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10/06/2008
The 34th annual Ekofilm festival got underway in the South-Bohemian towns of České Budějovice and Český Krumlov on Monday. One of the oldest festivals of its kind in Europe, Ekofilm is entirely devoted to environmental issues and issues relating to the country’s natural and cultural heritage. In addition to film screenings, Ekofilm offers various seminars, discussions with film-makers and other events.
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10/06/2008
The annual Designblok festival showcasing both Czech and international furniture, accessories and fashion gets underway in Prague on Monday. The festival takes place at a host of venues around the city, in particular in the district of Holešovice and Karlín. The tenth Designblock will introduce over 200 participants and a selection from the best showrooms, designers, galleries, and fashion designers in Prague. The event will continue until the end of the week.
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10/06/2008
New York Rangers won the second of two historic NHL ice hockey games at Prague’s O2 Arena on Sunday night. Rangers beat Tampa Bay Lightning 2:1, the same result as in the two clubs' first encounter on Saturday, which was the first NHL match ever played in the Czech Republic. Commentators agreed that Sunday’s game was far superior to the season opener, both in terms of play and atmosphere. The newspaper Sport reported that there was a high chance NHL games could be played in the Czech Republic again next year.
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10/06/2008
U.S. tennis legend Pete Sampras is set to come to Prague at the end of this year. The long-time No. 1 player and winner of 14 grand-slam titles will take on Czech Republic’s player Radek Štěpánek in an exhibition match on December 1.
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10/05/2008
Police in Ostrava have arrested an American man wanted in Austria in connection with jewel robbery, a spokesperson said on Sunday. The man, who is 33, is suspected of being behind two robberies in Salzburg this year involving jewellery worth nearly EUR 4.5 million. He was arrested on Wednesday, a day after police in Ostrava received a request from a court in Salzburg for assistance in looking for him.
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10/05/2008
Some disappointment has been expressed over the first NHL ice hockey game ever held in the Czech Republic. New York Rangers beat Tampa Bay Lightning 2:1 in a curtain-raiser for the new NHL season at Prague’s O2 Arena in front of almost 17,000 fans on Saturday evening. However, Czech media outlets reported that there was little atmosphere at the game and, with a number of new players on each team, the standard of hockey was not particularly high. Tampa’s Czech forward Václav Prospal said afterwards that fans at NHL games normally did not cheer on their teams as much as supporters in the Czech Extraliga; Prospal said he himself was not disappointed with the atmosphere, and had not expected two sets of hard-core fans. The second game in the two-match series takes place on Sunday evening.
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10/05/2008
The interior minister, Ivan Langer, says Czech police did not have sufficient advance information about hooligan fans of the Croatian football club Dinamo Zagreb who rioted in Prague on Thursday. Reacting to criticism that Czech police did not handle the situation well, Mr Langer said the violence ahead of a game between Dinamo and Sparta Prague showed the need for greater co-ordination with police in other countries. He said co-operation was harder in the case of Croatia because it is not part of the Schengen border-free zone. Mr Langer said the Czech police had adopted the correct tactic of trying to contain the trouble-makers and not intervening directly. Around 200 Dinamo fans threw bottles and cobblestones and made the Hitler salute on Prague’s Old Town Square, before later attacking police who were monitoring their route to Sparta’s stadium.
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10/05/2008
Preparations are being made to change the antenna on the Žižkov television tower in Prague on Monday. Streets around the city’s tallest and most futuristic building will be closed off, and while a helicopter is overhead local residents will be barred from leaving their homes. The helicopter to be used is a Russian Kamov Ka 32 capable of carrying heavy loads and described as a kind of flying crane. It will carry out the operation in three or four flights. The antenna on the 216-m high tower needs to be replaced to improve reception of digital television signals. The Žižkov TV tower, completed in 1992, also serves as a transmitter for FM radio and mobile communications.
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10/05/2008
The Bulgarian-born philosopher Julia Kristeva will receive the Vision 97 Foundation Prize in Prague on Sunday. The foundation, which was established by former Czech president Václav Havel and his wife Dagmar, presents its award every year to one person who has broadened mankind’s horizons. Ms Kristeva, also known for her work in linguistics and psychoanalysis, said accepting the prize was a way of expressing her respect for Mr Havel, who she said combined experience of language and experience of politics in one person. Previous recipients of the Vision 97 Foundation Prize include the writer Umberto Eco and the psychologists Stanislav Grof and Philip G. Zimbardo.
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10/05/2008
In a poll released just a fortnight before regional elections, 48 percent of respondents said they would like to see fundamental changes in regional leadership. Nearly two thirds of those surveyed in the STEM poll said their attitude to politics at the national level would influence their vote in regional elections on October 17 and 18. The largest party in the coalition government, the Civic Democrats, hold 12 of the country’s 13 regional governorships. The Czech Republic introduced the current system of regional administration in the year 2000.
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