12.03.2010 - Only Czech film in main competition at One World captures transformation process in Kyrgyzstan
All that Glitters by Tomáš Kudrna is the only Czech film in the main competition at the One World festival of human rights documentaries in Prague. The film is about what happens when Western investors take over a gold mine in a town in the ex-Soviet state of Kyrgyzstan which is also threatened by environmental disaster...
12.03.2010 - Arnošt Lustig behind the counter at the Franz Kafka book shop in Prague
Arnošt Lustig, one of the Czech Republic’s literary greats, has been giving salespeople a helping hand this week. Although still weak from an ongoing battle with cancer, Mr...
12.03.2010 - Czech humanitarian worker in Haiti safely recovered after five-day abduction
There are only a handful of Czech humanitarian aid workers in Haiti; on Monday it emerged that one of them had been kidnapped last week and held for seven days. The aid organisation in question, the French-based Doctors without Borders, has said that one Czech and one Belgian worker were safely returned on Sunday, but has so far declined to shed more light on their six-day ordeal, which is bound to change the way aid agencies work in the earthquake-stricken country...
12.03.2010 - German archbishop renews abuse apology after meeting with pope
The head of the German Bishops' Conference, Robert Zollitsch,
met with the pope in the Vatican to inform him of the abuse scandal
plaguing the Catholic church in Germany.
"I want to repeat here in Rome the apology that I made two
weeks ago," Archbishop Robert Zollitsch of Freiburg said at a news
conference following the meeting...
12.03.2010 - German IT-start-ups hope for better times
So you want to work hard for two years and make millions? In recent
years, many young IT companies have managed to turn this dream into
reality: Think of Facebook, eBay or Amazon, whose founders made a
fortune. But times have changed and the global economic crisis has
hit the international start-up scene...
12.03.2010 - Bavaria's wood-carvers struggle to keep tradition alive
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