Ostrava is selling a unique plot in its city centre to a local company, which in the future will host the tallest building in the Czech Republic. The land along 28. října Street, referred to as Slza will welcome a 60-storey commercial and administrative centre with an adjacent hotel and apartments. Breaking up with the mining heritage of Ostrava An area of almost 8,300 square metres is being purchased by RT Torax for CZK 61.7 million including VAT. The decision to sell the land was made last year in spring, with a minimum offer price set at CZK 37 million (1.38 million euros). The city required the building to have at least twelve floors and to comply with the applicable zoning plan and the basic functional and spatial regulatory conditions of January 2019. According to the Mayor of Ostrava Tomáš Macura there have been projects to construct a high-rise building in the tear-shaped plot, where until 1986 was a coal mine with a coke plant. In his opinion, this record-breaking for the Czech Republic building (60 storeys and 238 metres) will completely fulfil these plans and “complement the gradual development of Nova Karolina in a modern district with quality housing...
A fire tore through an apartment building in the northern Czech Republic on Saturday, killing 11 people, including three children and five others who jumped from the upper floors to escape the blaze, local media reported. The fire broke out at the 11th floor of a 13-story building in the town of Bohumin, on the Czech-Polish border. “There are three adults dead and three children in the apartment,” the head of the Moravian-Silesian fire brigade, Vladimír Vlček told the news site. Five other people died after jumping from the 12th floor, according to Interior Minister Jan Hamáček, who spoke to the Czech public radio. Both Hamáček and the head of the regional government, Ivo Vondrák, suggested the fire is likely to have been set deliberately. Regional fire squad head Vladimír Vlček told Czech Television he did not want to speculate about the causes of the fire for the moment. “But the fire was very quick to develop, which is not normal. A fire like that typically affects one room, but this one hit the entire flat, all the rooms are burnt down,” he said. Vondrák said that besides the victims, thirteen people were injured in the fire, including two firefighters and...
Three countries have decided to tighten measures for Czech citizens due to the epidemiological situation in the Czech Republic as the daily increase in coronavirus cases in recent weeks is about 200, much more than at the beginning of July. During Thursday night, Slovenia became the latest country to change the rules for Czechs and, suddenly, put the Czech Republic on the list of medium-risk countries. Upon entering the country, a two-week quarantine is mandatory for Czech citizens. If they only need to pass through the country, this restriction does not apply to them, but the transit must not exceed 12 hours, the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated on its website. On Thursday, Norway also imposed restrictions on the Czechs – they have to spend ten days in quarantine after entering the Scandinavian country. Oslo placed Czechia on the traffic-light system “red” list together with France, Switzerland, and Monaco. Norwegians are also advised to travel to these four countries only when necessary. Currently, Norway allows free travel to people from countries that have registered less than 20 coronavirus cases per 100,000 population in the last two weeks, which is not the case for the Czech Republic. This week, Ukraine...
International rescue workers and aid have begun arriving in the ruins of Beirut, joining local teams combing the rubble for signs of life after a huge explosion on Tuesday destroyed swaths of Lebanon’s capital. “The safety situation in the area is stable. All members of the team are fine. After yesterday’s deployment, we record minor injuries to two dogs,” says firefighter spokeswoman Nicole Studená. Today, Czech firefighters plan to move to a new area, and the transportation will be provided by the Lebanese army. The EU gathered emergency workers and equipment from across the 27-nation bloc and was urgently sending more than 100 firefighters with vehicles, sniffer dogs and equipment designed to find people trapped in urban areas. Forty specialists from the Czech USAR (Urban Search and Rescue Team) arrived in Lebanon on Wednesday. They are trained to rescue people from debris, and the group includes cynologists, a structural engineer and a doctor. ??? Dnes pracujeme v přístavu. Náš úkol je potvrdit, že se v troskách nikdo nenachází. Pohyb týmu a místa pobytu jsou průběžně konzultována s ochranou ambasády ČR. Během dne se budeme přesouvat do nového sektoru, transport nám zabezpečuje LAF (Lebanon Army Force). pic.twitter.com/6bwahyLRIt — Hasičský záchranný sbor ČR (@hasici_cr)...
A play written entirely by artificial intelligence is expected to premiere next January. Researcher Rudolf Rosa of Charles University said his team is working together with Svanda Theater and the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague on the project, dubbed THEaiTRE. Rosa said the idea was suggested by entrepreneur Tomas Studenik as a means of celebrating the 100th anniversary of R.U.R., aka Rossum’s Universal Robots, a 1921 play by Karel and Josef Capek that is credited with originating the term “robot.” The main limiting factor at the moment is that the existing model has not yet been trained to produce performance-suitable scripts, so the plan is for researchers to “feed” the AI with plays for it to learn from. The model essentially takes a small chunk of existing text (in this case, Čapek’s original play) and then is “inspired” to create further lines, themes and ideas. “Tomas thought that this should be properly celebrated and came up with the idea of turning the story around: 100 years ago, a man wrote a theater play about robots; what if today, robots wrote a theater play about men?” Rosa said. He said the team is working with artificial intelligence models that were previously successful in generating pieces...
Czech Interior Minister Jan Hamacek says Lebanon has accepted an offer to send a team of 37 rescuers with sniffer dogs to Beirut.
Czech doctors set a new world record: a patient with pulmonary hypertension kept successfully on the artificial lung for more than 143 days!
A new study has ranked 35 countries, using six different categories, to discern which are the best for raising a family. The Czech Republic ranks 10th overall, behind Belgium, Austria and Germany. Where is the best place to raise a family? A new study by the travel and family journalism company Asher & Lyric has ranked 35 OECD countries on how good they are to raise families in. Their “Raising a Family Index” is based on six different categories: Safety, Happiness, Cost, Health, Education and Time. Each category is made up of five different criteria, with data taken from several internationally renowned sources. The Czech Republic ranks 10th overall, garnering high scores across all five categories. It ranked particularly highly for the safety level (A), while it reported its lowest score for happiness (D), recording one of the ranking’s lowest scores in that category. It scored B in all other fields. Mexico and the United States received the lowest rankings in the index—the only two countries to receive ‘F’ grades overall. The index is largely focused on the challenges faced by families in the US and focuses its analysis on what its key findings ‘mean for American families,’ but does include short analyses of...
Airbnb’s Enhanced Cleaning Protocol and a step-by-step guide cleaning guide are now available to hosts in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. Hosts in these countries can access the Enhanced Cleaning Protocol materials in their local language through the Resource Center, including a Quick Start Guide and Cleaning Handbook with guidance on the use of personal protective equipment, how to clean every room in a home, what to sanitize, and what supplies to have on hand. In addition to cleaning guidelines, hosts need to comply with guidance from governments or health authorities in their local jurisdictions. “I learned about the introduction of the cleaning protocol from an e-mail sent directly by Airbnb. For me, not much has changed in my already established method of cleaning, with the exception of additional disinfection. My guests are provided with disinfectants and face masks. I also inform them about the current situation, eg about current obligations for wearing the masks. When the guests come to us, I will welcome everyone to say that I apologize, but that I can’t shake their hand at this time, everyone immediately smiles that they understand this and thanks to that a good atmosphere of trust is established when guests see that I...
Ukraine put the Czech Republic on the list of countries with a high risk of COVID-19 infection, as people returning from the Czech Republic must undergo a 14-day-long quarantine.
Throwing out of the window is a collective dehonestation and a dishonour of official authority. However, this act is called “defenestration” (from the Latin “de” – ie, from – and “fenestra” – or window) thanks to the Czech lands, where throwing dignitaries out of windows has become not only a symbol of dissatisfaction but also chaos and suffering for whole Europe. The first occurred on July 30, 1419, but its story began four years earlier when the church burned to death its beloved master Jan Hus. His thoughts did not die with him – they spread inexorably across the kingdom, gaining more and more support among the dissatisfied people. Czech King Wenceslaus IV had to join the disputes between Catholics and Hus’ supporters who demanded an altar sacrament of Utraquist. In response to the pressure of the Roman King Sigismund and the growing Hussite arrogance, he established anti-Hussite city council in the New Town. The Hussite priests had to leave the churches, their processions were forbidden, and their brothers were thrown into jail provocatively on the day of Jan Hus’ burning. The first Prague Defenestration was a reaction to the arrest of several radical Hussites by Prague City Hall because they were preaching about Communion in Both Kinds. During the early morning hours on July 30th,...
A mobile plan tends to be one of those things we just set and forget, at least until it’s time for a new phone. It shouldn’t be though. New deals and discounts hit the market every week and savvy shoppers playing the field are getting more for less. O2 has announced a new plan where you get 100GB of data for only CZK 300 per month. The offer associated with a prepaid card is more advantageous than data packages with the current FREE + tariffs plan, which have a maximum of 60 GB of data together with unlimited calls and SMS for CZK 1,249 per month. The prepaid card offers also significantly cheaper internet connection than special data tariffs for tablets and computers (the O2 Data + Stříbrný includes 30 GB of data for CZK 649 per month). Now the bad part: Internet data does not work abroad (not even in the EU). Other services are quite expensive. SMS costs CZK 2. The offer is limited. The card can only be purchased until the end of August 2020. Only three prepaid cards can be ordered in one time The data package is activated automatically, and cannot be switched off “manually”....
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