Society
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Are Czech ads going too far?
A recent ruling by the Czech Advertising Standards Authority has stated that a billboard advert for an energy drink featuring a picture of a sleeping foreign minister…
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Prague restaurant becomes first in region to win coveted Michelin star
Now, feeling peckish? Not sure what to have for dinner tonight? How about duck foie gras "au torchon" on a quince compote and spice bread pan-fried escalope with cardamom…
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Freemasons of the Czech Republic unite
The secretive international organisation the Freemasons tends to follow two main traditions, broadly-speaking English and French. The Czech Republic was unusual in that…
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Famous actor Radovan Lukavský dies aged 88
One of the legends of Czech theatre, the actor Radovan Lukavský, died on Monday at the age of 88. Lukavský’s renown was largely built on such performances as his 1960s…
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The effects of Schengen entry on a Czech border town
I’m on a bus winding my way up the hill towards Potůčky, which is a little village on the Czech-German border. It’s in the north west of the Czech Republic, and is…
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Students at Strakonice high school see success in Lost Neighbours project
Just a few years ago the Jewish Museum in Prague launched its Lost Neighbours project, aiming to piece together the stories of forgotten Czech Jews persecuted by the Nazis…
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Minister wants ban on physical punishment of children
The majority of Czech parents usually don’t think twice about smacking their naughty children, and would explain that “to spare the rod is to spoil the child”. However…
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Mailbox
This week in Mailbox: the beneficial properties of sea water once again, the Barrandov film studios in Prague, an Oscar for Czech musician Markéta Irglová, the 30th…
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The Czech Republic needs more political satire.
Let’s face it – Czech politics and Czech politicians are funny. They may not be any more funny than in the US or Britain, but there is one key difference, in the Czech…
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Magazine
The garage looks great, but where’s the door? A Czech mountaineer climbs Mount. Kilimanjaro wearing replicas of the shoes used by Otzi the Iceman, and a five year old…
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Pilsner Urquell unveils ‘user-friendly’ new beer glass
Now, you might not think of beer drinking as a particularly strenuous thing to do, but the brewer Pilsner Urquell has just unveiled a new glass which, it says, makes the…
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Václav Klaus promises “conservative” use of presidential power in second term
President Václav Klaus was inaugurated for a second five-year term at Prague Castle on Friday morning, in a ceremony that included the national anthem and a 21-gun salute…
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