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02/16/2010
A group protesting ongoing repairs to Prague’s famous Charles Bridge called on Tuesday for the national monument to be taken from Prague city council and handed over to the state. The call was made by Martin Kadrman, vice-president of the Association of Groups for the Protection and Development of Cultural Heritage. The association maintains that ongoing repair work to the bridge have damaged it with some historic stones lost in the process. It argues that a transfer of the bridge is called for since the city is not apparently up to the job. The already two year old repairs to the bridge have sparked criticism with inspectors from the Ministry of Culture saying that more blocks were removed than necessary. The city council said the call was an insult to Prague citizens. The current reconstruction work is due to last until the middle of the year.
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02/16/2010
Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer began a two-day tour to the US state of California on Tuesday. The first day includes a visit to the US high technology hub, Silicon Valley, where he is due to meet with investors and business leaders. The headquarters of the internet search company Google will be one of the stops. The Prime Minister is due later to speak at Stanford University and meet with former US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, who now lectures at the university. Wednesday’s programme in Los Angeles includes a visit to the Czech community in the city.
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02/16/2010
Health authorities in the eastern city of Ostrava have begun testing a sophisticated system aimed at mapping air pollution in the region. The system includes 36 mobile measuring facilities which will supplement the current three sited across the region. They will eventually be able to give a daily update of the situation regarding smog and, for the first time, the chemical composition of the air. The system costing around 30 million crowns will be tested this year and should be fully operational in 2011. The Ostrava region has recently suffered from smog caused in part by local heavy industry. The situation has been so bad that alerts have caused the shutdown of some factories.
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02/16/2010
The economic downturn has taught Czechs to haggle over the price of flats according to international estate agent King Sturge. Buyers have been able to knock down developers‘ initial prices by as much as 20 percent, according to a study released by the company on Tuesday. The study says the price of new flats dropped across the country last year by an average 7.1 percent and in the capital by 8.2 percent. Prices for older flats dropped by 9.4 percent nationwide and by 5.9 percent in the capital, it added. King Sturge predicts the downward pressure on prices will continue but they could stabilise and even start to rise by year end.
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02/16/2010
The Green Party on Tuesday announced its backing for single sex couples in so-called registered partnerships to be able to adopt children. Party leader Ondřej Liška said he backed such couples being allowed to adopt children from previous relationships and also adoption by individual partners. Minister for Human Rights and Minorities is currently working on a proposal allowing adoption for gay couples in certain circumstances. Mr. Liška said he did not understand the current situation where a single woman was allowed to adopt but two women living together were not. He aid the current law was a violation of the European convention on human rights and the Czech constitution.
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02/16/2010
Police from a special squad to combat organised crime said on Tuesday that they had detained a man suspected of trying to blackmail the food producer Hamé. A man threatened the company with poisoning its products unless it paid a ransom of around 5 million crowns at the end of last year. The company passed details of the threat onto the police. The man could face a 12-year jail sentence if found guilty in court.
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02/16/2010
The Belgian tennis federation has named the four players to play the Czech Republic in the first round Davis Cup tie from March 5-7. The four strong squad is made up of brothers Olivier and Christophe Rochus, Xavier Malisse and Steve Darcis. Olivier Rochus is the highest placed player at 58 in the current ATP rankings. The tie will be the first test of the Czech team’s ambition to go one better than in the previous Davis Cup competition when they lost all five matches against Spain. The World Group tie will be held at Bree in Belgium.
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02/16/2010
Czech cross-country skier Lukáš Bauer won bronze in the men’s 15 km freestyle event at the Vancouver Winter Olympics on Monday. Bauer finished 1.5 seconds ahead of Sweden’s Marcus Hellner in a dramatic head to head race over the last 700m.
The Czech will also be competing in this Saturday’s skiathlon event and in his strongest discipline, the 50 km classic, which will take place on February 28. Bauer had previously taken home silver in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. After Sunday’s gold for speed skater Martina Sáblíková, this Is the second medal for the Czech Republic at this year’s Olympics.
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02/15/2010
A small passenger airplane en route from Prague to the Swedish town of Karstad crashed in Germany on Sunday night. The two pilots on board the Cessna Citation 550 plane were both killed in the crash. The website novinky.cz reported that its owner, former race driver and entrepreneur Antonín Charouz, was not on board. According to the website, he had rented the plane out to Time Air, a company that provides air taxi services. The plane entered German territory around 8 p.m on Sunday night, but the tower never established communication with the pilot and the plane disappeared from the radar briefly after. It crashed in a mountainous part of the German Saxony region which is difficult to access. Police and ambulances set off around midnight but didn’t get to the site of the accident until the early morning hours.
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02/15/2010
The newly appointed archbishop Dominik Duka met with his predecessor, Cardinal Miloslav Vlk, on Monday. The two discussed the need for continuity in the archdiocese as well as Mr. Duka’s official initiation ceremony. It is to take place at St. Vitus cathedral on April 10, the first Saturday after Easter. Mr. Duka also met with Czech President Václav Klaus at Prague castle earlier on Monday. The president stated that Duka’s election was a gain for the church as well as for the Czech state. He congratulated the archbishop on his new office and added that he believes this will be the first of many meetings between the two.
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