Brno, Czech Republic News

Some 2000 people protested against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement in the streets of Prague Saturday, according to the police estimates, and similar protest rallies were staged in Brno, south Moravia, and other Czech towns.

The Czech Republic has regained a manuscript of Versuche ueber Pflanzen-Hybriden by Johann Gregor Mendel, founder of genetics, from 1865, after a 25-year effort, the Czech Foreign Ministry told CTK yesterday.

Barbora Skrlova, who was sentenced to five years in prison in a closely watched child maltreatment case, was released on parole with a seven-year probationary period, the Pardubice Regional Court ruled yesterday, Ales Korejtko, from the court, told CTK yesterday.

White nose syndrome has been diagnosed in a European bat for the first time. The disease, caused by a fungus, Geomyces destructans , has wiped out millions of bats in the US since it was discovered there in 2006 The single case, in a living bat, signifies that the disease may occur sporadically in European populations.

The company provides construction and renovation of tram line and railroad sidings, railroad engineering preparation of technical and operating documentation of projects, and implementation of modern technologies for railroad substructures and superstructures.

The Czech Office for Personal Data Protection has issued a statement on its website saying that ACTA was unbalanced regarding existing legal guarantees of individual rights.

Activists placed office furniture in front of the Belarus embassy in Prague to symbolize the eviction of rights organizations from Belarus Activists from the Brno-based Independent Social Ecological Movement and the Prague-based Civic Belarus initiative placed office furniture and equipment in front of the Belarus embassy in the Troja district in ... (more)

Europe's vicious cold snap has claimed 62 lives in Poland, with nine new victims in the past 24 hours.

This is Tugendhat Villa in Brno, Czech Republic, as it looked in 1931 before it was ravaged by war and disrepair.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's refurbished Modernist masterpiece in Brno, Czech Republic, opens to the public in March.

Dmonstrations were against the Czech Republic joining the international treaty against the spread of illegal copies were staged in several towns in spite of the frosty weather today, the largest being in Brno where some 500 young people gathered.

This photo taken Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, shows the winter garden of Tugendhat Villa during the final stages of its reconstruction in Brno, Czech Republic.

BRNO, Czech Republic - It was completed in 1930, a masterpiece of Modernism by legendary German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

Czech and other European bats may help North American bats dying due to a fungal disease known as "the white nose syndrome", according to Czech expert Natalia Martinkova, from Masaryk University in Brno.

Czech writer Lenka Prochazkova has filed a criminal complaint against Prime Minister Petr Necas and members of his government over the proposed return of property to churches, with the Supreme State Attorney's Office in Brno, she said yesterday.

Tesco is announcing a new franchise model for F&F as it looks to turn the fashion label into a major global brand.

CZECH POLICE DETAIN ARMENIAN ESCAPING JUSTICE FOR EIGHT YEARS CTK National News Wire, Czech Republic January 15, 2012 Sunday 7:35 PM The Czech foreigner police have detained an Armenian man, wanted on suspicion of property and violent crimes, who was escaping justice for eight years, in Brno these days, South Moravia police spokeswoman Petra ... (more)

Hospitals administered by the Czech Health Ministry have obeyed the command of Health Minister Leos Heger and increased the salaries of their staff as of January, otherwise their directors will be sacked, CTK has found yesterday.