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01/20/2008
The largest Czech dairy producer Madeta has clinched a deal with Czech farmers on milk supplies in the coming year, allaying fears of a significant price hike on all its products as well as possible lay-offs. The Bohemian farming cooperative has promised to continue delivering milk supplies to Madeta for at least another year. The cooperative has been exporting a third of its milk output to Germany for the past three years and had threatened to end all sales to Madeta because foreign buyers paid a better price.
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01/20/2008
A man in the town of Litvínov miraculously escaped death in a freak accident when the lift in his building gave way and crashed five floors down to the basement. The man, who was in the elevator with his dog when the lift collapsed, suffered a broken leg. The dog was unharmed. The cause of the accident is being investigated.
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01/20/2008
Finland's Janne Ahonen, who this month made history by winning the prestigious Four Hills tournament five times, won the first World Cup ski jump event in Harrachov on Sunday. The competition was carried over from Saturday when bad weather led to the event's cancellation and Sunday's jump was reduced to just one take-off. Ahonen jumped an impressive 199.5m for a score of 187.5 points to finish ahead of Norwegian duo Tom Hilde (185.6pts, 193m) and Anders Jacobsen (181.2pts, 191m).
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01/20/2008
Defending champion Serena Williams revived memories of last year's stunning Australian Open win Sunday when she overpowered Czech 12th seed Nicole Vaidišová to reach the quarter-finals. Williams ended the 18-year-old's Open campaign with a 6-3, 6-4 win to set up a meeting with either third seed Jelena Jankovic of Serbia or Australian hope Casey Dellacqua. Vaidišová committed 25 unforced errors, more than doubling Williams' tally, admitting her opponent's on-court dominance unsettled her. "I had my chances, especially in the second set but didn't chose the right shot, maybe went for too much," the 18-year-old said.
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01/19/2008
A gathering of neo-Nazis on Prague’s Palacký Square on Saturday ended without incident. Around 250 far right extremists met on the square which functions as the city’s version of speaker’s corner in London’s Hyde Park, where demonstrators can meet without permission from the authorities. A police spokesperson said, however, that two skinheads were detained for carrying weapons. Extra officers were on duty in Prague today as extremist groups were expected to stage a rally in the city. The neo-Nazis had originally wanted to march through Plzeň, west Bohemia, but the municipality banned them from doing so.
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01/19/2008
In Plzeň, where the neo-Nazis’ march was originally to take place, three individuals have been arrested for making the Hitler salute. All three detained are foreign nationals from Poland. Hundreds of police officers were drafted into the west Bohemian town earlier this morning to break up any demonstrations held there by right-wing radicals. Far-right groups were planning to march through Plzeň on the anniversary of the deportation of the town’s Jews to the concentration camp Terezín. Plzeň authorities had originally allowed the march to take place, but on Thursday, in the face of strong media pressure, the municipality outlawed the march.
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01/19/2008
Meanwhile, hundreds of Czechs turned out in Plzeň on Saturday to commemorate the first deportation of the town’s Jews to concentration camps where most of them died. Speeches were delivered to the crowd by the chief Czech Rabbi Karel Sidon and Catholic Bishop František Radkovksý. About 100 riot police, 30 police vans and a water canon were stationed nearby, in case the event were sabotaged by neo-Nazis who had planned to march. Names of some of the Jews deported were read at the act of commemoration. Then, under police supervision, the crowd then moved to St. Bartholomew’s Cathedral where candles were symbolically lit.
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01/19/2008
The opposition Social Democrats have announced that their lawsuit against the police and Jan Kubice, the former head of a police unit fighting against organized crime, will be brought on Monday. The Social Democrats are suing both the Czech Police and Mr Kubice, whom they suspect of unlawful interference in political matters in the run up to 2006’s general election. A report which Mr Kubice has written and which accused senior Social Democrats including their leader Jiří Paroubek of having ties with the mafia was leaked shortly before Czechs went to the polls. The Social Democrats have said that they believe the leaking of this report seriously harmed them in the general elections. On Friday, Mr Paroubek released a statement saying that the Social Democrats’ complaints about the leak have ‘repeatedly been swept under the carpet’, and so for that reason the party was forced to bring a lawsuit which would start on Monday.
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01/19/2008
Members of the Romany hip-hop outfit Gipsy.cz have said that they are writing a song which speaks out against the head of the Christian Democratic Party, Jiří Čunek, and his views on the Czech Republic’s Roma minority. Mr Čunek reached the headlines earlier week after making fresh comments about the Czech Republic’s 80,000 or so Romany inhabitants. He accused the ethnic group of contributing to its own social exclusion, and said that traditional Romany values were incompatible with a modern, just society. Gipsy.cz have responded by saying they ‘are unable to remain silent’ in the face of such discriminatory views, and that they want to use their popularity here in the Czech Republic to spread a counter-message. The group said it had started on the composition, but could not say when it would be ready.
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01/19/2008
Meteorologists have warned of the risk of floods in the northern part of the country, which warm weather melting snow, and rain predicted over the next couple of days. The warning has gone out to inhabitants of the region around Liberec, and those living around the Krkonoše Mountains. Floods are predicted for this evening in the affected areas, and meteorologists warn that the situation could last until Monday night.
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