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07/07/2008
Ebanka, the decade old Czech bank has finally cased to exist, after completing its merger with Austrian Raffeisenbank. The bank was bought in 2006, and then began a long process of integration with that company, which was officially completed today. However, nostalgic clients will still be able to find Ebanka banks for a few more weeks until the rebranding exercise is completed. All major Czech banks are now majority-owned by foreign companies.
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07/07/2008
A proposed golf course in the town of Klánovice near Prague has met with a wave of around 100 demonstrators opposing its construction. The golf course would be built in an area that is currently a forest, and would attempt to replicate a similar course which once existed there before the Second World War. The protesters have the support of the town’s major, who called the plan “outrageous” and dismissed notions of historical restoration as “empty clichés.” The entire saga has been dragging on for a number of years, although at present, it looks likely that the company involved will secure a lease on the land.
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07/07/2008
A newly released study conducted by the Institute for Information in Education (UIV) has found that violence and the possession of firearms remains extremely low in Czech schools. The survey suggests that around one fifth of schools have come across knives at all over the past three years, while only one percent of schools reported an incident involving a firearm. Despite slightly poorer results compared to the previous year, the survey nonetheless affirms that violent incidents, including attacks on teachers remain very rare in the Czech republic.
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07/07/2008
Sales of cars have climbed by nine percent, while sales of light utility vehicles are up by 13 percent, according to figures quoted by the Car Importers Association today. Škoda remains the most popular car in the country with Ford models coming in second, albeit with less than a quarter of Škoda’s sales. The rise in sales is attributed to strong rising living standards as well as a fall in prices of automobiles. Motorcycle and bus sales are also up.
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07/07/2008
The Czech crown again broke records in trading against the Euro today. For a brief time, the crown traded at 23.60 to the Euro. The crown to dollar ratio remained unchanged from Friday’s figures of 15.08 crowns to the dollar.
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07/07/2008
Karel Hála, known affectionately as the “King of Czech Swing” has died at the age of 75. Mr Hála was a popular singer during the 1960s and 70s, performing swing numbers in front of large audiences. Also known as the Czech Sinatra, Mr Hála died as the result of a burst artery in his stomach.
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07/06/2008
The Russian ambassador to Prague Alexei Fedotov told Czech TV on Sunday that his country will make “adequate steps to ensure its own security” following the signing of a Czech-U.S. radar base treaty. Russia’s position will be specified by a Russian Defence Ministry representative at an anti-missile defence conference to be held in Prague next week. Mr Fedotov said Moscow would appreciate permanent presence of Russian inspectors at the planned base, an idea the Czech government rejected in the past.
The Czech-American treaty on positioning a U.S. tracking radar base in the Czech Republic will be signed in Prague on Tuesday by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg. The base should be a part of a planned U.S. anti-missile defence shield in Europe.
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07/06/2008
The UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee appreciated Prague’s care for its historic centre. At its session in Quebec, Canada on Sunday, the committee approved Prague’s monument care activities and also praised its reports on monument preservation in the Czech capital. Prague City Hall has recently come under criticism for a lack of respect for the character of its architectural heritage. Prague’s historic centre is one of 12 Czech monuments registered in the UNESCO List of World Heritage while another one – the spa of Luhačovice in eastern Moravia – has applied for inscription on the World Heritage List.
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07/06/2008
The Czech Republic is commemorating on Sunday the legacy of the 15th century religious reformer Jan Hus who was burned at the stake on July 6, 1415. Born in Husinec, South Bohemia, Jan Hus (John Huss) became a catholic priest and the rector of the University of Prague. He was greatly influenced by the English theologian John Wycliffe and was excommunicated by the Catholic Church in 1411 before being condemned and executed at a Catholic council in Constance four years later.
On Sunday, protestant religious services are held, among other places, in Jan Hus’s birthplace and in Prague’s Bethlehem Chapel were he preached. Despite the efforts of the late Pope John Paul II, who expressed grief over his death, he is still considered a heretic by the Roman Catholic Church today.
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07/06/2008
An apartment in Tel Aviv might hold unknown documents that once belonged to the Prague-born Jewish author Franz Kafka, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported on Sunday. The papers are part of the inheritance Kafka left to his friend, Max Brod. After his death, the documents passed on to his secretary who wouldn’t let researchers examine them. But Brod’s former secretary died this year and Israeli researchers are hoping they might now gain access to the precious documents.
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