Czech Republic News

Only a microscope standing on an old school desk indicates that this tiny room, painted off-white, is a laboratory where scientists conduct research on human embryonic stem cells, one of the most controversial ...2.9

Czech roads have one of the worst reputations in Europe thanks to an appalling number of road accidents and related fatalities every year.2.9

Enforced isolation can be a good thing or a bad thing for artists. In Czechoslovakia, it turned out to be a great thing for glass artists working behind the Iron Curtain after the Communist takeover in 1948.

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On Thursday, August 4, 2005, the United States and Belize signed a reciprocal Ship Boarding Agreement in support of the Proliferation Security Initiative .

PRAGUE- President Vaclav Klaus will appoint Vlasta Formankova, whose nomination senators approved, as a constitutional judge on Friday, Presidential Office spokesman Petr Hajek said.2.7

Increasing gas prices have prompted at least one local retail chain to try a new approach to get customers in the door A, it's adding gas stations offering discounted prices and one-stop shopping.2.9

GENERAL Property Trust has wasted no time charging ahead with its controversial new European property venture, revealing yesterday it was negotiating to buy another $1.5 billion of assets to add to its German ...2.7

PRAGUE- The Senate rejected an amendment to the law on churches and returned it to the Chamber of Deputies which will have to vote on it again probably in late-August. Some churches claim that the bill is ...2.7

Customers are urged to buy electronics before law takes force Aug. 13 By Laura Cianci Staff writer August 03, 2005 Some retailers are urging customers to make major appliance and electronic purchases before ...2.7

MORRISVILLE + Tekelec made not one but two major deals on Wednesday, acquiring a European software firm and buying out minority shareholders in a subsidiary.

OTCStockExchange.com's "Stock Watch Alert" this morning are Franchise Capital Corporation , Sweet Success Enterprises Inc.2.7

After 10 years working in Japan, North Africa and the UK, Paul Johnson has opened Meritas International, a business consulting firm, in Prague.2.7

The 2002 champion bounced back from a shaky second set to advance to the third round with a 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 win over fourth-seeded Radek Stepanek of the Czech Republic.

Mobile WiMax: Who Goes Where? Mobile WiMax is the next evolutionary step for 802.16 wireless access systems + one that promises a new wave of personal broadband services.

Until recently, an Arabic-looking person stepping onto a Prague tram or metro car barely registered a look.2.9

PRAGUE, Czech Republic -- Lined with hay and held together by a net of rough string, the leather shoes look bulky, itchy and downright uncomfortable.

Societe Generale SA, France's third- biggest bank, said profit in the second quarter rose 18 percent, helped by higher earnings from consumer lending outside France.

NEW YORK--Aug. 3, 2005--Although U.S. small and medium businesses significantly increased their use of IP telephony solutions over the past year, AMI-Partners still sees major growth opportunities ahead for ...

THOUSANDS of Czechs took to the streets yesterday to protest against police brutality, as the former president, Vaclav Havel, tried to mediate a growing dispute over a weekend clash between police and ...2.7

Ioan Amarie after up to three years of running the National Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office and ... Macovei decided not to replace Romania's chief prosecutor Ilie Botos and his deputies Gabriel Gita ...

By Jeremy Rifkin European politicians often like to blame outsourcing for the disappearance of jobs.2.9

Russia bears huge losses from the unlicensed production of Russian guns abroad. Such an opinion was expressed on Wednesday, Aug.2.9

The 33rd Aberdeen International Youth Festival kicks off today with a spectacular parade down the city's Union Street, featuring most of the 800 performers taking part in this year's event.3.1

The Kimberly-Clark tissue and pulp mill isn't on the company's first closure list, released last week, but the facility's future still is far from secure.

As France's cabinet breaks for summer, there's a brace of positive reviews for Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin's first weeks in office.2.9

Sweden has an answer that will be oddly familiar to many Canadians. Sweden designs and builds jet fighter aircraft.2.7

Sasha had two children and an abusive husband in the Czech Republic ... She was kidnapped and sold to a brothel in northern Thailand-alone in a strange country with a language she didn't know, and with no legal documents or status.

Inset above : T-Mobile will be the first operator to deploy the new QoS software platform.

BANGALORE: US-based Sun Microsystems Inc. has identified India among the four countries for 'major investments' in its global Mission Charter for Financial Year 2006, a top executive of the company said on ...4.1

Last fall, when Jan Westrick, founding director of the Princeton Girlchoir , announced to her Concert Choir that the 2005 summer tour would be to Germany and the Czech Republic, the excitement in the room was ...

Following recent significant acquisitions in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, Wadowice-based Maspex, which has grown specializing in the production of juices and beverages, plans further takeovers in ...2.7

Prosecutors said Osyp Firishchak was part of the Ukranian Auxiliary police, working in Lviv, a city in Nazi-occupied Poland that is now part of the Ukraine.

All flying operations at London Manston airport were stopped on Monday by the administrators for Planestation, the property and aviation group, which collapsed last week including its EUjet low cost airline ...

Bulgaria's and Romania's politicians seem busy confirming the reservations many Europeans hold about EU enlargement, but matters are a bit more complicated than that.2.7

CANDLEMASS mainman Leif Edling has confirmed to BLABBERMOUTH.NET that a CANDLEMASS European headlining tour is in the early stages of being booked for this fall.

Tero Pitkamaki beat a high-quality field in Oslo's refurbished Bislet Stadium on Friday night at the athletics Golden League GP event to take the javelin competition.2.7