Registered Covid infections in CR passes 1.6 million mark

Top epidemiologist: Positive tests at schools likely to rise

“Paper” phase of Czech national census starts

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Arts minister: Covid status app could help audiences return to events

Babiš reportedly blocks Hamáček Moscow trip to discuss Sputnik V

New health minister calls for gradual easing of anti-Covid restrictions

April 16 marks the 30 year anniversary of Czech car manufacturer Škoda Auto becoming part of Volkswagen Group. Since then, Škoda has become one of Volkswagen’s most successful brands, active in over 100 countries and producing over a million car...

Communist leadership divided over state budget deficit

Activists place naked Putin effigy outside Russian embassy in Prague

Czech photographer Tomáš Vocelka has won the prestigious Sony World Photography Award in the Architecture and Design category. He picked up the prize for his series 'Eternal Hunting Grounds', which explores the fascinating transformation of a form...

Five Czechs nominated for EU Literature Prize for new, emerging writers

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Police accuse defunct International Children’s Cross of fraud

The impacts of the coronavirus crisis on real estate is making rentals more affordable and is encouraging young people to move away from their parents much sooner than they could normally afford to.

Ice hockey playoffs: Třinec and Liberec to meet in final

Football: Slavia Prague knocked out of Europa League quarter-final by Arsenal

Epidemic slowing, inoculation process gaining speed

Jakub Kulhánek to be appointed foreign minister on April 21

Opposition parties want PM to ask lower house for confidence vote

The alleged racist remark made by Slavia Prague’s Ondřej Kúdela during a game with Glasgow Rangers has been hotly debated by fans and media pundits both in Czechia and in the UK. We asked journalist Jiří Hošek how he views the resulting UEFA ...

A Jewish cemetery in the Moravian town of Hranice dating back to the 17th century, neglected for decades and slated for demolition under Communist rule, is now finally being restored.  

Czech president to UEFA: punishment for Kúdela blatantly unfair

Archaeologists in Brno have announced a unique discovery. During a dig in the city’s Vídeňská Street, they unearthed fragments of a skull of the now extinct woolly rhinoceros. It was most likely killed by prehistoric hunters, who resided in the...

In a new prognosis the Czech Ministry of Finance says it expects economic growth of 3.1 percent this year. At the same time officials say that the budget deficit will reach 8.8 percent of gross domestic product in 2021.

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President Zeman: Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan is a mistake

Waldorf school faces 3 million crown fine for allowing untested children to return to school

Candidate for foreign minister outlines plans and priorities

Slovak prime minister holds talks in Prague

Czech photographer picks up Sony World Photography Award

Gracenote Sports: Czechs will win 11 medals in Tokyo

Coronavirus hospitalisations at lowest number since Christmas

UEFA gives Slavia Prague's Kúdela 10 match ban for insult during Rangers game

Finance Ministry expects economy to grow by 3.1 percent in 2021

Zeman to meet foreign minister candidate on Thursday

Hamáček will travel to Moscow to discuss Sputnik vaccine

Hamáček wants Biden and Putin to meet in Prague

Hotels and accommodation service in the Czech Republic look could face another rough summer. The last week of June so far shows only half occupancy, wither earlier dates even less booked. Jan Herget, director of the state agency CzechTourism, wants ...

After years of a slow but gradual increase, the population of elks in the Czech Republic has started to decline. According to a new study, carried out by Czech scientists, together with their colleagues from Germany and Austria, the main factor behi...

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In the first half of the 20th century, the Czech entrepreneur Jindřich Waldes was known as the “king of snap buttons”, and nearly as famous as the founder of the Baťa shoe dynasty, a major client. In fact, he was fond of saying “If Baťa can...

Hradec Králové signs historic contract to build football stadium

CzechTourism: Government should have clear re-opening plan

Rent for small flats in Prague fell by more than 15 percent

Vaccine registration opens up to over 65s

After the Social Democrats’ initial candidate for foreign minister rejected the opportunity to succeed Tomáš Petříček, the party announced a new nominee on Tuesday night: hitherto deputy interior minister Jakub Kulhánek. However, critics que...

Over 2.2 million jabs administered in Czech Republic so far

Communists cancel deal to support coalition on key votes

Jakub Kulhánek set for foreign minister’s post

More than 140 works of art are set to be put up for auction this month at the Adolf Loos Apartment and Gallery in Prague. They include art from some of the most renowned Czech painters such as Alfons Mucha, Toyen and Jan Presiler.

Minister Hamáček collapses, citing pressure

Covid deaths in CR pass 28,000 mark

After more than a decade spent abroad, mainly in Bristol and Stockholm, Czech researcher Anežka Kuzmičová is now conducting research into children’s reading at the Institute of Czech Language and Theory of Communication at Charles University....

Police ordered to reinvestigate sale of Nazi-themed goods

For several years now, the Czech Republic has had one of the highest incidence of tick-borne diseases in Europe, including tick-borne encephalitis. Now, a Czech-American team of scientists has come up with effective antibodies against the potentiall...

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Czechs have 44 starting places 100 days before Tokyo Olympics start

Arts minister Zaorálek rejects offer of move to Foreign Ministry

One of the tight restrictions that remain in place following an easing of Covid measures on Monday, is that no more than two people can gather indoors and out. However under pressure from sports associations, which are eager to get young people back...

The Jawa brand of motorcycles has become iconic with reliable and easy to maintain machines. In their golden era of the 1950s and 1960s, Jawas were extremely popular, with millions exported abroad to countries such as the USSR, India as well as seve...

Limited sports training allowed

“Brazil” mutation detected in Czech Republic not the current highly aggressive variant

Nuts, coconut oil or ghee butter - these are just some of the foods that have become increasingly popular during the Covid-19 pandemic, Czech Radio reported, citing newly released data by the largest Czech deal-of-the day website Slevomat. Overall, ...

Tomáš Petříček, the man who has been in charge of Czech diplomacy for over two years, will no longer be minister of foreign affairs, both Mr. Petříček and Social Democratic Party leader Jan Hamáček announced on Monday. He will likely be re...

The monumental golden wings, gracing the Art Nouveau building of Prague’s main train station, are back in their place after a nearly year-long renovation.

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A state of emergency imposed to combat alarming Covid numbers in the Czech Republic has ended after more than six months, replaced by a law on pandemics. In addition, children have returned to schools and pre-schools, a ban on travel between distric...

Government’s inoculation campaign ready to roll

Foreign Minister Petříček dismissed from office

Archaeologists unearth remains of woolly rhino in Brno

95 thousand school employees still waiting for jab as schools reopen

People free to travel between districts, but no more than two people can meet indoors and out

New cases of COVID-19 on Sunday at their lowest since mid-September

Bruce Berglund’s fascinating Castle and Cathedral in Modern Prague, published in Czech in January, focuses on the early years of Czechoslovakia, when President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk was forging the new state. This included making Prague Castle ...

Media: Petříček to be replaced by Zaorálek as foreign minister

Civic Democrats, Christian Democrats and TOP 09 sign coalition treaty

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Petr Kellner to be awarded Order of White Lion in memoriam

State of emergency ends, movement between districts restored

President Zeman says he has started using wheel chair

The first telephone call in Bohemia was made on April 10, 1881 between the Hartmann coal mine in Ledvice and a nearby train station in Duchcov, covering a distance of around two and a half kilometres.

Coronavirus: Hospitalisations down, but reproduction number rises

Today’s edition of our Sunday Music Show features singer-songwriter Lenka Dusilová’s latest album, Řeka (“River”, in English), which has been nominated for four Anděl Music Awards (the Czech equivalent to a Grammy), including for Album of...

5 million people filled out national census in two weeks

Earthquake registered in Chebsko

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Archeologists discover 18,000-year-old skull of woolly rhinoceros in Brno

Gorilla dies in Prague Zoo

Friday saw number of new COVID-19 cases continue to fall

Health minister wants inside and outside meetings to be limited to two individuals

Jan Hamáček re-elected leader of the Social Democrats

Czech leaders send condolences upon death of Prince Philip

Health minister: Covid situation improving, new evaluation system being prepared

Over the past two years, construction permit applications in the Czech Republic have soared in anticipation of an EU directive setting stricter environmental rules that would increase costs significantly. The family-owned construction firm LIKO-S in...

POZOR TRAMVAJ! is a new app developed by the company Safe Public Transport. Its Bluetooth-based system sends out warning signals about approaching trams to users of mobile devices and could help prevent the frequent accidents involving pedestrians a...

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Third poll shows Pirates and Mayors ahead of ruling ANO party

Czech Republic hit record vaccination rate on Thursday

This year's Prague Spring could take place in front of audiences

PM: O2 Arena vaccine centre to start operating on May 3

Czech Police helps uncover international criminal ring trading in hormonal substances

Czech PM's Communist State Security Service agent card discovered in Slovakia

The coronavirus crisis has brought the enormous potential of nanotechnology to the fore with nano sanitizers, nano sprays and nano-facemasks selling like never before. However some parents are  now pointing out the possible long-term side effects, ...

Slavia secure draw with late goal at Arsenal

Hamáček facing challengers for top party job at congress

European Court backs CR over compulsory pre-school vaccinations

Josef Průša, founder of a start-up company that has grown to become one of the largest manufacturers of 3D printers and cartridges in the world, has been named Czech ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ by the global consultancy EY. Now 31, he is the yo...

Czech property prices record fourth fastest growth in EU

Beňačková and Hrůša to receive Dvořák Award next week

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MEP Zahradil facing probe for not disclosing Chinese sponsorship

Vystrčil slams Babiš and Zeman after Blatný sacking

Drugs regulator chief says she has discussed vaccine approval with new minister

After a nearly year-long renovation, the monumental golden wings, gracing the Art Nouveau building of Prague’s main train station, are back in their place. The restoration of the sculpture, gilded with 24-karat gold plates, is part of a major face...

Several news sites have now unveiled details of the highly anticipated counter-epidemic system that is to serve as a guideline for the restrictions imposed in individual regions once the state of emergency ends on April 11. Like its predecessor, the...

Names of Holocaust victims to be read aloud

The 1990s were a turning point in the history of Czech animation. The decade marked the beginning of computer animation, which gave filmmakers opportunities that changed the way animated films were made forever.

Fewest new Covid cases for a Wednesday this year

MPs approve electoral law changes on seat allocation, coalition thresholds