Society
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Are Czech children's care homes still using cage beds?
On Tuesday night, the BBC broadcast a report on its 10 O’Clock News programme, showing children in Czech care homes locked-up in caged beds. The use of cage beds in Czech…
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Czech mothers can now decide how long they spend on maternity leave
As of the beginning of this year, a new package of social reforms has come into effect here in the Czech Republic, introducing major changes related to child care. Until…
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Archaeological collection discovered after relic hunter’s death
An unusual collection of over 3,000 archaeological items was discovered two years ago in a Prague apartment whose owner died in a fire. Archaeologists who have examined…
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Czech doctors perform their first combined heart and lung transplant
Doctors at the Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine in Prague have reason to celebrate. In December they performed the first-ever combined heart and lung…
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Temelín nuclear power plant – one of the country’s more unusual tourist attractions
The southern Bohemian nuclear power plant Temelín has long been a thorn in the side of anti-nuclear activists. Its operator, the power utility ČEZ, insists that the Soviet…
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Woman posing as child may have fallen victim to strange sect
Who is Barbora Škrlová? The mysterious case of the Czech woman charged with identity fraud after posing as a 12-year old girl in the Czech Republic and a 13-year old boy…
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Čunek in trouble again after suggesting Roma families perpetuate social exclusion
Controversial Christian Democrat leader Jiří Čunek is still angling for a return to the cabinet, although Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek says he’ll have to iron out his…
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Happy New Year
New Year’s Day – a day just like any other. Yet, I am always under the impression that the turn of the year is something special and that I have to spend it in an…
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Mailbox
This week in Mailbox: An unusual reception report from Montana, the results of Radio Prague’s Christmas competition. Listeners quoted: Christoph Preutenborbeck, Mark…
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Magazine
Presidential candidate Jan Svejnar’s shoes come under close scrutiny in the town of Zlín, two Czechs get their hands stuck in a billiard table and many Bavarians are…
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Czech model enthusiasts get to work for Hollywood filmmakers
The club of modelers in the Moravian town of Vsetín goes back many years. Its members are exclusively men – in fact some of them claim that a woman would never have the…
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Samizdat editions of Lidové Noviny go online
It’s twenty years since a group of anti-communist dissidents took the brave decision to revive the newspaper Lidové Noviny, once the spiritual home of the Czech nation’s…
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