Mayors and Independents to run independently in municipal elections

Experts say Omicron wave peaking in Czech Republic

People will be able to register for Novavax vaccine as of February 1

Foreign Minister Lipavsky: Czech Republic supports reinforcements on NATO’s Eastern borders

High rates of inflation and rising energy prices are among the main reasons why Czechs are calling for higher wages. While the government has chosen to freeze salaries for civil servants, companies in the private sector are following demand and incr...

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Covid responsible for 23 percent of deaths in first half of 2021

Krejčíková-Siniaková reach final of doubles competition at Australian Open

Over 50,000 new Covid cases registered on Wednesday

Holocaust Remembrance Day events held around the country

The last US ambassador to Prague shipped out just over a year ago, when Joe Biden was inaugurated president. However, his administration is yet to send a replacement, leading to reports that the Czech government is now pushing for Washington to send...

On the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, on January 27, the Czech Academy of Sciences has launched a new mobile application, created together with the Multicultural Centre Prague and the Terezín Initiative Institute. Called MemoG...

One name resounds in the city of Brno more than any other this year –that of the Augustinian monk, mathematician and biologist Johann Gregor Mendel, born 200 years ago. The Moravian metropolis is paying tribute to the father of genetics with numer...

People who had Omicron do not have to take antigen test at work 30 days after positive PCR test

Czechia to send Ukraine 4,000 artillery rounds

Foreign Ministry: No Czech government politicians will travel to Beijing Olympics

Large number of tests leading to slow-down in Covid tracing system

Czech airline Smartwings first to land Boeing 737 in Antarctica

Czech media entrepreneur Michal Voráček buys Slovak TV station TA3

Czech insurance companies have already paid dozens of millions of crowns for the treatment of complicated Covid cases in exotic countries as well as for repatriation flights to the Czech Republic.

Police launch criminal proceedings against individuals accused of stalking doctors and disinfo

International Holocaust Commemoration Day will see associated events in Prague and Terezín

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Statics show number of pig slaughters declining in Czechia

Constitutional Court rejects alternative conversion of votes into parliamentary seats

Eurostat: EU’s renewable energy consumption growing, but Czechia far behind member state average

Despite increasing fears of a Russian attack, the Czech Republic is not for now withdrawing diplomats home from Ukraine. But the Czech foreign minister, Jan Lipavský, says the country continues to back tough sanctions as the most effective means of...

Vice-Chair of Mayors and Independents gives up seat in Chamber of Deputies

This year marks 130 years since the appearance of the first skis in the Giant Mountains. Count Harrach, a local nobleman, had them brought from Austria in 1892 to be used by his foresters. Skiing quickly took off and started to spread all arou...

Krejčíková and Siniaková reach Melbourne semi-finals

New record: 42,000 Covid cases registered in CR Tuesday

Foreign minister: No evacuation of Kiev Czech Embassy yet

A group of Czech senators have publicly expressed their support for the visiting Tibetan filmmaker and former political prisoner Dhondup Wangchen’s appeal to boycott the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing. The Tibetan film director is currently t...

An international group of scientists, including an expert from the Palacký University in Olomouc, have made a unique discovery. While studying amber fossils in Hungary, they found a beetle dating back dozens of millions of years. The results of the...

Ex-energy regulator chief Vitásková to run for president

One-tenth rise in traffic on Czech roads in half decade

Committee backs powers for school principals to respond to Covid

Report: Czech government wants US ambassador after post empty for year

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Krejčíková beaten in Australian Open quarter-finals

Over 35,000 Covid cases, including reinfections, reported Monday

Lipavský takes part in Blinken-EU talks on Russia threat to Ukraine

The oldest member of the Czech Scout movement, Eduard Marek, died on Sunday at the age of 104. Marek was imprisoned by both the Nazi and Communist regimes and was active in the Czechoslovak resistance. In later life he also made a mark by becoming o...

The first Czech photovoltaic electric plant to float on water was installed in Štěchovice in Central Bohemia. The 22kW facility floats atop of a water reservoir that is part of the local hydroelectric plant. Its power output is set to quintuple by...

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There are around half a million foreigners living in the Czech Republic today, and although raw statistics about how many of them speak Czech are hard to find, it is a commonly-held truth among Czechs and expats alike that most foreigners, particula...

The children of foreign nationals who have opted to settle in the Czech Republic, have the benefits of a dual culture, traditions and multiple language skills. However integrating is not always as easy as it may seem and the challenges they face can...

Average age of cars in CR fifth highest in EU

Krejčíková and Siniaková into Melbourne quarter- finals

Confidence in economy rises for first time in six months

Foreign Ministry to discuss Czech embassy in Kiev Tuesday

Explorer, writer and broadcaster Benedict Allen is known for daring travels to such spots as the Amazon, Papua New Guinea and the Gobi desert. The British adventurer has documented his often solo journeys in a series of books as well as TV programme...

Children over 12 can start registering for booster vaccine

Record Sunday increase in Covid cases recorded in Czechia

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Outbreak of bird flu reported in east Bohemia

Oldest Czech scout Eduard Marek dies aged 104

Health Minister: Covid epidemic to culminate next week with up to 80,000 daily cases

Czechia moves to 19th spot in Social Risk Index

Tennis: Krejčíková through to Australian Open quarterfinals

Record weekend increase in Covid cases recorded in Czechia

Tomáš Kačo is a US-based piano virtuoso from the Czech Republic's Roma minority. On the LP My Home the one-time prodigy performs classical, jazz, folk and Romany music.

Madeleine Albright became the first female Secretary of State on January 23, 1997. She now holds both the Order of the White Lion and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. 

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Hundreds bid last farewell to Czech rally driver Karel Loprais

Czechia insists on EUR 50 million compensation over Poland’s Turów mine

Foreign Minister: Czechia ready to back sanctions against Russia

Krejčíková only Czech singles player to remain in Australian Open

American Hockey League suspends Czech hockey player over racism

Czechia’s Covid-19 seven-day incidence hits record high

This week marks 150 years since the birth of Slovene architect Jože Plečnik who had a significant impact on Prague’s modern architecture. Associated with the Vienna Secession architectural style, Plečnik also influenced Czech Cubism. His projec...

Czech mother Eva Michaláková has lost a case at the European Court of Human Rights over lost parental rights to her two sons. The court in Strasbourg ruled that Norway’s social and judicial services did not breach international law or convention...

State ready to start paying out energy support

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Czech billionaire Karel Janeček to run for president

Lower house committee recommends appointing Michal Koudelka head of BIS

Fresh snow and icy roads complicating traffic around the country

Police officer charged for killing man while on duty

Judges and prosecutors to file complaint against government-imposed salary freeze

Covid: 26,907 cases detected on Thursday, up 40 pct week on week

Australian Open: Krejčíková stages comeback win over Ostapenko

Pile-up blocks traffic on D5 motorway 50km southwest of Prague

Moravia tornado damage image wins Czech Press Photo main prize

Finance Ministry projects 3.1 pct growth, 8.5 pct inflation in 2022

Czech archaeologists have made an unusual discovery while excavating an early medieval burial ground near Tetín castle in Central Bohemia. Among the human remains buried there was a skull which they believe may have belonged to a woman of African o...

The average number of frost days in the Czech Republic, that is days when the minimum daily temperature falls below freezing point, has gradually been falling, according to newly-released data by the Czech Academy of Sciences. Experts warn that this...

Czech billionaire ‘tested’ Bugatti on German autobahn at speeds of over 410 km/hr

ECHR rejects Czech mother’s complaint against Norway over stripping of parental rights

Beijing Olympics: ankle injuries sideline champion Czech snowboarder Eva Samková

As Covid numbers continue to rise steeply, the Fiala government announced on Wednesday that it would invalidate the former government’s directive on mandatory vaccination for selected groups. The move confirms its resolve to pursue an anti-Covid s...

Kevin Loo watched the recently released 'Karel' documentary to finally learn more about the Czech music legend.

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Czech government backs amendment to bolster conflicts of interest law

Covid: Czech seven-day incidence rate climbs to 1,086 per 100,000 inhabitants

Health minister says current work and school testing obligations could stay in place until of Feb

Czech government decides against mandatory vaccination

Senate Foreign Affairs Committee calls on government to ask for apology and compensation from Russia

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Barbora Krejčíková advances into 3rd round of Australian open

After questions about their financing, government coalition member the Mayors and Independents have decided to return millions of crowns they received in donations. The party’s leader says no money is worth risking voters’ trust.

Patients awaiting orthopedic operations delayed by up to 3 years due to pandemic

Government approves legislation for schools to enact extra holidays in case of quarantine

Minister wants to lower transport subsidies by 25 percent

2021 air pollution second lowest in 10 years

As anticipated, a surge in the Omicron variant of coronavirus has led to sharp rise in new infections. Some 28,469 new cases of Covid-19 were recorded on Tuesday – the highest figure in the Czech Republic since the pandemic began. And health autho...

Production of passenger cars in the Czech Republic fell by 4.1 percent year-on-year to 1,105 million vehicles last year. This represents a drop by nearly 23 percent on 2020. Production fell more sharply in the third quarter, when the shortage of com...

Czech mortgage rates make biggest jump in decades

Czech Republic has new record one-day Covid tally of 28,469

Czech woman released from Pakistan jail still unable to leave country

The Czech National Bank expects inflation to continue growing for the next several weeks. The Bank’s director of budgetary forecasts committee, Petr Král, told Czech Radio that inflation should rise to 9 or 10 percent, but is unlikely to exceed t...

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Repeat Covid infections on rise in CR in recent weeks

The Bamberg Symphony, led by Czech conductor Jakub Hrůša, has been awarded the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) prize for best symphonic music for its recording of Symphony No. 4 by Austrian composer Anton Bruckner. This year’s awards...

Kvitová exits Australian Open in first round

Zeman critical of judges over opposition to pay-freeze

MPs expected to lift Babiš immunity over alleged fraud case

Czech folk singer Hana Horká has died after deliberately contracting Covid in order to avoid vaccination. In reaction to her death, her son has lashed out at Czech anti-vaxxers on social media, blaming them for her death.

It has been nearly three years since the opening of the Czech Consulate in Manchester. One of its main tasks has been to offer guidance and support to thousands of Czechs living in the north of England with their applications for settled status in t...

Conductor Jakub Hrůša and Bamberg Symphony Orchestra win ICMA award

Hygiene officers no longer able to trace all contacts as Covid numbers soar