• English FC Aston Villa without Czech striker Milan Baros due to injury
    10/28/2005

    And in the world of sport, the English football club Aston Villa are again without Czech international striker Milan Baros for Monday's Barclays Premiership away clash with Manchester City. Baros will miss his fifth successive match after aggravating his Achilles tendon problem while on playing for the Czech Republic in the World Cup qualifiers.
    Author: Brian Kenety

  • Czech National Bank raises interest rates, move premature says minister
    10/27/2005

    The Czech National Bank has raised interest rates by a quarter of a percent, with the benchmark two-week repo rate growing to 2.0 percent to stand level with the euro zone rate. Year-on-year inflation in September reached 2.2 percent, a marked acceleration from 1.7 percent in August. However, Finance Minister Bohuslav Sobotka questioned the central bank's decision, which he said was premature.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Government approves more aid for Pakistan
    10/27/2005

    The government has donated another 40 million crowns in humanitarian aid to the region of Pakistan devastated by a recent earthquake. This brings total aid for Pakistan to 110 million crowns (around 4.5 million dollars). Foreign Minister Cyril Svoboda said some funds would probably be made available for the treatment of Pakistani earthquake victims here in the Czech Republic.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Czech passports to include microchips from next year
    10/27/2005

    The Czech Republic will begin issuing passports fitted with microchips from August next year, in line with other countries in the European Union, said Interior Minister Frantisek Bublan. In the following two years the chips will include an electronic image of the holder's face. More advanced chips due to be introduced in 2008 will also feature fingerprints.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Eurostat: one in three Czech babies born outside marriage
    10/27/2005

    One third of children in the Czech Republic are born outside of wedlock, which is the EU average, according to data released by the Eurostat agency. In 1980 only 5.6 percent of Czech babies were born outside marriage.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Investigation into alleged police killings of homeless men
    10/27/2005

    Police are investigating whether two police officers charged with the killing of a homeless man this month also carried out other brutal attacks - one of which led to the death of another homeless man - earlier in the year. The Zlin-based officers, aged 25 and 31, are being held in custody.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Club may not allow Baros to play for Czechs in World Cup play-offs
    10/27/2005

    The Czech football star Milan Baros has said his English club Aston Villa may not allow him to play in the Czech Republic's World Cup play-offs in the middle of November. The club's manager expressed frustration recently when Baros returned from international duty injured and unable to play. The Czech team's other first-choice striker, Jan Koller, underwent an operation recently and is not expected to play for another six months.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Svoboda disappointed by BBC Czech language service closure
    10/26/2005

    The Czech Foreign Minister Cyril Svoboda said on Wednesday that he was deeply disappointed that the BBC World Service had decided to close down its Czech language service. Mr. Svoboda said he had discussed the matter on several occasions with his British counterpart Jack Straw and written letters to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a bid to save the Czech service, which now broadcasts around 5 hours a day. BBC World Service bosses announced the imminent closure of the station on Tuesday, along with nine other BBC foreign language services. The move is part of a radical re-structuring which includes the launch of an Arab-language television station.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Ten injured in rail crash
    10/26/2005

    Ten people were injured, one seriously, when a locomotive ploughed into a passenger train in the eastern part of the Czech Republic on Wednesday morning. Paradoxically the locomotive was on its way to help the passenger train which had got stuck between the towns of Zator and Milotice, where the rails had become clogged with dead leaves. In heavy fog, and possibly due to the state of the tracks the locomotive failed to brake in time and collided head on with the passenger train. The cause of the accident is being investigated.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Lower House postpones decision on police salaries
    10/26/2005

    The Lower House has postponed by a year a definitive decision on salary increases for policemen, customs officers and secret service agents. The amendment to the law passed by the Lower Chamber on Wednesday limits wage increases in the coming year and lowers the ceilings on allowances and severance pay. The opposition Civic Democrats have criticized the postponement, saying that the police force will now have to do for another year without a new service law that would open the way for its reform.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

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