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A Czech town declares war on bureaucrats, on average every tenth child born
in the Czech Republic has a different biological father than presumed, and
a man gets one million crowns in compensation for unwittingly fathering
twins- find out more in this week's Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.
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Imagine coming home to your flat to find it has been invaded by 500 bats.
No, that's not the latest horror movie - it is a real life story that
happened to a woman in Plzen, west Bohemia. Who won the Man of the Year
contest in the Czech Republic? And, the police in Pribram are
investigating the theft of one of their colleagues - who may be gracing
someone's garden. Find out more in this week's Magazine with Daniela
Lazarova.
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Current AffairsBeer inspires art exhibition at Manes
A most unusual art exhibition opened at Prague's Manes Gallery on Friday
night. Titled Prazdroj Ceske Kultury or "The Fount of Czech
Culture" it brought together close to a hundred works of art inspired
by beer - pictures, paintings, photographs, sculptures and installations.
The idea was sponsored by the famous Pilsner brewery Pilsner Urquell which
turned it into a major social event. Among the VIPs present were culture
minister Pavel Dostal, film director Zdenek Sverak, actor Pavel Landovsky
and writers Michal Viewegh and Radko Pytlik. The exhibits sparked some
deep philosophical discussions and pints of free beer helped the
conversation to flow. Alexej Bechtin of the famous Pilsner Urquell brewery
explains what inspired the event:
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The carnage caused by Wednesday's bombing of the United Nations
headquarters in Baghdad is splashed across all the front pages. The papers
carry eyewitness accounts of the massacre including a report from the
senior Czech envoy to Iraq, who says she lost a close friend in the blast.
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How much beer do Czechs actually drink, what's a "beer barrel
race", and where do you go to meet the winner of the Miss Garlic
contest? That and more in this week's Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.
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One topic shared by most Czech dailies on Tuesday is the continuing heat
wave. LIDOVE NOVINY carries a story about a north Bohemian village whose
water sources have dried out for the first time in history. According to
the paper, a total of twenty-four villages in the region have problems
with water distribution. Drinking water has to be carried to the villages
in cisterns and fire-fighters fetch service water for watering gardens and
house work.
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Czech government faces another arbitration. New calls for privatisation of
remaining state assets. Parliament passes law to speed up energy market
liberalisation. Pilsner Urquell brewery found guilty of
compeititon-blocking practices. Government would like mobile operators to
pay for UMTS licences as soon as possible. Central Bank intercepts an
increasing number of forged euros. Consumer confidence has been on the
rise. Czech foreign debt decreases.
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Current AffairsNew EU rules: the times - and the toilets - are a changin'
Czechs are a nation of beer-lovers, and rare is the street which doesn't
boast at least one pub. These vary enormously - on one end of the scale
the swanky, upmarket bars that cater for tourists and the more discerning
locals, and on the other, the traditional, old-fashioned Czech boozer. But
that second variety - the simple Czech pub - could be under threat, as
new, strict hygiene rules come into force. Rob Cameron has this report.
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Current AffairsCash-desperate government may sell precious Budvar brewery
The famous Czech Brewery Budweiser Budvar may be up for sale. Although the
company has long been labelled as the so-called "family silver",
making it exempt from privatisation after 1989, its sale now could bring
billions of crowns to the state budget. Observers warn, however, that if
the government does decide to privatise Budvar, the company could fall
prey to US-based giant Anheuser-Busch, which has been engaged in a fierce
trademark war with Budvar, a worldwide battle that has continued for over
a century.
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