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10/13/2006
Police report that an attempt to smuggle two Ukrainian nationals from the Czech Republic into Austria was thwarted on Thursday afternoon. The 49 year-old male and a 52 year-old woman were discovered hiding in the trunk of a car bearing German plates, as it attempted to cross the border into Austria near Znojmo, south Moravia. The driver of the vehicle is identified as a 39 year-old Turkish national, who is currently in custody and charged with human trafficking; if found guilty he faces up to one year in jail. Border police discovered the couple in the truck of the car after noticing that the vehicle's rear was riding low, despite there being only one visible person inside the car. The Ukrainian nationals, who say that they took a bus from Ukraine to Brno, where they were met by the trafficker, are also in custody and awaiting deportation from the Czech Republic.
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10/13/2006
On Friday, Radio Prague launched digital broadcasting within the DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) system. The broadcasts can be heard in the central and south-eastern Europe areas. English and German broadcasts are from 13.30 to 14.30 UTC on Friday and from 13.00 to 14.00 UTC on Saturday on the frequency 9505 kHz from a transmitter in Rampisham, UK.
DRM is digital broadcasting which should in the future replace analogue broadcasting on LM, MW and SW. Its main advantages are higher quality signal - close to FM quality - and a reduction in transmitter output. At the moment DRM broadcasts are more or less of a test character because commercially produced receivers are not available, just prototypes. DRM broadcasts can also be picked up by PC using special software (see www.drm.org).
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10/13/2006
A regional court in Hradec Kralove, east Bohemia, has sentenced a juvenile responsible for the March murder of Jana Mala, the mayor of Liberek, to time in a special prison for under-age offenders. Laws protecting juvenile offenders prohibit the disclosure of further details concerning the guilty party, or the sentence; the only information available is that the victim was brutally murdered by a relative. A lawyer for the case says that the young offender has already appealed the verdict and sentence.
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10/13/2006
A 30 year-old woman and her six month-old infant are in serious condition in a Plzen hospital. Tragedy struck on Friday morning when the woman, carrying her baby, walked onto the tracks ahead of an oncoming train in the Plzen district of Bolevec. Investigators say that the woman left a letter behind and intended to end her life. Mother and child are being treated, but no further information has been released.
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10/12/2006
Police have proposed that former head of the prime minister's office Zdenek Dolezel charged with blackmail and corruption and two other persons accused in the same case should be taken into custody, a spokeswoman said on Thursday. A court is to decide within 24 hours whether Zdenek Dolezel, Ladislav Peta and Miloslav Rehulka will be taken into custody. The charges against Mr Dolezel, Mr Peta, mayor of the small south Moravian town of Budisov, and Mr Rehulka, an Agriculture Ministry employee, were brought on Wednesday in connection with suspected corruption in the handling of EU structural funds channelled via the Local Development Ministry and blackmail of architect Marek Ricar who reported the planned fraud to the police.
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10/12/2006
The European Commission has issued a final warning to three countries, including the Czech Republic, over their failure to respect the EU's directive banning tobacco advertisements. The EC is taking Italy to the European Court of Justice in this matter, after the country failed to harmonise its legislation with EU rules. The Czech Republic could be taken to court, too, if it does not explain to the EC why it does not follow the common directives. Apart from the Czechs, a similar problem is faced by Spain and Hungary.
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10/12/2006
The European Commission launched proceedings against eight members on Thursday for failing to say how many gas emissions permits they would give polluters under the EU's emission trading scheme. The EC said it was sending warning letters to Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain for ignoring an end June deadline to reveal their plans. The plans are supposed to set the total number of emissions allowances governments will give to industrial plants during the 2008-2012 period under the EU's innovative emissions trading scheme. The quotas are the cornerstone of the landmark trading scheme which was launched at the beginning of 2005 to help member states meet their greenhouse gas emissions targets under the Kyoto Protocol.
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10/12/2006
The bodies of two Czech men who went missing on Sunday off the coast of Croatia have been found, the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. The bodies were recovered by Croatian divers from a depth of 67 metres. The ministry has notified the families of the two young men.
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10/12/2006
A new poll by the CVVM agency suggests that over three fifths of Czechs are opposed to a possible construction of a US anti-missile defence site in the Czech Republic. More than 75 percent of those polled said the matter should be decided in a referendum.
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10/12/2006
Delta Air Lines of the United States announced on Wednesday it would launch scheduled flights between Prague and its Atlanta, Georgia hub starting on May 2 next year. The airline said it would be the only service between the two cities. Delta expects around 40 percent of travellers arriving in Prague to transit to another destination in Central and Eastern Europe. Delta, the third biggest US carrier, will operate five scheduled flights a week on the new route, it added. The airline is a member of the SkyTeam airline alliance, which also includes Czech state-controlled carrier, Czech Airlines.
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