07.06.2009 - Arcandor executives meet with rival Metro
As employees of department stores owned by financially troubled Arcandor held sit-ins and vigils on Sunday to underscore their concern about the fate of the giant department store, executives from Arcandor and Metro met to discuss a possible merger. The urgency of the situation increased markedly after German Chancellor indicated in the press that government help was unlikely...

07.06.2009 - The Venice Biennale opens with top honors for a German artist
The venerable international art exhibition got under way Saturday evening in the fabled northern Italian city with an awards ceremony which saw a German, Tobias Rehberger, a professor at Frankfurt's Staedelschule, taking top honors for Best Artist. Rehberger won the Golden Lion award for his work "What you love also makes you cry"...

07.06.2009 - Neither here nor there: 1980s Prague through the eyes of Marsha Kocábová
The 1980s was the last decade of communist rule in Czechoslovakia. Political oppression at that time was not as fierce as in the beginning of the totalitarian regime in the 1950s, but still there was no end in sight...

07.06.2009 - Pipes, pubs and propositions: first impressions of Prague
Reading the recent reflections of my colleagues has cast my mind back to the first time I came to Prague.I think it was the start of March 1992...

07.06.2009 - Mailbox
This week in Mailbox we find out the name of our May mystery man as well as those of the four listeners who will receive Radio Prague prizes for their correct answers. Listeners quoted: Henk Poortvliet, Hans Verner Lollike, Charlie Cockey, Imo-Obong Umana, Jayanta Chakrabarty, Nooreddin Ahmad Hussein, Colin Law, David Eldridge, Gavin Waters, Charles Konecny...

07.06.2009 - News