The Vietnamese minority living in the Czech Republic elected today its own beauty queen – or Miss Vietnam CR. Five finalists will travel to Germany next month to compete for the title of Miss Vietnam European Union 2009. “This competition is a great addition for the Vietnamese community since it is showed to the general public in a different light, which in turn will help with the assimilation process…..Vietnamese girls are not only humble, respectful, beautiful and polite but their main goal in life is to get the highest education possible. This kind of attitude may enhance the Czech society.”, says Marcel Winter, the president of the Czech-Vietnamese association. [click to continue…]
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The Roma Realita association recently wrote a letter of complaint to Barack Obama himself. The representatives of the Roma minority (commonly also known as Gypsies) in the Czech Republic raised 2 main points that they are concerned about: 1/ the expansion of nationalistic extremists and 2/ the unresolved issue of the “defamation of the Romany Holocaust in the Czech Republic”, calling it a “historical shame”. During the World War II the Czech Republic had 2 Nazi camps for the Roma people (the letter also stresses that all of the guards were Czech, not German). The Roma Realita complaints that neither site has a memorial and one of those sites is currently occupied by a pig farm. What is interesting, however, is that the new Minister of Human Rights and Ethnic Minorities, Michael Kocab, already promised to the Romanies in early 
The total of 147 Czechs were infected with the HIV virus within the last year, which is the biggest increase ever since the the 1980′s. The highest numbers of infected individuals are registered in Prague (466) and Ustecko (NW of Prague). The lowest numbers of HIV-infected Czechs can be found in the Pardubice area (9) and Vysocina (11). According to the European center for infectious diseases, about 1/4th to 1/5th of of HIV-infected individuals actually do not know that they have the virus, which makes it approximately 300 extra individuals affected with this horrible virus.
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