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05/22/2008
The price of diesel in the Czech Republic has reached a record high of CZK 34.03 a litre. There has been an increase of around two crowns a litre since the start of this month. Petrol prices have also been on the rise, though at a slower pace. The increases are due to record oil prices on the world market.
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05/22/2008
Czech Post says it will attempt to deliver some 25,000 letters found dumped in Břeclav, south Moravia to their addressees, Lidové noviny reported. The company described the dumping of around 40,000 letters and parcels in the town, which was discovered earlier this year, as the greatest scandal in its history. The mail to be delivered will be accompanied by a letter of apology from Czech Post and a gift of stamps worth CZK 100. Over 10,000 of the letters found in Břeclav have been destroyed because they were in such a bad state. Police are still investigating the theft of the mail.
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05/22/2008
Czechs rank fifth in the European Union in terms of frequency of train travel, according to figures released by the International Union of Railways. The average Czech takes a train 18 times a year; the highest number of journeys per year is in Austria, where on average people use the railways 24 times annually. Czech Rail came ninth in the EU last year in terms of total number of passengers.
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05/22/2008
The Czech president, Václav Klaus, is set to present the English translation of his book Blue, not Green Planet in the US capital Washington next week. Mr Klaus’s book questions received wisdom on mankind being responsible for global warming, a subject he has written and spoken about extensively. While in Washington, the Czech president will also meet the head of the US Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke and representatives of leading think tanks.
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05/22/2008
Tom Waits is set to play two concerts in Prague in the summer. The American singer, who has never played in the Czech Republic before, will perform at the Congress Centre on July 21 and 22, the shows’ promoters announced on Thursday.
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05/22/2008
The Czech football goalkeeper Petr Čech failed to win a European Champions League winner’s medal on Wednesday, when his club Chelsea were beaten by Manchester United in the final in Moscow. Čech, who turned 26 this week, made a couple of fine saves and stopped one penalty during the shoot-out that decided the game in Man United’s favour. The goalie will now join the rest of the Czech squad, who are preparing for the upcoming European Championship.
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05/22/2008
Footballer Daniel Pudil will miss the European Championship after hurting his hand in a fight, the daily Sport reported. Pudil, who has been replaced by Rudolf Skácel in the Czech squad for Euro 2008, originally said it was a sporting injury. However, Sport reported that the Slavia Prague player had become involved in an altercation with a player from Bohemians 1905 in a Prague centre bar. Pudil is 22 and has three caps for the Czech national team.
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05/21/2008
On Wednesday, the Czech government said that it recognised Kosovo’s independence and planned to establish diplomatic relations with Pristina. Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek told journalists that he believed this step would help achieve long-term stability and democratic development in the region. Kosovo declared independence from Serbia on February 17, the country’s independence has been recognized by most EU member states, with the exception of Spain, Slovakia and Greece.
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05/21/2008
The former head of the Czechoslovak armed forces General Miroslav Vacek has said that nuclear weapons were installed in communist Czechoslovakia in 1969. General Vacek said that the nuclear warheads were stored at Soviet-controlled military sites in Mišov, Bílina and Ralsko and were fully in Soviet hands. The general claimed that although the Soviets and the Americans had an agreement not to give their allies access to nuclear weapons in peacetime both superpowers had nuclear weapons on standby – the Soviets in Czechoslovakia, the United States in what was then West Germany.
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05/21/2008
Local councilors in the north Bohemian region of Liberec have said that they are firmly against proposals to change the Czech-Polish border in the region, ceding some 43 hectares of land to Poland. Dispute over the Czech-Polish border dates back to the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918, with Poland insisting that it lost 69 hectares of land in the process. Land compensation has been paid by the Czechs, but the dispute flared up again with the fall of communism in 1989. Governors in the Liberec region have said that they are unwilling to hand over the land in question because they fear the environmental consequences. They worry that an existing coal-burning plant on the Polish side of the border would expand, moving closer to the north Bohemian town of Kunratice.
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