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03/24/2015
A new scheduled airline link between Prague and Beijing could be launched as early as October 1, prime minister Bohuslav Sobotka announced on Tuesday. The comments followed a meeting with China’s ambassador to the Czech Republic. The new route would be operated by Chinese company Hainan with Czech group Český Aeroholding providing support. The starting date for the service should be confirmed with the June visit to Prague of Chinese deputy prime minister Liu Yandong. Chine authorities had earlier been undecided whether Prague should be linked to Beijing or Shanghai.
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03/24/2015
In ice hockey, Kometa Brno booked the last place in the Czech play-off semi-finals after a 5:0 win against PSG Zlín on Monday night. The deciding seventh match was needed after Zlín tied the series 3:3. Hosts Kometa took an early lead with the first goal in the fourth minute of play and continued to pile the pressure on the visitors. The win means that Brno face Litvínov with the first game of the series scheduled for Thursday. The other semi-final duel pitches Sparta Prague against Třinec.
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03/24/2015
A passenger train derailed near the town of Obratan, south of Prague, after colliding with a truck at a railway crossing early on Tuesday, the ctk news agency reported. According to a police spokeswoman 11 people were injured, including the engine driver who was airlifted to hospital with serious injuries. The main road cutting across the rail track has been closed to traffic.
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03/24/2015
Police in the city of Opava evacuated over one thousand people from one of the city’s biggest housing estates after workers accidently came upon exploded munition from the SWW. The find was in the middle of a densely populated housing estate with approximately 16,000 inhabitants. The unexploded areal bomb was successfully removed and people were able to return to their homes at close to midnight. Sixty firefighters and 70 police officers coordinated the evacuation effort.
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03/23/2015
Police in the city of Opava are evacuating hundreds, possibly thousands, of people from one of the city’s biggest housing estates after workers accidently came upon exploded munition from the SWW. The city hall’s spokesperson said the find was in the middle of a densely populated housing estate with approximately 16,000 inhabitants. The evacuation operation is expected to last through the night. It is the biggest bomb-related evacuation in the country’s modern history.
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03/23/2015
The foreign ministers of the Visegrad Group states and Germany have stressed the need for a diplomatic solution to prevail in Ukraine. At the meeting in Bratislava, Slovakia, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said that while certain progress had been made in fulfilling the conditions of the Minsk peace deal there were still groups violating the ceasefire agreement. All parties involved must avoid actions which could result in a fresh escalation of violence, the German foreign minister stressed. The foreign ministers likewise discussed the EU’s Eastern partnership programme for six post-Soviet bloc countries including Ukraine. Czech Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek noted that in the light of the Ukraine developments this programme has acquired even greater significance.
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03/23/2015
The Czech Foreign Ministry says it has not received a ransom demand for the Czech who was taken hostage along with eight other foreign workers in an attack on an oil-field in Libya earlier this month. A ministry spokeswoman said the ministry had not been contacted by any group or individual claiming responsibility for the attack nor had it received a demand for money. The ministry made the statement after the Austrian daily Kronen Zeitung claimed on Monday that Islamic militants had demanded 500,000 US dollars for the Austrian hostage, citing unnamed intelligence sources. The Austrian Foreign Ministry has denied the claim. The Czech foreign minister said earlier that according to Czech and foreign intelligence services the hostages were “with high probability” in the hands of the same group of radicals responsible for the assassination of 21 Egyptian Copts.
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03/23/2015
A stray dog which found its way into the Brno zoo at night is reported to have killed an ostrich and three other exotic birds. The damage has been estimated at 40,000 crowns. The dog is reported to have dug a hole under the fencing and escaped the same way. The birds were found torn to pieces. The police and a pest control team are working on the case, trying to ascertain if the dog was stray or was left to roam by its owner.
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03/23/2015
The Czech Republic is said to be in need of more blood marrow donors and the authorities have appealed to members of the public to consider the possibility. According to the health authorities some 2,300 regular donors will have to be crossed off the Czech Register of Blood Marrow Donors due to age or health problems before the end of this year. The age limit for blood marrow donorship is 55 years. Although last year 1,743 new donors signed up, which is the highest number in 11 years, over the next 5 years as many as 6,000 regular donors will have to be crossed off the list. Altogether the register has 50,000 donors.
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03/23/2015
Ashya King, the five-year-old British brain cancer patient who underwent proton therapy in Prague last year, is cured of the disease, his parents told the media on Monday. The boy's parents who were arrested in Spain for secretly taking the boy out of a Southampton hospital which did not offer proton therapy, said the decision had saved his life since he was too weak to come through chemotherapy. Ashya who underwent thirty sessions of proton beam therapy is now reported to be cancer-free and recovering well.
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