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  • Scouts celebrating 100th anniversary of start of movement
    08/01/2007

    Hundreds of scouts around the Czech Republic have been celebrating the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the scouting movement. One event involved 60 Czech scouts meeting 40 from Poland on the highest mountain in the Czech Republic, Snezka. There have also been scouts' gatherings on other Czech mountains, including Praded, Bezdez and Blanik.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Man faces charges after trying to arrange over web to have colleague killed
    08/01/2007

    A 40-year-old man faces charges of attempted murder after trying to arrange the contract killing of a workmate on the internet. Police said the man, a researcher from Nymburk, used a woman's name and internet cafes as he tried to set up the killing of a 52-year-old colleague with a Prague company. The firm alerted the police, who managed to identify the man.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Presidential vote should be in early February, says lower house chairman
    08/01/2007

    A vote to choose the next president of the Czech Republic should begin on February 7 or 8 next year, the chairman of the Chamber of Deputies, Miloslav Vlcek, said on Wednesday. Those dates are at the start of the period set for the vote by the Czech constitution. Speaking after talks with the present president, Vaclav Klaus, Mr Vlcek said, however, that a concrete date had not yet been agreed. President Klaus, who is 66, plans to stand for re-election; no other candidates have yet been declared.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Czech internet portals join forces to fight Google
    08/01/2007

    Two Czech internet portals are joining forces to fight against the growing influence of Google, Hospodarske noviny reported. Seznam and Atlas are combining their search engines to combat the American giant, which now has 15 percent of the Czech search market, after launching Google.cz last year.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Moravian capital to make Janacek's Brno regular event
    08/01/2007

    The Czech Republic's second city Brno is planning to hold regular festivals dedicated to the composer Leos Janacek, starting in 2008. The city's National Theatre will organise the new bi-annual festival. However, it is not the first Janacek's Brno; that was held in 2004 to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of the composer, who spent much of his life in the Moravian capital.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Grobe Villa set to reopen to public with wine festival
    08/01/2007

    Prague's Grobe Villa is set to reopen to the public after renovation with a vinobrani wine festival next month. The Prague 2 villa is surrounded by some of the only vineyards in the Czech capital. The beautiful building, which was completed in 1888, will mainly serve as a training centre for judges and lawyers, though it also contains a concert hall run by the Prague 2 local authority.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Footballer Polak leaving Nuremburg for Belgian champions Anderlecht
    08/01/2007

    The Czech football international Jan Polak is leaving German club Nuremburg for the Belgian champions Anderlecht. Polak will join two other Czechs at the club, Daniel Zitka and Martin Kolar. The 26-year-old midfielder is set to sign with Anderlecht after a medical on Thursday.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Jiri Sedivy to become first Czech member of NATO command
    07/31/2007

    Former Czech defence minister and current deputy minister for European affairs Jiri Sedivy will become NATO's Assistant Secretary General for Defence Policy and Planning, the Czech NATO Information Centre reported on Monday. Mr Sedivy, who has won in a six-month competition out of more than 20 candidates, will assume the post in September or October this year, becoming the highest ranking Czech official in NATO ever.

    Speaking to the Czech News Agency, Mr Sedivy said his appointment was an acknowledgement of Czech politics as a whole, namely for example the successful foreign missions of the Czech military. He also made it clear that he wouldn't act as a representative of the Czech Republic, but as an employee of NATO's foreign office.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Main runway of Prague's Ruzyne Airport will be closed for three weeks in August
    07/31/2007

    The main runway of Prague's Ruzyne Airport will be closed for three weeks in August. During the closure, workers will apply a special anti-skid layer on the surface of the runway. The first layer was laid during the regular upkeep in April; another shut-down is planned for autumn.

    Meanwhile, all flights will be re-directed to a side runway. In the past, the redirection of planes has caused higher levels of noise pollution, especially in residential areas near the airport. Plans to build a new runway have been in question for some time, but have been delayed due to problems with land ownership.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Czech soldiers to replace their colleagues in Kabul military field hospital
    07/31/2007

    The Czech Army has started a regular rotation of its soldiers at a military field hospital in Afghanistan. Nearly a hundred soldiers departed from Prague's Kbely military airport to Kabul to replace their colleagues who have been on mission since March. Along with medics, several members of the Czech chemical warfare unit also left on Tuesday.

    Czech soldiers also operate in other parts of Afghanistan, ensuring security and stability of the areas. On Sunday, a Czech officer was shot and wounded in southern Afghanistan. After having received medical treatment at the site of the incident, he was taken to a British military hospital. On Monday, he was transferred to the Czech field hospital in Kabul and then later to the Czech Republic. His condition is reported to be stable.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

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