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  • Prague Castle the most visited tourist destination in Czech Republic
    08/29/2008

    Prague castle is the most visited tourist destination in the Czech Republic, followed by Prague Zoo and the National Museum. The list has been put together by the state agency CzechTourism. Most of the places in the top ten have reported increased number of visitors in the past year, despite a sharp fall in the overall number of tourists. Six of the ten most popular tourist destinations are in Prague. The list also includes the National Gallery, the Jewish Museum and the zoological garden in Dvůr Králové.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Slavia’s Tomáš Necid transfers to CSKA Moscow
    08/29/2008

    Slavia Praha striker Tomáš Necid will move to Russian club CSKA Moscow, the Czech club announced on Friday. Necid will play for Slavia until the end of the year before moving to Moscow. The club did not disclose financial details of the transfer. Necid was the highest scorer at the 2008 Under-19 European Championship in July with four goals, helping the Czech team to reach the semi-finals. The 19-year-old is Slavia’s top scorer this season with three goals from four matches.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Status of forces agreement on US troops for radar base close, says Czech defence minister
    08/28/2008

    A deal on the conditions under which US soldiers would operate at a radar base in the Czech Republic is very close and should be completed next month, the Czech defence minister, Vlasta Parkanová, said after talks with Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek on Thursday. Mr Topolánek told reporters the status of forces agreement should then be discussed by the Czech Parliament in October. Czech legislators are set to vote on both it and the main treaty on the US radar by the end of this year. In July Prague and Washington signed the main treaty on the radar base, which will be part of an American anti-missile defence shield.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Czech athletes should have won more medals given state spending, says PM
    08/28/2008

    Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek says the Czech Republic should have taken more than six medals at the Olympic games in Beijing. He said results could have been better at the Olympics, given how much money the Czech state puts into sport. Mr Topolánek also said the problem was that the country had too few top athletes. However, the prime minister praised veteran kayaker Štěpánka Hilgertová, who finished ninth after her boat capsized – he said she had behaved in an “unCzech” way when she risked all for gold and received no medal, rather than being satisfied with settling for silver.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • President grants pardon over internet auction of hip joint
    08/28/2008

    President Václav Klaus has granted a pardon to a man who was being investigated for trying to sell what he said was one of the president’s hip joints by internet auction. The accused, doctor of law Přemysl Donát, set a starting price of CZK 35,000 (just over USD 2,000) for a joint he said had been removed from the president’s body during a hip replacement operation in June. Police began a fraud investigation after the president’s office said the joint was not Mr Klaus’s. But the president has now pardoned the man, so as to bring what a spokesman called an “undignified game” to an end.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Average monthly salary up 8 percent, not much more than inflation
    08/28/2008

    The average monthly salary in the Czech Republic grew by 8 percent year-on-year to CZK 23,182 (nearly USD 1,400) in the second quarter of this year. However, inflation is at around 7 percent, meaning the real increase in Czechs’ income is just 1.1 percent, the lowest rise in a decade. Prague is the region with the highest average monthly pay, while Karlovy Vary is the lowest.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Over 26,000 foreigners get Czech citizenship in seven-year period
    08/28/2008

    Over 26,000 foreigners have gained Czech citizenship since 2001, according to government data released on Thursday. Two-fifths of those who have received Czech citizenship in the last seven years are from the neighbouring state of Slovakia, while Ukrainians make up the second biggest group. The number of new Czech citizens last year was the lowest since 2001.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Prague Buddhists planning first temple in capital
    08/28/2008

    Prague’s Vietnamese community are planning to build a Buddhist temple within the next three years. The announcement was made after a Buddhist holy day, festival of Vu Lan. Prague’s Buddhists currently make use of a temporary shrine. The Czech Republic’s first Buddhist temple, in Varnsdorf in north Bohemia, was opened in January.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Giant striker Koller says retirement decision is final
    08/28/2008

    Jan Koller, who holds the record for the most goals scored for the Czech Republic, will not appear for the national team again. The country’s new manager Petr Rada had said he hoped to persuade the 35-year-old to reconsider his decision to retire. However, Koller’s agent said the giant striker would not change his mind and would not be available for the Czech Republic’s World Cup qualifying campaign, which begins with a game against Northern Ireland in a fortnight’s time.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • No Czech participation in this season’s Champions League
    08/28/2008

    There will be no Czech club in this year’s Champions League, after Slavia Prague were knocked out in the last qualifying round by Fiorentina. Slavia drew away 0:0 with the Italian side on Wednesday, two weeks after losing 2:0 in Prague in the first leg. Sparta Prague also failed to make it into the lucrative competition after going out in the final qualifying round to the Greek club Panathinaikos.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

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