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03/30/2007
Police have completed their investigation into the death of composer Karel Svoboda and confirmed beyond doubt it was a case of suicide. On Friday a police spokeswoman revealed the latest news on the Internet. Police shelved their investigation into possible foul play after chemical, biomechanical, and ballistics tests, as well as an earlier autopsy, all confirmed the 68-year-old Svoboda took his own life using a personal firearm. He was found dead outside his home in late-January. Two police officers who arrived at the scene were later charged for trying to sell photographs of the deceased to a Czech tabloid.
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03/30/2007
The well-known Czech punk group Visaci Zamek played their 1000th concert at Prague's Roxy club on Thursday night. In December the band celebrated the 25th anniversary of their first concert at student dorms in Prague's Strahov. Since then Visaci Zamek have released eight studio albums.
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03/30/2007
In ice hockey action on Thursday Czech forward Milan Hejduk racked up one goal and one assist for his team the Colorado Avalanche, helping down Phoenix 4:3. The game was a "must-win" for Colorado as the regular NHL season draws closer to wrapping up. Colorado still have a slim chance of making the playoffs to compete for the Stanley Cup. Currently the team trails Calgary - in the final playoff spot in the Western Conference - by 7 points. Colorado has five games left to play.
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03/29/2007
EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana has urged European Union member states to debate US plans to install part of its missile shield in the Czech Republic and Poland. Speaking in the European Parliament on Thursday, Mr Solana said it was ultimately up to EU capitals to decide whether they joined the United States in the project but they were obliged to ensure that any such participation did not undermine overall security policy in the EU. The US plans to site a missile shield in the Czech Republic and Poland sparked a fierce debate among MEPs on Thursday, highlighting the risk of an EU rift over the project.
Parts of the anti-missile shield are already in place in the United States, Britain and Greenland, and Pentagon officials say the plan is to have the system operational by 2013. Washington acknowledges that the system primarily protects US soil from attack by "rogue states" like Iran but that it would also shield some, though not all, European allies.
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03/29/2007
Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek has said that his claims on the eve of last year's general election that the Social Democrats had spied on political rivals have been vindicated. Before last June's general election, Mr Topolanek had alleged that the Social Democrat administration had bugged the phones of several people after a report by top police official Jan Kubice had been leaked, which suggested that there were links between organised crime and officials in the then Social-Democrat government.
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03/29/2007
In related news, Interior Minister Ivan Langer has revealed that in all 46 phone numbers were wiretapped in the case of the leaked "Kubice report", some belonging to lawyers and also to children. Minister Langer says former Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek and former Interior Minister Frantisek Bublan were responsible for what he called "unacceptable police procedure". People whose phones were tapped include MPs, city councillors, a mayor, lawyers, businessmen and also the teenage daughter of the mayor of Olomouc and her classmate.
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03/29/2007
The Constitutional Court has ruled that Czech citizens who were employed by Slovak companies during the existence of Czechoslovakia are entitled to the same pensions as if they had been employed in what is now the Czech Republic. The ruling was based on the case of Anna Weiszova from the eastern town of Opava. She was employed in Slovakia and as she was born in Slovakia she receives a Slovak pension which is lower than that of her Czech colleagues.
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03/29/2007
One of China's leading TV manufacturers, Sichuan Changhong Electric Co., has opened a production facility in the central Bohemian town of Nymburk. The project, which was inaugurated on Wednesday, is the first overseas production base wholly owned by a Chinese home electrical appliance enterprise. The 15-million-dollar project has a designed annual production capacity of one million sets, mostly flat-panel and high-definition TVs. The company aims to gradually expand the production to also include air conditioners, refrigerators, cellphones and set-top boxes, in order to sell all Changhong products in Europe.
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03/29/2007
The Czech police have completed an investigation into the illegal export of human skin taken from dead donors, the Pravo newspaper reports. According to the daily, investigators are to recommend that five medical workers and one other person be charged with illegally exporting skin taken from a tissue bank at the Brno Faculty Hospital. The accused face up to eight years in prison if found guilty. It is the first case of its kind in the Czech Republic.
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03/29/2007
Prices for flats and apartments in the Czech Republic have risen sharply according to Mlada fronta Dnes. The newspaper reports that property prices have increased by more than ten percent in many large Czech towns and cities, with prices for apartments in Prague increasing by as much as one third. Among other things, the daily attributes the price increases to easily available mortgages and foreign property speculators.
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