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07/10/2007
Police in Klatovy, west Bohemia are investigating an incident in which somebody last week broke into an electrical transformer station and briefly increased the voltage in local homes from low to high. Voltage of 15,000 kilowatts caused fridges, television and microwave ovens to explode. A spokesperson for power producer CEZ said that if any local people had touched an appliance at that time they would not have been likely to survive.
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07/10/2007
Wardens at Prague Zoo found five apples studded with steel nails in the run of its gorilla enclosure on Tuesday morning. A spokesperson said the animals' lives had been in danger. Prague Zoo's gorillas are constantly monitored by an internet TV project; there are now plans to also monitor the area outside their enclosure.
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07/10/2007
Former Czech football international Pavel Nedved has so far failed to agree new terms with Juventus. Nedved, who is 34, is said to be unhappy that some other players at the Italian club are better paid than he is. The daily La Stampa reported that the Italian league champions Inter Milan were keen to take advantage of a possible breakdown in talks between Nedved and Juve in order to sign the veteran midfielder themselves.
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07/09/2007
Knights in shining armour and the chiming of church bells launched two days of celebrations to mark the 650th anniversary of Charles Bridge early on Monday morning. The mayor of Prague, Pavel Bem, Cardinal Miroslav Vlk and other dignitaries turned up for a special ceremony on the bridge at 5,30 am - the precise time when on July 9th, 1357 Charles IV, King of Bohemia and future Holy Roman Emperor founded the bridge 650 years ago. Soon after the celebrations come to a close the bridge is to undergo a major reconstruction.
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07/09/2007
Deputy prime minister Petr Necas has warned against excessive criticism of the governments reform package saying that unrealistic demands could topple the centre right government. Mr. Necas was referring mainly to critics within his own Civic Democratic Party who have lined up behind rebel Vlastimil Tlusty in demand of a more right-wing reform programme and members of the governing Christian Democratic Party who are pulling more to the left. Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek has linked the Cabinet's future to the crucial reform package.
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07/09/2007
The government's reform package has also come under fire from Czech trade unions who met on Monday to debate further action against the government's planned reforms. Unions say that the proposed reforms are unjust and would hurt middle and lower income groups, while benefiting the rich. The association's chairman Milan Stech said after Monday's meeting that a general strike could not be ruled out if the government remained deaf to criticism. In the meantime trade unions are expected to put more pressure on the government and parliament deputies.
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07/09/2007
Opposition leader Jiri Paroubek has called for an independent medical commission to determine whether a proposed US tracking radar on Czech soil could damage the health of the locals. The Social Democrat leader said the public had a right to know what hosting a US radar on Czech soil would entail and should be able to decide about it in a referendum. The US plan to extend its missile defense system to central Europe - with a radar in the Czech Republic and interceptor missiles in neighbouring Poland, has evoked plenty of controversy.
The mayors of towns and villages in the Brdy Hills and other areas which have been considered as potential sites for the location of a US tracking radar on Czech territory have joined forces and say they will fight the plans tooth and nail. Several villages have already rejected the US radar in local referendums and opinion polls indicate that the majority of Czechs do not want it on Czech territory. Prague and Washington have opened talks on the radar, but no commitment has yet been made.
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07/09/2007
Jiri Dienstbier, former Czechoslovak foreign minister and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, is likely to run against Vaclav Klaus in next year's presidential elections, according to the internet news site aktualne.cz. Mr. Dienstbier has confirmed the news, saying that he would accept the candidacy if he won enough political backing. Opposition leader Jiri Paroubek said on Sunday that his Social Democrats were trying to reach agreement across the political spectrum on a candidate who would be strong enough to stand a chance against the current head of state, President Vaclav Klaus. Mr. Klaus has said he would seek re-election for a second term in office.
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07/09/2007
Czech President Vaclav Klaus is expected in Warsaw, Poland on Tuesday where he will meet with his Polish counterpart Lech Kaczynski and leading government officials. Talks are expected to focus on bilateral relations, European matters and the US plan to deploy part of its missile defense system in the Czech Republic and Poland. The Czech President will also be awarded Poland's highest state distinction - the Order of the White Eagle.
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07/09/2007
Czech police have asked for help in identifying a young woman whose severed head was found in a plastic bag by children playing behind a school in the city of Usti nad Labem. The police say the head belonged to a 17-20 year old woman who died a violent death two to three weeks ago. Police were alerted to the gruesome discovery by a 12 year old girl who rang the police emergency line.
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