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MfD: Snowboarding lessons for elderly in Jeseniky mountainsThe elderly can learn snowboarding in Kouty nad Desnou, in the Jeseniky mountains, north Moravia, in the first course of this kind in Europe, and probably in the world, its organiser and instructor Vaclav Michalek said in yesterday's issue of the daily Mlada fronta Dnes .
topix.net | 08-Feb-2012 11:15
HN: One-third of teenagers suffer from obesity
About one third of Czech teenage boys and one quarter of teenage girls suffer from obesity, a research in which obesity specialists examined the measurements, weight and nutrition of some 1500 children over a period of four years showed, daily Hospodarske noviny writes yesterday.
topix.net | 08-Feb-2012 07:05
MfD: New welfare system lacks necessary personal data protection
The new Czech system of welfare benefits' payment, which the Labour and Social Affairs Ministry launched in January, does not sufficiently protect applicants' personal data, the daily Mlada fronta Dnes writes yesterday.
topix.net | 08-Feb-2012 06:00
Actor visits Camden choir headed to Prague
They are headed for Prague next month, for a European competition and today they got support from a Hollywood celebrity! The Creative Arts Morgan Village Academy's Choral Group has its sights set on attending the Young Prague Festival on March 27th and today, Tony Award winning actor, Brian Dennehy dropped by the school today for a fundraiser.
topix.net | 08-Feb-2012 01:51
Bavarian police report large increase in seizures of Czech amphetamines
Increasing numbers of Germans are travelling to the Czech Republic and especially Vietnamese markets in border areas to buy cheap Czech-produced amphetamines .
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 21:32
Czech prosecutors warned of visit by radical Islamic cleric from UK
London-based cleric Haitham Al-Haddad is a member of the pan-global Sunni organization Hizb ut-Tahrir, which aims to establish a caliphate, i.e. one government of Sharia Law for all Muslims everywhere London-based radical Muslim cleric Haitham Al-Haddad - who sits on the UK's Islamic Sharia Council, advocates a ban on music, refers to Christians ... (more)
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 17:17
'Children of Terror' Documentary to Premiere at Rider on Feb. 9
Editor's Note: The following is a news release issued by Rider University. Two young girls - one, a Polish Catholic, the other a German Jew - who were born in the same year, in two different countries, into two different traditions, and who both survived the Holocaust during World War II, are the subjects of the new documentary film "Children of ... (more)
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 13:02
High-Tech Surveillance Comes to Small Towns
A new "off the shelf" surveillance industry is drawing interest from small-town law enforcement and less-developed countries, as well as from large Western agencies, documents viewed by The Wall Street Journal show .
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 08:52
Czech billionaire's AN0 2011 group backing 10 Senate hopefuls
Andrej Babis, the Slovak-born billionaire who launched the civic initiative ANO 2011 last year with the stated goal of furthering transparency in business and politics, says the group is intensively looking for candidates to support in the next elections to the upper house of Parliament, and already expects to back nearly a dozen.
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 04:42
Czech regional governor demands non-privatization guarantee for Budvar
South Bohemia governor Jiri Zimola says he will call a referendum on the future of famous brewery if PM Petr Necas fails to act Responding to speculation that Agriculture Minister Petr Bendl intends to replace the top manager of the Budejovicky Budvar brewery, producer of the original Budweiser beer, South Bohemia regional governor and brewery ... (more)
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 04:42
Number of people barred from homes for domestic violence rises
The number of people expelled from their home over violence rose by about one third to 1430 year-on-year in 2011, according to statistics of the Bily kruh bezpeci civic association.
topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 00:28
Europes struggle under record cold snap
Workers try to fix a damaged water pipe after it was damaged by the extreme cold weather, in the center of Liberec, Czech Republic, Monday, Feb.
topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 20:18
Rights activists protest outside Belarus embassy in Prague
Activists placed office furniture in front of the Belarus embassy in Prague to symbolize the eviction of rights organizations from Belarus Activists from the Brno-based Independent Social Ecological Movement and the Prague-based Civic Belarus initiative placed office furniture and equipment in front of the Belarus embassy in the Troja district in ... (more)
topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 17:09
62 dead in Polish big freeze
Europe's vicious cold snap has claimed 62 lives in Poland, with nine new victims in the past 24 hours.
topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 12:54
Czech centres commemorate Milos Forman
An exhibition of posters for films by Milos Forman, born in Czechoslovakia 80 years ago and based in the United States, opened at the Czech Centre in New York on Thursday and will be accompanied by screening of Forman's films.
topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 10:44
Dozens of swimmers dive into Prague's Vltava
Some 150 Czechs and foreigners took part in the 10th Branik Ice competition, also called the 1st Nicek Memorial, swimming in the Vltava River 1.9 degrees centigrade "warm" while the air temperature dropped down to 14 degrees centigrade below zero Saturday.
topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 06:34
Mies van der Rohe's Tugendhat to reopen again
This is Tugendhat Villa in Brno, Czech Republic, as it looked in 1931 before it was ravaged by war and disrepair.
topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 05:35
News 5.2.2012
Prime Minster Petr NeA as and Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg will meet on Tuesday to discuss the planned European fiscal agreement.
topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 01:30
'Cabin fever' drives young Czechs out of Soviet-era housing
Of course, the 19-year-old looks forward to the independence it will give her, but she is especially happy to be leaving the Communist-era prefab building where she has lived all her life.
topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 19:11
Mies masterpiece is reborn
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's refurbished Modernist masterpiece in Brno, Czech Republic, opens to the public in March.
topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 12:52
German-Bohemian Heritage Society features speaker Wade Olsen
Calling all folks who are interested in learning about history and their family heritage - this fall, Wade Olsen will be giving a "German-Bohemian Tour" of Germany and the Czech Republic.
topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 08:47
Anti-ACTA demonstrations held in several Czech towns today
Dmonstrations were against the Czech Republic joining the international treaty against the spread of illegal copies were staged in several towns in spite of the frosty weather today, the largest being in Brno where some 500 young people gathered.
topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 04:27
News 4.2.2012
The cabinet is preparing to replace Education Minister Josef DobeA , several Czech media outlets report.
topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 00:22
PHOTOS: Europe paralyzed by snow, ice
Nuns take pictures in the snow covered St. Peter's square at the Vatican, Feb. 4. People used government shovels to clear piazzas and children enjoyed another day off school as Rome awoke to about 10 cm of fresh snow.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 20:13
Telc
Telc is a town in southern Moravia, near Jihlava, in the Czech Republic. The town was founded in 13th century as a royal water fort on the crossroads of busy merchant routes between Bohemia, Moravia and Austria.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 12:59
Mailbox 4.2.2012
This month in Mailbox we read from your letters of condolence on the death in December of the former president VA clav Havel, we read from your feedback regarding Radio Prague's programmes and we quote from your answers to January's mystery Czech quiz question.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 08:54
As death toll from European freeze rises to 175, precautions taken to protect homeless
KIEV, Ukraine - Russia and Ukraine both took extra precautions on Friday to protect homeless people, ordering new facilities and medical care after scores of people have frozen to death on the streets of Europe during a brutal cold snap.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 04:34
Let's go see the stars
I felt like Daddy Warbucks the other evening as I led Anna Lee up the carpeted stairs and into the regal magnificence of Prague's NA rodnA divadlo.
topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 00:25
Ekonom: Czechs upgrading nuclear reactors for U.S. Navy
Czech scientists help upgrade nuclear reactors for the U.S Navy, weekly Ekonom writes yesterday and says experts concede that the cooperation offer is linked to the U.S. Westinghouse company being one of the bidders for the Czech Temelin nuclear power plant's extension.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 20:21
Poland: luxury tower gets a lift
Warsaw's skyline seemed destined to be permanently blighted with the concrete hulk of a half-finished residential tower in the centre of the city - but Orco, the Luxembourg-registered developer, said on Thursday that it had capped out the 54 "This building is a symbol of Orco's resilience," says Jean FranA ois Ott, the company's founder who first ... (more)
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 16:06
Hundreds protest against ACTA treaty in Prague
Several hundred people gathered in Prague's centre in protest against the Czech signing of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement and they marched to the presidential seat at Prague Castle yesterday.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 13:01
Friday News Briefing
PROTEST Around 900 people, some wearing masks characteristic of the international hackers group Anonymous, demonstrated in Prague's Mala Strana Feb.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 12:01
The 'ne' from Necas
Not now and not soon that has been the message from Prague on the Czech Republic's refusal to sign up to the European Union's fiscal pact, approved by the majority of EU countries on January 30.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 09:01
German architect Mies van der Rohe's Modernist masterpiece Tugendhat to reopen again
This photo taken Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, shows the winter garden of Tugendhat Villa during the final stages of its reconstruction in Brno, Czech Republic.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 06:52
News 2.2.2012
The Czech Nation Bank on Thursday cut its forecast of the country's economic output.
topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 02:47
Defence Ministry extends Gripen lease past 2015
The Czech Republic will keep supersonic aircraft even after 2015 when the lease of the Swedish Jas-39 Gripen fighters expires, the government decided yesterday, Prime Minister Petr Necas confirmed after the cabinet's meeting.
topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 22:32
East Europe Freeze Death Toll Exceeds 100 as Towns Blocked
A cold snap sweeping through eastern Europe has killed more than 100 people, stranded tens of thousands in their homes and in transit and hampered road, rail and sea traffic.
topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 18:18
Serbia: 11,000 trapped in remote villages by snow
At least 11,000 villagers have been trapped by heavy snow and blizzards in Serbia's mountains, authorities announced Thursday, as the death toll from Eastern Europe's weeklong deep freeze rose to 114.
topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 14:13
Penn State Smeal ranked sixth in best MBA program at public schools
One goal for the Penn State Smeal College of Business MBA Program is to be ranked in the top five among all publicly supported MBA programs in the United States, Smeal Manager of Media Relations Wyatt DuBois said.
topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 13:13
90 die in Europe's deep freeze
Blizzard conditions ground Istanbul, Turkey, to a halt Wednesday, while European officials said at least 90 people had died in winter's frigid grip.
topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 08:58
EduMin approves massive biotechnology centre
The Czech Education Ministry yesterday gave a go-ahead to the establishment of the Biotechnology and Biomedicine Centre , Vaclav Horejsi, director of the Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, has told journalists.
topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 04:54
Paroubek's party criticises gov't for signing ACTA
The Czech government signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement in an underhand way and without a preliminary discussion, Czech MP Jiri Paroubek told journalists yesterday.
topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 00:49
CSSD wants labour minister dismissed
The opposition Czech Social Democrats yesterday demanded that Labour and Social Affairs Minister Jaromir Drabek leave the cabinet over the problems with the introduction of a new system of welfare benefit payments.
topix.net | 01-Feb-2012 20:45
Military property up for sale
The Czech Defence Ministry is offering for sale 43 pieces of property for the total prize of almost 350 million crowns, Vladimir Lukovsky, from the ministry's press department, told CTK yesterday.
topix.net | 01-Feb-2012 16:40
Wednesday News Briefing
TREATY The Czech Republic is unlikely to join the European Union's fiscal responsibility treaty in the near future, Prime Minister Petr Necas told daily Lidove noviny Feb.
topix.net | 01-Feb-2012 12:36
PM welcomes reshuffle at Prague ODS
Czech PM Petr Necas, head of the senior ruling Civic Democrats , views Prague Mayor Bohuslav Svoboda's election to the helm of the ODS's Prague branch as a correct decision and a chance to renew Praguers' confidence in the ODS, Necas said in a press release yesterday.
topix.net | 01-Feb-2012 08:26