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In Business News this week: March’s trade surplus is half that of the
same month a year previously; Google ups the ante in the battle for search
supremacy with the launch of a map system for Czech users; Czech coal
magnate Zdeněk Bakala celebrates an extremely successful IPO; after a
sharp increase in property values, the price of old flats in Prague begins
to fall; Czech households pay the lowest prices for electricity in the
central Europe region, says a new study: and sales of high definition
televisions are set to pass out sales of classic sets this year. More
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In Business News this week: High inflation but low unemployment, a fake
blog is exposed as a marketing ploy, rumours abound that Microsoft will buy
Seznam, a look at the Czech snail business and the country's most absurd
bank fee.
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Want to buy a luxury flat in Prague? It could cost you as much as 400
million crowns. Now you can place a bet on whether the US radar base is
coming to the country. An artist defaces traffic lights and gets in trouble
with the law and police hunt a man who is impersonating a waiter. And find
out why Japanese rats love Czech beer.
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In Business News this week: the Czech finance minister puts forward plans
for a radically simplified “super tax”; the Czech tractor maker Zetor
sees a 14-percent rise in sales; the Ministry of Agriculture launches a
huge organic food promotion campaign; there is speculation the country’s
biggest search engine could go on the block; and a Czech travel agency is
offering flights in space on Virgin Galactic. More
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In Business News this week: 43,000 Czechs are working legally abroad in the
EU’s 15 oldest member states; the Czech National Bank wants to freeze all
proceeds generated by the privatization of state assets; the country’s
biggest chain of record shops has announced that it will shut five of its
stores; the number of people to visit Czech websites has risen in the last
two years by over 1.5 million, and a newspaper accuses Czech Railways of
failing to inform clients about discounts that they are entitled to.
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Current AffairsCzech bank subject of biggest ever e-mail scam
Hundreds of thousands of people in the Czech Republic have been bombarded
in recent weeks by fraudulent e-mails in what is the biggest attempted
internet fraud scam in the country’s history. The emails purport to be
from country’s biggest bank, Česká Spořitelna – and ask for
client’s account and credit card details. The campaign has been so
unrelenting that many Czechs have learned a new word, phishing the name
given to this form of scam. I talked to Česká Spořitelna’s spokeswoman
Klára Gajdušková and started by asking whether the bank has had any
previous experience with this kind of Internet crime:
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Letter from PragueGetting connected
With nearly all of my friends meeting on Facebook and chatting over Skype,
I was starting to feel somewhat left out and decided to “get connected”
as well. I got on the phone to order the Internet, assuming it would be a
routine process, but I quickly discovered I was wrong. In the age of modern
technologies, communication seems to be as complicated as ever.
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