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08/31/2008
The Czech postal service is planning to close 179 branches in small municipalities, Czech Post’s general director Karel Kratina said on Sunday. A list of the villages and towns affected will be announced by the end of next week. Czech Post currently has 3,387 branches, almost half of which only have one counter. The branch closures, which are opposed by the mayors of many of the municipalities affected, will lead to savings of over CZK 30 million a year. Mr Kratina said despite rises in fuel prices the cost of stamps would not increase.
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08/31/2008
Hundreds of thousands of children around the Czech Republic are preparing for the start of the new school year on Monday. Both elementary and secondary schools will have fewer pupils than last year; the latter will open their doors to over 820,000 children, while just over half a million are enrolled in the country’s secondary schools.
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08/31/2008
Green Party candidates to the regional assembly in Moravia-Silesia are planning to address voters in an unusual manner – by rapping. Nine Green candidates are planning to perform a hip-hop song entitled We All Want Healthy Children at public meetings ahead of elections this autumn, the website novinky.cz reported. The song’s writer, regional deputy party leader Ladislav Vrchovský, says the Greens want to address people with a modern outlook and the young.
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08/31/2008
The government council on Romany affairs is planning to discuss in two weeks’ time the controversial issue of the high number of Czech Romanies seeking asylum in Canada, the minister for human rights and minorities, Džamila Stehlíková, told reporters on Saturday. The prime minister, Mirek Topolánek, said last week economic factors not human rights were behind an increase in Czech asylum applications in Canada. Romany leader Ladislav Bilý criticised the prime minister’s comments, as well as statements made by Minister Stehlíková and Interior Minister Ivan Langer. Nearly 500 Czech Romanies have applied for asylum in Canada since it dropped visa requirements for Czechs in November; Ottawa had introduced the restriction in response to a large influx of Czech Romanies in the late 1990s.
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08/31/2008
The 12-minute short I Hear Your Scream by the Paraguayan director Pablo Lamar has won the main competition at the Fresh Film Fest festival of student films in the west Bohemian town of Karlovy Vary. Nearly 3,000 people attended the 200 pictures screened during the five-day festival, which came to an end on Saturday night.
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08/31/2008
September should be relatively warm with temperatures of up to 28 degrees Celsius, the Czech Hydrometerological Institute said on Sunday. However, the start of the month should also be cloudy with rain, showers and even storms at times.
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08/30/2008
The US Federal Aviation Administration is planning to test a new Czech air traffic control system developed for pilot-less planes, the Czech News Agency reported. The FAA is expected to reach a deal in the near future with the system’s creators, the cybernetics department at Prague’s ČVUT technical university. The AGENTFLY system does away with the need for a control tower and was first developed for pilot-less helicopters. The new air traffic control system could be included in a US scheme to employ Czech technology in exchange for the positioning of an anti-missile radar base in central Bohemia.
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08/30/2008
The Economia group, which publishes the financial daily Hospodářské noviny and the weekly Ekonom, has been bought by one of the Czech Republic’s wealthiest businessmen, Zdeněk Bakala. The German company Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt had been looking for a buyer for its majority stake in Economia for several months. Mr Bakala, who owns mining giant OKD, is reported to have set up a new firm 100-percent owned by him to buy the group, which is behind a number of financial and trade publications. His spokesman refused to comment on the matter. Zdeněk Bakala also owns the liberal intellectual weekly Respekt.
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08/30/2008
The mayor of a small town who spent a week as mayor of the Czech capital says he used to know Prague but now he knows the city’s problems. Petr Gazdík, mayor of the small town of Suchá Loz, temporarily swapped jobs at the invitation of Prague mayor Pavel Bém after complaining that small municipalities lost out compared to the capital in terms of the redistribution of money collected in taxes. Mr Gazdík told reporters he had agreed with Mr Bém on 90 percent of issues, but they still differed over municipal financing and the idea of Prague hosting the Olympics, which Mr Bém supports.
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08/30/2008
There are concerns in Croatia about an upcoming soccer game between Dinamo Zagreb and Sparta Prague, after Sparta fans expressed support for the former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, the Czech news website novinky.cz reported. The Croatian newspaper Vecernji ran a story on Friday about Sparta fans carrying a flag calling on both Karadzic and former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic to “hold on!” during a game against Mladá Boleslav earlier this month. A Sparta spokesperson told Vecernji the club had no control over such supporters. The Czech side take on Dinamo Zagreb in the Croatian capital on September 18 in the first leg of a UEFA Cup first round tie.
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