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The annual awards ceremony for the best organic product of the year was held in Prague on Friday. The awards were presented in a recently opened organic restaurant, which is still something of a novelty in the Czech Republic. The event aims to promote the organic food industry, which is still in its infancy in this country.

The man who sells animal feed tested on humans! What made the Communist Party buy a cow? And, who is running in the Office Rats Race? Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.

Marianna and Oleg Chibovskij have found an unusual way of getting rich here in Prague. They have become the Czech Republic's honey cake barons. Honey Cake or Medovnik in Czech is well known in Ukraine or Russia, and now the Czech Republic is engulfed by honey cake fever. The Chibovskijs started its production six years ago and now sell on average a staggering 20,000 cakes a month.

The Greek restaurant Olympos is like a Mediterranean island in the old Prague district of Zizkov. On the eve of the Euro 2004 semi-final between the Czech Republic and Greece, I spoke to one of the restaurant's owners, Eleni Nedelku, a Czech woman who has been married to a Greek man for many years. I asked Mrs Nedelku who she and her family would be supporting during the big game.

It was a weekend of celebration. Many people spent Saturday night out in the open, drinking champagne in the streets of Prague or savouring the feeling of walking through border check points, with nothing but an identity card. The media reported on the birth of the first Euro babies in the Czech Republic and endlessly quizzed Czechs about how they felt as European citizens. Euro balloons, flags and Euro-car stickers sold like hot cakes. Now, the party's over and it's "business as usual" as the reality of our EU membership slowly sinks in. So in

In its assessment last November of the Czech Republic's preparedness for EU membership, the European Commission (EC) stressed that Prague was still lagging behind with regards to food safety and hygiene norms. Since then, Czech food processing companies and restaurants have worked hard at meeting EU requirements.

The Czech Republic has always enjoyed a good reputation thanks to its beautiful women and its delicious brew. But if Czechs continue to live the comfortable life-style they adopted after the fall of the totalitarian regime, they may soon make headlines for a different reason - representing the fattest nation in Europe. Czech doctors have been recording a growing number of overweight and obese patients, not only among adults but with children too. Some five percent of Czech minors are obese. Due to this alarming growth, the Czech weight watcher

Prague is pretty progressive on most things but until recently lacked a venue providing a service long adored in other parts of the world - karaoke - that sublime form of entertainment from Japan that brings out the Elvis or Tiny Tim in all of us. Whether you have a voice that makes listeners swoon, or raises the fur on the cat's back instead - in Prague you have a place to go at last. It's called Utopie - Utopia in English - and it is a bar located on the city's massive Charles Square, open from dusk till dawn, 6 nights a week.

Prague is a city with no shortage of bars, discos, and even cocktail lounges but until now it may have been something of a problem to "step out" if you had children. No more. A new venue has opened in the city centre where you can meet with friends and take your little ones all at the same time - a place called Teta Tramtarie - found almost unexpectedly in busy Jungmannova Street. Tramtarie - which means something like wonderland in English, is at once a café, a playground, a children's bookstore - and even a children's theatre, frequented by parents

Looking for a Superstar! Thousands of young Czechs are lining up to show that they have what it takes. The Czech who's been making the same resolution for 13 years now and is still determined to see it through. And, traditional New Years greetings cards are replaced by SMS messages. Find out more in this weeks Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.