Society
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Thrills and terror on Saint Nicholas' Day
On Monday evening thousands of Czech children were thrilled and terrified by angels and devils, as they celebrated Saint Nicholas' Day. This is the time when the Christmas…
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Czechs and Sudeten Germans in disagreement over Carlsbad Wafer status
You open the pack and you're greeted with the sweet smell of butter, vanilla, and caramel. I'm talking about the Czech Republic's famed Karlovarske Oplatky or Carlsbad…
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Undercover distillers may become legal
In many parts of the Czech Republic particularly in Moravia people have been distilling their own brandy for centuries. They have continued to do so despite a law which…
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Magazine
The Czech lottery Sazka has announced a competition in making babies! How do Czechs envisage a perfect weekend? Are you a Karel Gott fan? You'll soon be able to visit…
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Slot machines have become a Christmas hit
Toy slot machines have become one of this year's Christmas hits and are said to be selling like hot cakes at Sparky's. Priced at 700 crowns apiece they are miniature…
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Music piracy decimating Czech music industry
Latest figures show that record sales by Czech artists this year have dropped by nearly 25% to 116 million CZK or 4.7 million USD. Given that this figure covers all…
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Czech AIDS statistics -are they too good to be true?
While the spread of AIDS is becoming increasingly difficult to contain in some parts of the world, statistics suggest that the Czech Republic is a fairly sheltered country…
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Media literacy low in Czech Republic, says curator of National Museum exhibition
Zlate casy medii (The Golden Age of Media) is the name of an exhibition which has just opened at the National Museum here in Prague. The museum's biggest exhibition of the…
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Czechs and Slovaks under the same roof
A popular Czech reality show came to grips with reality very unexpectedly indeed last Sunday when the cast and crew were evicted from their Prague villa at dawn by 40…
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Czechs catching up with West, says Ivana Trump on rare visit to Prague
Ivana Trump is one of the best known, and wealthiest, Czechs in the world. A member of Czechoslovakia's skiing team at the beginning of the 1970s, she later became a model…
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Silent Witnesses bring awareness of domestic violence
In the course of the last year ten Czech women have been killed in their homes by violent husbands or partners. Hundreds of others suffer psychological and physical abuse…
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Gorillas star in their own "reality show"
It was only just a few months ago that Czechs were first introduced - some would say subjected to - reality TV. In late summer two new programmes hit the commercial…
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