier killed in action in Afghanistan
The first Czech soldier has died in action in what the United States calls the war on terror. He was the victim of a suicide bomber in southern Afghanistan on Monday; two…
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Is the Czech Republic being fair to its immigrants and asylum seekers?
The Czech Republic’s entry into the EU’s Schengen border-free zone at the end of last year meant that a number of laws concerning immigration and asylum issues had to be…
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Marc Verdier – French freemason in Prague
In this edition of One on One, my guest is Freemason Marc Verdier, the Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of the Czech Republic. French by origin, Mr Verdier settled…
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Prague sees boom in luxury hotels
More and more people are checking into the Czech Republic’s four and five star hotels. Last year, the number of people holidaying in the lap of luxury in this country rose…
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New bill to make dual nationality possible for former Czech citizens
The Interior Ministry has come up with a new bill on citizenship which will make it easier for former Czech nationals to have their Czech citizenship returned. If it goes…
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Violence in Tibet touches on raw nerve in Prague
The violent suppression of freedom protests in Lhasa by the Chinese military over the weekend sparked a show of international solidarity with Tibet, with street protests…
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