Thursday, 11 March 2010
Business | The Wall Street Journal
Czech-US business body seeks tender rule change

The American Chamber of Commerce in ČR (AmCham), Wednesday invited peers from other countries to join forces and push for revisions of government public tender regulations in order to stem alleged corruption. According to recent research by the Association of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and Crafts (AMSP), bribes account for 15% of the value of public contracts, including procurement and construction, awarded by local government offices.
Politics | ČTK
Greens fly Tibetan flag from parliament window

The Green Party deputies Wednesday displayed the Tibetan flag from the window of their group's office in the Chamber of Deputies to support Tibet's fight for human rights. Neither the Chamber of Deputies nor the Senate have joined the campaign as institutions.

 

 
National | ČTK
LN: Foreigners outside EU not to get work permit in ČR

The Czech labour offices will halt the issuance of work permits to foreigners from the countries outside the European Union, the daily Lidové noviny (LN) reports Wednesday.
Politics | ČTK
Kocáb offers resignation over privacy

Michael Kocáb, the minister for human rights and minorities, has offered to resign over a media report commenting on his private life. PM Jan Fischer refused to accept the resignation, saying he needs to speak to the minister first about the matter.
National | Radio Prague
Minister slams public broadcaster for showing communist era news

Michael Kocáb, the human rights minister, has slammed the public broadcaster Czech TV for showing daily bulletins from the communist era. It is the same, he says, as if German TV showed Nazi-era news in the 1960s.
Politics | ČTK
Právo: ČSSD forming its possible government team

The core of the potential Social Democrat government, if the party wins the May elections, would include ČSSD head Jiří Paroubek as PM and another six people, while former presidential candidate Jan Švejnar may also be in the cabinet, Právo writes Wednesday.
National | ČTK
Czech drivers complain about Bavarian police

The Interior Ministry has received 21 complaints by Czech drivers over what they consider harassment by the Bavarian and Austrian police during road controls since the beginning of the year.
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Life | Prague TV
Stephen King sells rights to Czech student for USD 1

Bestselling American author Stephen King has agreed to sell the rights to one of his short stories to Czech film student Robin Kašpařík for just one US dollar, according to Týden.cz.
Prague | AP
Czech repair of famed Charles Bridge faces protest

Built like a mighty fortress, Charles Bridge has survived floods and fires over the past 650 years. But conservationists are warning that the storied span linking Prague's two oldest neighborhoods might succumb to a different threat — renovation.
Life | Radio Prague
Žatec – the home of hops

For centuries, the northern Bohemian town of Žatec has been the centre of hops growing in the country. Known as the home of hops and beer, the town is now trying to cope with a decline in its traditional industry.

National | Telegraph.co.uk
Rare 'solar corona' caught on camera

A scientific expedition organised by the Brno University of Technology in the Czech Republic took remarkable pictures of the solar corona over the Marshall Islands.

Cinema | Radio Prague
Situation in Iran among themes of 2010 One World festival

The special theme of One World 2010 is Focus on Iran. Then Green Challenges, which is an ecology section, and Tolerant Intolerant, which focuses on nationalism and neo-Nazism in Central Europe.