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09/27/2010
More than twice as many visitors as usual flocked this year to see the ‘Slav epic’ series of painting by Czech painter Alfonse Mucha in Moravský Krumlov. According to the local mayor, visitor numbers soared to 50,000 compared with the usual 20,000. Interest has been heightened by a battle between the town and Prague which wants the series of 20 paintings sent to the capital to fulfill the wishes of the painter. The paintings have stayed put as a legal dispute over whether Prague should get them is fought out.
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09/27/2010
The Czech capital is hosting the 61st International Astronautical Congress. The congress, which starts on Monday and lasts until Friday, will bring more than 2000 experts to Prague. For the first time, the congress is also being attended by representatives of space agencies from Japan, India and the US. Experts will debate, among other issues, how space exploration benefits mankind. The delegates will also have time to explore the host city – on Tuesday, they are set for a “fun evening” at one of Prague’s most famous pubs, U Fleků.
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09/27/2010
The financial group PPF, controlled by the richest Czech Petr Kellner, has asked the Czech National Banking for a banking license, according to Monday’s edition of Lidové noviny. According to the group’s spokesman, PPF is seeking to create a retail bank in the country with a network of branches which would offer financial services to customers. The spokesman said the project should bear fruit within the next year. PPF already offers consumer loans in the Czech Republic and other countries in Central Europe and Asia through its Home Credit company.
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09/27/2010
The so-called ‘forest murderer’ Viktor Kalivoda committed suicide at Valdice near Jičín over the weekend, prison authorities said on Monday. The 33-year-old was given a life sentence after being found guilty of murdering three people in 2005. Two were an elderly couple and a third was a man who was walking his dog. Kalivoda said he chose his victims, all who were walking in the woods, by chance.
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09/27/2010
Around 5,000 citizens and institutions in the Austrian region of Upper Austria have taken advantage of an offer from authorities to submit internet comments on plans to complete the Temelín nuclear power plant by the deadline on Monday. Local authorities describe that total as a success. The comments will be passed onto European authorities in Brussels who have to oversee whether the plans are environmentally acceptable. State controlled Czech power company ČEZ wants to build two more reactors at the site in South Bohemia. Austrian authorities contend that the Czech environmental assessment was not conducted properly.
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09/27/2010
The film “Kawasaki’s Rose” by Jan Hřebejk, chosen by the Czech Film and Television Academy to compete for the Oscar for the best foreign language film in 2011, will get its premiere in the United States at the end of November. It will be screened at the New York cinema, Film Forum, which specialises in independent productions. The academy announced its Oscar competition selection on its website on Sunday. The 2009 drama tells the story of a respected psychiatrist and a former dissident, who is about to receive state honours when it turns out he had collaborated with the communist secret police. “Kawasaki’s Rose” got nine nominations for the annual Czech film awards, Český lev, but only converted those for the best male and female actors in supporting roles.
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09/27/2010
The Czech women’s basketball team will take to the court for their first game in the second group stage of the world championships being hosted in the Czech Republic on Monday night. The opponents will be South Korea. The Czechs have also been drawn in the same Brno group as Spain, Russia, Brazil and Japan. The group results will decide who will go onto the semi-finals.
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09/26/2010
Planned government reforms will bring the salaries of public sector employees down by 20 percent over the next four years, Czech Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek told Czech TV on Sunday. The government is planning to cut the salaries of state employees by 10 percent next year, this, together with a three-year freeze on the salaries, will mean they will decrease by 20 percent by 2014, Mr Kalousek said. Until now, salaries in the public sector have been rising by 3-4 percent a year.
Earlier this week, some 40,000 trade union members protested the planed 10-percent cut at a rally in Prague. A trade union leader said on Saturday that if the government introduces some controversial changes to the labour code, the unions might call a general strike.
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09/26/2010
In related news, a new law on income tax could enter into force by 2012, Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek said on Sunday. Mr Kalousek said it would simplify the calculation of tax base, and remove most of the current income tax exemptions. The ministry should come up with a bill early next year; if approved by the government and passed by Parliament, the new law would enter into force in January 2012.
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09/26/2010
A record number of Czechs are running in October’s local elections, the news website lidvoky.cz reported on Sunday. More than 226,000 candidates will contest some 60,000 seats on city, town and village halls around the Czech Republic in the elections, held on October 15 and 16. In the first municipal elections after the fall of communism in 1994, some 160,000 people ran for seats; the lowest number of candidates, around 130,000 ran in 2002. Independent candidates won the highest number of seats in the previous local elections four years ago, followed by Civic and Social Democrats.
In the simultaneously held elections for the Czech Senate, 227 candidates will contest 27 of the upper chamber’s 81 seats.
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