Sunday new Covid cases up on previous week

Oath party removes candidates over failure to produce lustration certs

Minister Maláčová says Social Democrats insist on 6 percent public sector pay rise

Saturday recorded Covid cases up on previous week but hospitalisations fall

Turnout 60 percent for 13 municipal elections

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More and more young adults still living with parents in CR

Thousands in CR in position to get third Covid jab from next week

Czechs rescued in Pakistan may not leave without paying for rescue

King Sihamoni studied in Prague from 1962 to 1975, and calls Czechoslovakia his ‘second home’. He is the only living monarch who speaks Czech.

Along with Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák is perhaps the best known Czech composer. Contemporary accounts from the time of his life show that it was not just Dvořák’s music that made an impression on people, but his character as well.

CT: Over 73,000 Czechs apply for settled status in UK

Covid numbers Friday virtually same as week previously

Volunteers picking up rubbish around Czech Republic within international drive

PM to discuss public sector pay demands with union leaders Monday

NATO and Czech Air Force military show taking place in Moravia-Silesia

Czech women footballers defy expectations to draw with Dutch away

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Czech-born jazz great George Mraz dies at 77

A new exhibition of work by the famous children’s author and illustrator Peter Sís opened this week at the Czech Center in New York. Entitled The Wall, How I Grew Up Behind the Iron Curtain, the show helps confirm a return to relative normality a...

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Minister of Foreign Affairs Jakub Kulhánek was in the Middle East this week with a Czech business delegation, looking to boost bilateral trade with two regional powerhouses: the United Arab Emirates and, more crucially, Saudi Arabia.

Soaring energy prices are one reason the Czech Republic is currently experiencing the highest rate of inflation seen since 2008, the website iHned.cz reported.

Former president Václav Klaus released from hospital

Amazon building new centre in Přerov region

Parliament to debate Bečva River poisoning

Covid numbers rising, but Czechia still third least affected country in EU

Record number of women running in October’s general elections

PM: Government not to blame for rising inflation

Draw for Sparta, wins for Slavia and Jablonec in European football

In the Prague district of Holešovice, a stone’s throw north of the Vltava River, lies one of the largest year-round marketplaces in the entire Czech Republic. The site covering some 11 hectares served as a slaughterhouse and cattle market from 18...

The Czech Republic’s university study support system is outdated and needs to change, according to a newly released study conducted by the Institute for Democracy and Economic Analysis. While in Czechia 1.5 percent of tertiary education expenses a...

Eleven receive Gratias Agit for promoting good name of CR

Newly confirmed Covid cases and hospitalisations on rise

A rare Renaissance shield, which was originally stolen by the Nazis from Konopiště Castle during the Second World War, is now being returned to the Czech Republic by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Representatives of both the museum and Czech inst...

Fatal gas blast due to pipes damaged in renovation work

Satoranský named Czech Basketball Player of Season for record seventh time

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Officials: Zeman has no life-threatening illness

Škoda Auto to halt production for a week due to chip shortage

Czech team knocked-out of European Volleyball Championship after losing to Slovenia

President’s condition is not serious, PM says

Covid tests at the Czech Republic’s schools at the start of the new term did not produce particularly concerning results and such blanket testing will no longer be employed. However, they could be brought back at local level if isolated outbreaks ...

Former President Klaus may be released from hospital by end of this week, spokesman says

Saint Ludmila, the first historically documented duchess of Bohemia, was murdered on the 15th of September in the year 921. Together with her husband Bořivoj I, founder of the Přemyslid dynasty, she sought to spread Christianity throughout the Cze...

Deloitte: Construction of gigafactory would raise GDP by CZK 172 billion

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Blanket testing in schools shows coronavirus cases not rising among schoolchildren

Czechia’s second quarter GDP growth below EU average

Coronavirus: Karlovy Vary and Prague most affected regions

The Czech Centres and National Gallery in Prague have put the finishing touches on a video project showcasing selected artworks in the gallery’s collections from the early Middle Ages to the present day.

Two Czech climbers stranded on Rakaposhi mountain rescued by helicopter

Miloš Zeman grants his 20th presidential pardon

Czechia ranks 22nd in global index of economic freedom

For the first time in history, Batman will be fighting criminals in the Czech lands, specifically in 1980s Prague, where the masked vigilante will try to thwart the plans of a group of Communist mystics.  The story is part of the Batman: The World ...

IEA report: Czechia must abandon coal faster than planned

Martin Loužecký is a long-time skateboarding enthusiast and a graduate in African Studies from the University of Copenhagen. While still a student, he and his friends established a non-profit organization called Skate World Better, which aims to s...

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President Miloš Zeman taken to hospital

Covid-19 incidence rate continues to rise

Two Czech climbers stranded on Rakaposhi mountain start their descent

The Czech Republic needs to do more if it wants to meet the European Union’s energy and climate goals by the year 2030, according to the International Energy Agency.

The Czech Republic’s volleyball players achieved a sensational victory on Monday evening, overcoming recent Olympic champions France in the sport’s European Championships in Ostrava. What’s more, the Czechs didn’t allow the French even one s...

Czechs knock Olympic winners France out of European Volleyball Championships

CR to take part in Commission talks over Babiš conflict of interest

PM’s son testifies for six hours over subsidy fraud case

Daylight saving time to continue in CR for at least five years

Prague has placed seventh overall in Time Out magazine’s 2021 Index of the best cities in the world to live in. The Czech capital was among five European cities to make it into the top 10 of the ranking which focuses on several aspects including c...

Language schools in the Czech Republic are still struggling with a shortage of students, who are not applying for courses in pre-pandemic numbers, even despite the reopening of classrooms. The lack of demand has also caused an exodus of teachers, wi...

Governments, industries, businesses and everyday people worldwide are grappling with how to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic, not least in financial terms. The European Commission has set out a massive, coordinated response to counter the impact o...

Czech women climb tennis’s world rankings after goods showings in NY

Vojtěch: Key Covid indicators give no reason for panic

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Tribute concert for Ivan Král held in Prague

Czech death rate in first half of year one-third up on 2020

The wine, gastronomy and culture festival known as Pálavské vinobraní opened up in the South Moravian town of Mikulov on Friday. Among the guests was also a man symbolically dressed as Wenceslas IV. A traditional part of the festival, the attenda...

Kulhánek: Czechia should not recognise Taliban but some communication necessary

Coronavirus: Sunday hospitalisations highest since mid-June

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Czech Foreign Minister and business delegation visiting Saudi Arabia and UAE

Latest STEM poll puts PM’s ANO party ahead

Snowboarder Eva Samková named this year’s best Czech snowsports athlete

Memorial to miner traditions revealed in Most

Largest number of coronavirus cases detected in Czechia on a Saturday since May

Libeň was annexed to Prague as the last suburb before the establishment of Czechoslovakia. The largest district of Prague 8 has witnessed many historical events.

More than 130 years ago, Czech composer Antonín Dvořák left for the United States, where he spent several years as the head of the National Conservatory of Music. It was there that he composed his most famous symphony From the New World.

Train crash near Trutnov forces firefighters to evacuate over 200 people

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Czech elementary education to be revised on grand scale ahead of new education programme creation

Over 700 sites across Czechia taking part in this year's European Herritage Days

Škoda boss: We will not be able to produce 100,000 cars this year due to chip shortage

Friday sees further rise in coronavirus cases

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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Film festival guests fined for ignoring rule on compulsory respirators

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...

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...