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01/29/2007
According to Monday's edition of the weekly Euro, if the plan to build a US radar base in the Czech Republic gets the green light, the base will most likely be built by Boeing and should be ready to go into operation in 2011. The Czech Security Council approved the start of official talks on the base between Washington and Prague last week. Experts say the negotiations could take up to a year.
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01/29/2007
The Olomouc town hall was evacuated on Monday after the police received an
anonymous bomb threat. Close to three hundred employees and members of the public were sent home and some stores situated close to the town also closed for the day for security reasons. A thorough search of the building revealed no explosives. The police are searching for the anonymous letter writer.
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01/29/2007
A poll just released by the CVVM agency suggests that Czechs consider organized crime to be the biggest security threat to their country in the present day. Sixty nine percent of respondents polled put organized crime at the top of the list, followed by international terrorism. However asked what they considered a threat to themselves and their families the vast majority of respondents said a natural disaster or epidemic.
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01/29/2007
Czech ski jumper Jan Mazoch, who suffered a life-threatening injury at a World Cup event in Poland last week, has recovered sufficiently to be transferred home. Anna Niedzwiedzka, a spokeswoman for Krakow university hospital where Mazoch is receiving treatment, said he would be flown to Prague on Wednesday, where he will follow a rehabilitation programme in a local clinic.
Mazoch's state of health is said to have improved by the day. He is now able to speak and has even managed to walk a few steps in his hospital room.
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01/28/2007
The Czech authorities have decided to end the controversial practice of North Koreans working in factories across the country as breadwinners for their authoritarian regime. Tomas Haisman, an interior ministry official responsible for Czech asylum and migration policy, told the AFP news agency that the ministry would not be offering new work permits to North Korean citizens and did not intend to prolong existing ones. Around 400 North Koreans are currently working in the country, mostly as seamstresses. They are kept on a tight leash by government agents and allowed to keep only part of their wages.
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01/28/2007
Regional Development Minister Jiri Cunek says he can explain the origin of the suspect half a million crowns which he placed in his account in 2002. In a televised debate on Sunday, Mr. Cunek said he had documents to prove that the money was family savings retrieved from Universal Bank following its bankruptcy. The minister said it was money earned before he entered politics and that he had managed to retrieve it thanks to the fact that the savings account was ensured against bankruptcy.
The police suspect Mr. Cunek of having taken a bribe when he was in regional politics and the police have asked for him to be stripped of his immunity. His former secretary is their chief witness, having told the police that her former boss not only accepted the bribe but openly boasted about it. Jiri Cunek, who is also a senator and head of the Christian Democratic Party, has dismissed the accusations saying he would clear his name in court.
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01/28/2007
The Czech public is divided over whether Jiri Cunek should remain in politics. According to a poll conducted by the Mlada Fronta Dnes daily 52 percent of respondents think that Mr. Cunek should resign from all his posts and leave politics. Forty-eight percent of respondents said he should be treated as innocent until proven otherwise.
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01/28/2007
A protest demonstration against the possible deployment of a US radar base in the Czech Republic will take place in Prague on Monday despite the fact that it has been banned by the Prague city hall. Opponents of the base will meet on Prague's Wenceslas Square before marching to the US Embassy and the Office of Government. Representatives of several dozen civic groups and associations as well as individuals are expected to take part. The city hall banned the protest saying that a march though the city-centre would disrupt traffic.
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01/28/2007
Former culture minister Viteslav Jandak has suggested merging the country's public radio and public television networks. Mr. Jandak, who is now an opposition deputy for the Social Democratic Party, said a merger of Czech Radio and Czech Television would enable significant cost cutting measures without reducing quality. The newly appointed culture minister Vaclav Jehlicka said he was not against the idea in principle, but noted that both Czech Radio and Czech Television were known to oppose it.
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01/28/2007
Three people have frozen to death since the sudden onset of cold weather in the Czech Republic last week. The first was a fifty year old homeless man who died several hours after seeking help in a hospital and being evicted because doctors failed to find anything wrong with him. Police are now investigating the case. Another two cases were reported over the weekend, both men in their fifties who had consumed too much alcohol and had fallen asleep out in the open.
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