Society
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Prague districts seek discussion on surviving communist-era street names
Eighteen years after the Velvet Revolution some will no doubt be surprised to learn that a number of streets in Prague still bear the names of highly controversial figures…
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Former Czech dissidents meet UK supporters at London theatre, 30 years later
This week some of the key figures in Czechoslovakia's Charter 77 protest movement are getting together in London with several of the British intellectuals who supported…
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Czech woman hoping to defend title at Sudoku World Championships in Prague
Sudoku has become hugely popular in many countries around the world, a fact reflected in the holding of the logic-based puzzle's first World Championships in Italy's Lucca…
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Czechs best in EU at recycling plastic packaging
Anyone who's lived in the Czech Republic or even seen the recent Jan Sverak film "Vratne Lahve" or "Returnable Bottles" will probably have got the impression that Czechs…
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People in Need continue "jail cell" campaign for Cuban dissidents
Visitors to Prague were treated to an odd sight recently - prisoners wearing striped fatigues sitting disconsolately in a pretend jail cell on Wenceslas Square. It was…
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Tomio Okamura - between two cultures
In today's One on One Jan's guest is successful Czech-Japanese businessman Tomio Okamura. Today in his mid-thirties, Tomio moved to Prague from Tokyo in 1994 and within a…
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Mailbox
In Mailbox this week: The Czech Republic and the International Criminal Court, ownership of churches, a cat parasite featured in Czech Science, day nurseries in the Czech…
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Lost in translation
Any English speaker living in a foreign country has at some stage or another encountered some fairly dodgy English translations. Every ex-pat I know has a funny tale to…
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Eight years in a Thai jail: the cautionary tale of Radek Hanykovics
On 17th March, Radek Hanykovics would have celebrated his 38th birthday. Radek had known for some time that his lung cancer was untreatable, but his death on 30th January…
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Magazine
Slovaks living in the Czech Republic are returning home in their droves, a Czech artist has made it into the Guinness Book of Records for producing the world's smallest…
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Czech students enjoying benefits of Erasmus programme
For many young people around the continent, one of the most tangible benefits of being in the European Union is having the opportunity to study in another EU state. For 20…
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Robot-assisted heart surgery reaches Czech Republic
I have just arrived at Prague's Na Homolce hospital. Last week, its cardiologists performed the first ever robot-assisted heart surgery in the country and they have since…
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