Covid-19: Czechia has second-highest new infection, death rates in EU

Czechoslovak veteran of Tobruk, Dunkirk battles dies aged 101

MPs agree on extending state of emergency three weeks, until February 14

Shoving match erupts among Czech MPs at Covid-19 state of emergency debate

Czech cities Karviná, Ostrava and Havířov among most polluted in EU, causing early deaths

MPs seek mandatory quota on Czech food sales in big stores; Prague’s Podolí swimming pool declared a national monument; researchers track mis/disinformation about Covid-19

Czech national census to proceed from March-May as planned

The number of passengers going through Prague’s Václav Havel Airport dropped by nearly 80 percent last year as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, suggests the airport’s end-of-year report. The number of flights decreased by 65 percent.

A team of researchers from the Faculty of Education at Palacký University in Olomouc have conducted an extensive study of how misinformation, disinformation and fake news about Covid-19 have spread throughout the country. Leading the research was d...

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The swimming stadium in Prague’s district of Podolí, one of the iconic examples of Czechoslovakia’s 1960s architecture, was recently declared a national cultural monument. The complex of three swimming pools, built on the site of a former cemen...

The lower house of Parliament on Wednesday passed a bill that would impose a mandatory quota on local food sold in retail stores larger than 400 square metres. The bill has come under fierce criticism from EU member states which say it would create ...

Prague court rejects former Jazz Section head’s suit against Jaroslav Hutka over StB allegation

Prague int’l airport passenger traffic fell 79 pct in 2020 to 25-year low due to Covid-19

Czech president: Russia should allow Alexei Navaly to stand for election

Covid-19: Over 7,200 people in Czechia have received second vaccine dose

MPs debate extending state of emergency until 21 February

Covid-19 cases dropping, but risk index remains high

The sugar cube was invented by Jakub Krystof Rad in 1843 in the town of Dačice, Moravia. Find out more in the first part of our Czech Made series.

Czech chess champion Koválek dies at 77; Heritage sites hiring guides for upcoming season; Czech Made, episode 1: Sugar Cube

Although there is still little clarity on what the upcoming tourist season in the Czech Republic will look like, several monuments in the Pardubice region are searching for new guides. This year the pool of applicants is much more varied than before...

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Communist Party like to support extension of state of emergency

Lubomír Kaválek, an international grandmaster of chess who won national championships in Czechoslovakia and in the United States after defecting to the West in 1968, has died at the age of 77. Once ranked no. 10 in the world, after retiring from i...

The production of cars in the Czech Republic – one of the country’s most important industries – declined by no less than 19.2 percent last year. The biggest drop-off in output ever seen stems from restrictions imposed to curb Covid-19 that ret...

Lower house approves bill on mandatory quotas on sale of domestic goods

When was the last time you sweetened your tea of coffee with a cube of sugar? Today we take the small compact units of sugar, the exact size of a teaspoon, for granted, but it was not until 1843 that the sugar cube first saw the light of day on the ...

Health minister sacks his deputy for unethical conduct

President Zeman gets inocultated against Covid-19

Covid risk index rises once again

Germany likely to put Czechia on list of high-risk states on Thursday

Miroslav Kalousek resigns his deputy’s seat

Broadcast in English - 01/19/2021

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, some 25 new foreign brands entered the Czech Republic’s market in 2020, one more than in the previous year, according to a new survey carried out by the company Cushman & Wakefield, published by the daily Aktuálně....

The Czech lighting and glass artworks company Lasvit has just completed another major project, installing a huge glass and steel pendulum in a medical centre in Abu Dhabi. The stunning, pen-like structure is suspended above a lobby, drawing various ...

For a third day running now, the Czech Republic’s coronavirus epidemic has been improving according to the government’s PES counter-epidemic system indicators. However, apart from the reopening of children’s clothing shops and stationeries, th...

Count Zdeněk Sternberg dies at 97

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2021 is an election year in the Czech Republic. Predictions about political developments in any country are difficult under normal circumstances, much less in the midst of a global pandemic. Nevertheless, Vít Pohanka asked Petr Just, a political sc...

Shops selling stationary products and children’s clothing reopen

Lower house to debate coronavirus related issues

Chcípl PES initiative to set up political movement against restrictive measures

Swimming centre in Podolí declared national cultural monument

Covid risk score remains at 70 but reproduction number again grows

British mutation of Covid confirmed in Czech Republic

Foreign Minister Petříček catches Covid

Stationery and children’s clothes shop allowed to open Tuesday

Broadcast in English - 01/18/2021

Number of reported crimes falls by 17 percent year-on-year

Czech foreign troops continue to be deployed in Mali as part of the European Union mission in the West African state. The Czech contingent is mainly involved in field training and is also in charge of guarding the two main Allied bases. In addition...

The Nazis operated Terezín (Theresienstadt in German) as a transit ghetto between late 1941 and May 1945. They first used the fortress town north of Prague to intern mainly Czech Jews, before the arrival of Jewish prisoners from other countries mad...

The Czech Republic is the last country in the European Union where children under the age of three are placed in institutional care rather than with foster parents. Over 1200 children a year, a quarter of them toddlers, are committed to orphanages e...

Four Czechs must quarantine before Australian Open

Shadow Country earns most nominations for Czech Lions 

A horse-drawn sled ride around the Kladruby nad Labem National Stud Farm.

Sunday sees fewest confirmed new Covid cases this year

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Covid risk index in level four bracket for fifth day in row

Stationery shops, children's wear and lingerie stores likely to open on Tuesday

Czech foreign minister condemns Navalny arrest in Moscow

Speed skater Martina Sáblíková wins bronze at European All-around Championship

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Avalanche alert in Jeseníky Mountains

Government to debate possible easing of measures on Wednesday

Lawsuit over blocked EU subsidy to Agrofert company suspended

Finance Ministry reports 5.7 percent drop in tax revenues in 2020

Just over quarter of seniors in over 80 bracket have registered for inoculation

Number of Covid-19 cases slowly but steadily dropping

Pedagogoue, publicist, writer and the founder of the Czech Olympic Committee Stanislav Guth-Jarkovský was born 160 years ago on January 23, 1861 in Heřmanův Městec.

Garage is a raw and energetic style of rock and roll that flourished in the mid-1960s, most notably in the United States and Canada. Here in the Czech Republic, its most famous representative is the band Garáž.

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Czechs marking anniversary of Jan Palach’s self-immolation

New British variant of Covid-19 may be present in Czech Republic

Skoda not to sponsor WHC if held in Belarus

Spread of Covid epidemic slowing

People over 80 registering for vaccine against Covid-19

Czech health minister seriously concerned over cut-back in Pfizer vaccine deliveries

Broadcast in English - 01/16/2021

A new book, published by the Czech Philharmonic in collaboration with the National Heritage Institute and the National Technical Museum, pays tribute to one of Prague’s most beautiful landmarks, the Rudolfinum concert hall. On the space of five hu...

Broadcast in English - 01/15/2021

This Friday, January 15, registrations opened for the priority vaccination group of people over the age of 80. A tenth of the relevant population segment registered online within one hour but several people have reported problems in the process such...

The city of Prague started testing a new system that should prevent the loss of satellite signal in the city’s tunnels. The system, which should make life easier for drivers who rely on car-navigation technology, is currently being tested in Pragu...

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Avalanche alert in Jeseníky Mountains

As the numbers of faithful in Europe decline, the question has arisen about what to do with the many churches that are being decommissioned, says Architect Marek Jan Štěpán who is particularly well known for his modern designs and reconstructions...

Motorcycle rider Martin Michek places 9th at Dakar

Number of newly detected Covid cases dropping

Czech archaeologist Evžen Neustupný dies at 87

Majority of people say state's response to epidemic “adequate”

People over 80 registering for vaccination

Broadcast in English - 01/14/2021

Pavel Jerie has been a professional conservationist for more than half a century, serving as general director of the National Heritage Institute in Prague when many would be easing into retirement. He continues to crisscross the Czech Republic to ad...

The city of Prague has opened a furniture bank, which collects old furniture and other household appliances for socially disadvantaged people and low-income families, who lack finances to buy new furnishing. The operation of the furniture bank is b...

The Czech mortgage market expanded by no less than 38 percent in 2020, according to estimates published by the ČSOB bank group. Banks provided around CZK 250 billion in mortgage loans last year, which was a new record.

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Scientists still fighting to save Northern White Rhino

Director of State Institute of Public Health resigns over vaccination scandal

Details of vaccine reservation system unveiled

Photos of people bathing in icy rivers and lakes have been increasingly common on Czech social media in recent months, with otužování, as it is called in Czech, becoming a real trend. But what is ice swimming or dipping actually like? And are the...

Heavy snow complicating traffic

Covid-19 epidemic gradually slowing

838,000 now in priority Covid vaccination group

Blatný denies triage decisions being made over Covid patients

Broadcast in English - 01/13/2021

PM: Up to 75,000 already vaccinated in CR

National census may be postponed

Since 2017, foreigners living in the Czech Republic have been able to download the Praguer app, which offers important information for anyone getting started in the capital. The app, which is run by the Integration Centre in Prague and co-financed b...

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Hamáček: No danger of insufficient medical supplies

Report: Test reservation system sharing data with online firms

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, Czech scientists from Masaryk University in Brno are heading for their annual expedition to Antarctica. Due to the complicated situation, the university has reduced the number of team members to a minimum. Their main g...

Senators want fast-tracking of complaint over early election date declaration

CR on list of regions from which Germany will demand negative test on entry

Inflation in Czechia reached eight year high in 2020

Coronavirus cases on a downward trend, data indicates

European Commission dismisses criticism that it “overslept” on vaccine procurement

Petříček meets with Israeli ambassador to discuss health and science cooperation

Broadcast in English - 01/12/2021

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Jewish community calls on protesters not to use Star of David