Society
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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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OECD criticizes Czech Republic for lack of day nurseries
Being the parent of a small child while making one's living at the same time is not an easy thing to do in the Czech Republic, as there is a serious shortage of day…
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Brno city hall makes U-turn in Tugendhat villa case
It was a U-turn that few had expected. Less than two months after Brno city hall decided to return the UNESCO-listed villa Tugendhat to the descendants of its pre-WWII…
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President Klaus savages "dangerous" green lobby over global warming
President Vaclav Klaus has launched another fierce attack on the green lobby, claiming that "ambitious environmentalism" poses a greater threat to society than communism…
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Fashion takes over the city of Prague
Prague is not known as a city of fashion. However, the country's most important event in this field - the twice-annual Prague Fashion Week - is getting more popular every…
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Working copy of "Bathory" stolen by production manager in inside job
It's being billed as the most expensive film ever made in Central Europe, so reports that a working copy was stolen from an editing room caused something of a stir. The…
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Czech military hospital personnel leave for Afghanistan
Around 30 Czech soldiers left Prague on Monday to join up with their colleagues in the Afghan capital Kabul where a Czech military field hospital is being set up. The…
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