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PROTEST Environmental activists in Brno are protesting the construction of a new Bauhaus supermarket, the Czech News Agency (ČTK) reported Aug 4. They have handed out hundreds of postcards and asked citizens who are against the construction to send them to the investors as a form of opposition. Because of the new supermarket, some 54,000 square meters of greenery is set to disappear.

MEDICINE The Teaching Hospital in Brno began testing an anti-cancer substance developed by Czech chemist Professor Antonín Holý, Hospodářské noviny (HN) reported July 31. Patients will participate in clinical tests of the substance, which battles lymphatic nodes and chronic leukemia cancer, and is being co-produced by U.S. firm Gilead Sciences. Further clinics in Prague, Hradec Králové and Olomouc will join Brno in the course of August.
CONCERT Some 400 people attended a neo-Nazi concert in Ochoz u Brna Aug. 2 that ended without incident, ČTK reported. About 100 policemen monitored the event but did not have to intervene. The concert, promoted as “Rock and Metal,” began hours after its scheduled start time because some of the scheduled performers did not arrive.
BRIDGE A team of experts from Charles University is looking for a sandstone quarry that would be a suitable source of material for the reconstruction of Charles Bridge. Builders are currently using sandstone mined from the Kocbeř quarry in east Bohemia, HN reported Aug. 5.
PARTNERSHIP The number of same-sex couples entering into registered partnerships in the Czech Republic has declined since 2006, when the law allowing such unions took effect, ČTK reported Aug. 1. This year, 105 couples entered into registered partnerships, down from 235 in 2006. The only exception is the city of Karlovy Vary, where the number of registered couples increased.


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