Society
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Study finds sea spray highly effective in treating children’s colds
It’s the kind of thing your parents or grandparents recommended you did when you suffered a cold as a child: to gargle with salt water. But it turns out that…
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Missing Children’s Centre to be opened in the Czech Republic
Every year, as many as ten thousand children go missing in the Czech Republic. Although most are found, many aren’t and the country still lacks an effective monitoring…
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A tale of two restaurants
Hrabal’s book "I served the King of England" makes working in a restaurant sound very dramatic, and very glamorous. But the novel also suggests that such drama and glamour…
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Will the city resort to repressive measures against the homeless?
Homelessness remains a complex and vexing problem in the Czech Republic, especially in Prague, despite notable gains and successes by NGOs as well as the city. A year ago…
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Hospital killer goes to court
An unprecedented case in Czech criminal history, which shocked the public last year, has finally come to court. Petr Zelenka, a 31-year old male nurse who worked in a…
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Former president Václav Havel in hospital
The former Czech president Václav Havel was admitted to hospital over the weekend with chronic bronchitis and a heart problem. Although his private secretary was quick to…
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Prague plays host to ‘Night of the Open Churches’ festival
On Monday evening, Prague plays host to the second annual ‘Night of the Open Churches’ festival. The programme offers out-of-hours prayer services and concerts to Prague’s…
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Mailbox
In this week’s Mailbox: the house where Bernard Bolzano lived in Prague, response to Radio Prague articles, DRM reception, the Schengen border-free area. Listeners quoted…
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Magazine
A Czech scientist has contributed to a unique discovery –how migrating monarch butterflies use body clocks to find their way. The Prazdroj brewery has produced a “beer…
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Starbucks comes to the Czech Republic
There was a media frenzy surrounding the opening of the Czech Republic’s first Starbucks on Friday. In its new branch on Prague’s Malostranské náměstí, the world’s largest…
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Prague braces for neo-Nazis after Plzeň bans march
The mayor of Plzeň has banned a march by neo-Nazi skinheads planned for this Saturday. The ban was announced amid protests from the Jewish community and concerns it could…
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Neo-Nazis will march through Plzeň
A radical far-right group wants to march through Plzeň on Saturday to protest against alleged restrictions on freedom of speech in the Czech Republic. Two months after…
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