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An LT 35 tank – pride of the Czech arms industry in 1938 – comes home.
A Czech chemistry textbook wins a gold medal at the Frankfurt Book Fair. An
18-months-old baby boy gets a place in the Czech Book of Records! Find out
more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.
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Czech teachers complain of children becoming more aggressive
Czech teachers have long called for an increase in salaries. They claim
that not only are they underpaid but that their job gets more demanding
with each passing year, as their pupils grow more unruly and aggressive
both in and outside the classroom. According to the Association of Primary
School Teachers, nearly 90 percent of teachers now complain that children
are increasingly difficult to manage. Dr. Petra Vrtbovská from the Prague
Institute for Foster Care says that the primary blame for this unrestrained
behaviour often lies with the parents:
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Being part of the baby boom
The Czech Republic is currently going through a baby boom, a fact you can
hardly fail to notice when you walk the streets of Prague these days. While
in the past, you would rarely bump into a mother with a pram, now they are
simply everywhere. Maternity hospitals are bursting at the seams and
mothers have to register six months in advance to secure a place. The last
baby boom was in the 1970s and the 70s kids are now in their 30s. As a
result, 2008 saw the biggest number of newborns in 15 years.
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The Irish singer Glen Hansard and Czech musician Markéta Irglová, who won
an Oscar this year for best original song with their composition Falling
Slowly will make an appearance in The Simpsons. Twelve women from a small
Czech town find inspiration in the movie Calendar Girls. And, the
Napoleonic Society plans to pay tribute to the horses that were killed in
Battle of Austerlitz. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.
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Not many people are prepared to travel in it, but the Czech made Velorex
car has just proved its worth in an expedition across the legendary Route
66. A two- year-old takes an early morning joyride across town on his
tricycle, and the town of Pelhrimov wants to build a unique monument. Find
out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.
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The case of the exchanged babies frays nerves, raises questions
It is a saga that has dragged on for almost two years - a pair of babies
from Brno were accidentally exchanged at birth and given to the wrong
parents. The mistake was discovered only a year later when the father of
one of the children went for a paternity test, which revealed that neither
the mother nor the father were the biological parents of their baby. Now
the families are in court suing the hospital involved in the mix up,
testifying for the first time this week. The families are each seeking 6
million crowns in compensation in what is proving to be a very challenging
case.
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One third of Czech children now born out of wedlock
According to the latest government figures, a third of children born in the
Czech Republic in 2007 were born out of wedlock. The percentage of
extramarital newborns has been on the rise since the early 1990s, although
experts say there is a difference between the Czech Republic and those
European countries with the highest rates of extramarital births.
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In this week’s edition of Magazine: weddings held under water, chapels by
the motorway, renaming rivers, thieves stealing entire bridges, Czech
technology helping the disabled use computers and the most absent Czech
MP…
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In this week’s Magazine find out how a modern art exhibit shocked
newly-weds in Pardubice; a growing number of Czechs are lining up for
cosmetic surgery; Czech gym teachers decry the poor level of physical
fitness among kids at the start of the new year. And, why couldn’t he
just collect stamps? A Czech collector boasts a grand collection of
historic enema kits.
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Mosts Czech children happy but disimprovement in some areas, suggests new survey
Sixty-three percent of children in the Czech Republic are happy, according
to a survey of 9- to 17-year-olds carried out this year on behalf of the
Czech branch of the United Nations children’s fund, UNICEF. The last
study of its kind seven years ago also suggested that two thirds of Czech
children were happy. But in some other areas things appear to have
changed,
the director of the Czech branch of UNICEF, Pavla Gomba, told me at the
launch of the new report. More
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