Society
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CD rentals in the Czech Republic - bound to be shut down eventually?
A report this year by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry says a full one third of music CDs sold in the Czech Republic are illegal pirated copies…
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Man's life saved through cell phone diagnosis
The statistics are shocking: sixty thousand of the Czech Republic's population of ten million are diagnosed with cancer every year. For many of them, the doctor's warning…
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Czechs mark one year since tsunami disaster
People around the world have been marking the first anniversary of the tsunami disaster in south east Asia. Here in the Czech Republic eight families recalled the loss of…
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Cannabis - now a normal part of life in the Czech Republic
A recently released Europe-wide survey found that young people in the Czech Republic are the leading smokers of cannabis in the whole of the European Union. Before the…
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Have 240,000 Czechs been left out from statistics?
It's the end of the year and many people are taking the opportunity to look back over 2005, including demographers, who have found a surprising discrepancy in data…
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BBC's Czech service bows out after 66 years on air
The BBC's Czech service announced the end of the station's current affairs broadcasts on Friday. Newscasts are to continue until the end of January when the Czech service…
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What people want for Christmas: bigger breasts and longer hair
Santa's on his way and this year he's having to make many a stop over at private clinics to pick up gift certificates for bigger breasts, longer hair or liposuction…
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Anti-Nazi resistance hero, Rudolf Pernicky, dies aged 90
One of the most outstanding Czech fighters against Nazi rule during the war, General Rudolf Pernicky, has passed away at the age of 90. A former paratrooper who was later…
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Critics cry foul after popular TV political satire show axed
Czech Television have announced that it's axing its popular satirical TV show Bez Obalu - which loosely translates as Unwrapped. Many observers immediately cried foul…
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"Christmas Tree - Tree for Life" project brings silver fir back to Czech Republic's forests
Every year, almost a million Christmas trees are sold in the Czech Republic. Soon after the holidays people throw them away and the trees have to be disposed of as waste…
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Plight of Vietnamese baby brings attention to law limiting foreigners' rights to health insurance
The cries of little Do have won the hearts of children's ward staff at a hospital in the North Bohemian town of Most. Do was born prematurely and had to spend months in an…
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Ethnic Poles and Hungarians - the gradually disappearing minority nations
For the last fifteen years the association Koexistencia has been promoting the rights of Polish and Hungarian minorities in the Czech Republic. In this week's Talking…
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