• Conference for democracy in Cuba begins in Prague
    09/17/2004

    A three-day conference of the Prague-based International Committee for Democracy in Cuba got underway at the Czech Senate on Friday. The conference, entitled "For Democracy in Cuba", is being attended by eminent figures such as former Czech president Vaclav Havel, former Solidarity leader and Polish president Lech Walesa and the former presidents of Chile, Costa Rica and Uruguay.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Joint British-Czech military exercise comes to end
    09/17/2004

    A two-week British-Czech air defence exercise which continued despite the deaths of six British soldiers in a helicopter crash came to an end on Friday. The six burned to death when their Lynx helicopter crashed on September 9 around 30 kilometres west of Brno. The cause of the accident is still being investigated.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Czech, American police detain group accused of smuggling drug ecstasy to US
    09/17/2004

    Police in the Czech Republic and the United States have detained a number of people in both countries on charges of smuggling the drug ecstasy from Europe to the US. A police spokesperson on Friday refused to divulge any more information about the arrests.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Skoda Praha wins big contract in "traditional market" Bulgaria
    09/17/2004

    The Czech engineering company Skoda Praha has won a contract to supply energy equipment worth 600 million crowns to a power plant in Bulgaria. Skoda Praha will rebuild one block of the coal-fired plant. A spokesman said Friday that returning to a "traditional market" was important to the company.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Tomas Bata honoured at Prague Castle 90th birthday party
    09/17/2004

    The much-respected Zlin-born businessman Tomas Bata is celebrating his 90th birthday at a reception at Prague Castle on Friday evening. Among the guests at the party will be President Vaclav Klaus and his predecessor Vaclav Havel. Mr Bata, the former head of the Bata shoe company, has been living in Canada for 65 years.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Coalition parties reach agreement on budget deficit
    09/16/2004

    The three parties in the governing coalition have reached agreement on the framework for next year's budget. At a meeting on Thursday morning party leaders agreed to cut the proposed budget deficit from 93 to 84 billion crowns. The original figure was above the limit set by the European Commission in its convergence programme. The cut is expected to hit social benefits.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • All three mobile operators fined over cartel agreements
    09/16/2004

    The Czech Anti-monopoly Office has fined the country's three mobile phone operators a total of 44 million crowns (almost 1.5 million euros) for cartel agreements. A spokesman for the Office said Thursday the operators had signed illegal agreements on direct network interconnection without using a third operator.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • President Klaus appoints Ivana Janu to Constitutional Court
    09/16/2004

    President Vaclav Klaus has appointed Ivana Janu to the Constitutional Court. The 58-year-old lawyer previously served on the Court for eight years and has also been a member of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the Hague.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Prague Castle reception for Olympic medal winners
    09/16/2004

    On Thursday the president also met all the Czech athletes who won medals at the recent Olympic Games in Athens. Mr Klaus thanked them for representing the country in an exemplary manner, and wished them continued success in the future. The Czech Republic took one gold, three silver and four bronze medals in Athens.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • More Iraqi children coming to Prague for heart operations
    09/16/2004

    Four more Iraqi children with serious heart defects are to arrive in Prague to undergo operations at the city's Bulovka teaching hospital next week. The children have been selected by Czech doctors working at a British field hospital in Basra. Some 20 Iraqi children have already undergone heart surgery in the Czech capital.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

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