• Fugitive businessman in Seychelles, has Seychelles citizenship
    09/09/2005

    Businessman Radovan Krejcir, who escaped police custody in the Czech Republic two months ago, is in the Seychelles, Interpol confirmed to the Czech police on Friday. Mr Krejcir, his wife - also wanted by the police - and their son all have Seychelles citizenship. The Czech Republic does not have an extradition agreement with the country.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Economy records fastest quarterly growth in almost a decade
    09/09/2005

    The Czech economy grew by 5.1 percent in the second quarter of this year, its fastest rise since the same period in 1996, the Statistical Office said on Friday. Deputy Prime Minister for the Economy Martin Jahn said the growth was due to foreign investment and the utilisation of European Union funds.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • South Korean company to create 1,000 jobs in north Moravia
    09/09/2005

    A South Korean company is to create 1,000 jobs in the north Moravian city of Ostrava with the opening of a new car parts factory. A spokesman for Sungwoo Hitech said the firm had chosen the Czech Republic ahead of Slovakia and Poland because of the country's infrastructure and skilled workers.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Minister wants telecommunications operators to help finance provision of data on users
    09/09/2005

    The interior minister, Frantisek Bublan, says the government will try to persuade Czech telecommunications operators to help finance the provision of data on users, as part of the state's anti-terrorism strategy. Operators now keep such data for three months, but under proposed European Union legislation data would be kept for 12 months; this would cost the state a great deal in additional charges, said Mr Bublan, who was speaking at a meeting of EU interior ministers in England.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Bishop bashes politicians for not discussing human rights abuses with Chinese officials
    09/09/2005

    Roman Catholic bishop Vaclav Maly has criticised Czech politicians for not discussing human rights violations with their Chinese counterparts. Speaking after a two-week visit to China on a tourist visa, he said Czech politicians were happy to discuss trade with Chinese officials but did not mention civil liberties. A former dissident, Bishop Maly has also visited Cuba, Belarus and Moldova to assess those countries' human rights situations.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Press: Hundred children a day injured in Czech schools
    09/09/2005

    An average of around a hundred children a day are injured in Czech schools, Mlada fronta Dnes reported on Friday. Three quarters of school injuries are sustained during physical education classes or at break time, the daily said.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Two new Hollywood films begin shooting in Prague next month
    09/09/2005

    Two new Hollywood films are to be shot at Prague's Barrandov studios. Young Hannibal (Behind the Mask) - based on the character Hannibal Lector from Silence of the Lambs - starts shooting next month, as does a remake of the 1970s horror movie The Omen.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Romany band Kale split with singer Vera Bila
    09/09/2005

    The Romany band Kale have announced they will no longer back the singer Vera Bila. They said she was unreliable and had organised solo concerts which clashed with her bookings with the group. Vera Bila and Kale released their first album in 1996 and found considerable success on the international scene.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Czech ice hockey league resumes after summer break
    09/09/2005

    After a five-month break the new Czech ice hockey league season began on Friday evening. Slavia Prague are the bookies' favourites to win the Extraliga, which comes to an end next April.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • State attorney: Krejcir property was being sent to Seychelles
    09/08/2005

    A state attorney has revealed that property belonging to fugitive Radovan Krejcir - a Czech billionaire wanted for fraud - was being sent to the Seychelles. Police seized the property, which had been 'frozen' because of charges of tax evasion, in August, stopping a lorry near Beroun, outside of Prague and finding items from Krejcir's household worth millions of Czech crowns. Items in the truck included: furniture, electronic equipment, motorcycles, and sports items. The name on the shipping address was not Czech and police are now trying to gather more information.
    Author: Jan Velinger

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