Czech opponents of the stationing of a U.S. missile defence radar base on Czech soil have ended their 10 month chain hunger strike.

The chain hunger strike of 300 people was a continuation of a protest staged by Jan Tamas and Jan Bednar from No Violence - www.Nenasili.cz, who kept a 21-day hunger strike against the radar last year 2008.

Polls show 65-70% of Czechs opposed the radar base.

http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/zpravy/czech-opponents-to-u-s-radar-end-chain-hunger-strike/368416
http://www.friedensnews.at/?p=5577

Czech industrial output fell 17.4% in November 2008

Czech industrial output fell by 17.4 %(adjusted 16.1%) year-on-year in November 2008, and seasonally adjusted industrial output was 13 % lower, the Czech Statistical Office (CSU) said .

The drop was mainly due to a decline in production of transport vehicles and equipment which reached 30.3 %.

Month-on-month, seasonally adjusted industrial output was down 9.2 percent.

"The domestic industry is going down the hill and this fall is unprecedented in the modern history of the Czech Republic," chairman of the Czech Economic Chamber Petr Kuzel said.

Worse than expected
The data markedly surpassed even the most pessimistic market expectations.

Wages
The average nominal monthly wage in the industry grew by 2.4 percent year-on-year to Kc 24,843 in November 2008. (about $1200).

Eurostat
According to data released by Eurostat, the EU's statistical office, adjusted industrial output in the EU-27 dropped by 5 percent on the year in October 2008.

Among EU member states whose data were available, Spain registered the biggest fall in industrial output of 12.8 percent, followed by Estonia with a 11 percent fall and Ireland with a drop of 3.9 percent.

In Germany, industrial output fell by 3.8 percent.
Production in the industry increased only in Slovakia and Poland where it added only 0.1 percent.

http://praguemonitor.com/2009/01/15/czech-industrial-output-drops-174-november

Avast antivirus, one of the best

The statement that the Czech Republic is a software super power might surprise some. But the claim rings true especially when it comes to anti-virus programs. And the Prague company Alwil is the best example.

Its anti-virus program avast! Is one of the most successful and wide-spread products of any Czech company on the global market. It is currently used by some 70 million people around the world. Avast history includes local versions of typical garage stories, in which talented students founded now giant computer companies.

Alwil founders, Pavel Baudiš and Eduard Kučera, met in the 1980s as fresh technology graduates in the Research Institute for Mathematical Machines. This institute, legendary in the computer circles, represented an oasis for its employees in the communist times. Software pre-history used to intertwine with the then uncommon freedom of thought. A number of Charta 77 signers worked there (such as Jan Sokol or Václav Žák) since the communists obviously did not consider the software development to be an ideologically essential field.


Alwil started up as a family company with a few employees. There are now 70 people employed and in a year this number should reach 120.
The company was the first in the world to offer anti-virus protection for Windows 95.
Avast is currently putting together its fifth generation in more than 30 languages and this product is one of the most popular security programs in many countries such as France and Brazil.

http://praguemonitor.com/2008/12/22/edit-avast-anti-virus-stra%C5%A1nice

Mobile phones in Czech republic

Tarrifs, companies, plans, costs, information
Prepaid, contracts.

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Czech Airlines best

Czech Airlines has earned the award as the "Best Airline in Central and Eastern Europe", from the prestigious American magazine Business Traveler.

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