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Prague 6 appeals to dog-owners to clean-up after their pooch
Who let the dogs out?! And who, after letting them out, forgot to scoop up
afterwards? That's a question addressed by a new campaign launched by the
Prague 6 town hall. It features the slogan "Please clean up, so
everybody likes us" - the dogs that is - and the idea is to shame
dog-owners into doing their bit, and cleaning up after their pet. But, not
all owners are getting the message.
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Back to the 'homeland' and straight to the Archives
Founded nearly twenty years ago in a Sokol community hall in America's
heartland, the Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International now boasts
close to four thousand members, from all fifty states in the Union and
around the globe. For the first time in its history, this society of
amateur and professional genealogists held its biannual congress in
"the homeland." More
Nandanie and Asoke Weerasinghe - From Sri Lanka to Prague in the 1960s
In today's One on One I speak to Nandanie and Asoke Weerasinghe. Both are
successful professionals in Alberta, Canada, thanks to their determination
and a good education which started with a scholarship to study in Prague.
Nandanie studied medicine at Charles University and Asoke engineering at
Prague's Technical University. Prague is where they met; they eventually
went on to complete their studies in Western Europe, emigrated to Canada
and finally got married in their home country of Sri Lanka. They came to
Czechoslovakia during the big changes of the mid 1960s. Many doors that
closed for Czech students with the Soviet invasion of 1968, remained open
for foreign students, granted they were successful in their exams. They
had only had one year of intensive study to grasp the complexities of the
Czech language. Now they are visiting the Czech Republic again, for the
second time since their days as students here. Though eager to eat Czech
food and drink Czech beer, the idea was not always so appealing for them.
Asoke begins with his first impressions of Prague. More
Has the media been painting a dark picture of life after sixty?
Is there a qualitative difference between the various stages of the life
cycle? Why do most Czechs believe that the elderly have no life? A study
conducted throughout 2004 suggests the Czech media has been painting a
grim picture of life after sixty.
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South Moravian town preparing for annual garlic festival
During the summer season many towns around the Czech Republic compete for
tourists by putting on all kinds of festivals. Some towns have arts
festivals of various kinds, while others celebrate all kinds of Czech folk
traditions. Food and drink are also common themes, with Trebic for instance
holding an annual potato festival. But surely one of the most unusual
events of its kind has to be the "festival cesneku", or garlic
festival, held every year in the town of Buchlovice in south Moravia.
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Daria In and Out - the life of a Czech prima ballerina presented both on and off-stage
Prima ballerina Daria Klimentova is undoubtedly one of the most popular
Czech dancers ever, with an impressive career in the Prague National
Theatre Ballet, the Cape Ballet Company in Cape Town, the Scottish Ballet
in Glasgow, and since 1996 the English National Ballet. On Tuesday, an
exhibition of 60 photographs opened to the public in the foyer of the
Albert Hall that depicts her career both on and off stage.
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Is the Czech press developing at the expense of quality?
Like Czech society, Czech media have also undergone a crucial change since
the fall of communism in 1989. But even though censorship disappeared with
the coming of democracy, the Czech press is now facing other challenges
mostly influenced by market economy conditions. What are the major papers
in the Czech Republic and what is their quality? More
Czech universities at a crossroads: questions of reform
With university entrance exams around the corner and the general elections
only 4 months away, there is growing attention on the Czech Republic's
system of higher education. There are some particular points of pride,
such as the fact that Charles University's medical schools receive
accreditation in the United States. Yet, there are also constant rumblings
about the need to reform the system.
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Historic building reopens on Prague's Wenceslas Square
The Melantrich building on Prague's Wenceslas Square will forever be
associated with one of the most significant periods in Czech history.
Leading figures in the Velvet Revolution, such as Vaclav Havel and
Alexander Dubcek, addressed delirious crowds from one of its balconies in
November 1989 on a day that will be remembered by Czechs for generations
to come.
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Mixed results for Czech Republic in OECD education report
Tuesday saw the release of the latest OECD "Education at a
Glance" report, which came out simultaneously in all member
countries. The report, which uses a wide variety of factors to compare
levels of education, was presented in Prague by Michaela Klenhova of the
Institute for Information on Education.
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