16.04.08 15:42 Filed in: The Prague Post For the 1,415 Japanese people living in Prague, Japa grocery store offers a taste of home. Tarako spaghetti (made with salted cod roe), king crab from Kamchatka, Russia, and Oolong tea from China are just a few of the exotic items on the shelves at the Prague 6 [...]
16.04.08 16:03 Filed in: The Prague Post Seeing steady growth, investors flock to Europe’s heartland Known for its rugged natural beauty and churning geology, Iceland may give the impression of an idyllic backwater in the North Atlantic. But, surprisingly, the island state sports an impressive wealth, with its gross domestic product rising from $30,000 (479,400 [...]
As the Poles enlarge their farms, Moravian tractors follow For a long time, it seemed that tractor manufacturer Zetor had seen its best days under communism. In the 1990s, the company had to be bailed out by the state several times after posting operating losses in order to save jobs at its factory in Brno, [...]
23.04.08 15:56 Filed in: The Prague Post After disputed tender, Škoda is set to deliver new line of locomotives In the European Union’s ever-increasing and limitless traffic, nothing seems more outdated than stopping to cross a border. Yet that’s what happens every time a train run by the national railway company, ?eské dráhy (?D), crosses [...]
06.02.08 16:31 Filed in: The Prague Post Prague firm pushes for analog audio quality in a digital world The room looks like a premonition of hell. Flames fed by hydrogen-oxygen mixtures blast against glass; tungsten wires slither through tubes; liquid nitrogen freezes in vacuum flasks. At its facility in Prague 9, KR Audio blows vacuum [...]