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04/25/2018
One of the Czech Republic’s best-known brewing companies, Plzeňský Prazdroj, produced a record 11 million hectoliters of beer last year, a spokesperson said on Wednesday. That was a volume increase of 3 percent year on year for the brewer, which makes Pilsner Urquell. Exports grew by 8 percent in 2017.
Last year Plzeňský Prazdroj was bought by the Japanese group Asahi from SABMiller.
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04/25/2018
This year’s edition of the Book World Prague will welcome a record 404 exhibitors from 22 countries, organisers said on Wednesday. The trade fair will run at the city’s Výstaviště from May 10 to 13.
The themes of the 24th edition of Book World Prague will be comics and the revolutionary 20th century. Last year the event attracted around 45,000 visitors.
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04/25/2018
Thursday should see bright spells and some rain in the Czech Republic, with temperatures of up to 15 degrees Celsius. Daytime highs should rise to the mid-20s Celsius at the weekend, when it will be quite sunny.
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04/25/2018
Social Democrat members of the Senate have come out strongly against a possible coalition government with ANO headed by an Andrej Babiš facing criminal charges, iDnes.cz reported on Wednesday. The Social Democrats’ Senate speaker Milan Štěch said that Mr. Babiš, who should be the chief representative of the executive, was constantly suggesting that the charges against him were a stitch-up.
Social Democrat senator Petr Vícha said that when Mr. Babiš insisted he would not stand down even if found guilty of abusing EU subsidies he was doing his utmost to ensure a Social Democrat internal vote on a coalition with ANO would not pass.
The chairman of the Social Democrats, Jan Hamáček, said he did not understand why his party’s senators were making such resolute statements when coalition talks were still ongoing.
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04/25/2018
Some of the massive paintings from Alphonse Mucha’s Slav Epic series will go on display in Brno from May 26. Nine of the largest works in the 20-piece series will be on show at the festival Re:publika 1918-2018 alongside dozens of posters by the Art Nouveau artist, the mayor of Brno, Petr Vokřál, said on Wednesday.
Eliška Kaplický Fuchsová, a councillor from Prague, which owns the Slav Epic, said the city had had to overcome objections from restorers, who didn’t want it to be transported anywhere. However, the famous paintings attracted two-thirds of a million visitors in Tokyo and should also draw tourists to Brno, she said.
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04/25/2018
The acting Czech prime minister, Andrej Babiš, is suing the publishers of a Slovak newspaper over an interview in which former StB man Ján Sarkocy said Mr. Babiš had knowingly collaborated with the communist-era secret police. The Slovak-born ANO leader is seeking EUR 1 million in damages from Nový Čas, which is the country’s best-selling daily. The Czech PM is also suing Mr. Sarkocy.
In January a Slovak court rejected an action taken by Mr. Babiš, who said he had been wrongly listed as an agent of the StB in the now archived files of the secret police.
Mr. Sarkocy – who is himself a former StB agent – made headlines earlier this year after claiming to have met the leader of the UK’s Labour party, Jeremy Corbyn, while he was stationed at the Czechoslovak Embassy in London in the 1980s.
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04/25/2018
Czech football striker Patrik Schick played in a rollercoaster second half Champions League semi-final for AS Roma against Liverpool on Tuesday night.
Schick was brought off the substitute’s bench at half time when the visitors were already losing 2:0.
Schick had chances up front but saw Roma concede another three goals before scoring twice. The 5:2 score line gives them a glimmer of a chance for the return leg at home.
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04/25/2018
The Czech Republic has dropped dramatically down the index of press freedom put together by the international organisation Reporters Without Frontiers.
The Czech Republic dropped 11 places in the ranking of 180 countries to 34th. Neighbour Slovakia dropped 10 places to 27th place.
The campaigning group highlighted the concentration of media in the Czech Republic saying that it had reached a critical point. It added that oligarchs has bought into media to boost their power base in the country.
It also focused on president Miloš Zeman’s repeated attacks on the press.
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04/24/2018
Czech police have detained seven foreigners suspected of carrying out a brutal attack on a waiter over the weekend.
The injured man was taken to hospital in a serious condition and has undergone an operation on his head. The group was detained at Prague airport after some passengers recognised them following widespread media coverage of the attack.
The attack in the centre of Prague was reportedly sparked after the waiter told them they were not allowed to bring in alcohol to consume on the premises.
Police later said the detained were Dutch and that five out of seven of them had been charged.
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04/24/2018
Plastic surgeons at Olomouc university hospital say they have performed a unique operation in the country when they transferred a toe to replace part of a woman’s finger.
The operation was carried out over 11 hours using micro procedures.
The 54-year-old woman lost most of her finger when she was walking in the countryside and was attacked by a pit bull dog. The woman is expected to regain full use of her hand.
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