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04/29/2015
Czech car-maker Škoda auto raised its operating profit by more than 30 percent year on year in the first quarter of 2015, to 242 million euros (approximately 6.6 billion crowns), according to information released by the owner of Škoda, German concern Volkswagen, on Wednesday. The sales of the Czech Republic’s biggest car maker grew by six percent in the same period to 3.2 billion euros. According to the report, Škoda Auto sold 217,000 cars in 2014, which is 1.3 percent more than in the previous year. Last year, the sale of the company’s cars rose by 12.7 percent and for the first time exceeded the one million mark.
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04/29/2015
A swimming pool worker has died after inhaling chlorine at a pool in Nýřany, West Bohemia. The mayor of the town, Jiří Davídek, told the news website iDnes.cz that the man, who was 50, had done so deliberately in what was an unusual method of suicide. Two other members of staff at the pool have been hospitalised after also inhaling chlorine when trying to help the man during Wednesday morning’s incident.
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04/28/2015
The Czech authorities have as yet been unable to reach 10 Czechs who were in Nepal at the time of Saturday’s devastating earthquake in the country, the Czech News Agency reported on Tuesday. A total of 255 Czechs were in the area of Nepal most affected by the disaster and dozens have so far managed to leave the South Asian state. The Czech ambassador to India, Miloslav Stašek, said the unaccounted for Czechs had been in mountainous areas where there was never a mobile telephone signal. A plane from the Czech Republic carrying a 36-member rescue team and aid to Nepal was due to take off on Tuesday but its departure has been delayed until Wednesday.
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04/28/2015
Around 15 people, including some children, are reported to have been injured when a tram and a bus collided in the Prague district of Modřany at about 3:30 on Tuesday afternoon. None of the injuries were serious, a spokesperson for the city’s rescue services told the news website iDnes.cz. The no. 17 tram, which was of the T15 type, and the articulated bus collided at the intersection of the streets Generála Šišky and Československého exilu.
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04/28/2015
Czech Interior Minister Milan Chovanec and his German counterpart Thomas de Maiziere have signed a treaty in Prague allowing for both countries’ police forces to work more closely together. Mr. Chovanec said the deal was one of the most modern in Europe. It allows for rapid cross-border operations in the other state without prior permission if life or health is threatened, while police on both sides will be able to continue car chases across the border.
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04/28/2015
The Czech police’s organised crime unit carried out a series of raids around the country targeting suspected extremists on Tuesday. Explosives were uncovered in an operation in the Brno district of Královo Pole, where police sealed off the area, evacuated people and sent in pyrotechnics specialists. Novinky.cz reported that around 10 people had been detained. Police were refusing to release further information on Tuesday as the operation was ongoing.
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04/28/2015
President Miloš Zeman says the Czech Roman Catholic Church should broaden its range of social, health and other services. Speaking on a visit to the Central Bohemian Region on Tuesday, he said the church cannot claim a lack of funds after the restitution of property seized by the communists. Mr. Zeman said an amendment to that affect was being prepared for a planned treaty between the Czech Republic and the Vatican. Under divisive legislation, assets valued at CZK 75 billion are being handed back to church groups, along with CZK 60 billion in financial compensation in lieu of properties not being returned.
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04/28/2015
President Miloš Zeman says a Prague district that refused to take any legal action after eggs and other objects were thrown at him is militantly right-wing. Speaking on Tuesday, Mr. Zeman said if eggs had been thrown at a right-wing head of state, Prague 2 would have acted differently. The president came under a hail of missiles while speaking at an event in the district marking the 25th anniversary of the start of the Velvet Revolution in November, hours after another protest against him in the centre of the city.
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04/28/2015
Renovation work has begun on the dilapidated Art Nouveau Hotel Evropa on Prague’s Wenceslas Square. The overhaul of the once famous hotel should be completed in a year and a half. Alongside the renovation of the listed building an entirely new construction is set to go up in the courtyard it shares with a number of other buildings. Opened in 1872, the hotel was renamed Grand Hotel Evropa after being nationalised soon after the communist takeover.
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04/28/2015
The respected film and stage actress Iva Janžurová is set to receive an award for contribution to Czech cinema at the 50th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, the organisers said on Tuesday. Other guests at the jubilee edition of the festival have not yet been announced, but Mel Gibson, who last year received Karlovy Vary’s Crystal Globe for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema, will appear in this year’s trailer, following in the footsteps of Jude Law and other recipients of the award.
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