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05/06/2007
All residents of the village of Visky who took part in a local referendum on Saturday unanimously rejected the planned stationing of a US radar base in the nearby Brdy training ground. Out of the 31 eligible voters, 30 came to voice their view and all of them said No to the radar base, Mayor Lubomir Fiala told reporters. The referendum, which is not binding, follows a similar vote held in the nearby village of Trokavec in March which overwhelmingly rejected the US installation.
The United States has asked the Czech Republic to host a radar installation as part of a broader missile defence shield the US has planned in Europe. Negotiations on a possible US radar base in the Czech Republic will continue between Czech and US representatives until later this year. Polls suggest most Czechs are opposed to the plan, as are the opposition Communists and most of the opposition Social Democrats. Another village in the Brdy area is to hold a vote on June 2, two days before US President George Bush visits the Czech Republic to back the US request.
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05/06/2007
Meanwhile, the residents of the nearby village of Prikosice also rejected the plan to build a US radar base in a local poll on Saturday. The ballot was attended by 78.4 percent of local residents, all of whom said that they did not want the radar installation in the area, mayor Jan Krhoun told reporters. Mr Krhoun said the results were not binding for the town hall which, as he said, had no legal opportunities and can only protest by publicising the results of their poll.
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05/06/2007
Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek is scheduled to begin a two-day official visit to Pakistan on Tuesday, the first ever visit by a Czech premier to that country. On Thursday, the prime minister will travel to Georgia in the Caucasus region. During the five-day trip, Mr Topolanek is due to meet his counterparts, Shaukat Aziz and Zurab Noghaideli, and talks in both countries will concern security and political issues as well as economic cooperation. Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek will be travelling with Trade and Industry Minister Martin Riman, the President of the Czech Academy of Sciences Vaclav Paces and Culture Minister Vaclav Jehlicka as well as a delegation of Czech businessmen.
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05/06/2007
A Czech army special landed in Prague on Sunday afternoon carrying the body of a Czech soldier killed by a landslide of rock and mud in Afghanistan last week. The accident in which another five soldiers were injured, one of them seriously, happened on Thursday night during a strong storm about 30 kilometres from the Czechs' base. Four vehicles and fourteen military personnel were travelling in the area when the landslide occurred. Eighty-three Czech soldiers are working along German and Danish troops in Badakhshan Province and the Czech Republic also operates a military field hospital in the Aghan capital Kabul.
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05/06/2007
Social Democrat Jiri Lajtoch, the mayor of the town of Prerov, has been elected Senator for the Prerov constituency after winning 53.23 percent of votes in the second round of the Senate by-elections. Mr Lajtoch narrowly defeated Communist candidate Josef Nekl. The voter turnout in the Senate by-elections was 9.66 percent of eligible voters, the lowest in the history of Czech Senate elections. With 41 Senators, the Civic Democratic Party still holds a majority in the 81-member upper chamber. The number of Social Democrat Senators has risen to 13.
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05/06/2007
Czech born financier Viktor Kozeny who is wanted for extensive fraud and bribery both in the Czech Republic and the United States has said he might return to the Czech Republic after his court cases are settled. Mr Kozeny who has recently been released on bail from custody in the Bahamas where he is residing told Czech Television he was interested in pursuing a career in politics, adding his political views were close to the Civic Democratic Party. Mr Kozeny spent 18 months in jail in the Bahamas and was released after paying 300,000 USD in bail. A court will decide on July 23rd on the US request for Mr Kozeny's extradition. The Czech born fugitive billionaire faces prosecution in the United States after squandering millions of dollars from American investors in privatisation schemes in Azerbaijan.
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05/06/2007
Hundreds of people came to see the controversial exhibition called "Bodies... the Exhibition" on Saturday, the day it opened at Prague's Lucerna Palace. The exhibition, seen by some 16 million viewers worldwide, features human bodies and body parts preserved using plastic. Organisers have suggested that the aim of the show is to allow visitors to see up-close the inner workings of the human body. According to the Aktualne.cz news server, the exhibition has been condemned by the Czech Anatomical Society which has called it "sensationalist and outrageous". The exhibition will last in Prague until September of this year.
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05/06/2007
The Czech Republic's Lukas Pesek won the Chinese 125cc motorcycling Grand Prix in Shanghai on Sunday beating Spaniards Hector Faubel and Esteve Rabat. The 21-year-old Derbi team rider started from third and fell back early before surging into the lead with three laps to go to score his first victory in 58 starts. Pesek now tops the championship standings with 71 points. Hungary's Gabor Talmacsi, who finished fourth, has 69 points with Faubel on 67.
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05/06/2007
The Czech national squad was defeated by Slovakia in the 2nd round of the World Ice Hockey Championship in Russia on Saturday. The Czechs opened the scoring in the 1st period, but the Slovaks dominated play in the 2nd, scoring two goals. In the 3rd the Czechs managed to pull within one goal but were unable to tie the game. The loss is the second-straight for the Czech team which next faces Canada on Sunday in qualification for the playoff round.
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05/05/2007
A ceremony in honour of those who fought in the Prague Uprising at the end of World War II has been held in front of the Czech Radio building on Prague's Vinohradska Street. The building and the area around it was the scene of some of the bloodiest fighting at the end of the war when Czechs rose up against the German occupiers. May 1945 saw around 30,000 Prague citizens fight the Nazis over three days with more than 1,500 losing their lives. The memorial ceremony on Saturday was attended by veterans, the defence minister, members of Parliament as well as the head of Czech Radio and others.
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