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09/23/2007
Banks in the Czech Republic have so far issued almost 8.3 million payment cards, with a year-on-year increase of 690,000, according to data published by the Bank Card Association (Sdruzeni pro bankovni karty). The number of credit cards issued by banks has exceeded 1 million. In the first half of 2007, Czechs bought goods worth 71 billion crowns using payment cards. In the same period, Czechs withdrew 264 billion crowns from ATMs. Debit cards are the most frequent type of cards but the number of credit cards issued by Czech banks has been rising recently.
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09/23/2007
The Centre for Transport Research has published an analysis according to which the road traffic law which came into force more than a year ago is not to blame for the continuing bad situation on Czech roads. It says the problem is poor enforcement of the legislation. The centre also says the media have been contributing to the grim road death statistics by encouraging drivers to be less disciplined. The study, commissioned by the Transport Ministry as a starting point for a planned amendment to the law, has not found major flaws in the legislation. In the past eight months, 714 people were killed on Czech roads, 22 percent more than in the first eight months of 2006. In the same period of last year the number was 586.
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09/23/2007
World number one Roger Federer beat Tomas Berdych 7:6 7:6 6:3 to bring Switzerland level at 2:2 with the Czech Republic on Sunday in their Davis Cup World Group playoff at Prague's Sazka Arena. Federer won his opening singles over Radek Stepanek on Friday but lost in the doubles on Saturday when he and his doubles partner Yves Allegro were defeated by Berdych and Radek Stepanek who gave the Czech Republic a 2:1 overnight lead.
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09/22/2007
The leadership of the ruling coalition Civic Democratic Party has set up a special team which will be responsible for negotiating support among lawmakers for the party's presidential candidate Vaclav Klaus in next year's election. The team's members are party chairman and prime minister Mirek Topolanek, deputy chairman and Prague mayor Pavel Bem and heads of the Civic Democrat parliamentary parties in the lower and upper houses of parliament, Petr Tluchor and Tomas Julinek. Current incumbent Vaclav Klaus is the only official candidate so far.
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09/22/2007
Former Czech president and playwright Vaclav Havel dismissed speculation on Friday that he would run as a candidate for the Czech presidency next year. Mr Havel's spokesman said that Mr Havel had not received any offer and that no one had discussed this issue with him. Vaclav Havel who was the country's president between 1989 and 2003, hinted in March he could stand in the 2008 election "to scare somebody", a veiled reference to incumbent President Vaclav Klaus whose policies Mr Havel opposes.
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09/22/2007
The Czech NGO Clovek v tisni (People in Need), these days marking 15 years since its foundation, held a day of celebrations in Prague on Saturday. People in Need, one of the largest humanitarian organisations in the new EU member states, has been active in disaster and war-stricken regions of Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe, as well as in the Czech Republic, mainly during the floods of 1997 and 2002. It is involved in providing and distributing humanitarian and development aid as well as programmes of social integration focusing on areas of social exclusion. People in Need also organises the annual human rights film festival One World.
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09/22/2007
One of Prague's embankments has been closed for car traffic to mark Saturday's Car-free Day. Smetanovo embankment turned for one day into a promenade with stands offering refreshments as well as information about environmentally friendly lifestyle. Around 2,500 cyclists rode together through the centre of Prague on Saturday afternoon calling for better conditions for themselves and pedestrians in the city. The capital Prague has symbolically joined another hundred of towns and villages around the country in celebrations of Car-free Day which is a culmination of European Mobility Week, an annual event promoting sustainable transportation.
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09/22/2007
A five-member Czech police team has left for Afghanistan to serve a one-year mission in the province of Kunduz and the town of Faizabad as advisors to the border police and investigation experts. The members of the team all have experience from previous foreign missions and have worked in specialised police teams. Czech-Afghan police cooperation was the subject of talks between Czech deputy foreign minister Jaroslav Basta and Afghan police chief Zahir Aghbar who visited Prague recently.
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09/22/2007
The Franz Kafka Society based in Prague says it has completed the publishing of Franz Kafka's collected works in Czech translation. It is now putting out the final, thirteenth tome containing Kafka's private correspondence. Eighty-three years after Franz Kafka's death, Czech readers have for the first time a chance to read the complete works of the Prague-born German Jewish writer, one of the most influential 20th century authors, translated into the Czech language. The project took ten years to complete and six translators have participated in it, including Vojtech Saudek, Franz Kafka's great-nephew.
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09/22/2007
A hundred days before an official deadline, more than 800,000 Czechs have not yet had their old drivers' licences replaced by new ones, the daily Mlada fronta Dnes writes. Licences issued before January 1, 1994 will only be valid until the end of the year. Drivers who fail to have their expiring licence replaced can face a fine of up to 30,000 crowns (around 1,500 USD). In Prague alone, one fifth of all drivers' licences, 176,481 in all, still remain to be replaced. The daily says the authorities are unable to cope with the situation.
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