Covid cases on rise for ninth day in row

Senate supports government's proposal to set power price caps

Construction of new Prague bridge over Vltava begins

Czech year-on-year inflation slowed in August, from 17.5 percent in July to 17.2 percent. This followed 13 months of continuous rises. Obviously inflation is still very high, but does this mean the Czech economy has finally turned a corner? I spoke ...

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John Malkovich to premiere one-man show in Prague

Mortgage interest rates increase for another month in row

Supreme Court overturns verdict for man accused of fighting with pro-Russian separatists

Trams ran up and down Prague’s Wenceslas Square in the past and are set to do so again. This plan has now taken another step forward, with the city’s transport authority issuing a public tender to build the necessary lines, Novinky.cz reported.

Second day of Stork’s Nest trial continues

Il Boemo has been selected as the Czech nomination in the Best International Film category in the Oscars. Petr Václav’s movie tells the story of composer Josef Mysliveček and will get its world premiere at the San Sebastian film festival this we...

Bořek Lizec is not just Czechia’s ambassador to Canada but also a man on a mission to track down the history of the many Czech communities in North America. He recently visited Radio Prague International’s studios to talk about Czechia’s sear...

Number of new Covid cases again reaches 3,000 a day mark

Czech government sets power price caps

Czechs to pull out of Russian nuclear institute by end of 2022

Síkela: EU should consider raw materials reserves system

The seventh edition of the VARY°Září festival of light took place in the West Bohemian spa town of Karlovy Vary at the weekend.

The city of Prague is due to have its first major institution dedicated exclusively to dance. Prague councillors have recently signed a memorandum on the construction of a House of Dance, which will be located in the former municipal spa in the dist...

This week sees the release of Good Old Czechs, a powerful new documentary about extremely brave Czech airmen in World War II. Entirely comprised of period footage and with narration read by actors, Tomáš Bojar's film draws on the memoirs of two av...

Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, there was some debate as to what to call her successor. Until then he was known as Princ Charles, but almost immediately news organisations translated the name and called him Král/King Karel. So why the c...

Czech tennis duo Kateřina Siniaková and Barbora Krejčíková defeated their opponents in the US Open final on Sunday, meaning they have now won every major title in tennis doubles. But it was an extremely close game, and at first it was not at al...

Czechia records 17.2 percent rise in inflation in August

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Il Boemo selected as Czech nominee for Oscars

Babiš denies wrongdoing as fraud trial begins in Prague

Czechia’s population rises to 10.526 million

Krejčíková and Siniaková win US Open doubles

Lipavský expects EU members to be united on extending Russia sanctions

Czech PM to attend Queen’s funeral, president says

ANO comes in first in new Kantar poll, followed by Civic Democrats

Finance minister reveals details about national plan for tackling energy crisis

Saturday numbers show coronavirus cases continue to rise

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Síkela: People will start to benefit from EU energy crisis measures by January 2023

Prague Zoo gets male gorilla Kisumu from Austria

Survey: 56 percent think interior minister should resign

Brazilian president Juscelino Kubitschek, who had Czech ancestry, was born on 12 September 1902. He is best known for building a new federal capital, Brasilia.

This Friday, September 16, an open-air concert at the Czech Centre in Paris will be taking place to mark Czechia’s EU council presidency, featuring popular young musicians Emma Smetana and Jordan Haj. In today’s Sunday Music show we’ll be list...

Freedom and Direct Democracy choose presidential candidate

2022 sees rise in number of tick transmitted diseases

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Friday sees Covid cases rise for fifth day in a row

Jakub Tomeček wins European Championships gold in mens skeet

Opposition calls for extraordinary meeting to look at social impact of energy crisis

Fiala hails meeting of energy ministers as a success

EU finance ministers agree on EUR 5 billion loan for Ukraine

EU countries propose using windfall profits from cheaper energy producers to aid consumers

With the death of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday, her oldest son ascended to the throne as King Charles III. Not so many people outside of Czechia know, however, that Charles visited the country a number of times after the fall of communism in 1989,...

UK Embassy in Prague opens book of condolences for Queen Elizabeth II

Two-time Olympic champion and world-record holder Barbora Špotáková officially announced that she is ending her professional career as a javelin thrower on Friday. Špotáková is one of the most successful sportswomen in Czech history.

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Queen Elizabeth II, who passed away on Thursday, is fondly remembered by many Czechs. Not least thanks to her visit to the country in March 1996, when she met with the then president Václav Havel and chatted with locals on Charles Bridge. One of th...

Javelin Olympic champion Barbora Špotáková announces end of career

Prague Art Week 22 festival gets underway in Czech capital

Poll: Confidence in government at 36 percent

Covid infection rate continues to accelerate

Flags at Prague Castle flown at half-mast in tribute to Queen Elizabeth II

US defence chief visits “Anthropoid” church in Prague

Czech leaders offer condolences following death of Queen Elizabeth II

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The City of Pilsen has completed a decade-long renovation of the Semler Residence, a striking interwar apartment designed by the pioneering modernist architect Adolf Loos.

Czech PM attends Dutch LNG terminal opening ceremony

A new monument, called The Return of the Stones, has been unveiled at the Old Jewish cemetery in Prague’s district of Žižkov. It is made out of fragments of tombstones from derelict Jewish cemeteries that were cut up into cobblestones during the...

Poland hopes Czech government will return 368 hectares of land

Czechia withdraws lawsuit against European Commission

Síkela: Czech gas storage filling despite Nord Stream 1 closure

All eyes will be on Brussels on Friday, when Europe’s energy ministers meet to discuss ways of tackling soaring power prices. The head of the European Commission has proposed capping Russian gas prices – but the Czech presidency of the EU is fir...

Jurečka: Govt. plan to alleviate energy crisis should be announced next week

Unemployment rose to 3.4 percent in August

Anti-drug coordinator: Czechia could soon legalise sale and growing of marijuana

Finance minister: Czechia has enough energy to last until end of next April

Síkela: Czechia will try to exclude price cap on Russian gas from EU energy ministers’ talks

Prague’s graffiti-covered John Lennon Wall was a symbol of freedom in the final decade of communism. Now it has been repainted by artists from all around Europe in a project that is part of the Czech presidency of the EU.

Czechia could send up to 1,200 soldiers to NATO’s eastern border from next year

PPF and Home Credit leave Russian market

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Fiala: Czechia and Poland have renewed cooperation on Stork II pipeline

Válek at EU health ministers meeting: We want cooperation on cancer treatment

According to unofficial data, there could up to ten thousand teachers and teaching assistants among Ukrainian refugees in Czechia. However, only between one to two thousand of them are actually working in Czech schools at the moment. The Ministry of...

Court to hand out tickets for Stork’s Nest trial

Press: Together group drop idea of fielding presidential candidate

Plzeň play first Champions League group game at Barcelona

Fiala: National energy plan will supplement or replace EU solution

Analysts: Slow in industrial output growth sign of looming recession

EU energy ministers to consider two Czech proposals at Prague meeting

Sunflowers of Hope is the name of a new project launched in cooperation with Prague City Hall and the city’s Ukrainian Embassy. Using Ukraine’s national flower as a symbol, it seeks to combine financial donations with messages of emotional suppo...

This week sees the long anticipated premiere of the most expensive Czech film in history. Medieval, or Jan Žižka as the film is being marketed in Czechia, cost around 450 million crowns and stars actors such as Michael Caine, Ben Foster and Til Sc...

Ex-NATO official Pavel launches campaign for presidency

 Archaeologists in Prague are currently uncovering a monumental building from the Stone Age. The so-called roundel, built around 7,000 years ago, is located in the district of Vinoř on the outskirts of the city. Experts are hoping that the researc...

Prague’s Clam-Gallas Palace reopens after major renovation

Plíšková reaches quarter-finals at US Open but Kvitová exits

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Prague EU health ministers meeting starts Tuesday evening

Fiala reiterates assertion Prague protest organised by pro-Russian elements

Czech leaders welcome election of Truss as new UK PM

Union leaders call demonstration in Prague for October 8

Ex-minister gets apology and compensation for wrongful prosecution

Union leaders meet in Prague to demand action on poverty

Saturday saw tens of thousands of people demonstrating on Prague’s Wenceslas Square against what they see as government mishandling of the energy crisis. Among the attendees were also members of hard left and hard right parties, many of them carry...

A memorial dedicated to Czech RAF pilot Josef František, who died on October 8, 1940, while returning from a patrol flight, was unveiled in Surrey in South East England on Sunday.

The Czech women’s ice hockey team beat Switzerland 4-2 in the bronze medal match at the World Championships in Denmark on Sunday, winning their first medal from a major tournament. The Czechs dominated from the start and claimed the biggest succes...

Real wages in Czechia fall 9.8 percent in second quarter

Czech women third at hockey worlds in historic success

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Big budget Jan Žižka gets Prague world premiere

Over 130 classic Tatra cars took part in the 53rd International Tatra Vintage Rally in Czechia’s Beskid Mountains at the weekend. The model pictured is a Tatra 603-3.

Average wage up to CZK 40,086 but down in real terms

Tennis: Krejčíková and Siniaková advance to US open quarterfinals

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Czech women’s ice hockey team takes World Championships bronze

Some 500 Ukrainians attend "March of Gratitude" through central Prague

Czech mountaineer dies in Italian Alps

Industry and Trade Ministry approves loan for energy companies EPH and Sev.en Energy

Number of Covid cases down after six days of slight increase

Tennis: Kvitová and Plíšková through to US Open fourth round

Hana Zagorová, one of the country’s most popular singers and a nine-time winner of the Golden Nightingale award died last week at the age of 75. In today’s edition of Sunday Music show we mark her long and successful career, during which she re...

This tragic event went down in the history of Czech criminology as the case with the largest ever number of defendants – the police charged 61 people in the scandal.

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Seventeen people injured after carousel collapses at funfair in Havířov

Czech women’s ice hockey team suffers 1-10 defeat to US