Reporting Prague

Prague - IJS-Global - View the Czech capital through the eyes of HKBU student-journalists written during a week-long reporting trip. 

Czech-Vietnamese fear return to poverty

By Bo Xuan Hiep

Prague - Jan 8 - IJS Global - Nguyen Van Hanh left his village in a rural northern part of Vietnam in 1998 in hope of escaping poverty and hunger.
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Guns in the city

By Ami Han

Prague - Feb11- IJS-Global -  The weapons on display in the window of the Jgs Trade Gun Shop lay covered in a thick layer of dust.
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Prague: life after retirement

By Sophie Guan

Kutna Hora, near Prague - Jan 11 - IJS-Global - Jaromira is not only a tour guide in her ancient Czech hometown of Kutna Hora, she is also the oldest tour guide, showing crowds of English-speaking visitors around a settlement dating back to medieval times.

In the summer she is busy. But in winter, piercing winds and falling snow deter all but the hardiest tourists. The streets were desolate. Which is why she had the time to welcome guests into the warmth of her home, serve drinks and snacks, and talk about a life lived during turbulent times.

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Czech it out: yesterday, today and tomorrow

By Rynn Song

Kutna Hora, near Prague - Jan 10 - IJS-Global - The cold, spreading out as a white fog, had deterred all but a handful of tourists. The old town of Kutna Hora appeared to be hibernating.

But with the streets almost empty of the visitors who flood in during the summer, those who braved the chill of the off-season got the opportunity to speak at length with some of the inhabitants of this ancient city and hear of the monumental changes they have experienced in their lifetimes.
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From communism to capitalism: change through the eyes of a Czech pensioner

By Trista Lv

Kutna Hora, near Prague - Feb 9 - IJS-Global - Jaromira’s state pension covers only her basic necessities so the former primary school teacher supplements her income by guiding tourists around her historic home town of Kutna Hora.
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