Society
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Lenka Vochocová: checking out people’s prejudices
Lenka Vochocová is twenty-eight, but looks more like eighteen. She may not look like it, but she has already managed to establish and successfully run an NGO called…
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Survival of Wenceslas Square’s sausage stands assured
It’s hard to imagine a Wenceslas Square without sausage stands, selling hot dogs, greasy Czech klobasas, and beer. It had seemed such fast-food stalls would be removed, as…
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Getting the Message
In this week’s Letter From Prague, Dominik Jun describes an unusual encounter that ended up bridging a communicational divide.
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Mailbox
Today in Mailbox: the first state visit by President Václav Klaus in 2003, Czech kosher beer, nasal spray relieving the symptoms of common colds, announcements on Prague…
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Betting shops give odds for Czech presidential election
Czechs may not be able to vote in Fridays presidential election but many have placed a bet on their outcome. All three of the major Czech betting shops have presented odds…
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Magazine
Don’t eat that – its fifty years old! Czech researchers eat a package of soup that had been sitting around for half a century. “Six fingers are better than five,” says a…
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Betting shops give odds for Czech presidential election
Czechs may not be able to vote in Fridays presidential election but many have placed a bet on their outcome. All three of the major Czech betting shops have presented odds…
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Communist era life and style revisited in Czech TV show
Céčka, tuzex and trvalá – for those growing up in the communist Czechoslovakia these were a part of daily life. As of tomorrow, you can find out more about those trends in…
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MPs loosen fox-hunting regulation, provoking outcry from animal rights groups
Fox hunting in the Czech Republic may not come with all of the red coats and horses that you might expect to see elsewhere – often it’s more a case of one man and his dog…
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Friends of murdered American petition against suspect’s release
Friends of Mike Murray, an American citizen who was stabbed to death in Prague last week, have been petitioning against the release of the suspect – a 27-year-old police…
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Court orders noise reduction on Prague’s thoroughfare
For years, people living in the close vicinity of the “magistrála”, the main artery cutting through the Prague city centre, have been fighting with City Hall to reduce…
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Plzeň mayor faces dilemma as neo-Nazis plan new march past synagogue
The Czech Republic’s freedom of speech and assembly laws have been tested to the full in recent months by a small but determined group of neo-Nazis. For the second time…
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