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12/04/2009
After running an expensive nation-wide recruitment campaign, the Czech police cannot afford to hire any new officers, the police human resources director Roman Fidler said on Friday. The campaign entitled “Serve and Protect”, which ran from April to June this year, cost around 20 million crowns, or nearly 1.2 million US dollars. Some 10,000 people applied but the police had to stop hiring new employees and return funds for the new positions due to budget cuts. The police will not hire any new officers but will only replace those who leave, Mr Fidler added.
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12/04/2009
Trade unions in the Hyundai car manufacturing plant in Nošovice in the north-east of the country are considering going on strike over poor working conditions and having to work overtime, a trade union spokesman said on Friday. Union leaders met with the plant management on Friday and said they would submit their demands at the start of next week. They said however that they would declare a strike alert on Monday.
Some 400 employees of the Hyundai plant in Nošovice went on an unofficial hour-long strike on Wednesday, and the plant’s trade unions later backed the action.
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12/04/2009
Six in every thousand websites with the Czech domain .cz are infected with malware and spam, according to a survey by the antivirus firm McAfee released on Friday. It is estimated that there are around 500,000 websites with the .cz domain.
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12/04/2009
Sparta Prague lost to PSV Eindhoven 0:1 in a UEFA Europa League’s group stage game in the Netherlands on Thursday. The only of the match came in the 91st minute when Sparta captain Tomáš Řepka scored an own goal. While PSV qualified for the knock-out stage, Sparta will have to beat Copenhagen in the last game to go on.
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12/04/2009
Czech Tomáš Berdych lost 5:7, 0:6 and 2:6 to Spain’s Rafael Nadal in the Davis Cup final in Barcelona on Friday. Berdych did not surprise the strong favourite and world number two Nadal and only put up little resistance.
In the other single scheduled for Friday, Czech Republic’s Radek Štepánek will face David Ferrer. The Czechs are generally considered underdogs but the Czech team’s captain Jaroslav Navrátil believes the clash will be decided in Saturday’s doubles.
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12/03/2009
The government agency CzechInvest has announced the creation of a large Czech-Israeli fund for the support of cooperative research. The 600 million crown fund is intended primarily to further security research in unmanned aerial drones, detection of explosives and toxic substances, and nanotechnology. According to CzechInvest, the Czech Republic does not have a similar contract with any other state, and Israel cooperates in a similar way with only 15 other countries. The programme is to be officially announced by Prime Minister Jan Fischer at an event highlighting Czech and Israeli science and technology in Prague next week. The Czech Republic has historically strong commercial and military ties with the Israeli state.
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12/03/2009
Czech households connected to central heating spend considerably more on utility water than they should, a study by the Technical University of Liberec has shown. According to the study, the reason for the over-expenditure is imprecise gauges installed in flats which have error rates of up to 40%. As part of the study, which was financed by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, the university has also developed new technology for better measurement of hot water use. The study estimates that discrepancies caused by faulty water gauges amount to 200 to 500 crowns per flat per month, and up to 100,000 crowns a year per building.
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12/03/2009
Justice Minister Daniela Kovářová told journalists on Thursday she is assembling a group of experts to begin introducing reference charts for setting the amount of child support in divorce proceedings. Ms. Kovářová also wants a system by which divorcing parents who manage to agree on the amount of child support independently could have their cases finalised by social workers rather than the court, in an effort to relieve the latter’s workload. According to the minister, roughly 30% of divorcing couples reach such an agreement. Ms Kovářová hopes to have the proposal ready for the approval process by the end of the election season, in which case the system would take effect in 2011.
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12/03/2009
The health ministry has announced it believes the number of deaths in which the H1N1 swine flu virus was a contributing factor is at 22. The most recent death was reported Thursday by Ostrava Hospital, which said a 31-year-old man had died the day before after a long period of hospitalisation for pneumonia. Another 72,000 dosages of swine flu vaccine arrived in the country on Wednesday; health care workers have begun vaccinating select, high-risk patients, including children over the age of 10 with chronic illnesses. A number of doctors and nurses have recently publicised negative opinions of the vaccine and have come under fire from vaccine specialists who say it can save the lives of those most at risk.
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12/03/2009
While the number of internet users in the Czech Republic continues to rise, the country itself remains behind most of Europe in the total number of users, according to a study released by the Czech Statistical Office. 58.4% of Czechs used the World Wide Web in 2008; the average in the European Union altogether is 65.5%. Neighbouring Slovakia, for comparison, has 66% internet use. Only 46% of Czech households were connected to the internet in 2008 making the Czech Republic fifth to last in home internet use among EU states.
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