Society
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Children torn between two people, two homelands, two cultures
Six year old Sara Barao is home from Portugal. She arrived as she left - followed at every step by photographers and television crews honing in on a personal tragedy. At…
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Weddings arranged by agencies increasingly popular in Czech Republic
If you have been to a Czech wedding any time in the last few decades, you are probably familiar with the classic format: the same bleak communist-era town hall with an…
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Fifteen years since Czechoslovakia's first official internet connection
Exactly fifteen years ago, on February 13th 1992, the Czech Technical University in Prague hosted a momentous event. At a meeting with university computer science experts…
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Popular singer and former prime minister accused of collaborating with communist-era secret police
Recent days have seen a series of allegations of collaboration with the communist-era secret police. Less than 24 hours after the head of the Czech branch of Interpol was…
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The thwarted lover who took his revenge on Dvorak
For many years, I've been observing a rather unusual phenomenon taking place in Prague. Very likely, there is no other city whose counsellors and citizens hold such…
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Mailbox
This week in Mailbox: the origin of the name of Jan Zizka of Trocnov, Radio Prague jingles, North Korean workers in the Czech Republic, Skoda cars in winter. Listeners…
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Magazine
Not sure how to give birth? It's on the internet! Not feeling well? You need more health insurance cards! And, a black widow arrives unannounced in the Czech Republic…
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Prague Daily Monitor news site relaunched with added original content
For four years now, the Prague Daily Monitor has been gathering news in English about the Czech Republic on one useful website. It groups stories thematically, with…
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Child porn consumers safe from prosecution in the Czech Republic
Austrian police this week busted a huge international pornography network involving more than 2,360 suspects from 77 countries. Sixty-three Czechs were among those who…
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Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat: our Villa was stolen and now has to be returned
The Villa Tugendhat, a functionalist family home designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, is the Czech Republic's only 20th century UNESCO site. The city of Brno is…
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Tick-borne encephalitis cases rise sharply in Czech Republic
Specialists have revealed that there was a sharp rise in the incidence in tick-borne encephalitis, or TBE, in the Czech Republic last year. Some 1000 people contracted the…
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Brno City Hall protests as valuable Tugendhat Villa statue is sold to foreign collector
A statue by Wilhelm Lehmbruck, which used to stand in the functionalist Tugendhat Villa in the Moravian capital of Brno, was sold to an anonymous bidder for one million…
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