Thursday, 18 March 2010
News | ČTK
Foreign Ministry disputes Amnesty International's report on arms exports

The Foreign Ministry that approves all applications for arms export before the Industry Ministry gives its final consent is sure that it proceeds correctly in its decision making, Jiří Beneš of the ministry's press department told ČTK yesterday in response to a report by Amnesty International.
Prague | ČTK
March in support of Cuban political prisoners staged in Prague

Some 30 people yesterday took to streets of Prague for the seventh time in support of Cuban political prisoners.
News | ČTK
Czech detectives bust one of biggest forgery gangs in Europe

Detectives from the organised crime unit broke up in late February a gang of forgers that is probably one of the biggest in Europe, unit's director Robert Šlachta told journalists yesterday.
News | ČTK
Senate approves more troops for Afghanistan

The Senate yesterday approved reinforcement of the military mission in Afghanistan by 55 soldiers, but the fate of the proposal remains uncertain since the Chamber of Deputies adjourned its decision earlier in the day.
National | Radio Prague
Young doctors up in arms over pay and conditions

Young doctors getting residency training at clinics and hospitals in the Czech Republic are increasingly unhappy with their working conditions, with some saying they have no option but to leave the country.

National | ČTK
MfD: Scientists find way to stop tumour growth

Scientists at the Genetics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences have found a way to hinder growth of malignant tumours, daily Mladá fronta Dnes reported yesterday.
National | ČTK
Senator: Secret services misuse asylum applicants

According to Senator Jaromír Štetina, deputy head of the Senate security committee, the secret services abuse asylum applicants by trying to recruit them as informers.
National | ČTK
Poll: Third of Czechs work ill due to abolished sick leave

According to a poll the GfK Czech agency conducted in February and released today, one in three patients with flu have changed their way of tackling the disease since the law abolishing sick leave for the first three days of illness came into force in 2008.
National | ČTK
LN: EduMin wants Romani language taught in schools

The Education Ministry wants Romani language to be taught at primary and secondary schools as an optional subject, the daily Lidové noviny reported yesterday.
National | ČTK
Justice minister proposes to unify alimony system

Justice Minister Daniela Kovářová has presented new rules that would unify the discrepant alimonies set by individual courts.
Politics | ČTK
LN: ODS unlikely to remove Bém from candidates list

The Civic Democrats will unlikely decide to remove Prague Mayor Pavel Bém from their lists of election candidates despite the most recent speculations about his unseating, Petr Kolář wrote in the daily Lidové noviny yesterday.
National | ČTK
Právo: Dušek apologises to railway head for homophobic comments

Union boss Jaromír Dušek has publicly apologised to Petr Žaluda, Czech Railways director, for his homophobic utterances that aroused a wave of indignation earlier this month, daily Právo reported yesterday.