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08/01/2010
Ninety-seven people were killed in traffic accidents in the Czech Republic in July. This is the third lowest number of people to die on Czech roads in the month of July for the past twenty years. Police statistics revealed that the first half of the month demanded more victims than the second half. The ninth of July marked a tragic peak in road deaths: twelve people died on Czech streets on that day alone. The year with the highest number of traffic deaths for the month of July was 2003, when 159 people were killed in road accidents.
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08/01/2010
A fourteen-year-old who is believed to have the longest hair in the Czech Republic cut her mane off on Sunday. The girl, whose hair was 135 cm long, had never previously cut her hair. She decided to get a hair cut due to practical reasons: Styling the excessively long hair every morning was very time consuming and washing the hair was quite difficult. The girl’s mother says she had a hard time getting used to the idea of her daughter choosing a shorter hairdo, but in the end was convinced of the decision.
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08/01/2010
A drowned woman was found in the river Vltava in the city of České Budějovice on Saturday night. The 39-year-old’s body did not show any signs of a violent attack. Police are investigating the case as possible suicide. The family of the woman had posted her as missing several days ago.
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08/01/2010
According to experts from the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute, the month of August should bring pleasant summer weather with only a few thunderstorms across the country. A cold front is expected to reach the Czech Republic during the first half of the month. Later, temperatures should remain relatively stable at an average of about 25 degrees Celsius. Some days may see highs of up to 29 degrees Celsius. Skies will be somewhat cloudy.
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07/31/2010
The Supreme Audit Office is planning to look into the Environment Ministry’s selling of carbon dioxide emission rights. The audit will focus on how funds from the sales are used. A spokeswoman for the ministry said that this year, nineteen billion Czech crowns worth of emission rights have been sold. Most of them went to Japan and the company Mitsui. Since 2008, following a change in law, the Environment Ministry is authorized to sell surplus emission rights. In accordance with the conditions of the Kyoto protocol, proceeds from those sales can only go to the State Environmental Fund of the Czech Republic and have to be used towards measures that help cut overall carbon dioxide emissions.
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07/31/2010
Five people were killed in a car accident on a motorway near Copenhagen early on Saturday morning. Four of the passengers were Czechs working in Denmark; the nationality of the fifth victim is yet unknown. A spokeswoman for the Czech embassy in Copenhagen confirmed the information but says no further details regarding the identity of the victims are available at the moment. The car was travelling above the speed limit when it hit a crash barrier on the side of the road, a witness told the press. Police say that three of the passengers were sitting in the back of the vehicle, which had no seats or seat belts. According to a local paper, this accident is one of the worst to happen near the Danish capital in several years.
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07/31/2010
Pavel Imriš, a member of the Social Democrats, is suing the party over the state of its accounts, Mladá fronta dnes reported on Saturday. Mr Imriš says he believes that the leadership of the party should no longer have the right to dispose of the party’s assets. He argues that the actual expenses for the election campaign differ hugely from published estimates, and opposes plans of the party to make a mortgage deal with the credit bank Fio on buildings adjacent to its Prague headquarters. He considers this step financially unwise and believes that such decisions have to be approved of by the whole party at its party summit.
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07/31/2010
A team of experts from the Ministry of Health has found that a blood alcohol concentration of 0.24 pro mille and below does not affect the performance or judgment of drivers. In its Saturday edition, the daily Lidové noviny reported that the ministry has instructed traffic police to no longer pursue cases of drivers with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.24 pro mille or below. Previously, any alcohol consumption prior to driving was illegal in the Czech Republic. Many other European countries are considering the introduction of 0.00 pro mille limits.
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07/31/2010
The NGO People in Need’s Plzeň branch has published a guide for foreigners living in the Czech Republic. It is meant to help immigrants navigate the country’s various government offices and relevant not-for-profit organizations. The guide, titled Welcome to the CZungle, is available in Czech, Vietnamese and Mongolian. It provides an overview of where to file for work permits and visas, along with listing important phone numbers for foreigners. In addition, the guide features instructions on how to proceed in nine situations that immigrants may need information on dealing with, such as illness, debt or pregnancy.
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07/31/2010
Prague animal rescue workers have saved 400 animals this year, a spokesman for the Czech Union for Nature Conversation told the Czech News Agency on Saturday. Most often, workers rescued injured animals or abandoned offspring, among them hedgehogs, pigeons, rabbits and swifts. Some of the more unusual animals that they encountered this year were mouflons, wild boar and badgers. Since July, the organization has to depend solely on donations to operate because of budget cuts and the loss of some sponsors due to the economic downturn.
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