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09/30/2007
The Czech Police anti-organised crime squad say they have detained five people suspected of committing a series of robberies causing overall damage worth around 22 million crowns. A spokeswoman said the police unit had been monitoring the gang for more than a year and arrested three of its members in January. According to the police, the gang has been active in Central and South Bohemia since 2003. All five suspects have been remanded in custody and face up to 15 years in prison if found guilty.
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09/30/2007
The village of Hyncice in North Moravia has opened to visitors the parental house of 19th century biologist and priest Johann Gregor Mendel, sometimes called "the father of modern genetics". Mendel was born in Hyncice in 1822 into a family of a poor German-speaking farmer and later conducted his famous experiments with pea plants in a Brno monastery. The renovated 18th-century farmhouse houses exhibitions on the scientist's life and the history of plant cultivation in Moravia. The renovation cost 30 million crowns which the village received partly from EU funds, the region and the national government.
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09/30/2007
Preliminary police statistics suggest that more people have been killed on Czech roads in September than in the same month last year and two years ago. By September 29th, 112 people died in road accidents, while in 2006 the number of casualties was 94, and 103 the year before. September has been the fourth month in a row with the number of road fatalities exceeding 100, July being the worst month with 119 dead. On Friday and Saturday, police reported 795 traffic accidents resulting in 11 fatalities. Twenty-six people sustained serious injuries and 159 were slightly injured.
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09/30/2007
The Czech Association of Men, a men's rights pressure group, is calling on Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek to dismiss the cabinet minister responsible for minorities and human rights Dzamila Stehlikova. The association says Ms Stehlikova discriminates against organisations promoting men's and fathers' rights, namely in the Governmental Council for Equal Opportunities for Women and Men. Minister Stehlikova has denied any discriminatory practices, adding that she has been trying to increase the number of non-governmental organisations representing men.
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09/30/2007
Meteorologists say October will be rainier than usual, with temperatures below the average. The first week of the month should be partly cloudy with daytime temperatures reaching up to 20 degrees Celsius. As of October 11th, we can expect cloudy to overcast skies, occasional rain and night time temperatures between 2 to 8 degrees Celsius. Temperatures in the daytime should not exceed 15 degrees Celsius. Towards the end of the month snow can be expected in mountainous areas.
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09/29/2007
A demonstration in support of the pro-democracy protests in Burma took place in Prague on Saturday evening. Organised by the People in Need NGO, Burma Center Prague and Amnesty International, the gathering intended to express solidarity with the so called Saffron Revolution in Burma took place at the memorial of the student demonstration of 1989 on Narodni Street.
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09/29/2007
Czech President Vaclav Klaus met US vice-president Dick Cheney on Friday in Salt Lake City to discuss the possible installation of a US military radar base on Czech soil as well as Czech involvement in military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Balkans. According to Czech ambassador to the USA Petr Kolar, who attended the meeting, Mr Cheney welcomed the Czech Republic's willingness to host the US radar base. Mr Kolar added the meeting showed the Czech Republic was interested in cooperating with the United States and the country's presence in Europe, and that it viewed the United States as its main strategic ally. He said the Czech Republic saw both its EU membership and the maintenance of its close relations with the United States as important.
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09/29/2007
Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek is expected to submit to the government a proposal on Wednesday to set up a special committee to oversee the development of the Brdy region, an area which US military experts have selected for the construction of a radar base. Earlier this month, the cabinet promised local mayors it will set up a committee responsible for allocating investment in the region's infrastructure. The government says it plans to invest hundreds of millions of crowns in the region regardless of whether the radar base is built or not.
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09/29/2007
Former Czech president Vaclav Havel is to be awarded this year's German Dolf Sternberger prize for public addresses, the DPA news agency has reported, adding that Mr Havel will receive the award in Prague on October 23rd. The organisers said that Mr Havel has "effectively tied his speeches with his political behaviour, thus shaping political awareness not only of people in his homeland but also abroad." The prize has been presented since 1992. Among its winners are former German chancellors Willy Brandt and Helmut Schmidt, former east German priest and human rights campaigner Joachim Gauck and current German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble.
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09/29/2007
Around 200 far right activists gathered on Saturday afternoon in the town of Kladno in Central Bohemia to commemorate Friday's St. Wenceslas Day. Several dozen police officers accompanied the march to prevent clashes with members of various left-wing movements. One person was detained during the demonstration.
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