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04/18/2008
Education Minister Ondrej Liška has said he will press for an increase in wages for teachers; he made the statement at a national meeting of education workers' unions on Friday. Teachers’ unions are considering taking steps to try and push through pay demands, but are likely to wait and see whether the education minister will be able to argue for an increase at the government. As a result of high inflation, educational workers' real wages have decreased, the unions say; they have also argued that in some regions school budgets are lower than the 2.8 percent increase the government previously promised. The education minister has expressed the hope that the situation could be solved this year.
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04/18/2008
Czech parents might be banned from physically punishing their children, the daily Mladá fronta Dnes has written, after a bill by the government committee for children's rights was approved on Thursday. Under the bill, corporal punishment would be banned, but would not include sanctions for the time being. A recent public opinion poll showed that three-fifths of Czechs disagree with such restrictions. But specialists say legislation banning physical punishment in the home and in schools is needed to protect children from potential abuse. Under the planned bill, parents or teachers would break the law if they slapped a child on the hand or face.
A poll conducted by the Median agency, whose results were released by the daily Lidové noviny recently suggested that one quarter of Czech parents use physical punishment on occasion, while 31 percent of respondent said they never used physical punishment as a method.
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04/18/2008
Several members of the Czech national football squad have added their voices to those expressing support for midfielder Pavel Nedvěd, who plays for Italy’s Juventus, to come out of international retirement. The calls come less than two months ahead of the Czechs’ start at the European football championship, EURO 2008. In the past, Nedvěd, 35, was a key player in 91 caps for the Czech side, including the World Cup in Germany in 2006. On Thursday, star keeper Petr Čech said the team was in real need of a player with similar “abilities and skills”. It is hoped that a Nedvěd return would add spark to a side currently missing its captain, Tomáš Rosický, out with injury.
AFP has cited a top Czech football official as saying he “believed” that talks between Nedvěd and the national team coach had already begun but there has been no official confirmation yet .
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04/18/2008
The Montreal Canadiens missed an opportunity to knock the Boston Bruins out of the Stanley Cup playoffs on Thursday. The game was tied a goal apiece after two periods but the Bruins exploded on the offense in the 3rd, adding four goals for a final score of 5-1. David Krejčí racked up two assists, while forward Vladimir Sobotka scored the final goal of the game – his first in the playoffs – with around two minutes remaining. Montreal still leads the series 3-2 but Boston will hope to win at home on Saturday to force Game 7.
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04/17/2008
Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek told the press on Wednesday that he would not be attending the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games. A spokesperson for the prime minister made the announcement, adding that Mr Topolánek’s decision came in the light of discussions held with other members of the cabinet. Mr Topolánek said at the end of March that it was up to his cabinet to decide whether he should attend after controversy surrounded China’s crackdown in Tibet and spurred calls for an Olympic boycott. Head of state Václav Klaus has also said that he will not attend the Olympics, though this is because he is due to be undergoing surgery in Prague at the time. Prague mayor Pavel Bem and minister for education, youth and sport Ondřej Liška have also declared that for ideological reasons, they will not be going to the summer games.
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04/17/2008
Police in North Bohemia have detained a man whom they believe desecrated the graves of hundreds of Holocaust victims at the site of the former Nazi concentration camp Terezín last week. The man, who has not been named, is accused of stealing over 300 bronze name plaques from the graves of the Holocaust victims. On Thursday, a spokesperson for the culture ministry said that a suspect had been detained and that the bronze plaques had been recovered. The police were unwilling to give any further details, and declined to say whether charges would be brought against the owner of the scrap yard who bought the plaques from the perpetrator. If found guilty, the man charged could face up to eight years in prison.
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04/17/2008
The United States is investigating the possibility of situating interceptor missiles on Czech soil instead of in neighbouring Poland, writes the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza on Thursday. The US originally wanted to build an anti-missile defence shield in both Poland and the Czech Republic, with the Czechs set to house a radar tracking device, and the Poles the corresponding interceptor missiles. But, according to the Polish newspaper, US negotiations have stalled in Warsaw, and now America is investigating the possibility of housing the entire anti-missile system in the Czech Republic. The paper writes that Prague has not ruled out housing the entire system, but has voiced its preference to play host to the radar base alone.
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04/17/2008
Seven representatives of church and state, including President Václav Klaus and Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek, are gathering in Prague’s Saint Vitus’ Cathedral on Thursday to unlock the chamber in which the Czech crown jewels are stored. The chamber only opens when all seven keepers of the keys unlock seven different locks at once. The Czech crown jewels will then be put on display for the general public for 11 days in Prague Castle’s Vladislav Hall. At the request of the late King Charles IV, the crown jewels are only put on display on special occasions. They are being brought out on Thursday to mark the 90th anniversary this year of an independent Czech state, as well as President Václav Klaus’s reelection.
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04/17/2008
The Czech police will be drafted in to help their Swiss colleagues at the 2008 European Football Championships, interior ministers from both countries announced on Thursday. A joint statement said that Czech police would be sent to Switzerland to help the Swiss security bodies with their work. The police forces will cooperate on matters of security before and during the tournament, co-hosted by Switzerland and Austria from June 7 – 29. The number of Czech police to be sent was not disclosed. Czech interior minister Ivan Langer agreed to a similar cooperation with Austria last November.
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04/17/2008
A man has died after falling from a window at Prague’s Charles University. An ambulance arrived on the scene six minutes after the incident occurred, but the man, who has only been identified as a 25-year old Slovak, was already dead when the rescue services arrived. It is uncertain whether the man was a student at the university or not. A police spokesperson said that suicide could not be ruled out.
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