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10/15/2010
The Czech Mining Authority fined on Friday the Metrostav building company one million crowns, or less than 60,000 US dollars, for the collapse of Prague’s Blanka tunnel that occurred in July. The authority said the firm used a wrong technological method in the construction of the tunnel. July’s collapse was the third that occurred since the start of the construction in 2007. When finished, the 28-billion crown tunnel complex will be part of the Prague ring road.
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10/15/2010
The Czech pavilion at the EXPO in Shanghai received the youth award for the most creative contribution to international cultural exchange, the Czech pavilion’s spokesman Jiří F. Potužník said on Friday. The Czech exposition, entitled Fruits of Civilization, presents the country some 30 artefacts, including a relief from the statue of St John of Nepomuk from Prague’s Charles Bridge.
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10/15/2010
The police arrested a man who seven years ago allegedly robbed a Taiwanese tourist, a police spokeswoman said on Friday. The robbery took place in Prague in 2003; the alleged robber, who was 18 at the time, attacked a 62-year-old Taiwanese national and stole his camera, severely injuring the foreigner who died in hospital four days later. The man was caught because of his DNA profile; after he was later arrested for other crimes, the investigators matched his DNA profile to the samples they collected at the scene of the robbery. The police spokeswoman said the man, who he had confessed to the crime, faced up to 15 years in jail.
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10/15/2010
Sponsors of the Czech national football team have objected to the team’s away games only broadcast on cable with a small number of subscribers, the daily Hospodářské noviny reported on Friday. Tuesday’s Euro 2012 qualifier between Lichtenstein and the Czech Republic was only broadcast on Sport1, a cable channel with around 100,000 subscribers. The same station will broadcast a match in Scotland next year, while an away game against Spain will most likely not be shown at all. The Česká spořitelna bank and T-Mobile said they would prefer the games be screened on channels with nation-wide coverage.
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10/14/2010
A major international military exhibition for Nato and Partnership for Peace members has begun in Prague. The Future Soldier trade fair, featuring over 100 commercial exhibitors from 25 countries, runs until Saturday in Letňany, on the outskirts of the city. Delegates to a concurrent conference called Urban Peacekeepers will discuss peace keeping, dealing with asymmetric threats and fighting terrorism. The Czech Republic is hosting Future Soldier every second year between 2008 and 2014.
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10/14/2010
Interior Minister, Radek John, says the government coalition (which consists of the Civic Democrats, TOP 09 and his own Public Affairs party) have agreed not to support any of the proposals of the opposition in Parliament. Speaking at a party press conference, Mr John said the approach was a matter of “coalition loyalty”, which he said meant that coalition partners would not be siding on occasion with the opposition, as they did sometimes under the previous government. Opposition proposals that the coalition condones will be incorporated into its own bills.
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10/14/2010
The number of children who have experience with drinking alcohol in the Czech Republic is continuing to grow, according to a survey published by the company Median. The results suggest that while 37% of young people aged 14 to 19 had drunk alcohol in the year 2000, that percentage grew to 44 in 2005 and 58 in 2010. Of adults, 81% say they consume alcohol, an increase of seven percent over the last decade.
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10/14/2010
Meanwhile, a study released on Thursday reports that pre-school students are taller and heavier than they were 30 years ago. The findings were released by the non-profit association Happy Time, which compared the height, weight and sporting results of some 2000 children with the results of a similar test conducted in 1977. In terms of sports, children in Prague are reported to have improved greatly in the 33-year timeframe, while the performance of children in villages has decreased. Children of both genders regardless of location have grown by an average of two centimetres and weigh on average 0.5 kilograms more.
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10/14/2010
Working hours in the Czech Republic are the third longest in the European Union, according to the daily Právo. Citing the results of an international survey, the paper puts the average work week for Czechs at 42.9 hours, with one in four employees saying they work from 7.30 a.m. to 6 p.m. The survey, which maps key changes in employment over the last 50 years, suggests that two fifths of employees do not leave the office for lunch breaks and devote an average of 42 minutes to their work in the evenings.
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10/14/2010
Archaeologists have uncovered a prehistoric wooden structure at the hill of Vladař near Karlovy Vary that they believe may be more than 2,000 years old. The structure was apparently part of a water reservoir that served a fortified settlement at the top of the 700m hill. Tests have found that the oak from which the structures’ beams were hewn was cut sometime after the year 463 BCE. The beams are to be preserved at the Museum of Archaeology and History in Lausanne, Switzerland, as the Czech Republic lacks an adequately equipped laboratory, and will be brought home to be exhibited a year later. Archaeologists involved in the work called it a discovery of Europe-wide, if not global, importance.
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