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01/24/2015
A referendum on a blanket ban on gambling in the city of Zlín has been declared invalid due to a low turnout. Only 11.7 of the city’s inhabitants came to cast their vote with the vast majority of them supporting the ban. A thirty-five percent turn-out was required for the vote to be valid. Like many other towns in the country Zlín has been taking steps to curb the number of slot machines and gambling houses in the city.
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01/24/2015
The quality of air in the industrial regions of Moravia and Silesia is reported to have improved significantly in the past 24 hours, prompting the authorities to call off a high smog alert. The amount of industrial dust and exhaust fumes in the air is now within set limits at most monitoring stations and weather conditions should help improve the situation further. Air pollution is a serious problem in the eastern part of the country aggravated by the fact that many inhabitants in the region use coal for heating.
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01/24/2015
Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová was beaten 4:6, 4:6 by two-time champion Victoria Azarenka at the Australian Open on Saturday. The 25th seed, who started the season well, winning seven games out of ten, said she was disappointed by the result since she had missed a number of opportunities to turn the game around. Azarenka will now play last year’s finalist Dominika Cibulkova for a place in the quarter-finals.
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01/24/2015
Ludmila Brožová-Polednová, a former communist prosecutor who participated in the 1950s show trial against politician Milada Horáková has died at the age of 93, the ctk news agency reports. News of her demise, which is said to have occurred on January 15, was released only after her funeral at her family’s request. In 2007 Brožová-Polednová was found guilty of assisting in the judicial murder of Milada Horakova and sentenced to eight years' imprisonment. This sentence was overturned, but the following year she faced another trial in which she was also found guilty and sentenced to six years. After a series of unsuccessful appeals, Brožová-Polednová became the Czech Republic's oldest prisoner when in March 2009 when she was incarcerated at a special geriatric facility at the Světlá nad Sázavou Prison in central Bohemia. She was pardoned a year later by then President Vaclav Klaus and has lived in seclusion since.
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01/23/2015
The Czech rail state company has signalled it is pressing ahead with a project to construct the biggest railway tunnel in the Czech Republic by christening a new tunnel-boring machine on Friday. The Ejpovice tunnel on the line from Rokycany to Pilsen, consisting of two 4.5 km single-track tunnels, will shorten the original 20 kilometre stretch of line by more than six kilometres and will halve the running time taken by trains. Construction work is scheduled to be completed by 2017.
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01/23/2015
The Czech Republic risks losing out on 5.5 million litres of oil from its strategic reserve which it claims was stored in Germany. The insolvency administrator for Viktoriagruppe, a German company managing Czech oil reserves, has denied that the oil held at their German facility belongs to the Czech Republic. News of that rebuff was passed on by the chairman of the Administration of State Material Reserves, Pavel Švagr, on Friday. The state fuel reserve company ČEPRO has already transferred some of the reserves from Viktoriagruppe’s storage sites in the Czech Republic into facilities under its direct control.
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01/23/2015
The human rights NGO, the Czech Helsinki Committee, wants to file a complaint with international children rights organisations over the steps taken by the Norwegian authorities in the case of two Czech children who were taken from their parent’s care and each was placed with different foster parents. The Norwegian authorities took the step on suspicion the children were being sexually abused, although the case was later dropped by the police. The Czech Helsinki Committee argues that the decisions made were in violation of the children’s basic rights.
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01/23/2015
Fuel prices in the Czech Republic have continued to drop this week. The price of the country’s most popular petrol, Natural 95, has dropped below CZK 30 per litre for the first time since 2010, according to figures released by the Czech company CCS on Friday. The average price of petrol on Thursday reached CZK 29.97. The lowest price of petrol was recorded in 2008 and 2009, when it dropped below CZK 23 per litre.
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01/23/2015
Nearly 2,000 pigs have been killed in a fire at a farm in Kojetice in the Přerov region in east Moravia. Firefighters were called to the site at around 5 a.m. on Friday and took several hours to bring the blaze under control. The cause of the incident is being investigated. The damage to the building is estimated at over five million crowns.
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01/23/2015
The governor of the Czech National Bank, Miroslav Singer, has said that the crown could be held at or above the target rate of 27 crowns to the euro for longer than originally expected. Singer made the comments in an interview with the Slovak daily Hospodářskė Noviny, adding that it was difficult to see any call for more stringent economic measures in the future. The crown strengthened against the euro in the wake of the announcement by the European Central Bank Thursday that it would inject up to 1.2 billion euros into Eurozone economies. The 27 crown target was set in November 2013.
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