December 15, 2005
articles: 8
A Simple ‘Thank You’ Would Be Enough
I don’t know if I’m the only one who’s noticed this, but it seems to me that Czech women don’t know how to accept compliments. You make a compliment and they don’t know what to do with it. They either try to downplay your praise in an attempt to show modesty, or they start...
Business: A new catch - EU imports and rules may sink a holiday tradition
With Christmas around the corner, Jiri Ruzicka, a fish farmer in the Czech?Moravian Highlands, is eagerly anticipating what has always been his most profitable season of the year.
Business: Financing Christmas on credit - Banks issue record numbers of consumer loans as Czechs warm to taking on big debts
Spending somebody else\'s money is always cheaper, according to an old financial management theory. And this Christmas, Czechs seem to have caught on to the concept.
Business: Prague Tribune stops the presses - Business glossy folds after 12 glitzy years, citing tough market
The Prague Tribune, a 12-year-old business and lifestyle magazine published in Czech and English, releases its last issue this month, forced under in what analysts call a fierce print market where only the biggest players have a chance to survive.
Business: Aviation giant awaits fate - Aero Vodochody hopes for a bidder that will revitalize it, not kill it
The Czech Republic\'s biggest potential aviation contracting success - or failure - could be decided Dec. 14, the deadline for companies seeking a near 100 percent stake in Aero Vodochody (AV) to announce participation.
Business: 10 Questions - with Martin Jan Stransky
No issue in Czech politics is hotter these days than health care. The sector has been embroiled in scandal and allegations of corruption ever since David Rath, the former Czech Medical Chamber president who was recently appointed health minister, placed state health insurer VZP under forced administration in...
The Old Jewish Cemetery, Prague, Czech Republic
This really is one of the most amazing burial grounds I have ever seen. In the Josefov quarter of Prague, it dates back to the fifteenth century! 1478 in fact. People had to be buried on top of each other due to lack of space. It really is in a small area. There are about 12 layers, and over 12,000 gravestones. 100,000 people are thought to have been buried here, the last one being Moses Beck in 1787. The most prominent graves for Jewish people are those of Mordechai Maisel and Rabi Low ...
Bowling in Karaganda
I’m in Karaganda, Kazakhstan, where I’m holding workshops on open source software for publishers and IT managers from the Kazakh Association of Publishers. Karaganda is a small (by former-Soviet standards) mining-and-manufacturing town, almost entirely built up in the last 60 years. At the...