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04/08/2007
Czech scientists and their American colleagues from Mayo Clinic are going to meet next week in the city of Brno to discuss the details of a planned international clinic research centre to be built in the city. They are going to assess the current state of the project and outline the forms of further cooperation on the two-billion-crown (96 million USD) project. Besides the US Mayo Clinic, other partners will take part in the project, among them the Brno-based Masaryk Institute of Oncology. The specialised international centre will focus on important projects of applied research, carry out advanced diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular and neurological diseases as well as cancer, and offer high-quality education programmes to doctors and the public. The first part of the centre is scheduled to start operation in 2009.
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04/08/2007
The Brno-based company Enantis and research teams from Masaryk University in Brno and the South Bohemian University in Ceske Budejovice are taking part in a Spanish project aimed at determining the structure and function of certain proteins. Jiri Damborsky from Masaryk University told the CTK news agency that scientists are planning to launch the proteins into space in a special container to try and obtain better conditions for their crystallisation. The Foton M3 project is studying some 40 types of proteins, the Czech teams are in charge of two.
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04/08/2007
About forty people gathered in front of the United States Embassy in Prague on Saturday to demonstrate in support of the release of five Cubans sentenced for "conspiracy with the aim of espionage" in the United States. Three of them received life sentences from a Miami court and two were given 15 and 19 years in prison respectively. According to the Communist Youth Association which organised the protest the Cubans were convicted unjustly. Speakers at the demonstration also protested against the Czech government's long-term critical approach to Fidel Castro's regime in Cuba and against the US plan to build a missile defence base in the Czech Republic. The Czech Republic has been one of the sharpest critics of Fidel Castro's regime on the international scene in recent years.
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04/08/2007
The town of Pilsen says it is preparing an extensive information campaign to discourage teenage drinking. As part of the campaign, co-organised by the Pilsen town council along with the Czech Forum for the Responsible Consumption of Alcoholic Beverages, concerts will be held and music videos projected on screens in the town centre. The campaign will also take the form of billboards, posters and leaflets. The local town hall has lately been facing a rise in underage drinking. During a recent raid on the town's discos and night clubs, police found 13 inebriated teenagers within a few hours.
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04/08/2007
Only dozens of skiers took advantage one of the last occasions in ski resorts in the Krkonose Mountains, East Bohemia, on Easter Sunday as the ski season is coming to a close. Even though there are between 15 to 40 centimetres of snow on the slopes, Easter Monday will be the last day of operation this season in some resorts in that mountain range, but for example lifts in Spindleruv Mlyn are expected to run for another week. All ski lift were in operation on Sunday at the Ovcarna resort in the North Moravian mountains of Jeseniky- the only one still open to skiers in that area.
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04/08/2007
Ornithologists from the Plzen region report that the first swallows have begun returning from their wintering grounds to their nesting sites in the region. Male swallows are the first to arrive, while female birds will follow later. Experts say the return of migratory birds this year has been speeded up by warmer weather.
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04/07/2007
Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek has said that if parliament fails to pass the coalition government's new package of public finance reforms in the coming months, then his administration will collapse. Speaking in an interview with Czech daily Mlada fronta Dnes on Saturday, Mr Topolanek told the paper that his government had promised reforms and could not continue governing if these reforms were not implemented. He added that if the government does fall then it would lead to early elections as he sees no point in further protracted negotiations to try and form a new administration. Mr Topolanek also announced that his government would present a major package of healthcare reforms next week.
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04/07/2007
Speaking in the same interview with Mlada fronta Dnes, Prime Minister Topolanek said that dismissing Deputy Prime Minister and Regional Development Minister Jiri Cunek is the least desirable option open to him. Mr Topolanek said that he would prefer if Mr Cunek's own Christian Democrat party would accept that his presence in government was destabilising the coalition administration and would persuade him to step down. The prime minister added, however, that if he was forced to choose between saving the government or retaining Mr Cunek, then he would choose the first option. Mr Cunek has been under pressure to resign for some time now over a corruption scandal and offensive remarks he made about Romanies.
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04/07/2007
Roma activists from the Athinganoi civic association have held a ceremony on Prague's Letna Pplain as part of the celebrations surrounding International Roma Day. With the Minister for Human Rights and Minorities Dzamila Stehlikova in attendance, they watered a lime tree that had been planted there three years ago as a symbol of the deep roots of minorities like the Roma in Czech society. The event was one of many organised for International Roma Day, which takes place on Sunday and is intended as a celebration of Romany history and culture.
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04/07/2007
Dutch Social Affairs Minister Piet Hein Donner has said that his government intends in May to begin allowing Czechs and other nationals from countries who joined the EU in 2004 to work in the Netherlands without a work permit. The move would also entitle Czechs and other EU nationals in Holland to receive the same pay as their Dutch counterparts. At the moment, many construction firms in Holland use east European workers as a source of cheap labour. Of the 15 EU states before the 2004 round of new accessions, only Germany, Austria, France, Luxembourg, Belgium and Denmark continue to place restrictions on workers from states who joined the Union three years ago.
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