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In business news today: household energy prices to grow in coming months;
Slevomat.cz buys share in Hungary’s Bónus Brigád; Czech Post expects
rise in profit compared to 2011; Construction sector expects crisis to
deepen. More
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In Business News this week: the economy slows down suggesting even bleaker
outlooks; the Czech crown loses its lustre for investors; Czech banks lose
billions in the Greek debt crisis; President Klaus vetoes a bill
introducing criminal liability for corporations; firms increasingly
introduce loyalty programmes to keep customers; and Czech Post will launch
“great parcel revolution”. More
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In Business News: the Czech registry OTE will remain closed for at least
six weeks following unauthorised trading; consumers stand to benefit from a
price war between power companies; the Czech mortgage market grew by 15
percent after two-year decline; the Czech insurers’ Association
investigated more than 5,000 suspicious insurance claims last year. More
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In this week’s Business News: Škoda Auto to remain in luxury range;
government turns off funding for solar power; central bank fines major high
street bank for misleading customers; steelmakers see slow recovery; and
work time increases for employees.
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Today in Mailbox: Czech-Egyptian relations, the history of the postal
service, the Czech national tree. Listeners quoted: Mohamed Abd Elraheim,
Rassem ben Brahim, Kanchan Chatterjee.
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Current AffairsAfter 160 years of service the telegram bows out
In what some describe as the end of an era, the Czech Postal Service on
Wednesday ended a 160-year-long practice of delivering telegrams. While in
the 1930s Czechs sent about four million telegrams a year, the arrival of
electronic communication in the 1990s practically killed demand for the
service. Telegrams have been replaced mainly by mobile phone text messages
and email.
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