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01/06/2008
Over 8,000 people in the town of Litvínov were left without heating and hot water for most of the weekend due to a damaged hot water pipe in the town’s central heating system. United Energy, the company which operates the facility, concluded emergency repairs and restored heating to thousands of households in the late afternoon on Sunday. Day temperatures in Litvínov hovered at around minus four degrees Celsius and people used electric appliances to heat their homes as best as they could.
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01/06/2008
Czech and Polish officials are to debate the US plan to station part of its missile defense shield in central Europe with a tracking radar in the Czech Republic and interceptor missiles in Poland. The US missile defense shield will top the agenda of Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s working visit to Prague on Thursday. The US proposal has met with strong opposition from Russia and objections from a number of EU member states. Both countries are currently engaged in talks with Washington on the matter but neither has as yet made a firm commitment.
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01/06/2008
Public support for the ruling Civic Democratic Party is slipping, according to a poll conducted by the Median agency. The outcome of the poll suggests that if elections were held today the opposition Social Democrats would come out the winner with 37 percent support. The Civic Democrats would come second with 28,2 percent support and the Communist Party would place third with 16,6 percent. The main governing party puts its slide in popularity down to the need to implement painful reforms.
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01/06/2008
An employee at a PET bottle recycling plant died a terrible death shortly after going on duty on Saturday. The thirty-seven-year-old man appears to have fallen into the crusher - a huge grid with rotating knives – and other employees only noticed the accident when human body parts appeared on the transporting line. The police are now investigating the accident.
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01/05/2008
The pilot of a plane which crashed last month, killing all on board, was flying without a license, reported Mladá Fronta on Saturday. The small chartered plane crashed on a flight from the Czech Republic to the Ukrainian capital Kiev, killing all five Czechs on board, last December. The enquiry into the accident found that the pilot and owner of the aircraft, Miroslav Jäger, was flying without a valid license. As such, Mr Jäger was found responsible for the crash by the investigators. The aircraft crashed some three kilometers away from its final destination, when it attempted to land in a field in thick fog.
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01/05/2008
Czech farmers enjoyed their best year since the fall of communism in 2007, the agriculture minister Petr Gandalovič has said. Mr Gandalovič estimates that Czech farmers made a collective profit of 16 billion CZK (800 million USD) last year, this is compared to 9 billion CZK in 2004. According to Mr Gandalovič, Czech agriculture is in a healthy state overall, though Czech pig farmers are faring badly. Mr Gandalovič told journalists that the future was, however, uncertain, with changes planned to affect the EU’s agricultural policy this year. Since the Czech Republic joined the European Union, its farming sector has made a yearly profit of between 6 and 9 billion crowns.
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01/05/2008
The world’s largest coffee-shop chain Starbucks plans to open some 20 outlets in the Czech Republic and Poland this year. Saturday’s Mladá Fronta reported that the Czech Republic would have its first Starbucks by March 2008. It is speculated that this first branch will be opened in Prague’s Palladium shopping centre, with others to follow in the city’s other malls. There are more than 15,000 Starbucks in over 40 countries. This year, the chain aims to expand into Central Europe, as well as Portugal and Bulgaria.
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01/05/2008
The Slovak low-cost airline SkyEurope is considering transferring its aircraft from Bratislava to Prague, it has been announced. The firm is unhappy with Bratislava Airport’s proposed increase in handling fees. The airport, where four of SkyEurope’s aircraft are based, is awaiting approval to raise handling costs by 40%. SkyEurope has said in a statement that it is not planning to pull out of the Slovak capital altogether, but is looking to continue its growth elsewhere. Prague and Vienna are both possible candidates. The airline has 14 planes in total. Six are currently stationed in Vienna, while Prague and Bratislava have four apiece.
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01/05/2008
Czech Egyptologists have discovered a priest’s tomb that is thought to be over 4,500 years old, reported Mladá Fronta on Saturday. The cleric’s tomb is said to be one of the most important discoveries of the last half-century. Egyptologists found the priest Neferinpu’s sarcophagus down a ten-metre deep pit. The tomb was undisturbed by grave-robbers when the Czech scientists found it. The small underground chamber held the remains of the priest Neferinpu and his family, alongside jewellery and ornaments.
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01/05/2008
The public turned out in force for a doors open day at the Prague State Opera building on Saturday. Queues of people waited for up to two hours in freezing temperatures for a glimpse behind the scenes at the opera. Organisers said the event’s popularity had surpassed their expectations. The doors-open day was staged to mark the building’s 120th anniversary, and offered visitors not only a tour of the theatre, but a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the soloists’ dressing rooms and the prop and costume stores as well. A spokesperson for the opera house said that the public’s positive response meant that more events of this sort would be organised in the future.
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