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01/05/2008
The public turned out in force for a doors open day at the Prague State Opera building on Saturday. Queues of people waited for up to two hours in freezing temperatures for a glimpse behind the scenes at the opera. Organisers said the event’s popularity had surpassed their expectations. The doors-open day was staged to mark the building’s 120th anniversary, and offered visitors not only a tour of the theatre, but a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the soloists’ dressing rooms and the prop and costume stores as well. A spokesperson for the opera house said that the public’s positive response meant that more events of this sort would be organised in the future.
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01/05/2008
The Women’s World Cup giant slalom was won in the Czech ski-resort of Spindleruv Mlyn by Italian Denise Karbon on Saturday. This is her fourth successive win in the event. The 27-year-old, who had won in Panorama, Canada, and twice in Austria in Solden and Linz, beat Finland’s Tanja Poutiainen while Austrian Elisabeth Goergl was third. Home-grown talent Šarka Záhrobská ranked twenty-seventh in the event.
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01/05/2008
More skiing news now - the Czech ski jumper Antonín Hájek has won the Continental Cup event in Kranj, Slovenia. It’s his second win in the Continental Cup, and his first victory of the season. He won with a jump of 114.5 metres. Second was the Norwegian Jon Aaraas, who jumped 111.5 metres.
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01/05/2008
On the eve of Three Kings Day - January 6, two processions are being held in the Czech capital. The first is the traditional procession of Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar. This procession is led by the three kings riding camels - starting at the castle and ending up at the nativity scene on Loretánské naměstí, where a representation of the baby Jesus is given gifts by the three men. The second procession is being held by monarchists. That is starting on Wenceslas Square, and finishing at Prague Castle.
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01/05/2008
On Saturday night a special concert is taking place in Prague’s Lucerna. Singer Iva Bittová is performing alongside her sister - also a musician - Ida Kelarová. This is the first time the sisters have performed in public together. The duo are set to sing a series of jazz classics, accompanied by some of the Czech Republic and Slovakia’s most famous jazz musicians. Proceeds from the concert will go to the charity MIRET, which offers artistic training to the Czech Republic’s Roma community. The concert was set to take place in May of last year, but was postponed due to the Bodies exhibition which was housed in the Lucerna over this period.
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01/04/2008
Christian Democrat chairman Jiří Čunek most likely will not face charges for alleged social welfare fraud during the 1990s, the newspaper Právo has said. An unnamed source close to the investigation said Mr Čunek had not committed a crime by accepting benefits despite having millions in various bank accounts, adding that the whole matter was covered by a five-year statute of limitations. But, a representative of the Karviná state attorney’s office said the case had not been shelved; he said “some result” would be announced at the end of this month.
Jiří Čunek stepped down as deputy prime minister and minister for regional development over allegations he had accepted bribes while the mayor of a town in Moravia. That investigation has since been dropped and he has contended he has a right to be reinstated.
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01/04/2008
The finance ministry this week filed a criminal complaint against an unknown perpetrator in connection to possible fraud concerning the repayment of Libya's debt to the Czech Republic; the news was released by ministry spokesman Ondřej Jakob on Friday. Libya's debt for arms supplies dates back to former Czechoslovakia, amounting to several billion crowns. At the latest inter-governmental talks Libya produced a letter from 1997 questioning the existence of the debt. Earlier, Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek said the document was a forgery.
The settlement of Libya's debt is still to be negotiated by Czech and Libyan representatives. The original debt was about 3 billion crowns (the equivalent of around 165 million US dollars), but according to some recent estimates, the debt with added interest now exceeds 4.5 billion.
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01/04/2008
Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek has said his party, the Civic Democrats, is likely to lose some of regional governor posts in elections in the latter half of this year. In an interview for the newspaper Hospodářské noviny, he said the party was unlikely to hold on to the 12 governorships it now has, but would likely win re-election in nine regions. Mr Topolánek said that while at the time of the last regional elections in 2004 the Civic Democrats benefited from the “bad government” of the Social Democrats, now they will be punished for unpopular steps they have taken in government.
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01/04/2008
Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg called Thursday on Myanmar's ruling junta to take the country towards democracy on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the country's independence. In a letter sent to the junta's leaders, Mr Schwarzenberg said he hoped that Myanmar's population would soon have the possibility to celebrate “real freedom”. The foreign minister also challenged the junta to release all political prisoners and to start talks with the leaders of democratic forces in the country. The junta violently cracked down on peaceful protests led by Buddhist monks in September with at least 31 people killed and 74 missing, according to a UN report.
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01/04/2008
Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek has said in an interview that the Czech government will have to decide whether to proceed with the planned sale of a 7.0 percent stake in state-controlled electricity giant, ČEZ, or to sell less in view of the share price's recent rise. The prime minister made the statement in response to questions from financial daily Hospodářské noviny. The government set an original target of earning at least 30 billion crowns by cutting its stake of just over 67 percent in Central Europe's biggest electricity company, the newspaper points out. The Czech news agency, ČTK, has reported that thanks to the share's appreciation, the government would now only have to sell a 3.6 percent stake, with shares amounting to 1.63 percent already offloaded.
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