Society
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Pribor begins restoration of Freud's original home
The North Moravian town of Pribor has begun restoring the childhood home of one of its most famous sons, the founder of modern psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. Freud, of…
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Radovan Krejcir: a fugitive businessman in a gilded cage
The Czech Republic has three of its most 'successful' businessmen on the run. The infamous "Pirate of Prague" Viktor Kozeny, wanted by the Czech authorities for absconding…
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Experts express concern over rising levels of consumer debt
There are rising concerns being voiced in the media that Czech households are getting deeper and deeper into debt, and more and more of them are having trouble paying back…
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Pavla Schauerova - on gorillas, reality shows and The Unmasking
2005 was definitely the year for reality TV shows - at one point there were two versions of Big Brother running on rival commercial stations, and acres of coverage was…
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Country cottage mania
Ask a few Czechs where they are likely to be spending the end of the year and many will give you the same answer - at their country cottage. The tradition of country…
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Sidonie Nadherna - a writer's and poet's Bohemian muse
Gazing out of the window of a spacious room in a romantic neo-gothic chateau, I see the image of a woman in a beautiful early twentieth century dress sitting on a bench in…
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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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