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09/04/2008
The number of people in the Czech Republic infected by ticks is at its highest in a decade, according to figures just released by the State Health Institute. Over 350 people caught tick-borne encephalitis while nearly 2,300 got Lime disease between the start of January and the end of August. An elderly man died recently of tick-borne encephalitis, the first such fatality of 2008. However, number affected could rise soon, with evidence of infection often being felt in the autumn.
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09/04/2008
The Czech president, Václav Klaus, is preparing for his first overseas trip since undergoing a hip operation in June. On Saturday, Mr Klaus will leave for the Japanese city of Tokyo, where he is due to deliver a speech on global warming at an economics conference. The president, who has published a book entitled Blue Planet in Green Shackles, questions received wisdom on climate change; he has described global warming as both a false myth and nonsensical fiction, and compared Green politics to communism.
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09/04/2008
The minister for human rights and minorities, Džamila Stehlíková, has proposed giving people the right to vote in local elections from 16, instead of the current 18. Speaking at a news conference on Thursday, the minister said such a change would involve young people more in public life. She said she wished to begin a debate on the subject and would put it to cabinet if it gains support. Sixteen-year-olds can vote in local elections in some German and Austrian regions.
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09/04/2008
The Czech Republic has appealed an arbitration ruling under which it was ordered to pay nearly CZK 9 billion (over USD 500 million) to the company Diag Human for harming its blood plasma business, Czech Television reported. The Czech state is demanding that the decision be reassessed by new arbitrators. Meanwhile, the firm says it also wants a new hearing under new, non-Czech arbitrators; it argues that the compensation ordered is too low. The case began in the early 1990s when the then Czech health minister sent a letter to Danish company Novo Nordisk, after which it ceased doing business with Diag Human. In 1998 an arbitration panel recognised the latter’s right to compensation; the wrangling since then has been about how much.
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09/04/2008
A court in India is due to deliver on Monday its verdict on two Czech scientists accused of illegally catching rare insects in a national park. One of the two, Emil Kučera, told a member of the Czech Entomology Society that the ruling had been made and could have been announced already, but for the fact the court’s stenographer was slow and could not keep up with proceedings, the news website novinky.cz reported. Mr Kučera and Petr Švácha were arrested in Singalila National Park in the north-east of India towards the end of June.
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09/04/2008
A policeman and a Vietnamese citizen were killed in a shootout in a bar in the north-west Bohemian town of Chomutov early on Wednesday evening. The Vietnamese man was shot first and the police officer, who was 30, was killed when he arrived at the scene. A man has been arrested in connection with the killings.
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09/04/2008
More Czechs are buying beer in cans, according to figures released by the group Beverage Can Makers Europe on Thursday. In the first half of this year the percentage of beer sold in cans doubled from 1.7 to 3.5. Forty-eight percent of all beer sold was on draught, with 46 percent sold in bottles. Beverage Can Makers Europe said they were optimistic there would be a significant increase in the amount of beer sold in cans, pointing out that the Czech Republic is some way behind most other countries in this respect. In neighbouring Slovakia, for instance, the percentage of beer sold in cans is four times as high as here.
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09/03/2008
A Czech military vehicle has been attacked in Afghanistan, but none of the three soldiers on board were seriously injured, a Defence Ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday evening. The Czechs were returning from a patrol when their vehicle was struck by a bomb in the country’s Logar province. This year has been one of the bloodiest in Afghanistan since the US invasion of the country in 2001. Over 150 troops have died, including two Czechs, so far in 2008. The Czech Republic currently has 400 soldiers stationed in Afghanistan, 200 of whom are in Logar province.
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09/03/2008
Two couples at the centre of a baby mix-up have insisted upon six million CZK (350,000 USD) in damages each from the hospital at fault. Třebič hospital offered the Čermák and Broža families 300,000 CZK (17,500 USD) each after nurses at the facility accidentally swapped the couple’s babies at birth. The accident was discovered late last year and the children in question were swapped back shortly before their first birthdays. After no out of court settlement could be reached, the damages case will begin on September 10. On Wednesday, the parents involved said that they would stand firm on the sum of money they were seeking to claim.
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09/03/2008
Senior politicians have paid their respects to former president Edvard Beneš on the 60th anniversary of his death. Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek and President Václav Klaus laid wreaths on the statesman’s grave in Sezimovo Ústí, South Bohemia on Wednesday morning. President Klaus also traveled to nearby Tábor to unveil an exhibition dedicated to Beneš’s life and work. The exhibition is titled ‘Dr Edvard Beneš: Czechoslovak diplomat, politician and president’, and lasts until October 4 at the town’s Husitské Muzeum.
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