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04/05/2010
Polish Foreign Affairs Minister Radoslaw Sikorski is to visit the Czech Republic in mid-April, according to Czech government sources. Talks with his Czech counterpart Jan Kohout are expected to focus on bilateral relations, security concerns and energy security. Czech-Polish ties are traditionally good and the two countries cooperate closely within the Višegrad group of states, a loose economic alliance of Central and East European countries.
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04/05/2010
A ten-year-old Czech girl, holidaying in the Austrian Alps, is in hospital after falling from a ski-lift. The girl was sharing a bench with her parents and brother when she slid off it and was left handing by one hand. Although her parents tried to haul her up she slipped and fell from a height of ten metres. The hospital in Tamsweg has refused to disclose information regarding her injuries. The ski centre in Fanningberg where the accident happened has ruled out a security lapse.
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04/05/2010
The first-ever tap-dance festival opened in the Moravian city of Brno on Monday. The week-long event organized by the step-dance studio No Feet includes a seminar with foreign instructors, an exhibition on the history of step-dancing and a gala show featuring the brothers Costel and Dorel Surbeck from Switzerland who are world champions in step-dancing.
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04/05/2010
Pastry chefs from Olomouc celebrated Easter by producing the biggest-ever sweet cake for the public. The cake, baked in the form of an Easter lamb, was close to two meters long and 68 centimeters high. It weighed an impressive 158 kilos. Although it took two days to make it was consumed within minutes – the chefs served it up to 1,600 visitors.
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04/05/2010
Czech Tomáš Berdych was defeated by American Andy Roddick in the final of the Miami Masters on Sunday. One break of serve in each set was enough for Roddick, who didn't face a break point in the entire match which he won 7-5, 6-4. His victory brought an end to the impressive run of the 16th-seeded Berdych, who had survived a match point to shock world number one Roger Federer in the fourth round. Berdych said he was disappointed not to have won, but overall he was satisfied with his tournament in which he’d played a couple of really good matches.
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04/04/2010
Easter masses are being celebrated across the Czech Republic on Resurrection Sunday. The morning mass at St. Vitus Cathedral was led by Cardinal Miloslav Vlk, who told the congregation the Resurrection was a time of hope and forgiveness. It is the last Easter mass celebrated by Cardinal Vlk who will be retiring later this month and will hand over the office to the new Archbishop of Prague Dominik Duka. Easter Monday is a public holiday in the Czech Republic, though that is generally reserved for pagan traditions and rituals linked to spring, the birth of new life and fertility.
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04/04/2010
Police in Opava are investigating what appears to be an unsuccessful arson attack against the local Romany community. Two bottles containing unspecified liquid were thrown into an open doorway to a block of flats inhabited by Roma families. The bottles failed to catch fire, causing no damage. Their content is being analyzed. The police are investigating the incident as a threat to public safety.
There have been a number of arson attacks on Romany families in different parts of the country. In March of this year a bottle of flammable liquid was hurled into the house of a Romany family in Ostrava. The teenager in whose bedroom it landed managed to put out the fire, preventing any serious damage. The most vicious attack took place in Vítkov last year in which right wing-extremists threw two Molotov cocktails into the house of a family of eight. No one died in the fire but a two-year old girl sustained severe injuries and will be scarred for life. The house was completely destroyed. The perpetrators will stand trial in May charged with racially-motivated attempted murder.
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04/04/2010
There is continuing controversy over the appointment of Jiří Pernes head of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes. Four board members have walked out in protest since he took up the post earlier this week. The former dissident and writer Jiří Gruša, military historian Eduard Stehlík, the vice-dean of the law faculty of Charles University Jan Kuklik and former dissident and Charter 77 signatory Jiří Gruntorád have all refused to recognize and work with the new head. Jiří Pernes lost their support after it emerged that he had taken evening classes at the communist academy of Marxism and Leninism. Mr. Pernes has not commented on the developments.
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04/04/2010
The Czech Bible Society is working on the publication of an outdoor bible for canoeists and hikers which should be out in the summer. The outdoor bible is tear and water resistant, after the American outdoor bible model. It will not be the only sturdy bible on the Czech market. A bible bound in denim for the young generation is already available as are special editions of the bible for the army and prisoners. The army version is pocket-size, while the one for prisoners contains a appendix with practical advice on how to start a new life after being released from jail.
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04/04/2010
Two visitors to Průhonice chateau were injured on Sunday when they fell from an observation platform in the park. A thirty-one-year-old woman reportedly suffered concussion and a sprained wrist and her partner suffered back injuries in the fall. Both were taken to hospital for a check-up. It is not yet clear what caused the accident.
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