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07/06/2008
A Czech website offers audioerotic stories for the blind, the news website ihned.cz reported on Sunday. The website currently hosts two audio stories, entitled “Excursion” and “Classmates” and narrated by acting students from Brno. Four more stories are being prepared. To access them, customers have to confirm they are adults and send a text message worth 30 crown, or 2 U.S. dollars. Michal Kuchař, one of the authors of the project, who also teaches psychology for the blind at a Brno university, said this was one of the ways of getting rid of sexual taboos in blind people’s lives.
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07/06/2008
Rock for People, one of the country’s biggest summer music festivals which is taking place in Hradec Králové, eastern Bohemia, over the weekend, has attracted around 25,000 visitors. The 14th year of the festival featured about 150 bands and musicians including The Offspring, of the U.S, England’s Kaiser Chiefs, and Czech stars David Koller and Tata Bojs. The festival will conclude on Sunday with a performance by Massive Attack.
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07/06/2008
At least 120 Czech athletes will participate in the Olympic Games in Beijing in August. The Czech Olympic Team will include 26 track-and-field athletes, including Roman Šeberle, the gold medallist in decathlon from the last games in Athens, and the javelin thrower Barbora Špotáková, who has set this season’s best performance. Among the participants in the Games will also be tennis players Tomáš Berdych, Radek Štěpánek and Nicole Vaidišová, as well as Lenka Śmídová who won the country’s first ever medal in sailing at the last Olympic Games. The entire Czech 2008 Olympic Team will have around 230 members; the country’s participation in the games will cost around 40 million crowns, or more than 2.6 million U.S. dollars.
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07/06/2008
The best Czech professional boxer Ondřej Pála beat former WBO heavyweight world champion Henry Akinwande in Ankara on Friday. The Czech champion outpointed the Brit in six rounds, scoring his 20th victory. Henry Akinwande, the WBO world champion between 1996 and 1997, returned to boxing after a year’s break.
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07/05/2008
Some 30,000 Czechs commemorated on Saturday the 1145th anniversary of the arrival of the Christian missionaries Cyril and Methodius. A public holiday in the Czech Republic, the anniversary was marked by the annual national pilgrimage to Velehrad, one of Moravia’s most important Catholic centres where Roman Cardinal Giovanni Coppa, together with Bohemian and Moravian bishops, celebrated a festive holly mass to mark the event.
The brothers Cyril and Methodius, originally from Thessaloniki, arrived in Moravia in 863 to spread the gospel in a Slavic language; for that they also designed a script known as the Cyrillic alphabet.
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07/05/2008
Former Czech President Václav Havel said that the Czech Republic should press on with the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty. Mr Havel told Financial Times on Friday that the treaty should be kept alive in spite of its rejection in the Irish vote. Once the treaty is ratified, the EU should consider creating “a beautiful, simple constitution that children could learn about at school”.
The Czech Republic has not yet started the ratification process of the document; the country’s Constitutional Court is currently reviewing the treaty to see whether it is in line with the Czech law.
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07/05/2008
Bathory by Juraj Jakubisko, the most expensive central European film ever made, premiered at the 43rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on Saturday. The movie stars English actress Anna Friel in the role of the 17th century Hungarian countess Elizabeth Bathory, famous for alleged serial murders. The film, co-produced by Czech companies, cost around 320 million crowns, or more than 21 million U.S. dollars. At the premiere, the Prague-based Slovak director Juraj Jakubisko was also awarded a Crystal Glove for his contribution to filmmaking.
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07/05/2008
Czech reserve troops returned from a peacekeeping mission in Kosovo on Friday. 116 Czech reserve troops were deployed in Kosovo at the beginning of March after the former Serbian province declared independence. During their mission, the soldiers helped the multi-national KFOR forces maintain order in the northern regions of Kosovo. The troops will be on alert until the end of July but do not expect to be called back. The regular Czech KFOR contingent remains in Kosovo.
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07/05/2008
The 50th International Opera Festival Smetana’s Litomyšl concluded on Saturday with a Solo for Ladies. The concert featured singers Eleonore Marguerre, Arpiné Rahdjian and Zoryana Kushpler performing famous opera arias and duets. The three-week opera festival, held in the birthplace of the famous 19th century Czech composer Bedřich Smetana, has seen one of the most successful years in its history, having sold more than 20,000 tickets.
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07/05/2008
The governor of the Central Bohemia Region Pavel Bendl, along with several mayors of the region, are set to appear in a musical based on the novel “Postřižiny” by the late Bohumil Hrabal. The musical will only be staged in three venues in Central Bohemia during the summer. The novel, known in English as “Cutting it Short”, was first published illegally in 1974.
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