Society
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Serial murderer kills seven patients in hospital
It was a news report that sent shivers down people's spines - since last May a 30-year old male nurse had killed seven people and attempted to kill ten more at a hospital…
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"Bufety" and the importance of being earnest
In the plebeian confines of the bufet, I started to feel not so foreign at all.
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Still a nation of bookworms in the era of the shopping mall
We are in the middle of the huge and very modern Novy Smichov shopping complex, one of many that have sprung up in Prague and other Czech cities in recent years. This…
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Magazine
A kangaroo on the run steals the limelight from Santa outside a Czech shopping mall. What's to be done with Stalin and Lenin? And, could you pass through the narrowest…
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World Aids Day - Czech Republic posts lowest number of HIV/AIDS cases in Europe
More medicine, more money, and a motivated work force is what the world still needs - says the World Health Organisation today, World AIDS Day, 25 years after the first…
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European monitoring centre says more effort is needed to integrate Romany minority
It is a vicious circle: poor education -unemployment - bad housing. Despite efforts to integrate the Roma community into Czech society, the Roma still remain on the fringe…
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A drug subsitute becomes an addiction
Subutex is an opiate narcotic which doctors frequently prescribe to help heroin addicts kick their habit. But here in the Czech Republic, some addicts have discovered ways…
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Parents given prison sentences for letting children play truant
A district court in the Moravian town of Breclav has passed an unprecedented verdict. It sent a mother and father to prison for allowing their three children to skive off…
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Dr Josef Skala - "private Marxist" with different view of life pre-1989
There's been a lot of talk in recent weeks of "coming to terms" with the legacy of the communist regime, as Czechs mark the 17th anniversary of the start of the Velvet…
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Mailbox
Today in Mailbox: Bouncing e-mails once again, reception quality in India, anniversary of Velvet Revolution, a listener's experience from Prague trip. Listeners quoted…
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Magazine
The Czech Republic boasts the only stone guitar in the world. Czech fashion designers fight for a place in the sun. And -why have Czechs sent a barrel of their best beer…
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Americans give thanks at ex-pat celebrations around Prague
In the United States, Thanksgiving - one of the nation's most important holidays - is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. In Prague this year, numerous…
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