Society
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Czech doctors alleged to have made fortune with the illegal sale of skin grafts
Two of the country's leading skin tissue specialists and three other employees from the biggest of the country's eight tissue banks are under police investigation. They…
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Monkey business and gorilla marketing
Czech voyeurs who have grown weary of watching their fellow citizens monkey around in the prime-time reality TV shows VyVoleni (The Selected) and Big Brother these past…
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Aenne Burda, founder of Burda-Moden, influenced generations of Czech women
Aenne Burda, the founder of the Burda-Moden fashion publishing group and one of Germany's most successful businesswomen, died on Thursday aged 96. During communist times…
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Government to pave way for memorial on former concentration camp site
The pig farm at Lety has proven to be an embarrassment for a succession of Czech governments: in the early 90s, the media revealed that the farm stood on the site of a…
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Skoda trumps European rivals in BBC Top Gear Magazine readers' poll
Now, have you heard the one about the Skoda which beat all of Europe's best-known car manufacturers in a readers' survey? Well, you have now. The days when Skoda was the…
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University students visit Roma homes to give school children private lessons
This month, a new mentoring project will be launched in the Moravian capital Brno, in which university students visit the homes of Roma schoolchildren to motivate them and…
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Czech police investigate "forgotten" atrocities by Nazis from final days of WW II
The final days of World War II remain among the bloodiest that Czechs can remember - with countless atrocities against civilians committed by the Nazis even as the Czechs…
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Czech Republic's hunting grounds attract foreign visitors
The hunting season in the Czech Republic is in full swing. On Tuesday, the small game shooting season opened, allowing licensed hunters to shoot hare, rabbit, duck and…
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New school project to teach children injustices of Communist regime
It's just over two weeks until the 16th anniversary of the start of the Velvet Revolution that brought down Communism in Czechoslovakia. But how much do the nation's…
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Czech media can brace itself for new competition
The Czech media can brace itself for new competition; this time from the internet. With the number of internet users in the Czech Republic growing steadily - some 30% of…
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Town offers rewards for whistle-blowers in battle against graffiti
For many Czechs, graffiti is one of the less welcome bi-products of the changes that have swept society since 1989. Whether it's the Technicolor swirls that adorn concrete…
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Young Czechs have different outlook from peers in other ex-communist states, survey finds
It is 16 years now since the dramatic collapse of communist rule around the former Eastern Bloc, and for many young people in the region communism is, if anything, a vague…
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