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Chinese PM arrives in CR to discuss economic cooperation
The Czech Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek has called it the "visit of the
year". On Thursday, the Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao arrived in
the Czech Republic for a two-day visit during which he is meeting Mr Jiri
Paroubek as well as President Vaclav Klaus. Talks are expected to concern
mainly economic topics but to also touch on the issue of human rights.
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Interior Ministry announces proposals to change asylum system
The Czech Interior Ministry has announced plans for changes to the
country's asylum system, to reflect a fall in the number of refugees
arriving in the Czech Republic each year. The ministry says it plans to
close some centres and rebuild others, to improve conditions for
asylum-seekers. Groups representing refugees have welcomed the proposals,
but complain that other changes recently introduced actually curtail the
rights of asylum seekers.
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New school project to teach children injustices of Communist regime
It's just over two weeks until the 16th anniversary of the start of the
Velvet Revolution that brought down Communism in Czechoslovakia. But how
much do the nation's schoolchildren know about what happened here between
1948 and 1989? Not much, says the leading human rights group People in
Need. Throughout November they're visiting schools with documentary films
detailing the excesses and cruelties of Communism. They're also bringing
with them victims of the regime to share their experiences with pupils.
One of them was Jan Wiener, now 85, who escaped the Nazis as a Jewish
teenager and later fought in the RAF. After the war, he was rewarded by
the Communists with a prison sentence. Rob Cameron spoke to him at the
launch of the project in Prague.
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