February 2, 2006

Bill We live right beside the Sarka Valley a beautiful national reserve that is quite unspoiled. On the ridge across from the seminary there is a large building right on top the ridge. To me it is horizon pollution and shows how good it is that the valley has been set aside as a national reserve that will...  

I like the day of Hromnice. It feels like a divider. It is a day on which I am hopeful and a little excited, as if looking forward to a new beginning. We are still freezing our butts off, but today is when the day is officially an hour longer than it was on December [...]  

The Czech theatre group Vlastenecka Omladina, or Patriotic Youth, was founded 120 years ago in Vienna. It performs two productions annually for the Czech-speaking minority in Austria. But this week audiences in Prague also have the chance to enjoy its work, as the group takes part in a mini-festival entitled Open Arms 2006. Organised by Prague's National Theatre, this is the third year that ...  

Filming on the new James Bond film Casino Royale has begun in Prague, despite producers still needing to cast a leading lady and a villain. The film, starring new 007 Daniel Craig, started shooting in the Czech capital last week. But trade paper Hollywood Reporter said scenes involving Bond's love interest would not begin for more than a month ...  

Codex Gigas, Djävulsbibeln or the Devil’s Bible is to be lent to Prague and is therefore no longer on display at the Swedish Royal Library. Before it is sent there will be some extensive analysing and digitizing work performed. I wonder if they will find any proof for that ‘the Devil wrote it’-theory. The Bible was taken as war booty from Prague in 1648 and there has, according to ...  

PRAGUE, Czech Republic -- The government here wants to allocate $4.1 million to create a free wireless network citywide, which has the country's largest telecom providers crying foul. Companies have sent a letter to the Information and Technology Ministry saying that Prague already has a developed Internet infrastructure and that the plan ...  

Nearly nine months after a new law gave telecomunications regulators the power to make the Czech market more competitive, they still can\'t do the job.  

As the deadline for many old European Union member states to reassess opening their labor markets to citizens of the 10 accession countries rapidly approaches, Czech business advocates have intensified pressure on those countries to lift barriers against the free movement of workers.  

The Anti-Monopoly Office (UOHS) ruled Jan. 27 not to cancel the controversial tender for an electronic toll system on Czech roads, rejecting charges by two unsuccessful bidders that the competition's conditions were unfair.  

The Czech Republic has some of the most difficult conditions in the world for starting a business, according to a recent survey of 115 countries by The World Bank.  

Mittal Steel Ostrava has appointed two new executives. Jan Rafaj will lead the company\'s legal department. Rafaj was previously the human resources director at Valcovny plechu Frydek Mistek, a daughter company of global steel giant Mittal Steel.