• Suspected child killer to remain in custody
    01/02/2015

    A court in Usti nad Labem has ruled that a man suspected of raping and killing a nine-year-old girl last year will remain in custody. The man, who is a distant relative of the victim, has undergone psychiatric tests in a prison hospital. The judge refused to release him on bail for fear that he might flee or perpetrate further crimes. The man faces from twenty years in prison to an exceptional punishment.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Aviation pioneer Jan Kašpar to get monument in Pardubice
    01/02/2015

    The new Pardubice city council says it does not want to abandon the idea of building a monument on the town’s main square to the Czech aviation pioneer Jan Kašpar. Plans to build the town’s famous aviator a monument were shelved by the former administration after the winning entry proved too expensive for the town’s coffers. The new administration says it will meet with the winner of the tender for fresh talks.

    In 1911 Kašpar undertook a successful long-distance flight from Pardubice to Prague in a retrofitted single-engine monoplane, bought from Louis Bleriot after the Frenchman’s successful flight over the English Channel. Kašpar flew his plane at a speed of 80 kilometers per hour covering the 120 km distance from Pardubice to Prague in 1 hour and 32 minutes.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Austrian police arrest Czech national on suspicion of drugs peddling
    01/02/2015

    Police in Austria say they have arrested a Czech national who was planning to sell marihuana in the streets of Linz. According to the APA news agency the youth was arrested during a random check of a bus on the Dolni-Dvoriste-Wullowitz crossing. He had no ID and a subsequent search revealed 1.2 kilograms of marihuana in his backpack.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Prague court starts insolvency proceedings against Jan Paukert delicatessen store
    01/02/2015

    A Prague court has started insolvency proceedings against the popular Jan Paukert delicatessen store on Prague’s Narodni street. The owner reportedly owes half a million crowns in rent. The store which sells the Czech open-faced sandwiches and top-quality food and wine from around the world was established in 1916. In 1952 it was nationalized by the communist regime, to be returned to the Paukert family in 1991.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Fifty percent of Czechs rate government’s performance as good
    01/02/2015

    Around 50 percent of Czechs think the current government is doing a good job, according to a poll conducted by the STEM/MARK agency for the Czech Television. Nearly 47 percent of respondents evaluated the government by a grade of 3 on a five point scale and some 13 percent gave it a grade of two, which means very good. Only 1.5 percent of those questioned rated the government as excellent, while more than 13 percent thought the government’s work was insufficient, giving it bottom marks.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Czechs made record number of calls during New Year’s Eve
    01/02/2015

    People in the Czech Republic made nearly 62 million calls from their mobile phones on New Year’s Eve, which is an increase by 1.5 percent compared to the previous year. According to data provided by mobile phone operators, Czechs also sent a record number of SMS text messages. Their volume increased by two million to 43.5 million. Mobile operators also registered a significant increase of mobile internet use during New Year’s Eve.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Meteorologists issue black ice alert
    01/01/2015

    The Czech Hydro-Meteorological Institute has issued a black ice alert for almost the entire territory of the Czech Republic, caused by rising temperatures. The warning is in place from Thursday afternoon until Friday morning. Temperatures are expected to dip below zero into the weekend with rainfall gradually replaced by snow.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Špotáková seventh in Track and Field News annual rankings
    01/01/2015

    Czech javelin thrower Barbora Špotáková placed seven in the annual rankings of the world's best athletes, put together by US magazine Track and Field News. The two-time Olympic champion and world record-holder in the women’s javelin returned this year from maternity leave, securing gold at the European Athletics Championships. The Athlete of the Year rankings are topped by French pole-vaulter Renaud Lavillenie and Polish hammer-thrower Anita Wlodarczyk.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • First babies of 2015 born in Prague and Klatovy
    01/01/2015

    The first babies of 2015 came into the world roughly a minute past midnight. A baby girl was born in Prague and a baby boy in the town of Klatovy in West Bohemia. Many regions have greeted their first newborns within the first hours after midnigt. The region of Liberec had to wait for the longest: its the first baby was born only at 10:30 a.m. Many moms strive to give birth in the first minutes of the new year, hoping for publicity and presents for their kids.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Defence ministry sends winter gear to Ukraine
    01/01/2015

    The Czech Ministry of Defence has sent cold-weather gear to the Ukrainian army, the ministry announced on its website. The donation consists of 10,000 items from surplus military stocks which are no longer needed by the Czech Army, such as winter coats, boots and earflap caps. The contract was signed by Jan Jireš, director at the ministry's Department of Defense politics and strategy on December 30, 2014. The financial value of the donation has not been specified.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

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