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SpotlightKarlín – Prague’s first suburb
Prague’s leafy central suburb of Karlín may best be known outside of the
Czech Republic for the devastating floods that laid ruin to it in 2002, but
much of the world has been using the machines and products born of Karlín
factories for more than a hundred years and aside from that it is also
Prague’s oldest suburb – a point recalled by an exhibition being held
this year at the City Museum in Prague that was created by historian Dr.
Zdeněk Míka: More
Current AffairsCzech roads see lowest number of fatalities since 1947
2011 saw vast improvement in the number of road deaths, dropping to 695.
That is the lowest number since the late 1940s, although then there were
only some 128,000 thousand registered vehicles on Czech roads compared to
around four million today. Experts suggest that a number of factors have
contributed to the continuing drop in road fatalities. More
Current AffairsFirst gorilla born and raised in Prague zoo relocated to Spain
Just two weeks after a newborn gorilla was transported from Prague to
Stuttgart following repeated failed attempts to reunite it with its mother,
Prague zoo has bid farewell to another gorilla, Moja, the first low-land
gorilla born and raised in captivity in the Czech Republic. The animal has
reached sexual maturity and her minders decided to move her away to prevent
in-breeding in the pack. Her new home is the Cabárceno National Park in
northern Spain where Moja was transported on Tuesday. More
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