Friday, 25 May 2012

ČTK

Fugitive Krejčíř faces another criminal charge

ČTK |
24 May 2012

The anti-corruption police Wednesday proposed that fraud charges be brought against fugitive businessman Radovan Krejčíř, now in South Africa, and another ten persons eight years after the crime was committed.

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Czech diplomacy to award people promoting country's good name

ČTK |
24 May 2012

Czech diplomacy will this year give its Gratias Agit award for promoting the country's good name abroad to 12 people from 11 countries, including architect Eva Jiřičná, figure-skating world champion Aja Vrzáňová and Charter 77 signatory Jiří Chmel, the Foreign Ministry told ČTK.

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Czech, German universities map Czech-Bavarian borderland

ČTK |
24 May 2012

The Pedagogic Faculty of West Bohemia University (ZCU) in Plzen has ended together with University in Regensburg, Germany, an extensive three-year project mapping the Czech-Bavarian borderland in 1945-2008, ZCU pro-rector Jaroslav Dokoupil told CTK.

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Two thirds of Czechs feel tension between rich and poor

ČTK |
24 May 2012

Almost two thirds of Czechs say tension between the rich and poor is strong in the Czech Republic, three fifths say tension exists between company managements and employees, according to a STEM poll released Wednesday.

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HN: University students for more cooperation with firms

ČTK |
24 May 2012

The Czech Student Association seeks more cooperation between universities and firms within a new project, Education Inventory, that will be launched Wednesday in order to increase interconnection of the academic and business sectors, Hospodářské noviny writes.

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Police: Injured boy was not assaulted by Roma

ČTK |
24 May 2012

The 15-year-old boy, who was allegedly brutally beaten up by Roma in Břeclav in April caused his serious injuries himself after he fell down from a railing, the police investigators have concluded.

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Czech town has exotic statue as part of planned archaeo-eco-park

ČTK |
24 May 2012

A copy of one of the Easter Island's Moai statues has been erected near Bohdalice as the first of the 20 statues to form an archaeo-eco-park warning of a catastrophe similar to one that destroyed the Easter Island civilisation.

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Gov't against rise of health insurance for kids, pensioners

ČTK |
24 May 2012

The Czech cabinet Wednesday rejected Health Minister Leoš Heger's (TOP 09) proposal that the state increase its health insurance contributions for children, pensioners, the unemployed and other selected groups as of next year.

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VV renews convicted Bárta's party membership

ČTK |
24 May 2012

The leadership of the Public Affairs (VV) that was ousted from the government to opposition a few weeks ago, has renewed the party membership of Vít Bárta, an MP and VV's informal leader convicted of corruption by a first-instance court.

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HN: Klaus defines EU crisis, but federal Europe is an option

ČTK |
24 May 2012

President Václav Klaus correctly says Europe is facing a systemic crisis that is deeper and broader than the problems of Greece, but a European federation may be a solution to the challenges, economic commentator Jan Macháček writes in Hospodářské noviny Wednesday.

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