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ČTK | 20 April 2018 Prague, April 19 (CTK) - Italian scientists and postgraduate students' team works in the International Clinical Research Centre (ICRC) of the St Ann Teaching Hospital in Brno, the second largest town in Czechia, within the Magnet project funded by the Czech Education Ministry, daily Lidove noviny (LN) wrote on Thursday. The team studies heart and nervous system diseases, focusing on the molecular causes of ageing. The aim is not to prolong people's lives, but to extend the healthy period of their lives, doctor Manlio Vinciguerra, the head of the team, told LN last year. Vinciguerra, who comes from Sicily, was employed by the University College London (UCL) before he came to the ICRC in 2017. He has conducted over one hundred studies and was quoted 3,000 times in scientific literature. The Education Ministry granted 178 million crowns for the Magnet project, which is to last six years. "We are hosting a total of 18 Italian scientists and postgraduate … [Read more...] about LN: Brno’s biomedical research hub hosts Italian scientists

ČTK | 20 April 2018 Prague, April 19 (CTK) - The Czech Republic is not a xenophobic country, as it is sometimes labelled due to its refusal of the EU migrant quotas, but it is actually a standard European country in terms of diversity, Jan Machacek wrote in daily Lidove noviny (LN) on Thursday. The fact that some 0.5 million foreigners live in the Czech Republic with a population of 10.5 million on the basis of permanent or temporary residence permits sometimes surprises not only people from other European countries, but also Czech intellectuals who are critical of the country's alleged negative stance on migration, Machacek writes. Foreign reporters sometimes explain the unwillingness of Central European countries' to open its borders to the latest migrant wave by their history as the former Soviet satellites, including the Czech Republic, were isolated from one of the aspects of normal and natural development of the Western countries that were taking immigrants from all … [Read more...] about LN: Czechia is not xenophobic, but standard European country

ČTK | 16 April 2018 Prague, April 13 (CTK) - One third of Czech regions prefers to provide foster carers for abandoned infants, but despite this, they usually do not close the established infant care institutes, which then have few children and high operating costs, daily Lidove noviny (LN) wrote on Friday. This is why Labour and Social Affaris Minister Jaroslava Nemcova (ANO) wants to transform these institutes into smaller institutions of the family type, LN writes. According to the data obtained by the Lumos NGO, there were 441 boys and girls in infant care institutes across the country early in 2018. It is their large number, though, that is often used as an argument for their continuation, LN writes. In one half of the current infant care institutes, there are fewer than 10 children, while almost half of them are concentrated in those in Most, Prague and Plzen, LN writes. The children's number in these facilities is much lower and the regions could deal with the … [Read more...] about LN: Large number of infant care institutes burdens regions

ČTK | 10 April 2018 Prague, April 9 (CTK) - Prime Minister Andrej Babis (ANO) will accept the option in which President Milos Zeman may empower someone else from ANO to form a new Czech government, Babis said in an interview with the daily Lidove noviny (LN) on Monday. Babis said, however, he did not expect Zeman to take the step. On Tuesday, Babis will discuss the creation of the government with Zeman. "If he tells me that he wants to empower [Environment Minister] Richard Brabec, I will respect this," Babis said. Babis said he did not presume the head of state would come up with the proposal. "Zeman keeps his word, he has given me a promise and time till the end of June," Babis said. After the October election to the Chamber of Deputies, won by ANO, Zeman assigned Babis to form a government. Babis created a one-party government, but in January, it lost the confidence vote in the Chamber of Deputies. Zeman then entrusted Babis with talks on forming a new government, giving … [Read more...] about LN: Babiš may not be nominated as next prime minister

ČTK | 9 April 2018 Prague, April 6 (CTK) - Ma Keqing, the Chinese ambassador to Prague who achieved a lot as an architect of Chinese expansion in the region, ends in the post after four years in connection with the fresh changes in China's Communist Party leadership, daily Lidove noviny (LN) wrote on Friday, citing two reliable sources. Personnel changes are following the election of President Xi Jinping's adviser Li Zhanshu as the new head of China's National People Congress. Ma was told that her mandate as ambassador would not be extended, LN writes. "The Prague post is reportedly to go to another female diplomat who served in Prague already in the past," a source from the diplomatic circles told LN. Together with Ma, Prague will probably be left by her husband Wang Qian, who has held the post of an attache, the daily writes. Ma's mission in Prague has definitely been effective from Beijing's point of view, it writes. Immediately after arriving in Prague in 2014, she … [Read more...] about LN: Ma Keqing ends as Chinese ambassador to Prague