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02/20/2010
The Czech film about the moral dilemmas facing a family under the communist regime, Kawasaki’s Rose, has been awarded two prizes by independent juries at the Berlin film festival. The film directed by Jan Hřebejk was awarded prizes by the ecumenical jury, which represents members of the Catholic and Protestant churches, and by the jury representing the International Confederation of Art House Cinemas. The main awards from the 60th Berlin film festival were due to be announced on Saturday night.
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02/20/2010
Saturday’s edition of the daily Pravo highlights the fact that women now represent 57 percent of the total 370,000 Czech university students. In 1991, the percentage was 44 percent. The paper points out that the trend of more qualified women students has not translated in more women in top positions in companies or society. It adds that higher qualified women often experience greater problems in relationships and marriages especially if they earn more than their partner.
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02/20/2010
Former Social Democrat prime minister and European Commissioner, Vladimír Špidla has been selected to fight for at the south Bohemian town of Český Krumlov for a seat in the upper house. The decision to select Mr Špidla was taken unanimously by local party representatives on Saturday. Mr Špidla, 59, recently ended his term as commissioner for labour and social affairs and said he perhaps had another 10 years of public life ahead of him. The Senate elections will take place in the autumn.
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02/20/2010
In football, Czechs have been told the timetable for their Euro 2012 qualifiers. The Czechs have been drawn in the same group as Spain, Scotland, Lithuania and Lichtenstein for the championships hosted by Poland and Ukraine. The first encounter against group favourites and current champions, Spain, will be an away match on March 25, 2011 with the return game on October 7, 2011. The first group match will be against Lithuania on September 11 this year with the return leg on October 11, 2011, ending the Czech qualifiers.
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02/20/2010
Czech national and Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Čech provided striker Didier Drogba with a pass from a goal kick which allowed Drogba to extend his team’s lead to 2:0 in the Premier League confrontation against Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday. Čech and Drogba are reported to have been practising passes from goal kicks. The win allowed Chelsea to take a four point lead at the top of the league following Manchester United’s defeat earlier in the day. Čech also made some crucial saves to stop Wolves getting back in the game.
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02/20/2010
The Czech ice hockey team beat Latvia 5:2 in their second group game at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. The Czechs quickly took a three goal lead in the first period but the Latvians came back to score twice in the second with the game standing at 4:2 at the end of that period. With a 100 percent record of two victories out of two, the Czechs now only need a draw with Russia on Sunday to book a place in the quarterfinals.
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02/19/2010
The police has launched an investigation into the purchase of armoured personnel carriers for the Czech army on suspicion of corruption. The daily Mladá fronta Dnes alleged this week that Czech political parties received bribes in connection with the deal to buy 107 APCs from the Austrian firm Steyr. The contract was worth 14.4 billion Czech crowns or over 750 million US dollars, and the daily said two to three percent of that amount had allegedly gone to Czech politicians in kickbacks. However, representatives of the two biggest parties, the Social Democrats and the Civic Democrats, have denied any wrongdoing. The Austrian police has already launched an investigation into the sale.
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02/19/2010
Local governments are protesting against a bill which would allow the country’s Supreme Audit Office to look into their financing. The bill, which Parliament recently approved in its first reading, was drafted by the two strongest political parties as a key tool in combating widespread corruption. Local governments have attacked the proposed change on the argument that a lower-level control mechanism is already in place and that giving the same powers to the Supreme Audit Office would only double the amount of bureaucracy for local administrations. For the present time the work of the Supreme Audit Office is largely restricted to auditing state financing.
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02/19/2010
The Health Ministry wants to make the swine flu vaccine accessible to all citizens, including children over the age of three, free of charge. Health Minister Dana Jurásková is planning to put the proposal to the government and National Security Council on Monday. The vaccines would be available at vaccination centres around the country and everyone would be eligible to get the shot. Pregnant women and children would be encouraged to consult the matter with their doctors. The Czech health authorities have been left with large stocks of the vaccine after the vast majority of those eligible to get it refused the offer for fear of possible side-effects.
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02/19/2010
The Industry and Trade Ministry will push for a change of legislation that would make electricity theft a criminal offense, a ministry spokesman said on Friday. The announcement follows controversy over the way in which energy giant CEZ dealt with clients it suspected of theft and the fact that its anti-theft unit got paramilitary-style training to deal with offenders. After twenty-six members of this special unit were charged with extortion CEZ promised to discontinue the practice and use exclusively legal means to protect itself from theft in the future.
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