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03/29/2007
One of China's leading TV manufacturers, Sichuan Changhong Electric Co., has opened a production facility in the central Bohemian town of Nymburk. The project, which was inaugurated on Wednesday, is the first overseas production base wholly owned by a Chinese home electrical appliance enterprise. The 15-million-dollar project has a designed annual production capacity of one million sets, mostly flat-panel and high-definition TVs. The company aims to gradually expand the production to also include air conditioners, refrigerators, cellphones and set-top boxes, in order to sell all Changhong products in Europe.
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03/29/2007
The Czech police have completed an investigation into the illegal export of human skin taken from dead donors, the Pravo newspaper reports. According to the daily, investigators are to recommend that five medical workers and one other person be charged with illegally exporting skin taken from a tissue bank at the Brno Faculty Hospital. The accused face up to eight years in prison if found guilty. It is the first case of its kind in the Czech Republic.
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03/29/2007
Prices for flats and apartments in the Czech Republic have risen sharply according to Mlada fronta Dnes. The newspaper reports that property prices have increased by more than ten percent in many large Czech towns and cities, with prices for apartments in Prague increasing by as much as one third. Among other things, the daily attributes the price increases to easily available mortgages and foreign property speculators.
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03/29/2007
The second world sudoku championships opened in Prague on Thursday with 140 entrants from 32 countries competing to become the top player of the popular numerical logic game, organisers said. Current world champion, 32-year-old Czech, Jana Tylova, said ahead of the competition that she expected a much tougher contest than in Italy last year, when she took the title ahead of 87 opponents from 22 countries. Sudoku fans worldwide have been invited to follow the tournament's progress on line on the website www.sudoku07.com. President Vaclav Klaus, a keen player, is expected to attend the finals on Saturday, organisers added.
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03/29/2007
The Czech press stepped up the pressure for the country's veteran manager, Karel Bruckner, to resign on Thursday after the team's uninspiring 1:0 victory against Cyprus on Wednesday. The team had previously lost at home to Germany on Saturday in another Euro-2008 qualifier. Newspapers above all reproach 67-year old Bruckner for always preferring the same group of players and being unable to impose discipline on some of them. The whole squad was fined 1 million crowns (almost 48,000 dollars) after several players celebrated with a drinking session into the early hours of Sunday morning, hours after their 2:1 home defeat against Germany. The tabloid daily Sip alleged on Monday that prostitutes took part in the celebrations to mark the birthday of one of the players.
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03/29/2007
Czech tennis player Nicole Vaidisova lost to Serena Williams in their Miami Open quarter-final on Tuesday. The world number eight was brushed aside by the American in straight sets 6:1, 6:4.
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03/28/2007
Czech prime minister Mirek Topolanek announced on Wednesday that official negotiations have commenced between the government and the United States over the building of a US radar base in the Czech Republic, which should comprise part of an American missile defence system. Earlier, Czech deputy defence minister Martin Bartak said after meeting with US defence department officials that negotiations between the two countries will probably last until the end of the year. Meanwhile, a poll published today by the Factum Invenio agency indicates that 56 percent of Czech citizens are in favour of opening negotiations with the US on the radar base. Previous polls suggested that most Czechs were opposed to the facility being located on their territory.
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03/28/2007
Czech minister for trade and industry Martin Riman has said he will urge the government to fight the European Commission's decision to slash the Czech Republic's greenhouse gas emission quotas in a European court. Mr. Riman said the Czech Republic could also lodge its challenge in tandem, with Poland which also had its quotas reduced. The European Commission said on Monday that the Czech Republic's carbon dioxide quotas should not exceed 86.8 million tonnes, which is 14.8 percent lower than what the Czechs requested. Poland's CO2 quotas were slashed by 26 percent. Minister Riman said this was particularly unfair in view of the EU newcomers' booming economies.
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03/28/2007
The Prague State Attorney's Office has announced that a corruption investigation into the financial dealings of former prime minister Stanislav Gross is to be re-opened. Mr Gross resigned as prime minister in 2005 after failing to satisfactorily name a source for money he received to buy a luxury flat in Prague. Although police have already shelved the case twice, a spokeswoman for the State Attorney's Office said that other circumstances surrounding the case now needed to be investigated.
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03/28/2007
Czech prime minister Mirek Topolanek told reporters on Wednesday that he would not force deputy prime minister Jiri Cunek to resign. Mr Topolanek said that the "media witchunt" surrounding Mr Cunek who is accused of corruption exceeded the "boundaries of good taste." The coalition government's leaders met behind closed doors on Tuesday night to decide the fate of deputy prime minister and Christian Democrat chairman Jiri Cunek, who has been charged with taking a bribe when he was mayor of the town of Vsetin five years ago. Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek had previously said on Monday that Mr. Cunek's continued presence in government was untenable and that the door would be open for him to return if he was able to clear his name. The Green Party has also indicated that Jiri Cunek's presence in the cabinet is unwelcome. The Christian Democratic Party leadership has stood by its chairman throughout the crisis.
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