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Oriental Institute of the ASCR, v. v. i.
Pod vodárenskou věží 4
182 08 Praha 8
182 08 Praha 8
Phone: +420 266 053 111
FAX: +420 286 581 897
E-mail: orient@orient.cas.cz
Chart: ou_chart.pdf
The Institute was founded in 1922 by an act of Parliament of the Czechoslovak Republic and its establishment was facilitated by a personal donation from President T.G. Masaryk. In 1953 it became a part of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. Pursuant to Act No. 341/2005 Coll., the Institute became a public research institution as of 1 January 2007.
The Institute carries out research on history, religions, philosophies, literatures and languages of Asian and African countries. Its library houses over 210,000 volumes, some of which are in various Oriental languages.
PUBLIC COLLECTION OF IMG AS CR, V. V. I. On August 6th, 2014, the Institute of Molecular Genetics of the AS CR, v. v. i., (IMG) opened a public collection aimed to help 14-year-old Katareeya Epp, who unfortunately died October 6th.
Her parents are employed in the IMG (project BIOCEV). Because Katareeya originates from a “third country”, namely, Australia, according to the Czech legislation she is not entitled to healthcare support from the public healthcare insurance.
The cost of intensive therapy during first two months have already exceeded the limits of private insurance in the amount of 1,6 million CZK. All the cost now repose only on the girl’s parents.
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