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10/29/2014
The minister of defence, Martin Stropnický, and the minister of the interior, Milan Chovanec, will on Thursday visit the site of recent explosions at a munitions store at Vrbětice in south Moravia. The main explosion took place nearly two weeks ago, leaving two members of staff missing, though smaller blasts have occurred since then. Locals say they are disquieted by the situation. The ministers are to consider ways to approach the cleanup of the former military munitions store and present their findings to the cabinet on Monday. Investigators are having to wait to make sure the site is safe before beginning to examine it.
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10/29/2014
Czech ice hockey player Jakub Voráček currently has the fourth highest points tally in the NHL after providing two assists in his third game in a row for Philadelphia Flyers, a 3:2 overtime win over Los Angeles. The former Kladno right wing, who is 25, was ranked first star in Tuesday’s game and has now scored multiple points in four games this season.
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10/29/2014
Dramatist Tom Stoppard and musician John Cale are set to appear at Prague’s National Theatre on November 17 as part of an event marking the anniversary of the start of the Velvet Revolution. The two will attend the Memory of the Nation Awards, which recognise those who resisted totalitarian power. Some 20 people from the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia will receive awards at the event, which is organised by the Post Bellum civic group. Cale’s band The Velvet Underground were influential in Czechoslovakia and the Czech-born Stoppard explored the significance of music in the country in the 1970s and ‘80s in the play Rock’n’Roll.
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10/29/2014
The Czech personal data protection agency has fined the Mafra publishing house 240,000 crowns for printing information proceeding from police wiretaps for then prime minister Petr Nečas and his former aide and now wife Jana Nagyová. The wiretaps appeared last May in the daily Mladá fronta Dnes which belongs to the Mafra portfolio. The publishing company is owned by deputy prime minister and leader of the ANO party, Andrej Babiš. The police wiretapped the phones of Mr Nečas and Ms Nagyová as part of investigation into alleged corruption which led to the fall of the Czech government in June 2013.
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10/29/2014
The Czech Republic ranks 96th in this year’s global gender equality index compiled by the World Economic Forum, a Swiss-based NGO. Last year, the country ranked 83rd while in 2006, it was 53rd in the world. The Czech Republic’s poor ranking is mainly due to a wide gender pay gap and a very low representation of women in politics. The country however received top ranking in equal access to education, and ranked above average in access to health care.
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10/28/2014
President Miloš Zeman awarded Czech state decorations to 33 personalities on the occasion of Czechoslovakia Independence Day. The recipients include Sir Nicholas Winton, who saved Jewish children during the Holocaust, former UK leader Winston Churchill, the late Russian dissident Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, five Czech soldiers killed in Afghanistan, and others. In his remarks, the president emphasised the role of the individual in crucial moments of history. Several Czech public figures did not attend the ceremony at Prague Castle in solidarity with two university rectors shunned by Mr Zeman over past disputes.
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10/28/2014
Two Czechs have repeated the “Race the Tube” stunt, racing an underground train in Prague metro last week, the news website lidovky.cz reports. The two youths, who call themselves Blackrunners, placed a video on line showing them get off the train at the Hůrka metro station and getting on the same train at the next stop, covering the distance of 750 metres in two minutes and seven seconds. This was the second attempt inspired by the original stunt in London; another group tried to race the train in the same location two weeks ago but failed.
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10/28/2014
More than half of the Czech Republic’s industrial sector is controlled by foreign companies, according to the Czech Statistics Office. In 2012, the revenues of foreign-owned Czech-based industrial companies reached over three trillion crowns which represented nearly 59 percent of all industrial companies. Added value, created by these firms, reached 501 billion crowns, which was half of the total value. Most Czech-based industrial companies are controlled by owners from other EU countries, mainly Germany, followed by the US while Russian firms only own few industrial firms based in the Czech Republic.
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10/28/2014
The Czech Ministry of Regional Development has earmarked 621 million crowns, or some 28.5 million US dollars, for the renovation of historical landmarks, buildings and other monuments, a spokeswoman for the ministry said. The objects to receive funding include Brno’s Špilberk castle, the Velehrad monastery, a burger’s house in Třeboň, and others. The funds, most of which proceed from the EU, will have to be allocated by the end of next year, the ministry said.
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10/28/2014
President Miloš Zeman has returned from his official visit to China on board of a corporate jet owned by the PPF group. A daughter company of the financial firm, Home Credit, is a major loans provider, and has operations in China and other countries in southeast Asia. A spokesman for the president said Mr Zeman opted for flying back on the jet to save time; the trip on the Czech Air Force aircraft that brought him to China would be two hours longer. Czech multibillionaire Petr Kellner, who controls the PPF group, also participated in Monday’s meeting between the Czech and Chinese presidents, a spokesman for the group said.
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