Society
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Mailbox
In this week's Mailbox: Find out the answer to last month's listeners' competition and the name of the lucky winner! We quote from e-mails sent by John Sheppard, Phil…
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"Wedding tourism" - a welcome source of income for municipalities
Most people would probably say that the most romantic city in the world is Paris. But the Czech capital Prague is now also staking its claim, as it is becoming an…
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Age limit on assisted reproduction stirs up controversy
This week the lower house of Parliament passed a bill which would ban assisted reproduction or sperm donation after the age of forty. In a society where second and third…
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Seniors in the classroom
They say we never stop learning. This week three students from Prague's Centre for Life-Long Learning celebrated birthdays over 90—their combined age, an incredible 274…
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"Mafia boss" Berdych and gang appear in court
They're calling it one of the biggest cases in Czech criminal history. Alleged mafia boss David Berdych and 35 members of his gang were marched into a Prague court on…
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Scratch, spit and kick below the belt - all in self defense.
In the first eleven months of 2005, police in the Czech capital Prague, reported about eighty-five attacks on women of different ages. Seventy of them were of a sexual…
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New rector to head Charles University
The Czech Republic's oldest and most prestigious institutions, Charles University, has just welcomed a new rector: 44-year-old Vaclav Hampl, a well-known medical…
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Bublan orders firemen to check hypermarket roofs in wake of Katowice disaster
The shockwaves from the Katowice trade fair disaster are being felt across Europe. There's still some dispute over whether snow was a major factor in the collapse of the…
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Should communist-era injustices be financially compensated?
As the fifty-eighth anniversary of the communist coup in Czechoslovakia nears, survivors of that era are leading an effort to have their story told, and the wrongs they…
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Czech Pharmacies close down amid row over profit margin
There are approximately 2,200 pharmacies in the Czech Republic and most of them closed their doors to the public for three hours on Monday. Pharmacists are protesting…
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Czechs among victims of collapsed exhibition-hall in Poland
Poland has begun three days of mourning after a collapsed roof of an exhibition hall in Katowice in the south of the country killed almost 70 people on Saturday. Among the…
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Magazine
Fighting over a roof that's in no man's land. Why do so many young Czechs over twenty live with mum and dad. And, the risks of using a portable toilet in freezing…
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