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07/20/2007
Czech traffic police say they registered 274,000 offences in the first half of this year and issued fines worth more than 167 million crowns. The most frequent offence remained speeding, amounting to almost half of all traffic offences. Almost 3,500 drivers were found drunk-driving. During road checks, police also detained over 2,000 persons suspected of having committed criminal acts and over 200 wanted persons. The Senate on Friday passed an amendment to the road traffic law introducing more lenient punishment for certain offences. According to statistics, the penalty points system which came into effect a year ago has failed to reduce the number of fatalities on Czech roads.
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07/20/2007
Police say that the young woman whose remains were found earlier this month in plastic bags in a park in the town of Usti and Labem was killed by her boyfriend. The 29-year-old suspect allegedly killed his 21-year-old girlfriend and mother of his three-year-old son in late June after an argument by hitting her on the head with a blunt instrument and then tried to dispose of the body. He was detained on Thursday and confessed to the crime. On Friday he was remanded in custody and faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted. Police say the man was on their list of domestic violence offenders.
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07/20/2007
The Czech energy giant CEZ is among six companies shortlisted by Bulgaria's National Electricity Company as potential strategic equity investors to help build and run a new nuclear power plant at Belene in the north of the country. Besides CEZ, the companies shortlisted are France's EDF, E.ON of Germany, Electrabel of Belgium, Italy's ENEL of Italy and RWE of Germany. The companies have until October 1st to make formal offers. Potential investors will receive up to 49 percent of the share capital in the public-private Belene Power Company, which will finance construction and operate the new plant. The Bulgarian state plans to keep a 51-percent share in the future company.
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07/20/2007
The Czech police leadership have imposed disciplinary punishment on five police officers who detained several members of the Young Social Democrats during a May Day demonstration this year. The detained later complained of being bullied, for example of being forced to strip naked and perform physical exercises. The police leadership said that the policemen made a "tactical error" and failed to cope with organisational issues, the Czech police official website says. Police detained some 20 people after the Young Social Democrats clashed in Prague with the supporters of the nationalist Patriotic Front and the National Unification party. The Social Democrats said the police behaved in a scandalous way and that they were humiliated during the detention.
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07/20/2007
The Uherske Hradiste Summer Film School has kicked off in the south Moravian town, with a record attendance expected this year. So far over 5,000 visitors have accredited for what is the 33rd such event. The weeklong festival will present 230 feature films and over a hundred documentaries and shorts. The festival will also feature accompanying theatre performances, concerts, exhibitions and workshops.
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07/20/2007
A Czech translation of the latest Harry Potter book could be finished either at the end of this year or early next year, the publisher Albatros says. The translator, Pavel Medek, will obtain a copy of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" in the small hours of Saturday after the book's international release. The publisher says they will wait until next year with the release of the Czech translation to prevent the book from dominating the Christmas book sales.
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07/19/2007
The leader of the opposition Social Democrats, Jiri Paroubek, says his party is considering three potential candidates ahead of next year's presidential elections. He says former anti-communist dissident and first post-communist foreign minister, Jiri Dienstbier, is among the three. However, Mr Paroubek would not disclose the two other names. He says his party will not nominate its own candidate but will wait for the centre-right parties to field their candidates first.
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07/19/2007
The daily Lidove noviny writes that police in Croatia are prepared to arrest Czech entrepreneur Tomas Pitr - who fled the country to avoid serving a five-year prison sentence for tax evasion - and to hand him over to the Czech authorities. The Czech daily Pravo wrote on Wednesday that Mr Pitr was staying on the Adriatic coast. Czech police have been searching for Mr Pitr since European and international warrants were issued for his arrest last month when he failed to report to prison. The 36-year old Mr Pitr - believed to be one of the Czech Republic's richest men - has lodged an appeal against his sentence with the Supreme Court.
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07/19/2007
A June survey by the CVVM polling agency suggests that almost two thirds of Czechs are opposed to the construction of a US radar base in the country. On the other hand, over a quarter of those polled were in favour of the facility being built in the Czech Republic. Almost three quarters of Czechs, according to the survey, would like to have a referendum on the issue.
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07/19/2007
The Czech Senate has recommended that a network of contact spots called "Czech Point" be launched on January 1st next year, a couple of months earlier than originally planned. The network is meant to enable people to obtain extracts from the land registry and the commercial and criminal registries at their local post offices and town halls, rather than having to travel to centralised bureaus in regional capitals. The network is to include some 1,300 town halls and 2,000 post offices around the Czech Republic. Thirty Czech Point spots are already operating in a pilot project.
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