Dry February gains fresh importance due to coronavirus crisis

Validity of paper motorway vignettes expires

Covid numbers drop slightly, but risk index up

The lyrical nostalgic Czech comedy ‘Cutting it Short’ (Postřižiny) about small town life, based on the famous short story by Bohumil Hrabal, premiered in February 1981. The film generated extraordinary interest and has not lost its appeal over...

In today’s edition of Sunday Music Show we’ll be listening to the children’s opera Brundibár, performed by children at the wartime Jewish ghetto in Terezín.

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Pandemic drives up sales, rents of country cottages

Transport Ministry planning to expand highways to reduce congestion

Interview with actor and director Jiří Mádl

Czech government bans all non-essential travel to the Czech Republic

Czech Republic joins appeal for fast certification, distribution of Covid-19 vaccines

Covid risk index drops to 68 points

Tightened coronavirus measures in effect

Czech government bans non-essential travel to the Czech Republic

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Govt tightens Covid measures; Czechs develop contactless monitor to track Covid patients; Czech Books: Jan Balabán

A team of Czech researchers are developing a unique contactless monitoring system which can both track and predict the development of Covid-19 in a hospitalised patient. The highly sensitive sensors – contained in thin mattress pads – both alert...

Today’s edition of our series The Czech Books You Must Read marks 11 years since the death of the novelist and translator Jan Balabán, who is considered one of the best writers of the post-1989 period. His most highly acclaimed work, a collecti...

The coronavirus pandemic has affected not only sales of new cars, but also sales of second-hand vehicles. The turnover of the Czech Republic’s used car market slumped by 46 percent last year to CZK 61.4 billion, the Czech News Agency reported on F...

Government to release videos fighting fake news about Covid vaccines

Conditions for Czech cross-border workers in Austria still being negotiated

Association of Czech Ski Resorts calling for government aid

Protests against tightened restrictions

With the country still experiencing one of Europe’s worst rates of Covid-19 infection, the Czech government is introducing fresh measures to combat the virus. The focus is on reducing social contact – and in particular deterring people from goin...

Registered Covid deaths pass 16,000 mark

Reproduction number rises but risk index stays in level four bracket

New Covid measures tighten conditions for staying at accommodation facilities

News, Czech vaccien strategy in disarray, Clubhouse platform attractig Czech users, new book commemorates Jan Kaplický

Despite the coronavirus pandemic, Czech state-owned Budějovický Budvar brewery in South Bohemia produced a record amount of beer last year. In fact, it was the largest amount in its entire 125-year history, the news service Seznam Zprávy reported...

Petříček backs postal voting in lower house debate

Czech Republic falls five places in international corruption index

Wednesday Covid figures similar to previous week

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Radio: Ministry purchasing syringes unsuitable for Pfizer vaccine

Jiří Mádl has been one of the Czech Republic’s most recognisable young film stars since the mid-2000s, when he shot to fame with massive teen movies. But Mádl is also an accomplished writer and director, winning plaudits for the sensitive low-...

Shortly after the start of the inoculation process against Covid-19, hailed by the government as the light at the end of the tunnel, mounting problems with deliveries to the EU have resulted in confusion and uncertainty about the set timetable. As t...

Clubhouse, a new social media application, gained its first Czech users this month and has expanded quickly. The app, which was released in the spring of last year, has caused excitement in the past weeks among Czech netizens, becoming one of the mo...

Cabinet approves transfer of 5 billion crowns to Defence Ministry

Government debating tighter coronavirus measures

PM refutes news that inoculations should be suspended due to fall out in deliveries

Wednesday is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau by Soviet forces in 1945. Due to the coronavirus, in lieu of traditional gatherings at Czech sites of remembrance, a memorial e...

The hotel market in Prague has been the hardest hit in Europe since the coronavirus pandemic hit the continent, with a fall-off of 84.6 percent in revenues per room, according to a report published by consultants Cushman & Wakefield on Wednesday.

News, Holocaust Rememberance Day, Footballer Tomáš Souček’s first year for West Ham United, one of the county’s most popular tourist destinations - Český Krumlov. 27.1.2021

Footballer Tomáš Souček made lots of headlines on Tuesday when he scored twice for West Ham United in a victory over Crystal Palace. The game came almost exactly 12 months to the day after the 25-year-old’s debut in the Premier League – and c...

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Holocaust Remembrance Day marked largely online

Former head of police squad for fighting organized crime plans to enter high politics

Czechs drinking more alcohol, popping more pills since pandemic started

Government to debate proposal to open ski resorts

Over 9,000 new Covid cases recorded, reproduction number climbs slightly

Blatný: “UK” Covid mutation not spreading by community transmission in CR

Broadcast in English - 01/26/2021

Snowfall below average so far this winter

Long queues of cars have been forming at the Czech-German border since Sunday morning following the introduction of tighter restrictions for travel into Germany. The new measures affected mainly cross-border workers commuting to Bavaria, who have be...

Number of non-nationals in workforce triples in decade

Liberec police chief fired over illegal party

The vaccination of vulnerable groups against Covid-19 is taking longer than anticipated in part due to production bottlenecks. Some politicians and health experts are calling on the Czech government to buy supplies from companies not party to the Eu...

Cinema operators reject planned new level four conditions

Jágr among names calling for Hnilička to stay in sports post

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National covid risk index falls slightly

Blatný: No plan to buy vaccines not approved by EU

ANO MP Hnilička gives up seat over illegal party

Czech national Covid vaccinations chief Blahuta quits

Broadcast in English - 01/25/2021

The Czech circus ensemble Cirk La Putyka has enlivened windows of closed shops, pubs and bars as part of the #kulturunezastavis initiative (“Culture cannot be stopped”). Actors, acrobats and musicians performed in the centre of Prague.

Closed ski centres have forced Czechs to switch from downhill to cross country-skiing, Hospodářské noviny reports. According to the daily, an increasing number of Czechs are spending their free time on cross country tracks. Producers and retailer...

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Health insurance company chief to remain in post despite questioned vaccination

The accordion has played a central role in Czech folk music for centuries, and remains a favourite instrument of many chanson signers here, such as Radůza – who is so well known, she goes by a single name. Among the Czech youth carrying on the in...

Police in South Bohemia are increasingly struggling with illegal miners of moldavites, bottle-green gemstones found almost exclusively on the territory of the Czech Republic. The rich deposits of the gem found in the area attract hordes of i...

Hundreds of WWII mines found in woods

Covid risk index remains in level four bracket

Medical worker Covid vaccine register to open Tuesday

PM wants sports commissioner’s head over illegal party

Traffic jams form at border crossings to Bavaria

Sunday saw lowest number of new Covid cases in over a month

February to bring colder weather to Czechia

Main Trilobit Award goes to documentary Caught in the Net

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Czech politicians condemn Russia’s arrest of Navalny protesters

Vaccine registration for people below 80 to be postponed

Eva Samková wins snowboard cross World Cup race in Italy

Number of hospitalised with Covid-19 drops below 6,000

This week marks 130 years since the death of Ignaz Schustala - the founder of the Nesselsdorfer Wagenbau-Fabriks-Gesellschaft, which later became Tatra.

Zdeněk Mácal, one of the most prominent Czech conductors of the present day, turned 85 in January. For political reasons, Mácal first gained recognition abroad, and only later shone on the music scene in his native country.

Forecasters issue snow and black ice alert

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Some 200 people in Prague protest in support of Alexei Navalny

Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines deliveries to Czechia to be cut down by 20 percent

Flock culled after bird flu detected at farm in south Bohemia

New book by Petr Sís: "Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued".

Czech national Covid risk index drops to 69

Germany adds Czechia on list of high-risk countries

Nicky & Vera, the latest work by the great Czech-born children’s author and illustrator Petr Sís, is being published on January 26, the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Subtitled A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Re...

Bankrupt entrepreneurs may be able to draw a so-called compensation bonus of 500 crowns per day, retroactively, if their businesses were impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, according to an amendment approved by MPs and government proposals.   

Anna Fernstädt takes silver in World Cup skeleton event in Germany

A Czechoslovak veteran of World War II who fought in the battles of Tobruk and Dunkirk has died at the age of 101, Czech Television reported. Bernard Papánek, who immigrated to Israel in the 1960s lived out his final days in Slovakia, where he died...

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Bird flu detected in Czechia after year-long absence

Assessing measures to counter the spread of coronavirus on Thursday, European Union leaders agreed to introduce a new category of “dark red” zones, indicating areas of exceptionally high Covid-19 risk to which all non-essential travel should be ...

Government extends state of emergency until February 14

Forty-two Czechs so far qualify for Tokyo Olympic Games

Czechia certain to be on EU’s “dark red” Covid risk zone, WWII veteran Bernard Papánek dies at 101,    Interview with Czech anthropologist Zdeňka Sokolíčková who is  studying how local people perceive the effects of climate change in ...

 Škoda Auto’s production dropped to 750,000 in 2020

Schools in Czechia could reopen for final-year students

For nearly two years, Czech anthropologist Zdenka Sokolíčková has lived in Svalbard with her husband and three children, studying how local people perceive the effects of climate change. What was it like adapting to life high up in the Arctic? An...

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