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Current AffairsPrague's Na Prikope Street places 18th in Main Streets of the World survey
Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, the Champs Elysees in Paris, London's Oxord
street - these and other swanky avenues regularly finish at the top of a
survey called Main Streets Across the World, published annually by real
estate consultants Cushman & Wakefield Healey & Baker. The latest
survey out this week has shown Prague's own Na Prikope Street has made it
to the top 18. Jan Velinger spoke with Jonathan Hallett, the head of the
Prague branch of Cushman & Wakefield Healey & Baker. He began by
asking the realties expert whether Na Prikope Street's placing had come as
a surprise, or was instead part of a continuing trend.
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Current AffairsPrague City Council gives green light to new stadium
Moving on to some good news for Czech football fans, especially those who
couldn't get tickets for September's Euro 2004 qualifier against Holland,
because Prague's 20,000-capacity Letna stadium was sold-out. Prague City
Council on Tuesday expressed its support for the building of a new 50,000
thousand-seat national sports stadium in the city's Strahov district.
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Current AffairsDog licences in Prague to increase to help cover street-cleaning expenses
Visitors admiring the beauty of Prague's spires and the colourful facades
of its historic buildings are often in for an unpleasant surprise. Prague
residents learnt long ago that it's safest to walk around the city with
their eyes down. That's because the streets of the capital are often
littered with dog excrement, which the city authorities spend tens of
millions of crowns a year cleaning up. The money from dog licences is used
to clean up the dog mess, though it is not enough. The city council has
now proposed the licence fee be increased by fifty percent.
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Czechs in HistoryThe Builders of St Vitus' Cathedral
Hello and welcome to Czechs in History. In today's edition: a look at
Prague's most distinctive landmark St Vitus' Cathedral, ever visible above
the city's Little Quarter, its Gothic and Neo-Gothic spires reaching above
the Prague Castle, its most precious jewel and centrepiece. We look at how
it was commissioned and constructed and how it survived times of turmoil
and war. This site for coronations and final resting place for saints
and kings of Bohemia - a cathedral unparalleled in importance in the Czech
lands.
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Stepping OutOn board - and wily - at the Paluba games room
It used to be one night a week in Prague on one of the city's steamboats
travelling up and down a stretch of the Vltava River - the Paluba games
club - a place to go with friends or to meet new ones to play a wide
variety of board games you never had as a kid. But, then, Paluba changed
locations: many members wanted a more regular place to visit, and the
steamboat was getting expensive. Today, the Paluba games room has docked
in Prague's Andel district: a club where people of all ages can get
together to match wits.
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Letter from PragueFather in double trouble
The last few days have been marked by various events here in the capital
Prague, all of them in some way connected with road transport and traffic,
as the past week was designated European Week of Mobility. One of them was
a race - with people trying to get to the city centre from various places
by car, bike and public transport. On each occasion public transport and
bikes proved faster than the car, although some drivers complain that the
race fixed and the result was a foregone conclusion. In another event,
mothers with prams and buggies raced against each other along sidewalks
struggling to weave between parked cars.
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Press ReviewPress Review
The coalition government is under pressure from all sides -can it possibly survive? That is the question which commentators are now addressing daily, depending on which way the wind happens to be blowing. Today Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla is seen as having triumphed in the clash of wills with trade unions, who have agreed to desist from further protest actions despite having received no significant concessions from the government. More
Business NewsBusiness News
Prague blue-chips hit a three-year high earlier this week. Meanwhile, the
Czech crown fell to its lowest in over a year and a half against the euro.
The Czech central bank will most likely change its inflation targeting
policy. New Telecommunications Act forces former monopoly Czech Telecom to
rent last mile to competitors. Czech Telecom to sell off some assets. The
largest Czech coal-burning power station out of operation. Power Utility
CEZ eying mulls eastward expansion. Sixteen buildings in Prague's
Wenceslas Square are up for sale again.
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Stepping OutRock Solid
In the middle of the city, in Prague's Jama Street there is one bar you can
visit if you're in the mood for something a little unusual, that is, for
climbing up the walls. Confused? Well, let me explain: the so-called
Boulder Bar was launched for and by avid rock climbers two years ago with
the aim of providing practice space for beginners and experts to hone
their climbing skills. Fancy moves, hanging from various knobs, pegs,
handholds, and footholds, often falling to the thick padded ground - all
that is just part of the regular order of things. Since its inception the
venue has grown ever more in popularity among both climbers and
non-climbers interested in just hanging out. Some get a work-out on the
wall; others get a work-out of a different sort at the venue's bar.
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Press ReviewPress Review
A new bout of illness for President Klaus makes the front pages today -
"President Taken To Hospital" thunders MLADA FRONTA DNES,
accompanied by a large colour photo of Mr Klaus kissing his wife. There's
also a front-page photo of the presidential couple in PRAVO - there too
the story is big news. Only LIDOVE NOVINY and HOSPODARSKE NOVINY take a
more sober line - the former giving the story second place after the Greek
earthquake, and the latter barely mentioning it.
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