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Deal snapshot: PAETEC ACQUISITION BY WINDSTREAM GETS EARLY TERMINATION OF HSR WAITING PERIOD.
September 1, 2011... (From M&A Navigator) MANAVIGATOR-September 1, 2011-Deal snapshot: PAETEC ACQUISITION BY WINDSTREAM GETS EARLY TERMINATION OF HSR WAITING PERIOD (C)2011 M2 COMMUNICATIONS http://www.m2.com US telecommunications services provider Paetec...

FinMin Kalousek against free allocation of carbon credits-press.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) In first para, line three, changes the year 2010 to the correct 2020 -------------------- Prague, Sept 1 (CTK) - Czech Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek does not agree that Czech firms would get for free carbon...

No. of organic farms grows to 4,022 in CR in August.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, Sept 1 (CTK) - The number of eco farmers in the Czech Republic increased to 4,022 in August from 3,517 early this year, and last year their number rose by around a third, according to data from the...

Czech press survey.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, Sept 1 (CTK) - The political career of Michal Babak seems to have culminated on Wednesday night, Jindrich Sidlo writes sarcastically in Hospodarske noviny, commenting on the bar brawl of the influential senior...

Komercni banka foreign exchange rates.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, Sept 1 (CTK) - Following are Komercni banka's Czech crown exchange rates valid as of Sept 1: CHEQUES CASH Country Code Amount Buy Sell Buy Sell Australia AUD 1 17.566 18.2464 17.4765 18.3359 Bulgaria BGN 1...

Ceska sporitelna foreign exchange rates.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) 8:01 -------------------- Prague, Sept 1 (CTK) - Following are Ceska sporitelna's Czech crown exchange rates valid as of Sept 1: CHEQUES CASH Country Amount Code Buy Sell Buy Sell Australia 1 AUD 17.519 18.161 17.39...

Ceskoslovenska obchodni banka foreign exchange rates.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, Sept 1 (CTK) - Following are Ceskoslovenska obchodni banka's Czech crown exchange rates valid as of Sept 1: CHEQUES CASH Country Amount Code Buy Sell Buy Sell Australia 1 AUD 17.604 18.286 -- -- Britain 1 GBP...

Activist arranges protest Romany settlement in Bratislava - press.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, Sept 1 (CTK) - Activist Alojz Hlina has arranged an improvised illegal Romany settlement in the centre of Bratislava in protest against what he calls the government's failure to solve the problem of poor...

Events - CTK General News in English, September 1.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) Phone: +420 222 098 465 Duty Editor - morning: Jana Ratajova afternoon: Sylvia Irglova ------------------------------------------------------------ ALL TIMES CEST Photo available at PhotoSales@mail.ctk.cz for items...

Kalousek for Czech TOP to swallow up ODS or ally with CSSD- press.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, Sept 1 (CTK) - Czech junior government TOP 09 deputy chairman Miroslav Kalousek strives for TOP 09's merger with and prevalence over the senior ruling Civic Democrats (ODS) or for a coalition with the...

CPI's net profit, sales notably higher in H1.(Financial report)
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, Sept 1 (CTK) - First-half net earnings at Czech Property Investments (CPI) of billionaire Radovan Vitek rose five times to Kc401.1m and sales increased to Kc1.03bn from Kc439.9m in the Jan-June period 2010,...

Komercni banka foreign exchange rates.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) valid as of 10:55 -------------------- Prague, Sept 1 (CTK) - Following are Komercni banka's Czech crown exchange rates valid as of Sept 1: CHEQUES CASH Country Code Amount Buy Sell Buy Sell Australia AUD 1 17.7348...

Crown further retreats versus dollar, euro in morning trade.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, Sept 1 (CTK) - The Czech crown continued to retreat versus both the main world currencies today and at around 10:30 was 13 hellers weaker to the dollar at Kc16.87/$ and two hellers weaker to the euro at...

Czech nomination for Davis Cup play-off meet with Romania.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, Sept 1 (CTK) - The Czech Republic will send Tomas Berdych (no. 9 in ATP ranking), Radek Stepanek (25), Jan Hajek (152) and Lukas Rosol (65) to Romania for the Davis Cup play-offs, the tennis team's captain...

Number of Czech school first graders stops falling after years.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, Sept 1 (CTK) - Some 1.2 million pupils returned to school classrooms on the first day of the 2011-12 school year today, including 101,000 first graders whose number has stopped to fall after many years. After...

Minister's wife is new Czech police ombudswoman.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, Sept 1 (CTK) - Blanka Besserova, wife of Culture Minister Jiri Besser and former spokeswoman for the police unit fighting organised crime (UOOZ), was today appointed new Czech police ombudswoman, the Interior...

London's Orange Tree theatre presents Havel's play Conspirators.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) London, Sept 1 (CTK) - This year's uprising in some Arab countries has turned Conspirators, a play by former Czech president Vaclav Havel, into a topical piece, Sam Walters, art director of London's Orange Tree...

Czech NGO distributes 110 tonnes of food aid to Somali refugees.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) Addis Ababa/Prague, Sept 1 (CTK) - The Czech People in Need humanitarian organisation has distributed 110 tonnes of food and other aid to about 7000 Somali famine refugees who fled to the neighbouring Ethiopia, its...

CzechRep to provide 350 soldiers for EU battlegroup next year.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, Sept 1 (CTK) - The Czech Republic will provide 350 soldiers for the EU's battlegroup next year, Czech chief-of-staff Vlastimil Picek said after meeting EU military committee head Hakan Syren today. The...

Schedule of CTK Business News in English, September 2.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) ALL TIMES CEST CZECH REPUBLIC Prague Czech Statistical Office (CSU) makes public regular info on fuel prices Czech Statistical Office (CSU) discloses retail sales data for July 09:00 Session of the Chamber of Deputies...

Schedule of CTK General News in English, September 2.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) ALL TIMES CEST CZECH REPUBLIC Prague Regular meeting of Czech diplomatic missions' heads ends Place: Cerninsky palace, Loretanske namesti, Prague 1 Source: Foreign Ministry press section, tel.: 224 182 426 09:00...

Czech lower house sends welfare reform package to final reading.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, Sept 1 (CTK) - The Czech Chamber of Deputies proposed several modifications to a draft welfare reform, a crucial package within the centre-right government's planned budget-saving legislation, and sent it to...

Events - CTK General News in English, September 1.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) Phone: +420 222 098 465 Duty Editor: Sylvia Irglova ------------------------------------------------------------ ALL TIMES CEST Photo available at PhotoSales@mail.ctk.cz for items with keyword PHOTO. Prague We...

Klaus's criticism of Czech foreign policy plan outrageous - press.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, Sept 1 (CTK) - It is outrageous that President Vaclav Klaus criticised the Czech foreign policy concept that has already been approved by the government, Petr Uhl writes in the daily Pravo today in reaction...

Czech state budget deficit grows to Kc87.3bn in August.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, Sept 1 (CTK) - The Czech state budget deficit grew to Kc87.3bn at the end of August from Kc61.1bn at the end of July, the Finance Ministry said today. In August last year, the deficit stood at Kc78.7bn. For...

Papandreou denounces Czech Klaus for calling Greeks ouzo drinkers.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) Athens/Prague, Sept 1 (CTK) - Greek Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou has dismissed the statement by President Vaclav Klaus who recently called Greeks indirectly lazy ouzo drinkers in an interview for Czech daily...

Spirits maker Jan Becher with profit up to Kc208m in 2010.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) Karlovy Vary, Sept 1 (CTK) - Czech spirits maker Jan Becher - Karlovarska Becherovka (JBKB) raised profit by Kc29m to Kc208m in financial year 2010/11 and sales in the period of July 2010/June 2011 fell by Kc100m to...

CNB foreign exchange rates.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, Sept 1 (CTK) - Following are the Czech National Bank's (CNB) exchange rates for the Czech crown: Valid Sept 1, 2011: Country Amount Code Rate Australia 1 AUD 18.093 Brazil 1 BRL 10.567 Bulgaria 1 BGN 12.348...

Czech army to give ammunition to Afghan police.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, Sept 1 (CTK) - The Czech Republic will give 2000 redundant magazines for SA58 assault rifles to the Afghan police, under a proposal that the Czech government approved on Wednesday. The Czech military does not...

Czech state budget deficit grows to Kc87.3bn in August.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) Adds more info in paras 5, 9-20. -------------------- Prague, Sept 1 (CTK) - The Czech state budget deficit grew to Kc87.3bn at the end of August from Kc61.1bn at the end of July, the Finance Ministry said today. In...

Rally held for dismissal of Czech far right senior civil servant.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, Sept 1 (CTK) - Some 300 people today attended a public rally demanding the dismissal of Ladislav Batora, Education Ministry's senior official and conservative D.O.S.T. group's head, outside the ministry. The...

Four MPs sign call for Czech president, mayors' direct election.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, Sept 1 (CTK) - Four deputies of the Mayors and Independents (STAN) group, which is allied with the junior ruling TOP 09, today signed a petition calling for the direct elections of Czech president, regional...

Czech state budget deficit grows to Kc87.3bn in August.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) Adds comment by analyst in paras 8-11. -------------------- Prague, Sept 1 (CTK) - The Czech state budget deficit grew to Kc87.3bn at the end of August from Kc61.1bn at the end of July, the Finance Ministry said...

Crown loses 23 hellers to dollar, falls slightly to euro.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, Sept 1 (CTK) - The Czech crown retreated by 23 hellers versus the dollar today to stand at Kc16.97/$ at around 17:00, and versus the euro it edged 5 hellers weaker from Wednesday's close to Kc24.17/EUR, server...

Czech President Klaus rejects Papanedreou's criticism.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) Updates with Klaus's reaction, changes headline. -------------------- Ostrava, North Moravia/Athens, Sept 1 (CTK) - President Vaclav Klaus today rejected the criticism by Greek Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou for...

Rally held for dismissal of Czech far right senior civil servant.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) Updates, adds paras 6-11, 15. -------------------- Prague, Sept 1 (CTK) - Some 300 people today attended a public rally demanding the dismissal of Ladislav Batora, Education Ministry's senior official and conservative...

RWE Transgas not to change prices of gas for households in Q4.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, Sept 1 (CTK) - Gas company RWE Transgas will not change the prices of gas for Czech households in the fourth quarter, the firm's spokesman Martin Chalupsky told CTK today. According to information obtained by...

Czech town Romanies fear for life, come out against newcomers.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) Rumburk/Sluknov, North Bohemia, Sept 1 (CTK) - Romanies who have lived in Rumburk for a long time fear for their lives and they do not want to suffer because of newcomers, they told Czech government human rights...

Independent Palestine would not work over finance- Czech diplomat.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, Sept 1 (CTK) - An independent Palestine would not work now because it would not be self-reliant, Czech ambassador to Israel Tomas Pojar said on Czech Radio (CRo) today. The Israeli daily Haaretz reported at...

CTK's Business News in Brief.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) Conditions improve in Czech manufacturing industry in Aug --------------------------------------------------------- Prague - The purchasing managers index (PMI) stayed unchanged in Aug at July's 53.4 points despite...

Summary of CTK Business News in English, September 1, 21:00.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) Prague - The Czech state budget deficit grew to Kc87.3bn at the end of August from Kc61.1bn at the end of July, the Finance Ministry said today. Prague - Gas company RWE Transgas will not change the prices of gas for...

Summary of CTK General News in English, September 1, 21:00.
September 1, 2011... (From Czech News Agency) Ostrava, North Moravia/Athens - President Vaclav Klaus today rejected the criticism by Greek Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou for his having recently called Greeks indirectly lazy ouzo drinkers in an interview for...