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01/09/2010
A park at the Kačina chateau, near Kutná Hora, some 90 kilometres from Prague, will be restored to its original 19th century splendour, organisers have said; the renovation project will cost 60 million crowns. Renovation will take place over several stages and is expected to take three years to completion. Some 20 million crowns will come from European funds, the head of the castle museum, confirmed. The English-style park was founded in 1789 by Jan Rudolf Chotek.
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01/09/2010
Czech tennis player Radek Štepánek will the US top seed Andy Roddick in the Brisbane International men’s singles final on Sunday, after downing French opponent Gael Monfils by a score of 6:2, 6:1. Štepánek will be defending his title win from last year. For a while it appeared the tournament might see an all-Czech final, before Roddick defeated Štepánek’s colleague Tomas Berdych in three sets. The score in that match was 6:1, 3:6, 4:6. The Brisbane International is the last run-up to the season’s first Grand Slam tournament, the Australian Open.
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01/09/2010
Star cross-country skier Lukáš Bauer has won the second-to-last Tour de Ski event, the 20 kilometre classic, at Val di Fiemme. The win puts the racer in second-place overall ahead of Sunday’s final event. He is led by Norway’s Petter Northug.
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01/09/2010
Cycle-cross racer, and favourite in the competition Zdeněk Štybar has won the national championship in cycle-cross. He clinched his fourth national title on a circuit in Tábor. Petr Dlask was second and Martin Bína finished third.
The women’s competition was won by Kateřina Hanušová-Nashová.
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01/08/2010
Heavy snow is causing traffic complications across the Czech Republic. The situation is reported to be worst in Moravia, the eastern part of the country, where traffic has been seriously disrupted, despite the fact that maintenance crews have been working around-the-clock. The police report a number of chain accidents on the D1 highway from Prague to Brno and have warned drivers not to set out if they can postpone their trip. Long cues are forming on the city’s highways and the Transport Ministry ordered the Rozvadov and Břeclav border crossings to be closed to trucks for several hours on Friday in order to give maintenance crews a chance to clear the roads. Over half a meter of fresh snow is expected to fall over the weekend.
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01/08/2010
A Czech court has issued the first-ever house arrest verdict in the Czech Republic. The ruling is in line with a new criminal code, effective as of this year, which introduces house arrest as an alternative form of punishment for light offenders. The 12-month house arrest sentence was handed to a 46-year-old man for attacking and injuring another man under the influence of alcohol. The victim had to be hospitalized. The verdict means that the offender will be able to continue working but is not allowed to leave his house between 8pm and 5am for a year. If he violates these conditions he will be sent to prison for eight months.
The introduction of this alternative form of punishment is complicated but the fact that the authorities do not have functioning electronic tags at their disposal. Until they do so, probation officers will check on the offender several days a week.
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01/08/2010
Doctors report a heightened number of respiratory infections after a lull resulting from the school holidays. In Prague the number of infected patients is up by 80 percent, although doctors say it could be higher since not all people who are sick see the doctor. It is also not clear how many of those infections are caused by the dreaded H1N1 virus. Eleven people have died of swine flu in the past week alone, bringing the overall death toll to 67. Laboratories have confirmed over 1,300 cases so far, but only a small percentage of patients are tested for the swine flu virus.
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01/08/2010
The Green Party has said it will not back any bills leading to an increased budget deficit in 2010. Party leader Ondřej Liška made the announcement shortly after a one-on-one meeting with Prime Minister Jan Fischer on Friday. The 2010 state budget currently projects a record deficit of 163 million crowns (i.e. about 5.3 percent of GDP) and bills on social spending which the left-wing parties are trying to push through could raise the deficit by another 12 billion crowns. Prime Minister Fischer, who has urged fiscal prudence, is now meeting with the leaders of all parliamentary parties in an effort to keep the deficit in check.
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01/08/2010
Writer Ivan Klíma has been presented the Karel Čapek Award by the Czech Pen Club. Mr. Klíma, 78, is one of the country’s most famous contemporary writers, whose work has been translated into several languages. He has written over 30 books and dozens of short stories and essays. Among his better known works are Lovers for a Day, A Ship Named Hope, Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light, My First Loves and My Merry Mornings.
The Karel Čapek Award was established by the Pen Club’s Czech branch in 1994 and is presented to outstanding writers bi-annually. Other holders of the award are the former president and writer Václav Havel, Arnost Lustig, Jiří Kratochvíl and Josef Topol.
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01/08/2010
The Prague City Court on Friday handed fugitive Czech businessman Tomáš Pitr a six-year sentence for fraud, delivered in absentia. Pitr was found guilty of financial machinations and mismanagement of property that caused damage exceeding 700 million crowns to a number of state-controlled companies. Another man, a former associate of Tomáš Pitr, was also convicted in connection with these crimes.
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