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09/20/2008
Hospitals in Prague have no more beds for patients with hepatitis, the news agency ČTK reported on Friday. The Czech capital and the central Bohemian region saw an epidemic of the disease during the summer, with 350 Prague inhabitants infected since the beginning of the year. Last week, 62 people came down with hepatitis A in the capital. The infection department of the Na Bulovce hospital said they would offer another 29 beds normally used by another department. Pharmacies in Prague also report a lack of hepatitis vaccines; the State Institute for Drug Control has approved additional imports of the drug.
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09/20/2008
The latest play by the former Czech President and playwright Václav Havel “Leaving” premiered in London on Friday. The first foreign staging of the play, which premiered in Prague in May, took place in London’s Orange Tree Theatre as part of a series of events dedicated to Mr Havel. The play, known in Czech as Odcházení, was translated into English by Paul Wilson and directed by Sam Waters. Václav Havel will attend the London performance of his latest play later this month together with former British PM Tony Blair and playwright Harold Pinter.
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09/20/2008
NATO Days, an air show featuring military aircraft and vehicles from nine countries, took place at the international Leoš Janáček Airport in Ostrava, north Moravia, on Saturday. The show presented one of the world’s largest aircraft, Ukraine’s Antonov A-124 Ruslan, as well as the Eurofighter, the British early warning planes AWACS and the Spanish acrobats Patrulla Aquila. Around 40,000 people attended the air show.
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09/20/2008
A retrospective of the Czech-born, US-based filmmaker Vojtěch Jasný started in New York on Friday. The week-long event was launched with the movie Všichni dobří rodáci, or All My Compatriots, which won the best director award at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival. Vojtěch Jasný left Czechoslovakia in 1970, two years after the Soviet-led invasion of the country, and has since lived in the United States. He is currently working on an autobiographical film entitled The Labyrinth Time Stories of Vojtěch Jasný.
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09/20/2008
Several hundred people with ties to the Church of Scientology protested against psychiatric practices in Prague on Saturday, in connection with the 14th World Psychiatric Congress which began in the Czech capital at the weekend. One of the organizers said children with hyperactive disorders should no be given drugs; the protesters also called for an end of psychiatric medication in general.
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09/20/2008
A 1913 portrait of Adolf Gärtner by the painter Jan Zrzavý sold for 6.9 million crowns, or more than 400,000 US dollars, at an auction in Prague on Saturday, becoming the second highest-selling Zrzavý painting. The portrait,m which was considered lost in the last decade, was influenced by cubism but also show traces of Zrzavý’s later style.
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09/20/2008
Czech Republic’s Mirka Knapková won the European title in women’s single sculls at the European Rowing Championships in Schinias, Greece, on Satruday. Mirka Knapokvám, who finished fifth at the Olympic Games in Beijing in August, took the lead in the final race and finished seven seconds ahead of Belgium’s de Decker.
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09/19/2008
US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and his Czech counterpart Vlasta Parkánová signed an agreement Friday clearing the way for stationing US forces to operate a missile defence radar in the Czech Republic. The status of forces agreement provides the legal basis for the US presence in the Czech Republic, and marks the last piece of more than a year’s negotiation over the radar. Robert Gates called the step “the culmination of a process to draw [the two] nations closer and help protect Europe”. He expressed the hope that the Czech Parliament would now ratify the agreement. The US radar base, paired with 10 interceptor missiles stationed in Poland, aims to counter possible threats by rogue countries, such as Iran. Czech Defence Minister Vlasta Parkánová said she the missile defence system would make a significant contribution to regional security.
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09/19/2008
In related news, earlier on Friday the Russian ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin criticised the Czech government regarding the radar plan, saying it had “sold the security of the Czechs" in return for what he described as “a new toy”. He made the statement in an interview for the Czech news agency ČTK, echoing similar criticism by Russia from earlier in the week. The ambassador to NATO stressed that if the project goes ahead as planned, Russia will consider related steps including the aiming of missiles at the Czech Republic. The US administration has maintained its anti-missile defence system is in no way intended against Russia.
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09/19/2008
Trading on the Prague Stock Exchange on Friday saw a rebound only one day after the bourse, affected by the global financial crisis, closed at a three-year low. Friday’s trading saw shares strengthen at the fastest rate in fifteen years. The headline PX Index gained 11.73 percent to 1316.2 points. Shares of developers Orco and ECM, which plummeted a day earlier, recovered by more than one-tenth by noon. Meanwhile, strong activity focused around the Austrian Erste Group Bank, whose value per share rose by 15 percent to 1,009 crowns. Markets across Europe on Friday responded to the US government’s announced plans on handling the financial crisis: the Fed and the head of the Treasury are currently in negotiation with US Congressional leaders on what could become one of the biggest bailouts in US history.
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