• Kaplický documentary wins prize at Warsaw festival
    10/17/2010

    The documentary “Eye above Prague”, by the Czech filmmaker Olga Špátová, won an award for the best documentary at the 26th Warsaw International Film Festival on Saturday. The documentary depicts the last two years in the life of the Czech-born architect Jan Kaplický, who passed away in January 2009, and whose project of a new National Library building for Prague was scrapped. The festival jury said the film captured the emotional state of a man who outran his times.
    Author: Jan Richter

  • Number of print publications down by 200 in 2009
    10/17/2010

    The number of newspapers and magazines that come out in the Czech Republic dropped by more than 200 last year to nearly 5,700, according to official figures released on Sunday. By the end of last year, there were some 3,800 magazines, 152 less than the year before. Some 123 dailies came out in December 2009, three less than in 2008. One of the magazines that went under was also the English-language Czech Business Weekly.
    Author: Jan Richter

  • Cyclo-cross: Reigning champion Štybar wins season’s first World Cup
    10/17/2010

    The reigning cyclo-cross World Cup champion, Radek Štybar, clinched victory in the first event of the season, held in Aigle, Switzerland, on Sunday. The 24-year-old Czech was riding in a leading group of eight until halfway through the race when he powered away and finished first. Štybar, who has dominated the season, said he was yet going to get to top form.
    Author: Jan Richter

  • Football: league leaders Plzeň destroy Brno
    10/17/2010

    In football, Gambrinus liga leaders Plzeň beat Brno 4:1 on Sunday, and secured their position at the top of the chart, 12 points ahead of title holders Sparta Prague. In Friday’s game, Sparta lost to third Teplice 0:2 at home; on Wednesday, Sparta will face Lausanne in another game of Europa League’s Group F. In other games of the top Czech division, Mladá Boleslav tied 0:0 with Hradec Králové and remain fourth; Prague-based Bohemians 1905 beat Liberec 3:1 on Saturday, and moved up to ninth place of the leach chart.
    Author: Jan Richter

  • Independent groups leading in local elections
    10/16/2010

    Polling stations around the Czech Republic closed at 2 PM on Saturday, ending municipal elections and the first round of voting for the Czech Senate. In the municipal elections, various local groups of independent candidates are leading with votes from around 80 percent of districts counted in. The independents are followed by the Christian Democrats and the Civic Democrats.

    A record number of candidates are running in the local elections, with 226,000 people vying for posts on municipals councils. The turnout is estimated at 50 percent, slightly higher than four years ago.
    Author: Jan Richter

  • Social Democrats leading in first round of Senate elections
    10/16/2010

    With one third of votes counted in the first round of voting for the Czech Senate, 22 candidates of the opposition Social Democrats will advance to the second round, along with 19 Civic Democrats candidates and five candidates running on the TOP 09 party ticket. No senator is likely to be elected in the first round.

    One third of the Czech Senate’s 81 seats are being contested with record 227 candidates competing for the 27 seats. A second round of voting in the Senate elections will take place next weekend.
    Author: Jan Richter

  • Civic Democrats seat for Prague defeat
    10/16/2010

    With votes counted from around 60 percent of districts of the capital Prague, the conservative TOP 09 party is in the lead with over 36 percent, followed by the Civic Democrats, with more than 21 percent, and the Social Democrats, with just over 17 percent. This would be the first defeat in the Czech capital for the right-of-centre Civic Democrats, who have dominated Prague politics ever since the fall of communism.
    Author: Jan Richter

  • Police investigate election fraud in northern Bohemia
    10/16/2010

    Police are investigating alleged election fraud in the north Bohemian municipalities of Chodov, Krupka, Roudnice nad Labem, Most and others, a police spokeswoman said on Saturday. Voters were allegedly offered money to vote for a particular party; the alleged fraudsters were reportedly targeting members of the Romany community. The police have reinforced patrols in the area; however, a member of the election committee in Chodov said they believed no law was breached as the incidents did not take place in the vicinity of the polling stations.
    Author: Jan Richter

  • Search continues for missing nine-year-old girl
    10/16/2010

    The police still search for a nine-year-old girl who went missing in the Prague district of Troja on Wednesday. The authorities brought in dogs of the Slovak police force on Saturday to again search the area where the girl was last seen. The search went nation-wide on Friday, and the police are now checking whether the girl could have been kidnapped abroad, the news website idnes.cz reported. The girl was last seen leaving a group of friends after school and did not return home. A police spokeswoman said the search would continue until the case is cleared.
    Author: Jan Richter

  • Czech EXPO pavilion sold to Chinese farm
    10/16/2010

    The Czech Republic sold its pavilion at the EXPO 2010 in Shanghai to the Farm of Czechoslovak-Chinese Friendship, for 33 million crowns, or 1.8 million US dollars, on Saturday. The farm, a huge firm with 180,000 employees situated in the Beijing region, will re-assemble the pavilion and use it for the presentation of the Czech Republic in the future, a manager of the Czech pavilion said. The Farm of Czechoslovak-Chinese Friendship was built in the 1950s with the assistance of communist Czechoslovakia.
    Author: Jan Richter

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