Society
-
Magazine
From the Czech Republic with love: a giant Christmas tree for Malta. Drumming up voter support: opposition leader Mirek Topolanek dresses up as Santa Claus. And - put…
-
Mozart at the centre of a political dispute
He's one of the greats of classical music and you wouldn't expect him to get mixed up in politics. Yet, more than 200 years after his death Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is at…
-
An old-fashioned Advent: Not your grandma's carp and potato salad
Fried carp and potato salad is today the 'bread and butter' of any traditional Czech Christmas meal. But this was not always so. Pious Czechs once used to fast at…
-
Father Roman Musil: "worse than my kidnapping is the bureaucracy that's followed"
The Carribean island nation of Haiti is the poorest country in the western Hemisphere, and has been plagued by political unrest for most of its history. Over one thousand…
-
Czech Iraqis join compatriots in landmark vote
Iraqis have been taking part in landmark elections in their country to elect the first full-term government, and Iraqis in the Czech Republic, too, have taken part. On…
-
"I want a dog" - Czech children list-off what they want for Christmas and more
The Christmas markets in Prague may be packed but that's not the only business that's booming. This is also the peak season for toy shops. Do Czech children want toys? We…
-
Toys and mulled wine: Christmas markets attract young and old
Only ten days remain to Christmas Eve, the main festive day of Czech Christmas. People are buying Christmas trees and mistletoe, baking Christmas cookies and also looking…
-
City Hall to launch ambitious plan that significantly steps up security in Prague metros
The horrors of the July 7 London bombings are still fresh in our minds. Ten years after the nerve gas attacks on Tokyo's underground railway, the bombs in London showed…
-
More details emerge on arrest of "bin Laden's man in Sweden"
More details have emerged about the arrest in Prague on Sunday of a person described by the Swedish media as "Osama bin Laden's man in Sweden." The man, a 39-year-old…
-
Kristina Love - "nothing will make me quit"
We'll open this edition of Czechs Today in a different way than usual. I am not going to introduce today's guest - at least not right away. I have a question to ask…
-
Is Prague successfully preserving its architectural heritage?
Over the past decade or so, visitors have been flocking to Prague in ever-increasing numbers. Many of them have been attracted by tales of the city's beautiful, well…
-
Kumar Vishwanathan: building bridges between communities in Ostrava
Kumar Vishwanathan is originally from southern India. He was leading a quiet life as a teacher in a provincial Czech town when in 1997 disastrous floods swept through the…
Pages
- « první
- ‹ předchozí
- …
- 484
- 485
- 486
- 487
- 488
- 489
- 490
- 491
- 492
- …
- následující ›
- poslední »