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09/09/2010
One person died during a fire at an industrial plant in the small west Bohemian town of Vřesová on Wednesday night. Three others were also injured in the blaze, which broke out just before midnight following an explosion at the Sokolovské uhelné fuel plant. The man who died was aged 56, said a spokesperson for the rescue services. Two employees suffered severe burns in another fire at the plant in 2007.
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09/09/2010
The Prague Zoo will be opening an exhibition of wetland birds on Saturday that will include a pair of rare African Shoebills from Tanzania. According to zoo director Miroslav Bobek, only 40 such birds live in captivity in the world, making them as uncommon in zoos as the Giant Panda. The four aviaries at the exhibition will also include birds from the Americas, Australia and Europe. Other new attractions to the zoo will be the Hamerkop, the Wattled Crane and the White-headed Lapwing.
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09/08/2010
The police are cracking down on software pirates in the biggest ever raid conducted on student campuses and institutions around the country. A police spokeswoman said the operation had started early on Wednesday and was still underway in many parts of the country. She refused to elaborate saying details would be disclosed on Friday at the earliest. Similar operations are reportedly taking place in other countries as well.
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09/08/2010
The Czech Foreign Ministry has come under fire for its plan to close down two embassies in central Africa. Members of the Senate’s Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday demanded an explanation from Deputy Foreign Minister Jiří Schneider, arguing that the country was relinquishing its hard-earned position in this part of the world. The Czech Foreign Ministry recently selected five Czech embassies for closure in an effort to meet the government’s austerity measures. The choice of embassies has been questioned with critics calling the plan imprudent. Mr. Schneider said the Czech Republic did not wish to withdraw its presence from central Africa and would try to reach an agreement on an embassy-sharing-scheme with the Visegrad group states. The embassies to be closed down are those in the Congo, Kenya, Venezuela, Yemen and Costa Rica.
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09/08/2010
The European Union's selection panel has picked the western Czech city of Plzen as Europe's capital of culture for 2015, its head, Sir Robert Scott, told reporters in Prague on Wednesday. If approved formally by the EU later this year, the city with a population of 167,000, world-famous for the production of the Pilsner Urquell lager, will share the title with Belgium's Mons under the EU's rotation system. The European Union, which the Czech Republic joined in 2004, designates a city as capital of culture for a year to give it a chance to showcase its cultural life and history. On hearing the news, many of the city’s inhabitants went out onto the streets for a spontaneous celebration.
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09/08/2010
The Czech cabinet met on Wednesday to discuss the draft state budget for 2011, but stopped short of approving proposed cuts in spending in view of a scheduled meeting with trade unions and employers on September 14th. Prime Minister Nečas’ cabinet, which has vowed to reduce the country’s ballooning deficit and achieve a balanced budget in 2016, has come under pressure from trade unions and the opposition for seeking to push through salary cuts and effect far-reaching changes to the labour code. A protest demonstration has been scheduled for September 21st, but the prime minister has made it clear that most of the austerity measures proposed are not negotiable.
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09/08/2010
The Civic Democratic Party has come up with a plan which would help curb abuse of the welfare system. The proposal, presented by Prime Minister Petr Nečas, entails giving all unemployed persons registered at employment offices a job offer within a month. Should they reject the offer the state would stop paying social insurance on their behalf and they would no longer be eligible for unemployment benefits. The job offer might involve requalification, further education or community work.
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09/08/2010
The Czech Communist Youth Union may face charges for spreading lies about the Katyn massacre. On its web page, the most radical leftist organization in the Czech Republic, lays the blame for the massacre of 22,000 Polish officers at Katyn on the Nazis, perpetuating one of the biggest lies spread by the Soviet regime which attempted to cover up the fact that the mass execution was carried out by Soviet troops at Stalin’s order. Civic Democrat senator Jiří Oberfalzer said he was determined to instigate criminal proceedings against the union.
The Communist Youth Union was banned by the Czech Interior Ministry four years ago after calling for a revolutionary overthrow of capitalism, but got a new lease on life in January of this year after a court ruled it did not represent a threat to democracy.
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09/08/2010
Czech unemployment fell to 8.6 percent in August, resuming a decline after a seasonal upswing in July when it stood at 8.7 percent, official data showed on Wednesday. The jobless rate grew between November 2008 and March this year as the global crisis hit, then fell for four months before rising in July as fresh school graduates flooded the labour market. Employment offices registered 491,090 job seekers ready to start work in August, a drop of 4,186 against July and an increase of 7,681 compared with August 2009, the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs said.
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09/08/2010
Manpower’s employment outlook survey for the third quarter suggests that job prospects on the Czech market will further deteriorate due to the fact that employers remain cautious about hiring new staff. The vast majority of the 753 employers polled said their present policy was to cut costs and increase the productivity of their current staff.
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