The police last year registered 265 crimes with an extremist motive, 0.07% of all crimes and 48 more than in 2008, according to a document the Chamber of Deputies defence and security committee discussed yesterday.
The Russian bank Home Credit & Finance Bank which belongs to the empire of Czech financier Petr Kellner, raised net profit fivefold on the year to RUB 5.1bn (around CZK 3.2bn) in H1, the firm told ČTK yesterday.
Czech exports to Iraq more than doubled to record CZK 1.814 billion in Jan-July this year, up from CZK 808 million in the same period a year ago, Ivan Jukl, CEO of government agency CzechTrade, has said.
President Václav Klaus and Prague Archbishop Dominik Duka yesterday received an exclusive copy of the handmade Golden Bible with facsimiles of medieval illuminations.
Data on the 2.4% year-on-year growth of the Czech economy in the second quarter, released by the Czech Statistical Office yesterday, were 0.6 percentage points higher than the Czech National Bank had predicted in its forecast.
A surprising increase in household consumption contributed to a faster growth of the Czech economy in the second quarter of this year, analysts have told ČTK in a poll.
The government yesterday approved changes aimed at boosting the functioning of the financial market and cooperation of EU watchdogs, Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek told journalists after a government meeting.
About 50 Roma, mostly residents of a house in Nemocniční Street in Nový Bor, where the water utility has cut off water supply to rent defaulters, staged a rally at the town square yesterday in demand of new flats.
