Prague, March 10 (CTK) – About 200 people gathered outside the Chinese embassy in Prague within the worldwide Flag for Tibet campaign in support of human rights in Tibet held on today’s anniversary of the anti-Chinese uprising in Tibet that was fiercely crushed in 1959. The event was organised by the Lungta group and ...
Prague, March 8 (CTK) – These are the main ideas of President Milos Zeman’s speech he delivered at his inauguration for another five-year term today: – In the first part, Zeman largely spoke about the past five years in office. He mentioned the naming of constitutional judges, members of the CNB central bank board ...
Prague, March 8 (CTK) – Dozens of people protested against Milos Zeman before his presidential inauguration at a square near Prague Castle, the presidential seat, today, with the aim to emphasise Zeman’s duty to observe the constitution, the organiser Tomas Peszynski told journalists. The demonstrators carried banners and a giant EU flag. “The ...
Prague, March 8 (CTK) – Czech President Milos Zeman’s first important step within his second mandate is his planned visit to the Communist congress, by which he confirms the new character of the domestic scene that he helped create and that boosts his own power, Petr Honzejk writes in Hospodarske noviny (HN) today. Political ...
Prague, Feb 28 (CTK) – Italian businessman Antonino Vadala, who is linked to the Italian mafia and Slovak top politicians, according to murdered Slovak reporter Jan Kuciak, owns the Vadala Group CZ firm in the Czech Republic, daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) writes today. Vadala has owned the firm since last November. Until then, ...
Prague, Feb 27 (CTK) – Syrian Kurdish leader Saleh Muslim considers his release a decision by an independent Czech court that does not succumb to political pressures, he told CTK at a meeting with reporters today. The Prague Municipal Court released Muslim, 67, who was detained on the basis of an international warrant of ...
