<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.congoo.com/css/rss.css" type="text/css" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Czech-Republic-Slovakia News - Congoo</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/feed/newschannelsfeed.aspx?chid=65&amp;catid=221</link><description>News Feed for - Czech-Republic-Slovakia</description><item><title>Slovakia - Factors To Watch on Nov 23</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96260209&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=221</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T07:26:00</pubDate><description>BRATISLAVA, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press reports and events to watch which may affect Slovak financial markets on Monday. VOLKSWAGEN'S GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONY Prime Minister Robert </description><source>Reuters UK</source></item><item><title>Czech co to build USD 150m ethanol plant in Peru</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96306879&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=221</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T13:03:00</pubDate><description>â?? Czech energy company Dio Latina plans to invest USD 150 million (EUR 101m) to build an ethanol plant in Piura, northern Peru. The unit will have a production capacity of 300,000 litres (79,250 gallons) </description><source>ADP News</source></item><item><title>Foodservice in Mexico---Aarkstore Enterprise</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96283908&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=221</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T07:26:00</pubDate><description>Foodservice in Mexico industry profile is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the foodservice industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, plus textual </description><source>TMC Net</source></item><item><title>Czech Postal Service Launches Guaranteed International Parcel Service</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96260877&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=221</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T00:36:00</pubDate><description>- November 19, 2009 [Hellmail.]Ceska Posta, the Czech Republic postal service, has just launched a new international parcel service. International Commercial Parcel (EPG) is a new express service offering </description><source>Pitney Bowes' PostInsight</source></item><item><title>Nigeria: AMF Holds Empowerment Workshop at Kado</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96294459&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=221</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T10:11:00</pubDate><description>Abuja The Abuja Muslim Forum (AMF) Friday began a three-day economic empowerment workshop for Muslims at Kado Estate Jumu'at Mosque in Abuja. Moshood Lawal of SMEDAN delivered a lecture on the practical </description><source>AllAfrica.com</source></item><item><title>Flights cancelled at Prague Airport due to fire</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96306998&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=221</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T13:05:00</pubDate><description>Â   Flights at Pragueâ??s airport were cancelled and others delayed on Saturday (November 21) due to a fire in its control tower, a number of media sources report.</description><source>UBM Aviation</source></item><item><title>Experts recall 'The Czech Miracle'</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96305182&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=221</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T12:44:00</pubDate><description>Before he became president, Klaus was one of the forces guiding the country into a free market economy. Photo: World Economic Forum Two decades ago, the newly independent Czechoslovak Republic set out </description><source>Sofia Echo</source></item><item><title>Czech CSSD would win elections now - poll</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96301522&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=221</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T12:03:00</pubDate><description>Prague - The Czech Social Democrats (CSSD) would win elections to the Chamber of Deputies, if held in November, with 29.1 percent of the vote, according to an election model the Factum Invenio polling </description><source>Ceskenoviny</source></item><item><title>Slovak paper queries premier's arguments about benefits of Communist era</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96300924&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=221</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T11:50:00</pubDate><description>[Commentary by Ivan Stulajter: "Fico-Paska, Difficult Times"] The communist system, based on the government of one political party, cannot function without suppressing human rights and arresting and killing </description><source>Individual.com</source></item><item><title>Moravia Worldwide Names George Krawczyk as Sales Director for Ireland and UK</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96289488&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=221</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T08:45:00</pubDate><description>New Appointment Underlines Moravia's Commitment to the UK and Irish Markets Brno, Czech Republic (PRWEB) November 23, 2009 -- Moravia Worldwide, a leading globalization solution provider, announced today </description><source>Earthtimes.org</source></item><item><title>Successful Czech-Japanese entrepreneur Tomio Okamura on how the Velvet Revolution </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96287667&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=221</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T08:19:00</pubDate><description>â??The situation was already more and more against the Communists. Countless East Germans had come to Prague, leaving their plastic Trabants parked everywhere as they tried to make it to the West German </description><source>Radio Prague</source></item><item><title>Shopping transformed since 1989 though Czechs still lagging behind West in some </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96287598&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=221</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T08:19:00</pubDate><description>If we go back fully 20 years to when the revolution happened, were there many, or any, shopping centres here back in 1989? Jana CÃ­glerovÃ¡, photo: CTK â??Itâ??s hard to imagine today, but there were </description><source>Radio Prague</source></item><item><title>Deloitte: Prague hotels least profitable in Europe</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96287406&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=221</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T08:17:00</pubDate><description>Prague, Nov 20 (CTK) - Hotels in Prague are least profitable among European hotels as revenue per available room dropped by 26 percent on the year to Kc1,160 (EUR45) in Jan to Sept this year, with the </description><source>Prague Monitor</source></item><item><title>Czech banks hit by credit card recall</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96247063&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=221</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T08:13:00</pubDate><description>Most read in 7 days     reklamareklama reklama  blogger writes...     blogs   16.11. 10:00  komern sdlen   reklama reklama reklamareklama  reklama   Partnei reklama Servis   v mobilu     1999 2009    </description><source>Prague Monitor</source></item><item><title>Orange Slovakia disagrees with USO cost compensation</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96285602&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=221</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T07:51:00</pubDate><description>Dutch Media Spending - Mobile edition October Dutch consumers price point for standard TV package in Full HD   Dutch market leader Nokia losing ground to competitors   Liberty Global increases leverage </description><source>Telecom Paper</source></item><item><title>INDICATORS - Czech Republic - Nov 23</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96283674&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=221</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T07:23:00</pubDate><description>rate 1.25 pct 0.25 pct 2.25 pct last changed (date of decision) Aug 06, 2009 Aug 06, 2009 Aug 06, 2009 former rate 1.50 pct 0.50 pct 2.50 pct =============================================================================== </description><source>Interactive Investor International</source></item><item><title>Czech press survey - November 23</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96153679&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=221</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T07:06:00</pubDate><description>Prague - Czech papers today comment on the weekend congress of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) at which its chairman Mirek Topolanek managed to keep in power in spite of some criticism. The question </description><source>Ceskenoviny</source></item><item><title>INDICATORS - Slovakia - Nov 23</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96281199&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=221</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T06:54:00</pubDate><description>NEW LISTINGS OR AMENDMENTS ARE MARKED* KEY INTEREST RATES ECB'S TWO-WEEK REPO rate (pct) 1.00 last changed MAY 7, 2009 former rate (pct) 1.25 (pct change y/y) -4.9 (pct change q/q) +1.6 (pct change yr/yr) </description><source>Interactive Investor International</source></item><item><title>Macroeconomic indicators - Czech industrial producer price falls in October</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96264054&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=221</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T01:36:00</pubDate><description>Czech Statistical Office said that Czech industrial producer prices fell by 4.6% YoY in October, a slowdown after a 5.4% drop the previous month. Agricultural producer prices decreased by 19.3% in October </description><source>Steel Guru</source></item><item><title>Festival of post-1989 Czech film at Lincoln Center in New York</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96259402&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=221</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T00:14:00</pubDate><description>Laura Blum is co-curator of the series, together with the Film Society of Lincoln Center. She told Barrette it was a real opportunity to introduce American audiences to the breadth of Czech film made </description><source>Radio Prague</source></item><item><title>2 lions kill white tiger in Czech zoo</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=95991677&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=221</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T00:43:00</pubDate><description>The lions, 14-year-old Sultan and 11-year-old Elsa, entered the open-air area occupied by the 17-year-old tiger Isabella by opening a trap door, Liberec Zoo spokesman Ivan Langr said. He said it happened </description><source>News Channel 21</source></item><item><title>Malaysia-Market factors to watch Nov 23</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=95871737&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=221</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T23:28:00</pubDate><description>KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Following is a list of events in Malaysia as well as news stories and press reports which may influence financial markets. (Reuters News welcomes your feedback and for </description><source>Reuters</source></item><item><title>Czechs discover lure of shopping malls</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96254873&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=221</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T22:52:00</pubDate><description>Under communism, people in the Czech Republic had no choice but to accept long lines for even the most basic items, and almost zero variety. But two decades after the Velvet Revolution, the country is </description><source>Deutsche Welle</source></item><item><title>Czech president signs Lisbon Treaty/EU Dirty Deal regarding human rights</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96198450&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=221</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T01:38:00</pubDate><description>With the EU guarantee to the Czech president, that the Czech State should not be exposed to property claims of expelled Germans after World War II, the EU not only implicitly consents with ethnic cleansings, </description><source>NYC Independent Media Center</source></item><item><title>Czech Students Look Back at What Their Forebears Started</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96090810&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=221</link><pubDate>2009-11-20T16:40:00</pubDate><description>By Sarah Karacs The Czech Republic this week kicked off celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. Back then, it was Czechoslovakian students who took the lead. Nowadays, the </description><source>Spiegel Online</source></item></channel></rss>