Society
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Klaus - our blue (not green) planet at risk from environmental lobby
President Vaclav Klaus launched his latest book on Wednesday, this time aimed at what he called the "hysteria" surrounding the debate over global warming. Mr Klaus claims…
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Over-working of hospital doctors posing a danger to patients, warns doctors group
It was extremely windy down by the Vltava last week when around a hundred Czech doctors gathered for a rather unusual protest - a trip on an open-topped boat normally used…
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Prague-born former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright celebrates 70th
Madeleine Albright, the Prague-born former United States secretary of state, is celebrating her 70th birthday. Born Marie Jana Korbelova on May 15 1937, she was forced to…
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Shocking case of child abuse uncovered by accident
The story of an eight-year-old boy who was cruelly tortured by his own mother - very likely with the silent consent of other members of the family - has sent shock waves…
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Marsha Kocabova: post-Communist Czechoslovakia was like the Wild Wild West
Marsha Kocabova is a former modern ballet dancer from North Carolina who almost overnight ended up at the side of a prominent dissident in communist Czechoslovakia. Her…
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Mailbox
Today in Mailbox: a Czech TV documentary about our January mystery person, Georg Joseph Camel; the planned Czech national memory institute; and more. Listeners quoted…
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Is the most famous Czech a sensible twenty-something sportsman?
Four years after he stepped down as president, Vaclav Havel is probably still the best known living Czech statesman or politician in world terms. I sometimes think, though…
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Magazine
Prague is to get the first Buddha Bar Hotel in the world! A lamb with six feet is born on a Czech farm. And, Prague elects its Metro-sexual of The Year. Find out more in…
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Prague's Palace Gardens
If you are looking for a place to relax on a warm summer's day then there is no better place than the Palace Gardens located on the southern slopes of Prague Castle. With…
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Plans to bring back neighborhood watch groups evokes outrage
Neighborhood watch is said to be one of the most successful crime prevention initiatives ever. But a plan by the Czech Interior Ministry to establish neighborhood watches…
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Tourist requests lead to symbolic Trabant on legs being moved forward in German Embassy garden
It took half a dozen men around half an hour to pull a large sculpture around 15 metres forward in the garden of the German Embassy in Prague's Mala Strana on Wednesday…
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Controversial exhibition of human bodies meets with opposition in Prague
For the last three years, "BODIES...The Exhibition" has been travelling around the globe giving over 16 million people the rare experience of seeing what they look like on…
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