Society
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Libena Rochova - renowned fashion designer's work to see "happening" in New York
Libena Rochova is one of the Czech Republic's best-known fashion designers, whose work has turned heads both abroad and at home. Last October, viewers were able to see …
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Architects question fairness of competition for new National Library building
Renowned architect Jan Kaplicky's design for the new Czech National Library building in Prague - which was selected from several proposals submitted in a competition for…
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Secondary school kids quiz Martin Bursik on "An Inconvenient Truth"
Pupils from Prague's Secondary School for Environmental Studies sat down at the city's Atlas cinema on Thursday morning for a showing of Al Gore's award-winning…
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Czech prime minister in hot water over inappropriate language
The Czech prime minister has never been one to mince his words. And his increasingly controversial statements and vulgar gestures have now got him in hot water. His…
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A look at the Czech Esperanto movement
Esperanto in the Czech lands goes back more than one hundred years. Individual enthusiasts were already promoting the language at the end of the 19th century, and in the…
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Prague 1 to hold local referendum on Sigmund Freud statue
Last year the Prague city hall came up with the idea of commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sigmund Freud by erecting a statue of the Moravian-born…
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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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