Society
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Jan Kraus - host of phenomenal 'late night' show
This edition of Czechs Today looks at the work of a man known to most movie and theatre-goers and certainly most TV viewers in the Czech Republic: none other than actor…
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Merry Christmas, shoppers!
This year we have had a glorious and mild autumn with few signs of the winter to come. So it seems so much the more strange to see Christmas trees, Santa Claus and…
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Opening debate on the 'regularisation' of illegal workers
The shadow economy of the Czech Republic is thought to employ hundreds of thousands of undocumented workers. They come mainly from Ukraine and Slovakia, Vietnam and Russia…
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Interior Ministry announces proposals to change asylum system
The Czech Interior Ministry has announced plans for changes to the country's asylum system, to reflect a fall in the number of refugees arriving in the Czech Republic each…
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City Hall pledges to "clean up" Czech capital with zero tolerance policy
This week we look at what Prague residents say to City Hall's new pledge to clean up the city centre with a zero tolerance policy. And one of the places that Prague Mayor…
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The 7th of November - the story of a forgotten holiday
November 7th had a very special place in the calendar of communist Czechoslovakia. Preparations started well in advance to mark the Soviet National Holiday, which was the…
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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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