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In today’s business news: The Czech antimonopoly watchdog launches a
probe into the controversial Promopro contract, industrial production in
the Czech Republic has grown by 15.2 percent year-on-year, the average cost
of purchasing a vehicle continues to drop, former president Václav Havel
features in new ad campaign for the used car dealer AAA Auto, and the
Karlovy Vary airport will get a new departure hall. More
PanoramaBringing the Mongolian wild horse back from extinction
Prague Zoo this week announced an important step in its effort to help
reintroduce the critically endangered Mongolian wild horse to its natural
habitat. Four specimens – one stallion and three mares – born and bred
in the Czech Republic are to be transported to the Mongolian steppes to
enrich the gene pool of a small protected herd that is to help the
endangered breed survive. I met up with the zoo’s spokeswoman Jana
Ptacinska Jiratova to find out more about the project and how Prague Zoo
came to be involved in it.
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Science JournalCzech scientists uncover reason behind high incidence of abortions in mares
In this month’s edition of Science Journal: A team of Czech researchers
may have found the answer to a question that has puzzled veterinarians,
horse breeders and biologists for decades – why such a high percentage of
pregnancies in mares end in natural, chemically triggered abortions. A
recent study released by a Czech scientist suggests the answer may be that
keeping pregnant mares close to stallions at their home stable makes them
more likely to abort. More
Current AffairsSecond chance for a car that could have been a classic
Playing the game “what would have happened” with the Prague Spring and
the Soviet invasion can yield a million answers, one of which might be that
Czechoslovaks would have been zooming around in sleek, little Czech-made
sports cars. The UVMV 1100 GT unlike anything that had been driven before
in the country when it was designed in 1968, but production was cancelled
by the Communist Party after the invasion. Now, 41 years later, the UVMV
might finally be coming to life. More
Current AffairsNew royal couple looks Czech gift horse in the mouth
Amid all the disagreements in the cabinet there has also been wrangling of
a different sort – apparently the issue of what to give the new Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, William and Kate, for a wedding present. The powers
that be in fact agreed on quite a lot on Wednesday, and between an
anti-corruption bill, welfare reform and a ten-year outlook for the armed
forces, they also hammered an agreement to give the new royal couple a
horse. It is of course a horse as souped up as they come, a rare young
stallion with a radiant pedigree, but London apparently wants a look under
the bonnet before they welcome the gift horse to the queen’s own stables. More
Business NewsBusiness News
In this week’s Business News: pension reform wins political backing;
biggest brewer sets up export subsidiary; female viewers targeted by
broadcaster; private car fleet shows its age; and hard coal imports surge. More
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