Zapadocesky, Czech Republic News

PROFILE Geography Area: 78,864 sq. kilometers; slightly smaller than South Carolina.

VZP denounces as 'scaremongering' Aktualne.cz report that the health insurer's spending review will lead to closures of up to 50 hospitals The hospital in KutnA Hora which aktualne.cz reported will face closure as a result of the VZP's planned spending reforms Due to state-controlled and largest Czech health insurer VZP's planned "strategy of ... (more)

Rabbi Adam Feldman, of The Jewish Center of Princeton with one of six Torah scrolls from the small, pre- World War II town of Susice, Czechoslovakia at The Jewish Center of Princeton on Tuesday, March 20, 2012.

The deans of all ten faculties of arts in the Czech Republic call on Prime Minister Petr Necas to dismiss Education Minister Josef Dobes , they announced Friday.

The prolongation of accreditation for the Law Faculty of West Bohemian University by Education Minister Josef Dobes is illegal, Vladimira Dvorakova, head of the Accreditation Commission , said Friday.