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Czech jobseekers often fall victim to bogus job agents in UK
The United Kingdom is one of only three old EU countries that opened their
labour markets to the citizens of new member states after last year's
enlargement. According to UK statistics, some 15,000 Czechs have
registered for work in the United Kingdom since accession in May 2004.
Many have found a job to their satisfaction but there are also plenty of
those who have fallen prey to bogus job agents.
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Private doctors' strike over late reimbursements set to go ahead
Eleventh-hour negotiations by Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek have failed to
avert private doctors' plans to strike over chronically late payments from
the state-run insurance company. A working group of officials from the
Health Ministry and the insurer were to meet on Wednesday to hammer out a
solution, but associations of private practitioners expect little to come
of it, and their members intend to shut down their surgeries on Thursday. More
Euthanasia. Do Czechs care?
Euthanasia - in the original Greek the word means help in suffering, both
medical and in the mind. The word now applies to the highly controversial
issue of enhancing death on the request of a patient. Illegal in the Czech
Republic, euthanasia became a topic of discussion and a political issue
some ten years ago. Ever since then it has faded into the background,
overshadowed by other events seen as more urgent. Talking to a few
citizens of Prague about their opinion on euthanasia, I had the impression
that many Czechs remain undecided.
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Mailbox
In Mailbox today: the adventures of Lukas; listeners in Australia and New
Zealand; the winner of Radio Prague's September competition. Listeners
quoted: Marie Thereza Kosar, US; Mark Guy, US; Bob Boundy, New Zealand;
Charles Konecny, US; John Sheppard, UK; Henrik Klementz, Sweden; Gina
Cenkl, US.
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Magazine
Make those rotten products look good! The hypermarket chain store that
risked consumers health by selling old meat and salamis. A Czech town
builds a 10,000 euro bridge for squirrels. And, who has got the fastest
steam engine? The Czech Republic has won the Steam Engine Grand Prix. Find
out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.
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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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