On the morning of September 11th, 2001, Czech-born architect Jiří Boudník was working on a new federal courthouse in Brooklyn, three subway stops from the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan. After a second airplane hit the Twin Towers, and ord...

The popularity of Prague’s historic centre among tourists has left it dotted with various bars, restaurants and clubs. Many of these businesses are still struggling after the coronavirus pandemic substantially cut travel to the Czech capital. But ...

Inflation in the Czech Republic rose by 4.1 percent year-on-year in August, the most significant increase since November 2008, according to the Czech Statistics Agency. The rise in prices is being felt both in the cost of commodities and services, b...

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After more than a two-year break, caused by Covid-related restrictions, Czech archaeologists have returned to Israel to continue excavations at the Tel Motza temple. Experts say the discovery of the shrine from the time of King Solomon, which matche...

Film festival guests fined for ignoring rule on compulsory respirators

Tests will not be needed ahead of school swimming lessons

Mafia, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, or Machinarium – those are some of the internationally most successful Czech video games. The industry has been identified as a high growth sector by the Czech government and could receive state funding in the fut...

Inflation up by 4.1 percent in August, the highest increase since November 2008

Art Lines wins jury's award for Best Project at Venice Glass Week

Booster shots against Covid to be administered after September 20

Number of people hospitalized with Covid rising

Prague court finds four former communist secret service men guilty of harassing dissidents

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Researchers develop simple test to identify people at risk of developing severe Covid infection

 Publishing houses in the Czech Republic are struggling with a shortage of paper and cardboard, which, in some cases, forces them to postpone the release of planned titles. As a result, there could be fewer books in stores at Christmas and the pric...

Dr Eva Lehečková, a prominent linguist at the Institute of Czech Language of the Academy of Sciences, has been named the next dean of Charles University’s philosophical faculty. She is replacing as dean a historian who refused to allow a billboa...

Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde holds talks in Prague

Covid cases growing, highest incidence in Karlovy Vary

Third round of blanket testing in schools

Former Storks’ Nest manager testifies against PM in fraud case

America’s “Second City” has a long Czech history. Once home to a lively community of immigrants from Bohemia and Moravia, the suburb of Cicero still has a school named after the first Czechoslovak president Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk. Nearby “...

US Open: Karolína Plíšková defeated in quarterfinals by Maria Sakkari

Festival 4+4 Days in Motion gets underway in Prague

Police to question Czech PM’s son about alleged kidnapping to stop him testifying in EU subsidy fraud case

A new kind of lab test could make the detection of coronavirus antibodies faster and cheaper, according to scientists from the Czech Academy of Sciences who are behind its development. A license agreement for its industrial production has already be...

Czech PM awards medals to diplomats, soldiers others involved in Afghanistan evacuation mission

A new organization, dedicated to the development of renewable energy sources, will start operating in Prague in October. One of the main goals of the Prague Renewable Energy Community, which was approved by city councillors this May, will be install...

Czech who fought with Ukrainian secessionists sentenced to 20 years

Novelist, essayist and playwright Jiří Kratochvil is one of the most respected Czech contemporary writers.  Over his career, spanning more than 50 years, he has published dozens of novels and short story collection, which have been translated in...

Prague building car parks by terminus metro stations, raising prices of central ones

Covid-19: 588 new cases detected on Tuesday, most on weekday since late May

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September 11th: Czech Center New York preparing memorial events

Police question Interior Minister over alleged link between unrealised Moscow trip, Vrbětice explosion, Sputnik doses

Malaysian Royal Fund buys Protivín Castle in South Bohemia

Tennis: Barbora Krejčíková eliminated in US Open quarterfinals

Prime Ministers of Czechia, Slovakia and Austria speak against illegal migration

UNICEF: Covid epidemic forced 20,000 Czech children into poverty

Febiofest film festival to kick off with Woody Allen’s new movie

Czech scientists develop new coronavirus test that enables quick identification of antibody levels

Imports of used passenger cars to the Czech Republic in the first eight months of 2021 rose by a fifth year-on-year to 118,593 vehicles, according to the newly released data by the Association of Car Importers. In August alone, Czechs imported 18,20...

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ACK: Agencies focused on foreign tourists struggling in Czechia

Royal Investment Fund buys Protivin Chateau

Czech who fought with separatists in Ukraine receives 20 year jail sentence

Ash trees across the Czech Republic have been dying in recent years as a result of a disease known as Ash dieback, caused by a fungus imported from Asia. Experts say there is no effective defence against its spread and warn of other invasive disease...

EU finance ministers on Monday gave their final approval to the Czech National Recovery Plan, opening the way for the country to receive the first instalment of a 180 billion crown aid package from the EU’s Resilience and Recovery Fund. However, t...

Border crisis and Belarus in spotlight as Czech Foreign Minister visits Lithuania

Health Minister: Czechia on the brink of another Covid epidemic wave

Pandemic highlights inability of state bodies to help victims of domestic violence

Opposition says Babis govt could jeopardize payment of EU funds

Despite problems associated with deliveries of raw materials and components, analysts questioned by the Czech News Agency agree that Czech industry is doing well and could reach double digit growth this year.

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Despite COVID-19 vaccination rates falling over the past several weeks in the Czech Republic, the country’s Health Ministry has raised its vaccination target from the original 70 to 75 percent. A new campaign is now being rolled out by the ministr...

A team of Czech and German scientists has found DNA evidence of at least three hitherto unknown migratory waves that passed through Bohemia in prehistoric times. By studying the remains of 271 people who lived between the years 4900 to 1600 BCE, the...

Journalist and film critic Hynek Pallas grew up in a notable Czech household in Sweden, where his dissident family settled after being forced out of Czechoslovakia. From their home, his father Jiří Pallas ran the label Šafrán 78, releasing music...

Members of the Czechoslovak Legionaries Association took part in a ceremonial march through Prague to celebrate their 100th anniversary at the weekend. The Czechoslovak Legionaries Association is the oldest veteran organization in the Czech Republic...

EU finance ministers endorse Czech National Recovery Plan

Unemployment drops to 3.6 in August

Krejčíková reaches the quarterfinals of US Open

Covid cases slowly rising with start of new school year

Prague unable to meet EC deadline for mechanism against conflict of interest

Dvořák Prague Festival opens Monday evening in Rudolfinum

Football: Czechs lose to Belgium in World Cup qualifier, still second in Group E

Polish PM: Dispute with Czechia over Turów coal mine will “fade away” after elections

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Health Minister: facemask rules can be lifted once 75 pct of population is immunized

Constitutional Court head warns in Terezín memorial speech of dwindling solidarity, humanity

Tennis: Plíšková advances to US Open round 16

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...

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.

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

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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