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02/04/2010
The Czech Republic’s Security Council has asked the health minister, Dana Jurásková, to see if the authorities can only receive part of one million swine flu vaccines they originally ordered. However, the minister said on Thursday that the government would not change its vaccination strategy, which involves distributing some 700,000 vaccines to the seriously ill, health care workers and selected officials.
The minister told the daily Právo that the council agreed to negotiate with the vaccine’s producer, GlaxonSmithKline, at its session last week. As the contract between the pharmaceutical and the Czech state does not provide for such an option, an appendix to the contract would have to be negotiated, a spokesman for the ministry said.
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02/04/2010
Czech Foreign Minister Jan Kohout was released from a hospital in Prague on Thursday, two days after he was admitted for observation due to severe nausea. The ministry released no further details but said Mr Kohout would follow his programme as scheduled. This includes a session of the Czech government next week, and a trip to Lebanon and Syria the week after that.
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02/04/2010
The Ferdinand Peroutka Awards for outstanding journalism were handed out in Prague on Thursday. Among this year’s recipients are economic columnist for the weekly Respekt Jan Macháček, Petruška Šustrová from the daily Lidové Noviny, and writer Pavel Kosatík.
The awards are named after Ferdinand Peroutka, one of the most significant figures of Czech journalism in the 20th century. He began his career in 1919 but left Czechsolovakia after the communist coup of 1948 and settled in New York.
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02/04/2010
Prison guards have prevented an Uzbek national from escaping from a Prague courthouse after the man attacked the men escorting him and tried to seize their guns. A spokeswoman for the court told reporters on Thursday that the man was one of four Uzbeks charged with murder. They had been previously planning a prison escape and the murder of a prison guard, she said.
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02/04/2010
Part of the Czech team for the Winter Olympic Games left Prague for Vancouver on Thursday. Among those in the group are acrobatic skier Nikola Sudová, who has recently been battling to get fit in time for the Olympics. Sudová, whose discipline is moguls, says she is going to Vancouver to compete, not just take part. The team’s cross country skiers, including medal hopeful Lukáš Bauer, are already in Canada training. The Czech Republic took four medals at the last Winter Olympics in Turin and Czech newspapers have been speculating that the country could well do better this time out.
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02/03/2010
There were at least seven attacks using laser pointers on planes landing and taking off at Prague Airport last year, Karel Mündel of the Czech Airline Pilots Association told reporters on Wednesday. While they can momentarily blind pilots and even cause serious damage to their eyes, police have been hamstrung in their efforts to deal with such abuse of lasers as it is not currently illegal. Pilots have therefore called on lawmakers to outlaw it, as has been done in other countries, saying they regard laser pointers as a new danger to civil aviation in the Czech Republic.
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02/03/2010
A group of 40 Czech legislators have called for the Nobel Peace Prize to be presented to Chinese dissident and human rights activist Liu Xiaobo. Mr Liu is currently serving an 11-year jail term for “subversion”. A statement nominating him for the award was signed by representatives of all the parties in the Czech Parliament except the Communists. Senator Alexandr Vondra, himself a former dissident, organised the petition. He said he had asked selected lawmakers to sign on the basis of their own involvement in human rights issues in the past. Liu Xiaobo is one of the founders of Charter 08, a Chinese human rights initiative directly inspired by Czechoslovakia’s Charter 77.
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02/03/2010
Heavy snow on Wednesday caused disruptions to rail and road transport in several parts of the Czech Republic. This followed fresh snowfalls of up to 25 centimetres on Tuesday night. Strong winds further complicated the situation. Around 20 local train lines were blocked, though all major lines were passable. Roads were closed in some places, and four districts declared a state of calamity. Much of the Czech Republic has been covered in snow for almost two weeks, with the capital Prague seeing more snow than at any time in the last three decades.
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02/03/2010
A woman of 77 died when an ambulance she was being carried in was involved in a collision with a truck in Nošovice, north Moravia on Wednesday. Two other patients, aged 78 and 81, were injured in the crash, which occurred when the ambulance skidded on an icy patch of road, turning over several times before hitting the truck. Another ambulance was involved in an accident on Wednesday when it got stuck in snow at a level crossing near Nový Jičín and was hit by a train. Nobody was injured.
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02/03/2010
There are now between 2,000 and 3,000 Vietnamese-run večerky (corner stores) in the Czech Republic, a senior member of a Czech Vietnamese business association, Nguyen Nam, said at a Prague conference on the retail industry on Wednesday. He said, however, that while the grocery business was growing, Vietnamese traders reported stagnation in textiles sales. Mr Nam said one sign of the growing importance of Vietnamese retailers was that the large Czech wholesaler Makro was now advertising in their language.
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