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03/14/2006
A Swedish court has found the adoptive mother of a Czech boy who died earlier this year guilty of neglect. Three year-old Erik, who was sent to the Swedish family in the town of Jonkoping last year, died of untreated pneumonia and blood poisoning. His body was covered with over 150 bruises and festering wounds. His adoptive parents originally faced up to six years in prison on charges of psychological and physical abuse, resulting in death. The charges were reduced to neglect after an expert on infectious diseases testified that the wounds may also have been caused by a skin disease.
The court is now awaiting the result of the adoptive mother's psychiatric assessment. A verdict on the charges brought against Erik's father is expected at the end of the month.
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03/14/2006
Customs officers have confiscated what is probably the largest ever consignment of counterfeited goods in a warehouse in the south of Prague. A spokesman said the customs officers discovered hundreds of thousands of fake shoes of major brands worth hundreds of millions of crowns piled up to a height of six metres in the 640-square-metre warehouse. He added a Vietnamese citizen had been detained on Sunday in connection with the raid.
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03/14/2006
Police have launched investigation into the suspected murder of the mayor of the village of Liberk in east Bohemia. The 43-year old woman was found dead in her house on Tuesday morning and an expert confirmed she had not died of natural causes.
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03/14/2006
Scientists from Masaryk University in Brno have announced that the Czech-built Antarctic polar station on James Ross Island has been completed. The station, called after the 19th-century Brno-based geneticist and meteorologist Johan Gregor Mendel, will be ready to welcome the first expedition at the start of the polar summer in December. It is expected to host climatologists, biologists and geologists who will study climate change and the origin of the so-called Antarctic "oases", areas where the glacier had receded and allowed some simple forms of life to inhabit the location.
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03/14/2006
Three people were killed and two other injured in a fire which broke out early on Tuesday morning in a workers' hostel in the Prague district of Zlicin. The cause of the fire is yet to be determined. Another person died in a separate accident in the northern town of Liberec when the storage room of a petrol station caught fire on Tuesday morning.
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03/13/2006
Portuguese Foreign Minister Diogo Freitas do Amaral has re-confirmed that his country will open its doors to workers from the former communist EU member states in May. During a trip to Prague on Monday, he said Czech labourers will not be expected to sweep the streets but will rather take up skilled jobs and enjoy the warm climate and the beach. Last year, some 16,000 Czech tourists visited Portugal; this calls for more Czech workers in the tourist industry, he said.
In addition to Britain, Ireland, and Sweden, whose labour markets have been open to workers from the EU's ten newest members since enlargement two years ago, Finland, Portugal, and Spain will open theirs in May. Greece, the Netherlands and Denmark have also indicated that they will loosen their restrictions.
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03/13/2006
Two members of the ruling Social Democratic party who are accused of corruption have been ordered to leave party ranks. Josef Laznicka from the Transport Infrastructure Fund and Ludmila Schwarzova who headed the office of the deputy transport minister Petr Pospichal, were arrested by the police last week for allegedly taking bribes in return for a promise to influence state decision making. Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek said they had failed morally as well as politically and the executive board of the party asked them both to terminate their party membership as quickly as possible.
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03/13/2006
The Czech Republic has extended the list of waste products that can only be brought into the country with the permission of the Environment Ministry. The new regulation, to take effect in the next few days, comes in reaction to the growing number of waste from Germany that is stored at illegal rubbish dumps in the Czech border areas. Among others, the list now includes old carpets, second-hand clothing, plastic and paper. An estimated 15,000 tonnes of waste was brought in from Germany since the end of 2005.
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03/13/2006
The Czech Republic will not react to neighbouring Germany's first suspected case of the deadly H5N1 virus in domestic fowl. The spokesman for the State Veterinary Authority, Josef Duben, said on Monday there was no cause for concern as the authorities in Germany are taking all necessary precautions to contain the virus. The affected farm lies in Bavaria and is just 70 km away from the Czech border.
The Czech Republic is the only country in Central Europe with no confirmed cases of bird flu. The virus has been found in wild birds in all neighbouring countries. France is so far the only country in Europe where the deadly H5NI virus was also found in domestic poultry.
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03/13/2006
Industrial production in January in the Czech Republic has increased by 15.1 percent year on year, the Czech Statistical Office reported on Monday. This can be mainly attributed to the booming car industry and the growing production of electronic and optical machinery. Trade and Industry Minister Milan Urban says the growing industry has also helped to fight unemployment; last year 26,000 new jobs were created thanks to an increase in production.
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