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10/02/2010
The Education Ministry has removed an ethics guide from a list of literature recommended for school pupils after a complaint from a gay rights group. The organisation Charlie said the book was homophobic and promoted conservative and religious beliefs; the publication claimed gay people were mentally unstable and in need of treatment, warned against masturbation, and criticised the use of condoms. The ministry said it was taking all books by the guide’s co-author Ladislav Lencz off recommended reading lists.
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10/02/2010
Staff numbers at Czech hotels and restaurants have fallen by 8.5 percent, according to figures provided by the Czech Statistical Office and the agency Mag Consulting. While 125,000 people worked in the industry at the end of the first half of 2009, at the end of June this year the number was 10,600 fewer. A representative of the Czech hotels and restaurants association said the trend was likely to continue. He said things were particularly hard for restaurants in rented premises.
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10/02/2010
The Zurich Film Festival is presenting the Czech-born film director Miloš Forman with an award for lifetime achievement on Saturday night. The festival is also screening a retrospective of movies by the Oscar-winning maker of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Amadeus. After Zurich, Forman, who is 78, will travel on to Lyon, where he will be guest of honour at the French city’s film festival.
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10/02/2010
A torch used in the first Olympic torch relay for the 1936 Games in Nazi Germany has been auctioned in the Czech Republic for USD 28,100. The auction was ordered and held by a court in the west Bohemian town of Karlovy Vary because the owner of the torch was in debt. The estimated value of the torch prior to Friday’s auction had been USD 840.
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10/02/2010
The Czech men’s volleyball team beat Cameroon 3:0 at the sport’s world championships in Ancona, Italy on Saturday, ensuring themselves a place in the elite top 12 countries in the tournament. It is the greatest success in volleyball in 20 years for the Czech Republic. Previously they had beaten the reigning Olympic champions, the United States, at the world championships. In the next phase of the tournament they will probably play Germany and the loser of a game between Brazil and Bulgaria.
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10/02/2010
Vitkoria Plzeň continue to lead the Czech football league, after a 1:0 victory over Slavia in Prague on Friday evening made it 10 wins in a row for the west Bohemian club. They have only dropped two points in 11 outings this season. Plzeň are aiming to win the first league in their history in the year of the 100th anniversary of the club’s founding.
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10/02/2010
The manager of Sparta Prague football club, Jozef Chovanec, says some players will be fined for mistakes they made in a 3:0 defeat at CSKA Moscow in a Europa League game on Thursday. Chovanec told the newspaper Sport that the team’s captain Tomáš Řepka, who needlessly picked up a booking, would be among those sanctioned.
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10/01/2010
The United States Senate has rejected President Obama’s nominee for the post of US ambassador to the Czech Republic: White House council for ethics and government reform Norman Eisen. The president made his choice known following a trip to Prague in July of this year and his nominee was expected to sail smoothly into the post after being successfully vetted by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
The ambassadorial position has been vacant since the departure of Richard Graber in January of last year, following the change of administration in Washington. Observers say it will now remain empty at least until December, following mid-term elections in the US.
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10/01/2010
The opposition Social Democrats have demanded a thorough investigation into claims that a security agency formerly owned by Transport Minister Vit Barta had shadowed leading Prague politicians. Acting Social Democrat chairman Bohuslav Sobotka said that if the allegations, which appeared in Thursday’s Mlada fronta Dnes, are confirmed then the prime minister should sack both the transport minister and Interior Minister Radek John, a close associate from the same party Public Affairs. Mr. Sobotka also called for legislation which would regulate the activities of security agencies operating on Czech territory.
Politicians across the political spectrum have expressed concern over the allegations, pointing out that sensitive information collected about public officials not only violates their privacy but opens the door to corruption. Minister Barta has denied the claims and announced that his brother who now owns the ABL security agency would sue the paper over the story.
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10/01/2010
The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a three-year jail sentence for Czech musician Michal Moravec, arrested earlier this year in a nationwide crackdown against neo-Nazis. Moravec had appealed a verdict by a regional court which found him guilty of spreading racist propaganda at neo-Nazi concerts. He was the author of lyrics which experts described as openly racist and wrote the sleeve notes to a CD called Triumph of the Will where he glorified the Nazi philosophy. Moravec tried to defend himself by saying that some of the offensive words were the result of mispronunciation.
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