Saturday’s rise in Covid-19 cases biggest for a weekend day since late May

JLL survey: Prague ranks 22nd globally in office space per employee

Czech firefighters return from building safety mission in earthquake-hit Haiti

American singer Michael Jackson chose Prague as the opening concert for his HIStory album tour in 1996. The King of Pop’s visit to the Czech capital drove local fans wild.

Antonín Dvořák was born 180 years ago, on September 8, 1841, in Nelahozeves north of Prague and his music is still performed around the world to this day.

Prague Harley Days underway in Czech capital

Krejčíková advances to US Open semi-finals

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Czech Vít Přindiš takes gold at Canoe Slalom World Cup in Spain

Czechoslovak Legionary Association march marks 100th anniversary of its foundation

Placido Domingo to perform in Český Krumlov on Saturday

Covid: reproduction number at highest level since mid-July

Dr Františka Schormová was awarded Charles University’s highest academic accolade this spring for her dissertation titled “African American Poets Abroad: Black and Red Allegiances in Early Cold War Czechoslovakia”. The young literary scholar...

A Medieval treasure encompassing more than 400 silver coins was found in the woods near the South Moravian Castle Lukov recently. Two members of the local castle society found them while picking mushrooms. The coins are now being restored and analys...

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Paralympic swimmer Arnošt Petráček wins silver in Tokyo

Finding a good bricklayer, carpenter, roofer has long been a challenge in the Czech Republic. By some estimates, the domestic market lacks over 300,000 such craftsmen, leading companies to recruit workers from abroad, in particular from Slovakia, Po...

Bollywood Film Festival to screen Chhapaak and award-winning Village Rockstars

Třeboň is a picturesque South Bohemia town with spa facilities that specialise in in the treatment of musculoskeletal disorders, rheumatic diseases, as well as on the general reconditioning of the body and mind. Its historic centre and surrounding...

Average monthly wage reaches 38,275 in 2Q

Covid cases slowly climbing with start of new school year

Czech car manufacturer Škoda Auto started rolling out its most successful model to date, the Octavia, exactly 25 years ago, at its factory in Mladá Boleslav, overhauled to be among the most modern in the whole of Europe.

Kvitová, Plíšková through to third round at Australian Open

Commemorative event at Prague’s Vítkov marks end of Czech Army’s Afghan mission

Covid-19: few positive cases identified in schools across Czechia

US producer Bill Gerber to attend Zlín film festival

Princess Ludmila, grandmother of Czech patron saint “good King Wenceslas”, was the first woman in history known to have de facto rule over Bohemia. She was martyred 1100 years ago this September – killed by assassins dispatched by her daughter...

The tallest building in the Czech Republic, the N Tower in Brno, is to undergo a facelift. The building’s new owners have announced a competition among students of architecture from the Brno University of Technology. The winning design should beco...

USAID: conditions for Czech NGOs have not improved in recent years

Wooden beams from the dome of a church damaged by a tornado in the Moravská Nová Ves village in southern Moravia are being made into a cross for the upcoming visit of Pope Francis to neighbouring Slovakia. The cross, which is almost finished, will...

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Tokyo Paralympics: Anna Luxová wins bronze in women’s shot put

Michal Widenský is a collector and renovator of vintage toys, and boasts what is probably the biggest collection of antique and mechanical toys in the country. He is also a toy stylist photographer with a passion for dioramas.

Prague Sounds festival gets underway 

Czech Centre in New York to honour victims of 9/11 terrorist attack

Ivan Král, who died in February 2020, remains the Czech who had the single biggest impact on rock music, performing and writing with such names as Patti Smith Group and Iggy Pop. Next week two tributes are being held to the late rocker: a requiem m...

Health Ministry preparing large scale study to estimate herd immunity levels in Czech population

Number of detected COVID-19 cases rising for third day in a row

Saint Ludmila, the first historically documented Duchess of Bohemia, was martyred 1100 years ago this September – strangled by assassins sent by her own daughter in law. Best known today as the grandmother and educator of the Czech patron saint �...

A unique medieval manuscript, known as the ‘Lipnice Bible’, has gone on display at the National Library in Prague. The precious Latin codex was loaned by the Museum of the Bible in Washington on the occasion of its 600th anniversary. It will be ...

Finance Ministry sends new budget proposal to government, cutting projected deficit slightly

Czechia free of bird flu, according to World Organisation for Animal Health

Czech children returned to schools on Wednesday for the start of an academic year that, like the previous one, will be marked by Covid-19. But the government does not envisage blanket school closures happening again.

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Prague to host Chris Hemsworth and Netflix’s film crew shooting second season of Extraction

Wednesday sees easing of coronavirus measures in restaurants, sports and culture sector

Czech PM attends Bled Strategic Forum in Slovenia

Adam Peška wins gold in Tokyo Paralympics

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Study: 17 percent of Czech tree species endangered

Covid testing starts as Czech children return to school

Czech international footballer Král joins fellow Czechs at West Ham

Radio Prague International is celebrating its 85th birthday today! We would like to thank all our listeners, readers and folowers for staying with us. As a little present, here is a tour of where we work – the Czech Radio Building on Vinohradská ...

Vít Rakušan re-elected leader of Mayors and Independents

Covid cases recorded on Monday up on same day last week

Radio Prague International celebrates 85th anniversary

Although the origins of foreign language broadcasting on Czech Radio stretch as far back as 1926 – in the form of English and French lectures about Czechoslovakia – the birth of the foreign language service is traditionally dated to August 31, 1...

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Fraud case relating to PM Babiš returned to police for further investigation

Majority of Afghans evacuated from Kabul wish to remain in Czech Republic

Czech diplomatic mission in Kabul closed

With the number of Covid cases expected to rise in the autumn, the Czech Ministry of Health has recommended inoculating seniors and other high-risk groups of the population with a third dose of a Covid vaccine. Registration for the booster shots cou...

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Office for the Supervision of Political Parties says President Zeman violated the election law

With the fallout of the NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Belarusian regime helping  migrants illegally cross the border into EU member states, security questions are currently at the forefront of foreign  affairs in the European Union. To ...

President signs into law bill on higher pensions

Registration for third Covid vaccine to begin September 20

EC warns Czech Republic to address conflict of interest issue or lose money

Salaries in the Czech Republic probably increased by between 7.5 percent and 13 percent in the second quarter of this year, according to economists interviewed by the Czech News Agency. In a piece on Monday, the wire service said that once inflation...

The 55TH edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival ended with the traditional gala closing ceremony on Saturday evening. Hollywood stars Johnny Depp and Ethan Hawke were among the special guests, while a drama exploring the situation o...

Dožínky is the traditional name for harvest festival used in many Slovanic cultures. Centuries old customs include tying the last sheaf of corn and creating floral wreathes. The picture shows a procession in Vesec, a district of Liberec.

Covid-19: reproduction number increases to 1.06

NATO military exercise Ample Strike gets underway in Czechia

Jan Kopecký wins Barum Czech Rally Zlín for ninth time

Household expenditures dropped by 2.2 percent in 2020

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Health Minister: third Covid vaccination could begin in mid-September

Tokyo Paralympics: Czech Aleš Kisý wins bronze in men’s shot put

Covid-19: reproduction number remains above 1

“As Far as I Can Walk” takes top prize at Karlovy Vary

The cycle of symphonic poems My Country by Bedřich Smetana is one of the best-known pieces of Czech classical music. Harp soloist Jana Boušková selected three movements from the cycle for her latest CD.

Jiří Srnec, a theatre director, stage designer and composer, who was born on August 29, 1931, is enjoying success all over the world with his unique Black Theatre.

Aid to Afghanistan: nearly 4 million crowns collected in Czechia

Elections: Czechs living abroad have until midnight Sunday to register

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President Zeman, advisors discuss budget with PM Babiš, but not BIS wiretapping claim

Covid-19: Reproduction number above 1 for third day

Film: Karlovy Vary fest wraps on Saturday night

Football: Sparta Prague faces Olympique, Glasgow, Brondby

“Poděbrady is for the heart”: that is the motto of Central Bohemia’s main spa resort, which for nearly a century has specialized in cardiology. Besides top-class balneology, the charming town on the banks of the Elbe River boasts a beautiful ...

Covid-19: Czechs to include Germany on high-risk map

Covid-19: Government to discuss possibility for third vaccine dose

An ancient book recently found in a Berlin library sheds new light on the history of the Krkonoše or Giant Mountains. Most of the earliest written records of human activity in the area date back to the mid-16th century. But the newly discovered boo...

Tennis: Vondroušová, Martincová and Siniaková eliminated in US quarter-finals

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Archaeologists discover two prehistoric settlements in Hradec Králové region

Prague Court rejects alleged Russian fraudster's asylum suit

Czech PM, German President discuss bilateral relations, Covid, Afghanistan

Several hundred primary schools across the country will introduce a new approach to teaching 20th century history starting in September. As part of a Ministry of Education-backed pilot project, teachers should begin implementing research-based learn...

Covid-19: Czech Republic fourth least-affected EU state

US actor Johnny Depp arrives in Karlovy Vary

Frank-Walter Steinmeier: Czech-German relations could not be better

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier is currently on a three-day visit to the Czech Republic. The German head of state is meeting with leading Czech officials, including President Miloš Zeman and Prime Minister Andrej Babiš. In an historic fir...

Czechs have been forking out more money for nearly everything – and flowers are no exception. The price of garden plants and conifers has made gardening an expensive hobby and even a bouquet of flowers costs significantly more than it did before t...

Study: Czechia offers below average conditions for working women

Every year scores of cheetah cubs are trafficked out of Somaliland to Persian Gulf states to be sold to wealthy buyers as pets. Poverty and criminal networks active in the breakaway African state have made the region a hub for trafficking of the exo...

Czech counterintelligence chief denies president’s wiretapping claims

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Covid-19 cases rising again

German president honours Czechoslovak paratroopers from Operation Anthropoid

Babiš: Czech Republic will not be negotiating with Taliban

Senate votes to make June 26 officially the “Day of departure of occupying forces”

E15: KLM asks Czech online travel agency Kiwi.com to stop selling its tickets

Goalkeeper Barbora Votíková signs contract with Paris St. Germain

Czech Army Kabul Embassy team to receive medals

German President: “Czech-German partnership based on strong foundations”

The Czech glassworks Květná has won a prestigious contract for furnishing Rolls-Royce car interiors. The company, based in the Uherské Hradiště region, will provide the cars with a set consisting of a bottle, a bourbon glass and a champagne gl...

A new brain bank, the first of its kind in Central Europe, recently started operating in Prague. The facility contains parts of brain tissue from patients who died of Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease, that have been donated for research. The sampl...

Czech School Inspection detects gaps in education among tens of thousands of students

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