• Eurostat: CR has second lowest number of university-educated women in EU
    03/05/2007

    According to a new Eurostat survey, the Czech Republic has the second lowest number of women with university education in the European Union. Less than 13 percent of Czech women between 25 and 59 years of age have a university degree. The EU average for women is 24 percent. Finland, Denmark and Estonia have the highest number of university-educated women, Romania has the lowest.
    Author: Pavla Horáková

  • Czech pharmaceutical giant to buy Turkey's Eczacibasi
    03/05/2007

    The Czech Republic's biggest pharmaceutical company, Zentiva, says it has agreed to buy a 75-percent stake in Turkey's biggest drug company Eczacibasi Generic Pharmaceuticals for 460 million euros. The Czech company, which already has plants in Slovakia and Romania, added that it will also have the right to buy the remaining 25 percent of the company within two years. Zentiva's biggest shareholder is French-based drugs company Sanofi Aventis which has a 24.9-percent stake. Zentiva shares are traded on the Prague and London stock exchanges.
    Author: Pavla Horáková

  • Migratory birds return early from wintering grounds
    03/05/2007

    Ornithologists say that certain species of migratory birds are returning to the Czech Republic weeks earlier than usual. Skylarks, starlings and lapwings arrived at their nesting grounds in the previous weeks. Wood pigeons have been spotted this week and a white stork has been observed in the Pilsen region.
    Author: Pavla Horáková

  • Carmakers from CR, Slovakia to present new models at Geneva auto show
    03/05/2007

    Carmakers from the Czech Republic and Slovakia are going to present their new models at the upcoming International Motor Show in Geneva. Czech Skoda Auto is going to reveal its new Skoda Fabia. The Korean carmaker Hyundai is going to present the car it plans to produce at its new plant in Nosovice in North Moravia. Its sister company Kia Motors Corporation will show two automobiles that will be produced at its Slovak plant in Zilina.
    Author: Pavla Horáková

  • Teenager dies in skiing accident
    03/05/2007

    A fourteen-year old boy died on a ski slope in Herlikovice in the Krkonose Mountains on Monday morning after he crashed into a tree. He sustained severe head and chest injuries. Mountain rescuers arrived on the scene within five minutes but were unable to save the boy's life. A spokesman for the Mountain Rescue Service said the boy had been wearing a safety helmet. Police are investigating the accident.
    Author: Pavla Horáková

  • Czech Sebrle wins third Euro heptathlon crown
    03/05/2007

    Czech Roman Sebrle snatched his third successive European indoor title on Sunday, recording the best points total in the world this year (6,196). The Olympic decathlon champion was second going into the final discipline, 32 points behind Russian Aleksandr Pogorelov, but ran a tactical 1,000 metres race to ensure he finished more than the required three seconds ahead of his rival. It doesn't get any easier, said Sebrle, at 32 the oldest man to win heptathlon gold at the championships.
    Author: Pavla Horáková

  • Czech government will give US positive reply to radar base request
    03/04/2007

    Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Vondra said in a televised debate on Sunday that the Czech Republic would give a positive reply to the US request to build a radar base on Czech territory. "We will open the way for further talks on the matter - I cannot imagine the government taking a different course of action," Mr. Vondra told viewers. He stressed however that this was merely another step in negotiations and did not legally commit the Czech Republic to hosting the US radar base. That decision would be made by Parliament sometime next year.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Intensive debate on missile shield continues
    03/04/2007

    The US missile defense shield which Washington would like to deploy jointly in the Czech Republic and Poland has become a matter of intensive debate and consultations. Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek is to discuss the US missile defense project with NATO and EU officials in Brussels on Monday and the issue also tops the agenda of President Klaus' three week visit to the United States. President Klaus, who leaves for the US on Sunday, is to hold talks with US Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Czech MP wants to hear EU stand on US radar base
    03/04/2007

    The Chairman of Parliament's Committee for European Affairs Ondrej Liska has said he would like to hear a clear stand from the country's EU allies regarding the US missile defense shield. Mr. Liska is a member of the Green Party which has voiced objections to the project on the grounds that it would not address the security needs of the Czech Republic's European allies.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • STEM poll shows Czechs opposed to US radar base
    03/04/2007

    The outcome of a poll conducted by the STEM agency indicates that the majority of Czechs are opposed to hosting a US radar base on Czech territory. Seventy percent of respondents said they did not want the US radar base in the Czech Republic, thirty percent said they would agree to it. The poll shows that public interest in the matter is exceptionally high.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

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