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02/01/2007
The head of the Czech branch of Interpol, Pavol Mihal, collaborated with the communist-era StB secret police, Czech Television said on Wednesday. It said he began working with the StB in 1984, but said it was not clear what exactly he had done. Mr Mihal denies the allegations. Interior Minister Ivan Langer and police president Vladislav Husak are keen to investigate Mr Mihal's past as quickly as possible, Czech TV reported.
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02/01/2007
Photographs of the dead body of composer Karel Svoboda were probably taken by a police officer, two Czech dailies reported on Thursday. After Mr Svoboda committed suicide last weekend, a photo showing his hand and a pistol appeared in the tabloid Blesk. A police spokesperson told the Mlada fronta Dnes daily that they knew the officer responsible.
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02/01/2007
The telecoms company Telefonica 02 says around 25 percent of public payphones accept euro coins as of February 1st. The company will equip the selected 6,200 payphones around the Czech Republic with a list of the particular euro coins they accept. Users will be able to combine euros and Czech crowns in these phones.
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02/01/2007
Director Milos Forman and star Natalie Portman were among the guests for the Czech premiere of Forman's new film Goya's Ghosts at a Prague centre mulitiplex on Wednesday night. Others ascending the red carpet included Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek and his partner Lucie Talmanova, renowned cameraman Miroslav Ondricek and singer Karel Gott.
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01/31/2007
The Brno city council has agreed to transfer the Tugendhat villa to the state. The move is intended to facilitate the return of the important Modernist building to its original owners, the Tugendhat family. The Tugendhats, who are Jewish, lost the villa when they fled Czechoslovakia in 1938 ahead of the Nazis. The family says the building, a UNESCO world heritage site, will remain open to the public.
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01/31/2007
The best-selling Czech novelist Iva Hercikova has died at the age of 71. Police said she took her own life last Saturday, but have released no further details. The author wrote over 20 novels and short story collections in a career spanning five decades. Iva Hercikova is perhaps best known for Pet holek na krku (Five Bad Girls), which was made into a successful film in 1967.
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01/31/2007
The Czech ski-jumper Jan Mazoch has been released from hospital in Krakow, ten days after crashing badly in a World Cup event in Poland. Mazoch, who had been put into an artificial coma to limit damage to his brain, has been transferred to a hospital in Prague. A medical official at the hospital in Poland said there was no reason he could not ski again if his rehab went as expected.
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01/31/2007
The number of murders in the Czech Republic increased last year, according to figures released by the police on Wednesday. There were 231 murders in the country in 2006, up from 186 during the previous twelve months. Police solved 170 cases. The overall crime rate fell slightly.
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01/31/2007
Photos of a wall built by the authorities in the north Bohemian town of Usti nad Labem to separate local residents from Romanies have gone on show at the United Nations headquarters in New York. The wall was built in 1999. It was removed after being criticised by human rights groups as an example of institutional racism in the Czech Republic. Romany groups are calling on the UN to appoint a special representative on Romany issues.
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01/31/2007
The Constitutional Court has ordered the Health Ministry to create a new system of coverage for medicines by public health insurance by the start of next year. The court said the current system was not based on objective criteria and was not justified. It called on the Health Ministry to state clearly why the costs of certain medicines should be covered.
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