China was behind a major cyber attack at the Czech Foreign Ministry last year, the Czech intelligence agency, NUKIB said in a report released on Wednesday. Without providing details, the intel agency known as NUKIB said the attack “was almost certainly carried out by a state actor or a related group,” with “a Chinese ...
President Miloš Zeman, who on Sunday winds up a four day official visit to China, met with Chinese President Xi Jinping for talks dominated by trade and investment. The Czech head of state has been pushing to increase the level of Chinese investments in the Czech Republic which failed to meet expectations after the ...
The Czech president, Miloš Zeman, sets off on a working visit to China on Wednesday. He is due to hold meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping as well as leading representatives of Huawei, Bank of China and CITIC. The Czech authorities have identified Huawei products as a security threat but Mr. Zeman says there is ...
Pressure is mounting on Andrej Babiš to recall Trade and Industry Minister Marta Nováková over a diplomatic row that has highlighted China’s efforts to assert its influence in the Czech Republic. The revelation that a representative of Taiwan had been forced to leave a diplomatic meeting at the trade ministry at the request of the ...
The Czech Republic’s prime minister has ordered his government office to stop using mobile phones by Chinese telecoms company Huawei. Tuesday’s announcement by Prime Minister Andrej Babis comes a day after the country’s National Cyber and Information Security Agency warned that the hardware and software made by Huawei and another Chinese telecommunications company, ZTE, ...
Prague, Aug 30 (CTK) – Former Czech prime minister Bohuslav Sobotka (Social Democrats, CSSD) spoke with representatives of the diplomacy and self-rule bodies during his visit to China in August, the server Neovlivni.cz writes today. The trip may be connected with the activities of the Chinese company CEFC, which is close to President Milos ...
Prague, Aug 10 (CTK) – The unofficial visit of nine Czech lawmakers from four parties to China, scheduled for late August, is unlikely to take place since most of them have cancelled their participation, Jan Birke (Social Democrats, CSSD), who was to head the delegation, told journalists today. Due to the cancellations, only three ...
Sofia/Prague, July 8 (special CTK correspondent) – Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis and his Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang held talks in Sofia on Saturday on possible expansion of Czech commercial representation in China and further development of the two countries’ strategic partnership. They also discussed the forthcoming international import fair to take place in ...
Prague, May 30 (CTK) – Home Credit group, a consumer loan provider, made a EUR31m (some Kc800m) loss in the first quarter of this year, plunging from a EUR80m (about Kc2.1bn) profit annually, which was caused by the turbulent development on the Chinese consumer loan market, the company said in a press release today. ...
