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06/20/2006
Health Minister David Rath has issued a directive that extends the minimum daily office hours of general practitioners and dentists to seven hours. Up to date, doctors were only obliged to open their doors to patients for four hours and used the remaining time for administrative tasks or visits in patients' homes. Mr Rath says the number of doctors with short office hours is too high and hospitals have suffered as a result. While they should be attending to patients with serious medical problems, hospitals are often overwhelmed by patients with common health problems who seek their help because their doctors' offices are closed, Mr Rath says. Doctors' associations disagree with Mr Rath's decision and say it will harm the patients.
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06/20/2006
The US pop star Madonna, who will appear in the Czech Republic for the first time in Prague's Sazka Arena on September 6, will stage one more concert at the same venue a day later, the Interkoncerts agency announced on Tuesday. Madonna's first concert in Prague was sold out in a record time of less than two hours after the Sazka company launched ticket sale from its terminals at non-stop petrol stations last Thursday night. The tickets to the other concert, which cost between 3,060 to 5,010 crowns (136 to 227 dollars), will be sold in the same way. The Sazka terminals will open at 01:15 on Friday.
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06/20/2006
Czech Republic striker Milan Baros returned to full training on Tuesday after struggling with a foot injury and could play in Thursday's Group E match against Italy. Coach Karel Brueckner told reporters there was a chance Milan Baros will be fit for Thursday's match with Italy. The return of Baros would be greatly welcomed by the Czech team, who are much depleted ahead of the match, which they need to win to guarantee a place in the knock-out stage. Baros, top scorer at Euro 2004, had not trained properly since sustaining the injury in a June 3 friendly.
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06/20/2006
The Czech football player Jiri Jarosik has signed a three-year contract with the Scottish Premier League champions Glasgow Celtic. The midfielder, who is 28, joins Celtic from Chelsea, where he failed to win a place in the first team. Jarosik could well face another Czech in Glasgow's famous Old Firm derbies' Libor Sionko recently signed for Glasgow Rangers.
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06/19/2006
The leader of the right-of-centre Civic Democrats, Mirek Topolanek has said he rejected the conditions set by Social Democrat leader Jiri Paroubek for his party's support. The Civic Democrats are trying to form a coalition with two smaller parties, but the three would be one seat short of a majority in the lower house and would need the Social Democrats' support to win a vote of confidence in Parliament. Jiri Paroubek, whose Social Democrats came second in recent elections, has said he would not rule out supporting a government led by the election's winners if they reconsidered their plans for a flat tax and the privatisation of public services.
Mr Toplanek and Mr Paroubek are scheduled to hold further talks at the end of the week.
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06/19/2006
The Independent Democrats, led by TV magnate turned politician Vladimir Zelezny, have filed a complaint with the Supreme Court in Brno against Czech TV's pre-election coverage. In the weeks prior to the elections, Czech Television aired a series of debates with leaders of the parties taking part in the election. The Independent Democrats, a smaller party, say they were not given the same amount of opportunity to promote their agenda as representatives of larger parties.
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06/19/2006
Former Czech president Vaclav Havel and South African Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu have urged the United Nations to pass a resolution against Burma's human rights violations. Burma has been under a military dictatorship since 1962. In a letter sent to the UN, the two peace activists say that the lack of international action gives regimes like the military regime in Burma a "sense of impunity". The letter was sent on the occasion of the 61 birthday of Aung San Suu Kyi, a Burmese pro-democracy activist and Nobel Peace Laureate who has been under house arrest or similar forms of detention for over a decade.
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06/19/2006
Police say they have found the body of a little boy, who had been missing since last week. An extensive search operation was launched after five-year old Matej disappeared without a trace on board a train. The little boy was travelling with his mother. He walked off to the restroom by himself and never returned. The police found his body close to the railway tracks near the Moravian city Olomouc and suspect he had fallen out of the train.
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06/19/2006
Czech NGOs have joined their counterparts from Poland, Austria, Denmark, and Spain to mark July 19 as a day promoting equal opportunities for women and men. The day is marked for the first time this year and was designated by the Czech Gender Studies organisation. With various events and information campaigns, attention is brought to the different roles that men and women play at the work place and in the family.
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06/19/2006
Czech President Vaclav Klaus is celebrating his 65th birthday on Monday. Mr Klaus will be spending the day with friends and family at Prague Castle. His spokesman Petr Hajek has not revealed further details of the President's birthday plans.
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