• Japanese companies to invest in Moravia
    07/17/2006

    Three more Japanese companies will set-up shop in Moravia, the eastern region of the Czech Republic. The announcement was made on Monday by CzechInvest, an agency which coordinates investment in the Czech Republic. A spokesman for CzechInvest said that the Japanese companies figure in the automobile and electronics spheres, but the names of the companies involved and their intended locations in the Czech Republic have not yet been revealed.
    Author: Linda Maštalíř

  • Former Bambini di Praga director in court
    07/17/2006

    Bohumil Kulinsky, 47, the former director of a famous children's choir, Bambini di Praga, faced his first day at trial for sexual abuse on Monday. Mr. Kulinsky is charged with sexual abuse of two underage girls, both former choir members. He denies the accusations. Mr. Kulinsky has already spent 219 days behind bars in 2005, for what police termed "threatening the moral education of youth and sexual abuse." If found guilty of the current charges, Mr. Kulinsky faces a maximum of 12 years in prison.
    Author: Linda Maštalíř

  • Highway crash kills three
    07/17/2006

    Following a weekend of serious accidents on Czech roadways, another major collision blocked the D1 highway between Brno and Prague on Monday morning. Two semi-trailer trucks and two cars were involved in the collision that killed three people and sent two to hospital in serious condition. Two helicopters were also called to the scene and transported the injured to hospital in Brno.
    Author: Linda Maštalíř

  • Foreign Ministry evacuating Czech citizens in Lebanon
    07/16/2006

    The Foreign Ministry has announced that a convoy for Czech citizens who want to leave Lebanon amid escalating clashes between the Hezbollah movement and Israeli forces will be leaving for Syria on Monday morning. Of the 200 estimated Czechs in Lebanon, some 150 are permanent residents of the country. The ministry recommends that all Czech citizens, who want to leave the country, contact the Czech Embassy in Beirut as soon as possible as the security situation is worsening and similar convoys may soon no longer be possible. A group of Czechs and Lebanese have already fled to safety and arrived in Prague on Sunday morning.
    Author: Dita Asiedu

  • Six people killed in bus accident near Prague, 14 injured in coach accident in Upper Austria
    07/16/2006

    Six people were killed and several injured in a bus accident on the D8 motorway near the town of Zdiby close to Prague on Sunday morning. The police are still investigating the cause of the accident but fire fighters suspect the bus driver fell asleep behind the wheel. The vehicle drove through a crash barrier, hit a bridge, and rolled over into a pitch.

    In a separate coach accident in Upper Austria, fourteen people were injured; luckily no-one was killed. The coach carrying Czech tourists returning from a trip to Italy crashed in the town of Freistadt on Saturday night.
    Author: Dita Asiedu

  • Czech and Slovak Prime Ministers: Czechs and Slovaks no longer understanding each other's languages
    07/16/2006

    Slovakia's newly elected Robert Fico was in Prague on his first official foreign visit since becoming prime minister. During talks with his Czech counterpart Jiri Paroubek, both politicians agreed that younger generation Czechs and Slovaks are finding it hard to understand each other's language, even though they lived together as one nation until 1993. In an effort to change that, more cultural exchanges and TV programmes in the neighbours' languages are to be introduced.

    Mr Fico also met with Czech President Vaclav Klaus at Prague Castle. Among the topics discussed were Czech-Slovak relations and closer cooperation in approaching the traditional foreign markets of the former Czechoslovakia.
    Author: Dita Asiedu

  • Building collapses in the centre of Prague
    07/16/2006

    Part of a building that was under renovation in the centre of Prague collapsed on Sunday morning but no-one was hurt. The cubist building used to house the popular U Mysaka café and is located on Prague's Vodickova street, just a hundred metres from Wenceslas Square and the frequented Mustek metro station. Emergency workers looked through the rubble with the help of search dogs and it appears no-one was at the site when the building collapsed.
    Author: Dita Asiedu

  • Tennis Fed Cup: Czech team defeated by France
    07/16/2006

    The Czech team has been defeated 2:3 by France at the Fed Cup World Group play-offs in Cagnes-Sur-Mer. Though Czech tennis star Nicole Vaidisova defeated France's Nathalie Dechy, Czech player Lucie Safarova was beaten by Tatiana Golovin and France also beat the Czechs in the doubles.

    Nicole Vaidisova was a semi-finalist at last month's French Open where she beat Wimbledon champion Amelie Mauresmo, whose absence from this weekend's tie due to injury has weakened the French team.
    Author: Dita Asiedu

  • Motorcycling: Lukas Pesek third in 125cc class MotoGP
    07/16/2006

    The Czech Republic's Lukas Pesek came a close third in the 125cc class motorcycle Grand Prix in Germany. The race was won by Italy's Mattia Pasini, who claimed his second victory of the season. Spain's Alvaro Bautista came second.
    Author: Dita Asiedu

  • Social Democrats to take tougher stance in talks with emerging coalition
    07/15/2006

    The outgoing Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek has said his Social Democrats will take a tougher stance in the negotiations with the emerging centre-right coalition of the Civic Democrats, the Christian Democrats and the Greens. He labelled the three-party coalition as an unviable project and again called for the establishment of a caretaker government as a way out of the post-election deadlock.

    On Friday, the leader of the Civic Democrats Mirek Topolanek rejected Mr Paroubek's proposal to meet along with President Vaclav Klaus in order to try and find a solution to the stalemate.
    Author: Pavla Horáková

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