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09/18/2008
In response to a recent outbreak of Hepatitis A in Prague and central Bohemia, the Central Bohemian region has decided to vaccinate the region’s first graders against the disease. The vaccination of some 5,500 first-grade schoolchildren will be free and voluntary; the children’s parents will be asked for consent. Several cases of Hepatitis A have recently been registered in schools in and around Prague.
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09/18/2008
An international conference on the Prague-born, German-speaking writer Franz Kafka will take place in Liblice, outside Prague, in October. The event will be held at the same venue as the historic Kafka conference which was held in 1963. The conference re-discovered Kafka’s work and paved the way for the Prague Spring of 1968. The theme of this year’s conference will be Kafka and Power; scholars will examine to what extent Kafka’s texts themselves go against repression and to what extent they helped spark opposition to the totalitarian regime.
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09/18/2008
Prague City Hall approved on Thursday the extension of the city’s metro to Ruzyně airport. The new route of the A line from Dejvická to Ruzyně will be 13 kilometres long and have 9 new stations along the way. Costs are estimated at some 20 billion crowns, or more than 1.2 billion US dollars. Construction is to begin next year and the extension is to be completed by 2018.
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09/18/2008
Since the ratification of the Haag Convention on the protection of children, 277 children from the Czech Republic have been adopted by parents from abroad, the Office for International Legal Protection of Children said on Thursday. Parents adopting Czech children most often come from Denmark, Germany and Italy.
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09/18/2008
A recent poll carried out by the Stem agency suggests that 42 percent of Czechs side with Georgia on the South Ossetian conflict while 19 percent support Russia. 39 percent of Czechs do not support either of the conflicting countries. The survey also shows that while voters of the Communist Party tend to support Russia in the conflict, supporters of all the other Czech parliamentary parties favour Georgia.
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09/18/2008
The Orange Express, an American truck used by the opposition Social Democrats in their campaign ahead of the local and Senate elections, is too long for Czech roads, the daily Mladá fronta Dnes on Thursday. The Kenworth 18-wheeler is over 19 metres long while Czech law only allows vehicles of up to 16.5 metres on the road without a special permit. The Transport Ministry however immediately issued an oversize licence for the Orange Express.
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09/18/2008
A group of some 20 youngsters attacked part of the official Sparta Prague entourage in Zagreb on Wednesday, ahead of a first round UEFA game between Sparta and Dinamo Zagreb. The attack took place at around midnight in the Croatian capital after eight members of the Sparta entourage went out after dinner. None of the victims was seriously injured.
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09/17/2008
A second Civic Democrat deputy has left the ruling party’s deputies group over its handling of a blackmail and entrapment scandal involving a close associate, Vlastimil Tlustý. Jan Schwippel announced his decision on Wednesday, just two days after Juraj Raninec left the deputies group. Both men are calling for a proper investigation of the corruption scandal that has tarred the image of the largest party in government. They have made it clear though that they would continue to vote with the government, which now has 98 seats in the 200-seat lower chamber.
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09/17/2008
Mr Tlustý’s regional branch has resisted pressure from senior Civic Democrats to expel him, voicing support for him on Tuesday. Mr Tlustý played an active role in a tabloid TV sting which led to the resignation last week of another Civic Democrat MP, Jan Morava. Mr Morava was caught on camera buying staged compromising photographs of Mr Tlustý, and also gathered material with the intention of blackmailing a rebel Green Party MP.
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09/17/2008
The chairman of the Senate Přemysl Sobotka said he could not rule out the fall of the government if rebels from the three governing parties joined forces to bring it down. The corruption scandal involving two of the governing parties has further alienated the rebels who were potential targets of the blackmail conspiracy. Mr. Sobotka told reporters he was convinced that the rebels were out to destroy the government. Other senior Civic Democrats have spoken about the possibility of early elections, saying they were not prepared to beg the rebels for support. The opposition Social Democrats have indicated that they would be willing to tolerate a caretaker government which would see the country through its EU presidency, that is up until mid 2009.
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