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• Freeing up some space

  09.04.08 15:24 Filed in: The Prague Post Push to accelerate end of rent control could stabilize housing investments Bonus bucks for the affluent or social assistance to those in dire need? Few issues are as controversial as rent control. After sitting dormant for several years, the Civic Democrats (ODS) are stirring the rent-control pot again, [...]

• Smoking bans a smoldering issue

  23.01.08 17:17 Filed in: The Prague Post With little chance a smoking ban will pass Parliament in the near future, Czechs should continue to puff away on their cigarettes in pubs and restaurants undisturbed this year. In the neighboring Länder of Saxony and Bavaria, however, smokers are getting some government-imposed fresh air. Both German states [...]

• Hatching innovation

  16.01.08 17:01 Filed in: The Prague Post CKD’s business incubator looks to foster start-ups The myth goes that start-ups begin inside a garage. But a new business incubator in Prague–Vysocany is putting the lie to the notion that all small businesses start in such humble circumstances. Right across the street from the incubator, a 19th-century [...]

• Firms underestimate fraud risk

  A man returned home after traveling, and his wife embraced him so emphatically that she broke a rib. As it turned out, this was a mere curiosity and not a case of insurance fraud, investigators from Česká pojišťovna (ČP), the country’s largest insurer, decided. The same cannot be said of another client, who hit a [...]

• Banks finalize awaited merger

  07.11.07 17:30 Filed in: The Prague Post HVB, Zivnostenská unite under UniCredit brand after two years It takes some couples a little longer to move in together. After a two-year honeymoon, Zivnostenská banka and HVB Bank finally merged their operations under the UniCredit brand Nov. 5, creating the fourth-largest bank in the Czech Republic. The [...]