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05/06/2008
British mobile phone giant Vodafone announced on Tuesday that it will distribute Apple's iPhone in 10 new countries including the Czech Republic. The phones, which are to appear on the market later this year, will be compatible with the Vodafone network. The company did not specify what iPhone model would be made available or at what price. Launched one year ago, officially the iPhone is only available in the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Ireland and Austria.
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05/06/2008
Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek is on a one-day visit to Estonia where he is holding a series of meetings with senior government officials. The two sides are discussing trade relations, missile-defense issues and visa-free travel to the United States. Both countries recently signed memoranda in Washington opening the way for visa-free travel to the US for their citizens. Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip said he would welcome the siting of a US radar base in the Czech Republic saying it would improve security on the whole European continent.
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05/06/2008
A nation-wide search is on for a missing nine-year-old boy from the town of Havlíčkův Brod in South Moravia. Jakub Šimánek went missing on Sunday afternoon and the police have been unable to find any trace of him. Hundreds of officers have been combing the park where he was last seen playing as well as nearby woods and the banks of Sázava River. The police has appealed to the public for help.
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05/06/2008
Doctors have reported a fourth case of meningitis in South Bohemia since the start of the year. The latest case is reported to be a seven year old girl who is in critical condition. A fifteen year old boy died of the infection earlier this year. Early signs of meningitis are similar to flu symptoms and doctors have warned parents not to underestimate their children’s health complaints and get them checked up by doctor since a delay in treating meningitis can result in death.
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05/06/2008
Czech pole vaulter Pavla Hamackova-Rybova, the 2001 world indoor champion, has pulled out of the Beijing Olympics because she is pregnant. The Czech athlete won bronze at the world championships in 2005. She qualified for Beijing in February with a jump of 4.53m at a meet in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany.
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05/05/2008
A one-day international conference on missile was held in Prague on Monday, attended by Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek, NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Rood, among others. The conference focused on American and European perspectives on missile defense and explores the possibility of incorporating a planned US radar base in the Czech Republic and an interceptor missile base in Poland into a future NATO defense system. Prime Minister Topolánek said in an opening address that he was glad to see NATO had acknowledged the fact that a missile attack by what Washington calls “rogue states” was a real threat and was ready to cooperate on defense matters with Washington.
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05/05/2008
Prague and Washington have concluded talks on the main agreement under which the Czech Republic would host a US radar base and the two sides are now finalizing the details of the so-called SOFA agreement stipulating the conditions under which around 250 US soldiers would operate in the country. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Rood confirmed on Monday that the date on which the two agreements would be signed had not yet been determined. There is speculation that the signing ceremony will take place sometime in early June. In any case both agreements will still have to be approved by the Czech Parliament.
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05/05/2008
Prague City Hall has banned a planned march by right-wing extremists in the vicinity of the Israeli Embassy in Prague on March 14th on the grounds that the venue was already booked by the Jewish community. Prague Town Hall was asked to grant permission for the march by its organizer Petr Kalinovský, who stated that its intention was “to mark the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the state of Israel”. A spokesman for Prague City Hall said the municipal authorities did not believe this to be the case, since Kalinovský is a well-known former spokesman for the neo-Nazi National Resistance movement.
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05/05/2008
A Czech daily has alleged that a secret neo-Nazi network operates in Czech prisons, giving jailed neo-Nazis financial and moral support. Hospodářské noviny broke the story on Monday claiming that it had a list of the network’s members and its alleged head Michal Kašpar, a former police officer. The daily says that neo-Nazis who are jailed for racially-motivated crimes are considered “prisoners of war” by this organization for allegedly fighting a “just cause to save the white race”. Money raised at neo-Nazi concerts allegedly goes to this organization which then sends it to the jailed members’ accounts and covers lawyers’ fees. The Czech prison service says it knows nothing about such a network.
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05/05/2008
Eleven people have died on Czech roads in the course of the past four days alone. The traffic police attribute the high death toll to aggressive driving and the fact that hundreds of Czechs allegedly drive without a license. According to the Mladá fronta Dnes daily, in the first three months of this year the police caught over 3,000 drivers without a license, many of whom had never gone to driving school or passed a drivers test. This practice is said to be particularly widespread in the country, where the chances of being stopped by the traffic police are relatively slim.
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