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08/04/2007
Czech doctors had to operate early on one of the two Kosovar baby boys who were brought to Prague for heart surgery. The baby boy, Albion, underwent surgery three days ahead of schedule due to his worsening state, Prague-Motol hospital's spokeswoman Eva Jurinova said on Saturday. The three-month-old boy suffered from a complex heart defect that was corrected during Saturday's six hour operation. The spokeswoman said the boy's heart trouble was over unless post-operation complications occurred. It is not clear when the baby patient will be able to return home. The other newborn boy, three-week-old Edonis, was operated on immediately after his arrival in Prague. That operation, like Albion's, was successful.
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08/04/2007
A high speed suspension wire ride at a resort in eastern Moravia, where a woman was injured last week, has reportedly been made safer. The director of the company running the wire ride told the CTK news agency that special padding would now provide protection at the end of the ride should anyone fail to brake. Last week one rider broke both legs when she failed to slow down before the final ramp. In all, four people suffered injuries on the ride over the last three months. A total of around 3,000 visitors have tried the 232 metre ride this year.
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08/04/2007
A 78-year-old man fell fifty metres to his death while walking in the area of a former quarry in the area of Beroun, near Prague. The man apparently slipped while viewing the quarry; tragically, a tree he caught onto failed to support his weight. It is the second fall at the quarry in two days. On Friday, a young man suffered head injuries after falling six metres.
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08/04/2007
Czech international striker Jan Koller is reportedly considering quitting French first division football club AS Monaco after being sidelined from the first team, the Czech daily Sport has reported. The striker told the sports paper he is thinking about leaving, saying he would have to look for a different engagement if he remained in the substitute class. According to Koller, Monaco only want to play with one attacker up front with French striker Frederic Piquionne preferred. Czech national team coach Karel Bruckner has reportedly checked up on the situation of his first choice striker, as the Czechs face a key European Championship qualifier against the Republic of Ireland in September.
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08/03/2007
A former defence minister, Jiri Sedivy, set to become NATO assistant secretary general this autumn, has said that a possible US missile defense shield should fall under joint-command within NATO. He made the statement about the system, with rocket and radar installations proposed in Poland and the Czech Republic, in Friday's edition of Pravo. The statement differed from his position earlier in the week. In Friday's interview, Mr Sedivy said that negotiations were open, and indicated that there had to beco-responsibility and co-participation regarding decision-making in the project. As future NATO assistant secretary general, Jiri Sedivy will be incharge of defence policy and planning.
Negotiations between the Czech Republic and the US on the shield have been underway since earlier this year, when US officials first asked the Czech Republic to host a radar base as part of a broader defense system in Europe.
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08/03/2007
In related news, the government spokesman for the issue of US missile defense, Tomas Klvana, has come under criticism from a civic association as well as a number of mayors of villages near the Brdy military region for - in their view - not providing enough information to the public about the radar base. They have charged that Mr Klvana was running a solely "pro-radar" campaign without addressing the possibility of negative effects on health and the environment. The radar could be deployed to the Brdy area 90 kilometres southwest of Prague if the US and the Czech Republic reach agreement. So far, polls have suggested a majority of Czechs remain against their country hosting the US base.
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08/03/2007
Czech soldiers, the main part of the 6th Rapid Deployment Brigade, have departed for Afghanistan to replace colleagues on a reconstruction team in the north-east of the country. The main part of the 91-member contingent left early Friday morning from Prague's Ruzyne airport. The soldiers, including two women, will serve for four months in the Afghan province of Fayzabad within NATO's ISAF mission. Reconstruction teams there have helped renew schools, establish health facilities, and repair damaged bridges. Czechs operating on the ground have also helped increase security in the area by cooperating with local military officials and police.
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08/03/2007
According to the Czech Statistical Office, unemployment in the second quarter of 2007 dropped to 5.3 percent - the lowest unemployment figure in nine years. The office released information on Friday showing that the number of unemployed had dropped by around 92,000; 274,000 remain jobless.
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08/03/2007
Twenty people on an Austrian bus were injured - five of them seriously - on Friday when their vehicle went off the road and overturned on a slope near the south Bohemian town of Rozmberk nad Vltavou. The bus driver was reportedly trying to avoid a passing car, leading to the accident. A police spokeswoman said that a total of 34 people, including the driver, were aboard. The injured were taken by ambulance to a local hospital, but one badly hurt passenger had to be taken by helicopter.
Austrian authorities have been advised, while police are searching for the other vehicle in the incident. Passengers who escaped unscathed in the accident are waiting for a replacement bus; a psychologist, together with a translator, will reportedly also be on hand.
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08/03/2007
Public broadcaster Czech TV has reported that the Prague High court has struck down an earlier court ruling freeing the former director of the Bambini di Praga choir, Bohumil Kulinsky, of charges he sexually abused two underage girls under his tutelage. In addition, the court also ruled the charges should not be treated separately but added to an additional 49 complaints put forward. It is estimated the trial could start in October and last until the end of the year.
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