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September 12th, 2007 | Current Issue

Dirty little secret
Possession of child porn remains legal in the Czech Republic as officials weigh adult liberty against the need to protect children

Social security treaty signed
Agreement may end tax burden for Czech and U.S. workers

Experts urge law to protect IDs
Public access to sensitive data online raises concerns

Parking costs vex landlords
Permanent residents alone will escape steep rates for downtown

School food reform is on the menu
Ministries follow EU lead in promoting healthier eating habits

Association celebrates tramping tradition
Subculture with roots in Wild West survived decades of persecution

Black market cigarettes cost $90 million in lost tax revenue

Rubber firm Sartomer investigates fire at Czech partner Kaucuk

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UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced Sept. 10 that new immigration laws will require skilled workers from non-European Union countries to demonstrate that they can speak English before being issued a work permit. Of the 96,000 skilled workers who came to Britain last year, about 35,000 would have failed the test, according to The Sunday Telegraph.

ITALY Famed tenor Luciano Pavarotti died Sept. 6 at the age of 71 in his home near Modena after battling pancreatic cancer for a year. More than 100,000 visitors paid their respects to Pavarotti before his Sept. 8 funeral in Modena’s cathedral, according to The New York Times (NYT). He was buried in Montale Rangone cemetery, next to his parents and a stillborn son.
GERMANY Authorities announced Sept. 5 that they had prevented imminent, large-scale terrorist attacks on targets in Germany when they arrested three suspects — two Germans and one Turk — the previous day and confiscated explosive chemicals and detonators. The suspects, said to be part of a Central Asian Islamist group, were allegedly targeting airports, pubs, and discos frequented by U.S. citizens, the Associated Press reported.
SERBIA Serbian State Secretary Dušan Proroković announced Sep. 5 that the country was prepared to use force to prevent Western countries from recognizing Kosovo as an independent state, the NYT reported. The announcement comes amid a deadlock in UN talks between Russia, the EU and the United States regarding the validity of Kosovo’s Albanian-led government.
TURKEY Turkish police found a van stuffed with explosives in a multistory garage in Ankara’s center Sep. 11, the BBC reported. The city’s security has been tightened in light of the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States.

POLL A U.S. poll released Sept. 10 revealed what Czech polls have been finding for months: Most Czechs oppose stationing the U.S.-proposed radar in their country. The poll, initiated by the U.S.-based NGO the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance, found that 51 percent of Czechs oppose the base and that about one-third support it.

STARVATION Forty percent of patients in Czech hospitals are malnourished and some die of hunger, according to a Sept. 11 report in Mladá fronta Dnes. The newspaper’s report cites a study published Sept. 10 by the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism. The numbers do not differ significantly from the European average, according to the report.
HOT AIR President Václav Klaus’ image will appear in major U.S. newspapers as part of a campaign to promote the idea that “Global Warming is No Crisis.” The campaign is sponsored by the U.S. Heartland Institute, a think tank that promotes free-market ideas, according to a Sept. 11 Mladá fronta Dnes report.
 
FLOODS A state of emergency was declared Sept. 6 in north Moravia after heavy rains caused rivers to swell to dangerously high levels. About 200 residents in the region were evacuated in anticipation of floods, which spilled into some houses, gardens and basements over the following weekend.
ORCHESTRA Zdeněk Mácal, the conductor of the Czech Philharmonic orchestra who resigned Sept. 8, has agreed to conduct the planned concerts until the 2008 season. Austrian Manfred Honeck will take over as the orchestra’s guest conductor beginning in fall 2008, according to the Czech News Agency (ČTK). Mácal has been relieved of his organizational tasks, ČTK reports.

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