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• Explosia looking past Semtex

  14.05.08 21:55 Filed in: The Prague Post Twenty years after Lockerbie, plastic explosive lives on It has been almost 20 years since the Lockerbie bombing, when one pound of the plastic explosive Semtex detonated aboard Pan Am Flight 103 over southwest Scotland. The blast, and subsequent crash, killed 270 people and raised public awareness of [...]

• Foreigners panic over changes in tax law

  30.01.08 15:47 Filed in: The Prague Post Deduction rules may mean lower paychecks and more paperwork for expat workers Over the past few weeks, rumors began to circulate among expats about a mystery tax that seemed to only apply to foreigners. Online forums were awash with speculation as to why some employers had announced that [...]

• Drowning in jalopies

  07.05.08 15:44 Filed in: The Prague Post Overwhelmed by used-car imports, gov’t seeks restrictions When the European Union forced the Czech Republic to drop its restrictions on used-car imports two years ago, there were concerns that the country would become the automobile dumping ground of Europe. Now, according to the government and business community, all [...]

• Listed tax dodgers safe for now

  19.03.08 21:40 Filed in: The Prague Post Investigators worldwide are trawling through a list of more than 1,250 suspected tax evaders who stashed their money in the small European state of Liechtenstein, a notoriously opaque tax haven. But Czechs are not among those poring over the records, initially obtained by the German government through a [...]

• Levaruka catering to southpaws

  21.05.08 22:07 Filed in: The Prague Post Store is the country’s first dedicated solely to left-handers Pens smear and make writing unreadable. Potato peelers don’t peel. Computer mice cause hand-cramps. These are the minor obstacles left-handed children and adults face every day. And that’s where a store in Prague 8 selling exclusively left-handed items comes [...]