Society
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Authorities testing surfaces at school for evidence of drug-taking
Surveys in recent years have suggested that the use of soft drugs in particular is relatively common in the Czech Republic. Various measures have been taken to combat the…
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Will foreigners wanting Czech residency have to sit a language exam?
'Strc prst skrz krk' means 'stick you finger through your throat', and is one of the harder Czech phrases to get one's mouth around. This chronic lack of vowels, combined…
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Public Transit Company goes back to the drawing board with Porsche's designs
In early 2006 the Prague Public Transit Company (Dopravni Podnik) added 12 slinky new trams designed by Porsche to its fleet. Though Czech stalwart Skoda still made the…
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Renovation of Jan Hus statue surrounded by controversies
In April the statue of Jan Hus dominating the Old Town Square was surrounded by scaffolding and covered up in large canvas to undergo vast renovation, which will take at…
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Travel agency goes belly up, leaving Czech tourists stranded
Tuesday evening at Prague's international airport more than 200 Czech tourists who had geared up for package vacations abroad were given the bad news: their holiday was…
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Czech EU ambassador to be brought home early
There are still more than seventeen months to go before the Czech Republic takes over the helm of the European Union, but feverish preparations are already underway and…
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Illegal practice of dual pricing persists in Czech Republic
In the early 1990s, when western tourists started flowing into the country after the fall of communism, some local establishments came up with their own method of leveling…
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July sees dramatic rise in number of deaths on Czech roads
A year ago new legislation introduced a points system for drivers, with the aim of improving the situation on Czech roads, where death rates were among the highest in…
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Czech state in countersuit against CSOB bank
Relations between the Czech state and the country's biggest bank - CSOB - seem to be going from bad to worse. The Finance Ministry has announced it's suing CSOB for almost…
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Will the state compensate women sterilized against their will?
Stories about the sterilization of Romany women stretch back as far as the 1970s. Experts suspect that there could have been as many as 2000 women sterilized in what is…
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Czech fans gather for final Potter instalment
Any other day bookstores would long have been closed by 1 am in Prague, but not last Saturday, July 21st, when the final instalment J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series went…
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Authorities act to curb illicit blueberry harvesting
The Krkonose (or Giant Mountains) have always been a popular holiday destination for Czech as well as foreign tourists. In recent years, however, the North Bohemian…
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