Friday, 25 May 2012
National | ČTK
Czech town has exotic statue as part of planned archaeo-eco-park

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.
National | Czech Position
Russian military plane crashes at Czech base, 19 reported injured

Up to 19 injured, many seriously, from the crash of a Russian military aircraft at a Czech air base.
National | Czech Position
Child abuse cases up fivefold in past decade

Number of known battered and psychologically abused children in the Czech Republic increased last year by 855, NGO says.
National | ČTK
Police: Injured boy was not assaulted by Roma

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.
National | Czech Position
FinMin plays Robin Hood for poorer cities, towns

The Czech Cabinet has approved a new share out of cash from central government to local authorities aimed at ending the unfair flow of cash to the country's four biggest cities.
National | Czech Position
Most Czechs favor restaurant smoking ban

Survey of pub owners by Charles University and Ipsos agency shows ban could lead to CZK 6 billion annual windfall for restaurateurs.
Politics | ČTK
VV renews convicted Bárta's party membership

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.
National | ČTK
Fugitive Krejčíř faces another criminal charge

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.
National | ČTK
HN: University students for more cooperation with firms

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.
National | Czech Position
Church restitution deal will collapse if not reworked, ODS emigrant warns

Ex-Civic Democrats (ODS) MP says church restitution financial payments must be cut 10–15 percent and extended over a longer period.
National | ČTK
Czech diplomacy to award people promoting country's good name

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.
National | ČTK
Czech, German universities map Czech-Bavarian borderland

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.