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MagazineFloods hurt the fishing business
At this time of the year fishermen across the country drain their ponds and
lakes for the big haul. The annual netting of fish is a popular event
which many locals like to attend, sipping tea laced with rum as they watch
the fishermen go about their work. However due to the August floods, which
swept the fish right out of pond basins, "netting" in many parts
of north and south Bohemia is a sorry sight, with fisherman pulling out
half empty nets. How have the floods affected Czech fisheries -and how
long will it take for them to get back on their feet? Find out more in
this week's Magazine.
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Current Affairs Jan Letzel, Czech architect who built Hiroshima's "A-Bomb Dome"
The people of Hiroshima gathered on Tuesday to mark the 57th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb. The bomb killed 140,000 Japanese civilians, and turned the city into a blackened wasteland. Pictures of that wasteland show just a single building left standing, the famous "A-Bomb Dome", now the centrepiece of Hiroshima's Peace Park. But less well known is that one of the world's most famous buildings was the work of a Czech architect, who spent much of his life in Japan. Rob Cameron has more.
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