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02/12/2010
Officials at a Czech zoo in Dvůr Králové nad Labem have revealed they had no choice but to put down a valuable Siberian tiger this week due to rapidly worsening health. The tiger, named Semjon, was born in a zoo in Munich, Germany in 1992 and transferred to the Czech Republic in 1995. He had suffered a long-term kidney disease which was no longer treatable. The zoo retains one more specimen of the big cat, an 11-year-old female. Zoo officials have said they would be searching for a mate for the animal, to try and breed new specimens in captivity.
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02/12/2010
92 Czech sportsmen and sportswomen are gearing up for the 21st Winter Olympic Games which will kick off later on Friday with the official opening ceremony in Vancouver, Canada. During the opening ceremony the Czech flag will be carried by star hockey player Jaromír Jágr. Over 17 days of competition, the Czechs will be hoping to do as well or to best the last winter games in Turin, Italy, where they clinched four medals, including gold in cross-country skiing. Competitors for whom expectations are high include figure skater Tomáš Verner, cross-country skier Lukáš Bauer, downhill skier Šárka Záhrobská and others. Fans will also be paying close attention to the Czech hockey team, which won gold in the Olympics 12 years ago at Nagano ‘98.
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02/12/2010
Czech footballer Tomáš Ujfaluší and his team Atletico Madrid have booked their place in the final of the Spanish cup. In Thursday night’s return leg match Atletico lost 2:3 away against Santander but went through on the basis of their first leg 4:0 home win. They will face Seville in the final. The appearance in the final is also likely to guarantee a place in the Europa League competition even if they lose.
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02/11/2010
The Czech prime minister, Jan Fischer, has taken a reserved stand to the outcome of Thursday’s EU summit dealing with assistance to debt-stricken Greece. Shortly after the summit, Mr Fischer told journalists that EU leaders stopped short of making a specific commitment to Greece and even failed to debate concrete forms of aid. The Czech prime minister said the main purpose of the joint declaration, adopted by the summit, was to settle the world’s financial markets. Ahead of the summit, however, Mr Fischer said the EU was bound to help Greece one way or another.
Meanwhile, finance ministers of the eurozone’s member states agreed in Brussels on Thursday that some EU members might buy Greek bonds or provide direct loans on bilateral basis, provided Greece takes radical steps to cut public spending.
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02/11/2010
Heavy snow disrupted traffic and caused accidents in many parts of the Czech Republic on Thursday. The D5 motorway linking Prague with the German border saw several accidents resulting in traffic jams in the morning. Several trucks slid off the road near the city of Plzeň, while police closed one lane of the motorway due to a truck accident near Stříbro. In Prague, a pile-up occurred on a section of the city’s ring road, halting traffic for several hours. An emergency has been declared in parts of eastern Bohemia with some minor roads closed for traffic. Several train lines in eastern and northern Bohemia and northern Moravia are also temporarily suspended. More snow is expected across the country in the coming days.
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02/11/2010
The British Embassy in Prague confirmed on Thursday Prince Charles’s upcoming visit to the Czech Republic. The British royal will arrive in the Czech capital in mid March, after visiting Poland and Hungary. Prince Charles will be accompanied by his wife Camilla, and is set to meet with Czech president Václav Klaus. The heir to the British throne will also spend a day in the Moravian capital of Brno. Prince Charles has previously visited the Czech Republic four times.
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02/11/2010
Former Czech president Václav Havel is recovering from a respiratory tract infection, an aide to Mr Havel said on Thursday. The 73-year-old ex-president, who came down with the infection on Monday, is taking antibiotics and continues his recovery at home. His engagements for the whole of next week have been cancelled.
In 1996, Mr Havel had part of his right lung removed due to cancer. He has since often suffered from infections of the respiratory tract. Last January, the former head of state spent two weeks in hospital with serious throat infection.
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02/11/2010
After several hours of heated debate, the lower house of the Czech Parliament failed on Thursday to tighten rules on anonymous shareholding. The proposal, put forward by the Social Democrats, and the Greens, should ban issuing shares to anonymous persons. Supporters of the move claim that anonymous shareholding is often abused for money laundering. The right-of-centre Civic Democrats, who oppose the plan, are concerned that it would interfere with ownership rights. Tightening the rules on shareholding has been recommended by several of the country’s anti-corruption watchdogs, including Transparency International.
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02/11/2010
Czech senators Jaromír Štětina and Karel Schwarzenberg voiced support on Thursday for Timur Borchashvili, a Chechen with a Georgian passport, who had been twice denied asylum in the Czech Republic. Senator Štetina pointed out that Mr Borchashvili was a friend of the Chechen leader Aslan Maschadov. Mr Štetina also accused the Czech intelligence service, BIS, of working with the Russian intelligence to bar Mr Borchashvili’s petition. Timur Borchashvili’s EU visa expired on February 7, and he went into hiding to avoid deportation. Meanwhile, Czech Interior Minister Martin Pecina said on Thursday that if Mr Borchashvili re-applies for asylum, his permission to stay in the Czech Republic may be extended.
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02/11/2010
Dutch beer producer Heineken is planning to construct a new bottling line in its Starobrno brewery in the Moravian city of Brno, the Czech news agency ČTK reported on Thursday. The new line, which will increase the brewery’s bottling capacity to 1.7 million hectolitres a year, should be finished in May. The line will be manufactured by the German firm KHS, and will use plastic PET bottles. The brewery is also expected to hire some new employees.
Heineken is the third largest beer maker in the Czech Republic, with a 12 percent share of the market. Last year, Heineken-owned breweries produced 2.8 million hectolitres of beer.
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