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04/01/2008
Two Czechoslovak L-200 Morava planes left for the North Pole on Tuesday, marking the 50th anniversary of the plane’s launch. The L-200 Morava was one of the few light aircrafts to be exported from behind the Iron Curtain in the communist era. The North Pole Expedition 2008 is also intended to mark 90 years of Czech aviation.
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04/01/2008
Police in Lukov, south Moravia are investigating a case in a dog was found dead, skinned and hanging from a beam in the cottage of a butcher. The newspaper Právo reported that the butcher was preparing the dog to be eaten. The dog’s elderly owner said he thought his dog it simply become lost. The butcher, who was drunk, admitted to the killing.
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04/01/2008
The Czech football player David Jarolím says he is considering leaving the Bundesliga because he believes there is a campaign against him. The Hamburg midfielder has a reputation in Germany for diving and received a red card in a game against Bielefeld for grabbing an opponent by the genitals. But Jarolím denied the sending off was behind his thoughts of leaving the Bundesliga, saying he no longer enjoyed football in Germany.
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04/01/2008
The Czech tennis player Radek Štěpánek has been knocked out in the fourth round of the Miami Open. Štěpánek was beaten 6-3 6-4 by James Blake of the USA in the Masters Series tournament.
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03/31/2008
Negotiations between the Czech Republic and the United States on US plans to build a radar base in central Bohemia have been concluded, Czech prime minister, Mirek Topolánek, said in an interview for the newspaper Hospodařské noviny. Mr Topolánek said it seemed the last remaining points of contention in the bilateral deal had been ironed out and all that remained was to arrange a signing ceremony. On Sunday the Czech foreign minister, Karel Schwarzenberg, said there was one outstanding issue – a Czech demand for a guarantee the US would clean up any potential environmental damage. Both Washington and Prague will be hoping to drum up support for the project – part of a US global anti missile defence system – at a NATO summit in Bucharest later this week. However, the Czech Parliament has yet to vote on whether to allow the US to build the base in Brdy, central Bohemia.
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03/31/2008
The government has unveiled plans to make Czech motorways safer. On Monday, Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek unveiled a booklet of steps his government plans to take in order to lower fatalities on Czech roads. In first place is a preventative campaign, which will rely upon shocking ‘emotive’ adverts. The government also plans to make driving rules more understandable and increase the effectiveness of the country’s traffic police. Addressing journalists, Mr Topolánek also said that the situation on the country’s roads would be helped by the introduction of an electronic tagging device into driver’s vehicles. This device will replace the current system of buying year-long motorway passes which must be displayed on the driver’s windscreen. The device would get rid of the need for motorway tolls, and eradicate queues at such tolling points.
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03/31/2008
A new poll suggests 42.5 percent of Czechs believe Václav Klaus was not re-elected president in a completely fair manner. The survey, conducted by the Median agency and published in Monday’s Lidové noviny, indicates that people are bothered by the fact that Mr Klaus’s election was secured with the vote of a turn-coat opposition Social Democrat deputy and the absence of a member of the Greens, who supported the challenger Jan Švejnar. Thirty percent of respondents said they were not bothered by the election, while 27.5 percent had no opinion. Václav Klaus secured a second five-year term as Czech president by two votes in a joint session of Parliament in mid February.
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03/31/2008
Over two thirds of Czechs are against tightening up this country’s abortion laws. In a poll conducted by the GfK Praha agency for the newspaper Mladá fronta Dnes, 71 percent of respondents said that they thought the Czech Republic’s abortion laws were sufficient, and that they were against any move to outlaw abortion in this country. Twenty-five percent of those polled said that they would like to see a clamp-down on abortion in this country, while eight percent said that they thought the practice should be outlawed completely. The poll comes in the light of fresh calls from the Christian Democrats to reopen the debate on whether abortion should be legal in this country. Neighbouring Slovakia has in recent years tightened its laws on abortion. Last week, government data was released which showed that the number of abortions in the Czech Republic had been falling for fifteen consecutive years.
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03/31/2008
The Czech Republic’s foreign debt amounted last year to 1,349 billion CZK (84.2 billion USD). This figure constitutes 37.9 percent of last year’s GDP. The announcement was made by the Czech National Bank on Monday, who added that, year-on-year, Czech foreign debt had risen by 151 billion crowns.
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03/31/2008
In related news, the Czech National Bank announced on Monday that household debt in this country had risen by 9.3 billion CZK (581 million USD) month-on-month in February to 744.4 billion crowns (46.5 billion USD). The statistics were released as part of the central bank’s monthly monetary survey, based on balances supplied by commercial banks, money-market funds and credit unions.
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