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A new sign in black and a striking interior in green: The recently unveiled Sberbank branch in the center of Prague is certainly trying to stand out. The significance of […]
With the number of transactions it processed globally having jumped 22 percent last year, and with its revenues increasing 26 percent to $5.6 billion, PayPal is capitalizing on the growing […]
The recently announced multibillion-dollar purchase of a Slovak gas group by the Czech investment fund Energetický a průmyslový holding (EPH) was, reports noted, the largest-ever foreign acquisition by a Czech […]
Proposed more than once in the past but always shelved, a ban on smoking in pubs and restaurants could finally become law in the Czech Republic after legislation was presented […]
The largest public tender in the Czech Republic’s history descended into turmoil late in 2012, when Areva appealed its exclusion from the contest to be selected to build the two […]
Areva has promised to take legal action after ČEZ rejected the French conglomerate’s appeal against its exclusion from the tender to build two reactors at the Temelín nuclear power plant. […]
When Petr Vávra, a counselor at the Czech Embassy in Beijing, recently spent a couple of days in Lianyungang, a coastal city in eastern China, he was, perhaps surprisingly, sometimes reminded […]
