Czech Republic News

I had just left university when I first visited Communist Europe - crossing the wall into East Berlin and immediately being smothered by that choking cloud of oppression that hovered over Marxist states like some clinging miasma.

PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC, July 31, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Music fans staying in Prague hotels this September may want to book tickets for veteran performer Sting.

Petr Kriz, Petr Jahn, Barbora Bezdekova, Mariana Blahutkova, Vojtech Mrlik, Iva Slana, and Ivo Pavlik Author affiliations: Veterinary Research Institute, Brno, Czech Republic ; and University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno To the Editor: Mycobacterium avium subsp.

Bern/Prague, July 29 - The extradition of Czech businessman Tomas Pitr, sentenced to five years in prison for tax fraud in 2006, from Switzerland may last a year, Swiss Justice Ministry spokesman Folco Galli told CTK yesterday.

Prague/Brasilia, July 29 - The UNESCO European Heritage Committee said ongoing construction works in Prague are not threatening its historical monuments, Czech Radio reported yesterday.

Two men, Jaroslav Sejvl and David Stejskal, have established the first gravediggers' professional guild in the Czech Republic and they plan to open a school for gravediggers to restore the past credit of this profession, reports the weekly Reflex out yesterday.

The Czech prime minister said Friday his government has been negotiating a plan with the United States to place a warning center in the Czech Republic as part of a reworked U.S. missile defense plan.

The tender for house-arrest bracelets put up by previous justice minister Daniela Kovarova will be cancelled as the rules were changed to the detriment of the state, Czech Justice Minister Jiri Pospisil said yesterday.

A total of 12,644 new companies were established in the Czech Republic in the first half of 2010, a year-on-year growth of 10 percent, according to data of agency Ceska kapitalova informacni agentura .

Gonzales family of Whittier with exchange students Giulia Spaggiari from Italy, left, Dan, Katie, Amanda and Kerry Gonzales with Maggie Jakesova from Czechoslovakia.

The stories of Czech Jews deported to Belarusian ghettoes and extermination camps are presented in an exhibition of the Prague Jewish Museum that will open on July 29, its curator Jana Splichalova told journalists yesterday.

UherskA© Hradiste, South Moravia, July 28 - Legendary British film director Ken Loach received the annual prize of the Czech Film Clubs' Association during his visit to the Summer Film School festival in Uherske Hradiste yesterday.

Last month, campers at a church camp stole 11-year-old Fairhope amputee Whitney Hemphill's prosthetic leg while she was showering.

PRIMATOR MAIBOCK Primator A.S., Nachod, Czech Republic www.primator.cz 7.5 percent ABV Primator is another of the breweries that is bringing more attention to the beers of the Czech Republic.

Berlin/Prague, July 28 - The Czech Republic and Slovakia still fail to actively enforce the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions, the Transparency International corruption watchdog says in its report for 2009 released yesterday.

The Rev. Ken Morgan will take on a different full-time position at his ailing wife's side after he retires Aug.

The Swiss police on Monday detained controversial Czech entrepreneur Tomas Pitr, whom Czech courts in 2006 sentenced to five years in prison for tax offences, Czech police organised crime unit head Robert Slachta has written on the police website.

My old friend Barton Quillen who founded Prague Kolektiv about four years ago and is an expert in modernist Czech furniture is closing shop and throwing a party in the form of a big sale .

President Vaclav Klaus appointed Iva Ritschelova, 46, Rector of J. E. Purkyne University in Usti nad Labem, north Bohemia, chairwoman of the Czech Statistical Office at Prague Castle yesterday.

Located in a suburb of Czech Republic's Prague is the Galerie Harfa, a mega mall which brings dinosaurs into the shopping experience.