Czech Republic News

Europe's pharmaceutical industry produces 35% of the world's pharmaceutical output, making it the second largest player in medicines manufacturing after the United States.

Eight players will contest the EPT Prague final table, starting at noon on Sunday at the Hilton hotel in the Czech capital.

Four Iraqis have completed a two-month intensive course at the Restoration Faculty of Pardubice University in Litomysl and they will now restore old prints, mainly Quran incunabula, Veronika Kopecka, from the faculty, told journalists Wednesday.

Roma in Canada: How the Czech media distort the facts Prague/Ottawa, 3.12.2009, 09:09, Sometimes the Czech media handle facts strangely.

"The alliance with Google makes it possible to offer virtual visits of the sites to everyone, to increase awareness and to encourage participation in the preservation of these treasures," said UNESCO's Director-General, Irina Bokova.

The proposals of Czech Social Democrat leader Jiri Paroubek are populist and dangerous yet he is right in one thing: the subsidies for the mentally and physically handicapped should not be lowered, Petr Kambersky writes in daily Lidove noviny today.

Every fifth foreigner who wants to gain permanent residence in the Czech Republic fails in the first attempt to pass the Czech language exam that has been compulsory since January, HospodA A skA© noviny writes Tuesday referring to the Education Ministry.

House builder Abbey has reported pre-tax profits of €3.6m for the six months to the end of October.

The Czech Republic and Greece support EU enlargement to include other Balkan countries and possibly also Turkey, provided the candidates fulfil all EU conditions, Czech President Vaclav Klaus and his Greek counterpart Karolos Papoulias agreed at their meeting Wednesday.

Via The Prague Post : Swine flu vaccine mired in bureaucracy . Excerpt: Vaccinations against swine flu began in Prague as it emerged that insurance companies and the Health Ministry are dictating who is eligible for the vaccine.

From FORA TV: Vaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic, slams Al Gore and defends his previous statement that "global warming is a myth." As an "excellent political idea," Klaus believes global warming is a convenient way for politicians to appear compassionate.

Gypsy Spirit 2009 prizes awarded in Czech Republic Prague, 2.12.2009, 12:12, Yesterday in Prague, physicians from the Pediatric Intensive and Resuscitation Care Unit of the Teaching Hospital in Ostrava were awarded the Gypsy Spirit prize for Activity of the Year in Prague.

A three-year-old Romany girl, Natalka, who suffered severe burns in an arson attack on the house of her parents in Vitkov, north Moravia,in April and spent eight months in hospital, will be released to home treatment on Wednesday, her mother Anna Sivakova told CTK Tuesday.

Daily Lidove noviny today wonders why the Czech authorities have halted the investigation into the suspected corruption accompanying the lease and previous planned purchase of Swedish Gripen fighters by Prague now that the FBI is starting to focus on the case.

For three years, the European Poker Tour trundled along as if the city of Prague did not even exist.

Theft and graft are increasingly becoming a way of life in the Czech Republic, according to results from two recent studies.

Czech officials say former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein ordered an attack on the Prague headquarters of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty but that the plot was foiled by the country's intelligence services.

The Czech Defence Ministry launched a tender for assault rifles with grenade launchers worth CZK 1.5 billion, the weekly Euro writes in its latest issue that will be out on Monday.

The real author of the Czech short novel "The White Horse, the Yellow Dragon" that was awarded by the Book Club earlier this year is not 19-year-old ethnic Vietnamese student Lan Pham Thi but Czech Jan CempA rek, daily Lidove noviny has written on Saturday.

In 2007, Prague graphic design students Jan Kloss and Jakub KorouA updated the 1966 model of the classic Czech Botas sneaker for a school assignment.