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Czech Republic feels the pinch of economic slowdown

Turkey and the Czech Republic are among a handful countries beating the recession that has plagued many, including large economies such as France and Germany, according to an Organization for Economic Cooperation and...

Vítkovice steelworks gets a place on the European Culture Heritage List

The north Moravian city of Ostrava, once known as the steel heart of Czechoslovakia, has now become the first Czech site to be included on an EU list of European Culture Heritage, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Wawel...

Czech Communists refuse to label Stalin mass killer

Ostrava - Svatomír Recman, Karel Konečný, Eva Valjentová, Zdeněk Dobrý and Jaroslav Borka are Communist Party (KSČM) members who have become new regional councillors thanks to local coalitions with the Social Democrats (ČSSD)....

Czech industrial complex on nascent European heritage list

Staré Vítkovice patří mezi památky evropského dědictví Ostrava - The former Vitkovice industrial complex in Ostrava has become the first Czech sight entered in the nascent list of European Cultural Heritage, Culture Minister...

Czech Communists refuse to label Stalin mass murderer

Ostrava - Svatomír Recman, Karel Konečný, Eva Valjentová, Zdeněk Dobrý and Jaroslav Borka are Communist Party (KSČM) members who have become new regional councillors thanks to local coalitions with the Social Democrats (ČSSD)....

ArcelorMittal announces layoffs in Czech Republic

Ostrava - The largest Czech steel producer, ArcelorMittal Ostrava, has announced plans for an unspecified number of redundancies, saying the global crisis has reduced demand for the company's products. "The management believed...

Civic Judo: Gypsy integration in reality

This program of TV NOVA, "Civic Judo" about the gypsy questions, was aired in May 2008. English transcript, my fast translation:0:00 Narrator: Our reporter, Ms Bohunka Frankova, recorded a program for you that we titled in a...

Laparoscopic approach to retrorectal cyst

Retrorectal cysts are rare benign lesions in the presacral space which are frequently diagnosed in middle-aged females. A research group from Czech reported their experience with two female patients who were diagnosed as...

CR to have 53 kilometers of new motorways

24-Nov-2008

Czech drivers will get 53 kilometers of new motorways and expressways for use next year, with the longest sections to be opened on the D1 motorway between Olomouc and Ostrava, North Moravia, according to Roads and Motorways...

Two Polish workers die in Czech mine due to earth tremor

Dva lidé v noci zemřeli v karvinském dole Ostrava - Two Polish miners died during the night in the Czech OKD company´s Karvina Mine in an earth tremor some 710 metres below the surface, Vladimir Bystrov, spokesman for the NWR...

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