• Czech-owned plane makes unscheduled landing in Brno
    09/10/2005

    A Boeing 737 operated by the Czech-owned charter carrier Travel Service was forced to make an unscheduled landing on Saturday due to technical problems. The plane landed in the city of Brno while en route to the Greek island of Crete. According to the carrier, none of the 180 passengers or crew suffered injury. A replacement plane then took passengers on to their original destination.

    Travel Service is the Czech Republic's biggest domestic charter carrier. On September 1st another of company's 737 experienced problems en route to Alicante, Spain, forced to make an emergency landing in France.
    Author: Jan Velinger

  • Four Czech soldiers injured in Kuwait
    09/10/2005

    Four Czech soldiers were injured in Kuwait on Friday evening - one of them seriously - when their vehicle, a Land Rover, flipped on its side. A tire defect was responsible for the accident. All four men were hospitalised but three were released on Saturday. The fourth remains in critical condition.

    The Czech Republic has a number of soldiers in the region: around 100 military police are stationed training police officers in neighbouring Iraq.
    Author: Jan Velinger

  • Zelezny fourth at World Athletics final in Monte Carlo
    09/10/2005

    Czech javelin thrower and three-time Olympic Gold medal champion Jan Zelezny finished 4th on Saturday at the World Athletics final in Monte Carlo. The world-record holder threw a distance of 83.98 metres but finished just behind Makarov of Russia. Thorkildsen of Norway was 2nd, while Finland's Pitkamaki was 1st.
    Author: Jan Velinger

  • US not for now taking up Czech offer of material aid, specialist workers
    09/09/2005

    The United States will not for the moment take up a Czech government offer to send material aid and specialist workers to help deal with the consequences of Hurricane Katrina. Speaking after talks with the Czech prime minister, Jiri Paroubek, the US ambassador to Prague, William Cabaniss, said it was necessary to first establish priorities for aid in the states affected by the disaster.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Czech unaccounted for since Hurricane Katrina located
    09/09/2005

    A Czech citizen who had been unaccounted for since Hurricane Katrina devastated parts of the US has been located. The local authorities in Louisiana got in touch with the man on Thursday after a request from the Czech Embassy in Washington. He then phoned his family in the Czech Republic.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Fugitive businessman in Seychelles, has Seychelles citizenship
    09/09/2005

    Businessman Radovan Krejcir, who escaped police custody in the Czech Republic two months ago, is in the Seychelles, Interpol confirmed to the Czech police on Friday. Mr Krejcir, his wife - also wanted by the police - and their son all have Seychelles citizenship. The Czech Republic does not have an extradition agreement with the country.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Economy records fastest quarterly growth in almost a decade
    09/09/2005

    The Czech economy grew by 5.1 percent in the second quarter of this year, its fastest rise since the same period in 1996, the Statistical Office said on Friday. Deputy Prime Minister for the Economy Martin Jahn said the growth was due to foreign investment and the utilisation of European Union funds.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • South Korean company to create 1,000 jobs in north Moravia
    09/09/2005

    A South Korean company is to create 1,000 jobs in the north Moravian city of Ostrava with the opening of a new car parts factory. A spokesman for Sungwoo Hitech said the firm had chosen the Czech Republic ahead of Slovakia and Poland because of the country's infrastructure and skilled workers.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Minister wants telecommunications operators to help finance provision of data on users
    09/09/2005

    The interior minister, Frantisek Bublan, says the government will try to persuade Czech telecommunications operators to help finance the provision of data on users, as part of the state's anti-terrorism strategy. Operators now keep such data for three months, but under proposed European Union legislation data would be kept for 12 months; this would cost the state a great deal in additional charges, said Mr Bublan, who was speaking at a meeting of EU interior ministers in England.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

  • Bishop bashes politicians for not discussing human rights abuses with Chinese officials
    09/09/2005

    Roman Catholic bishop Vaclav Maly has criticised Czech politicians for not discussing human rights violations with their Chinese counterparts. Speaking after a two-week visit to China on a tourist visa, he said Czech politicians were happy to discuss trade with Chinese officials but did not mention civil liberties. A former dissident, Bishop Maly has also visited Cuba, Belarus and Moldova to assess those countries' human rights situations.
    Author: Ian Willoughby

Pages