Lipavský demands Chinese explanation for “police stations” in Prague

Unions come out against commercialisation of healthcare

Food collection takes place at over 1,400 Czech shops

Czechs into semi-finals at Billie Jean King Cup after beating US

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Josef Mánes left a rich legacy to the Czech Republic - but also fell afoul of a mysterious curse. What is the identity of the woman with the mysterious smile in his painting Josefína, “the Czech Mona Lisa”? And what is the curse of the astrono...

Škoda increased global sales by 29 percent in October

This year’s celebrations of November 17, the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, will see the centre of Prague and many other cities across Czechia fill up with events and festivities. The organisers of one of the largest annual events, the Fest...

German police arrested 70 Czechs last year for meth trafficking

November 11 is St. Martin's Day, and in Czechia that often means eating roast goose paired with St. Martin's wine. But what is special about this wine, and how do you know you're getting the real thing?

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EC lowers growth forecast for Czech economy

Tennis: Czechs to face US in Billie Jean Cup group decider

Fiala: Combination of nuclear and renewable sources only safe scenario for Czechia

Czechs honour memory of war veterans

Czech and Slovak PMs agree on closer police cooperation at border

Andrea Vytlačilová is only 26 years old – but has the extremely impressive CV you’d expect of a person with many more years of life behind them. Already with work experience under her belt from fashion houses such as Marc Jacobs in New York, ...

Negotiators agree on wording of Czech-American defence treaty

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Prime Minister Petr Fiala is meeting with his Slovak counterpart Eduard Heger this Thursday in Prague. The chief topic on the agenda is the issue of illegal migration and the associated border controls between the two countries which the Czech gover...

Lipavský meets with Georgian foreign minister and PM in Tbilisi

Inflation showing signs of easing

Donated Prague tram has its maiden voyage in Kharkiv

A new Czech Children’s Book Centre has recently opened in Prague with the aim of promoting quality children’s books by small publishers and encouraging a love of reading among the young. The institution, located at Janský Vršek just below Pra...

Dumplings, poppy-seed cakes and Czech traditions help keep the memory of the “old country” alive in the community of second and third generation Canadian Czechs in Saskatchewan province, Canada. A group of local enthusiasts are now also working ...

President wants changes to Prague Castle security checks but police are against

Fiala: Checks on border with Slovakia working and helping tackle illegal migrant route

A major player in the black and white photography market

Government approves setting up of CZK 54 billion programme aimed at helping households save energy

Government proposes scrapping over 10,000 outdated pieces of legislation

Government approves amendment to Energy Act

Czech Architecture Award goes to couple who designed their own home

A previously unknown work by one of the greatest Czech composers, Bohuslav Martinů, was recently discovered in the Israeli National Library in Jerusalem. Czech musicologist Natálie Krátká came across the piece while researching the library’s c...

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Lipavský: Georgia must enact internal reforms to achieve EU candidate status

Czechs in favour of introducing deposits for plastic bottles and cans, according to survey

Statisticians: Tourism back to pre-pandemic numbers in Q3 2022

Finance Ministry expects 2022 Czech GDP growth to reach 2.4 percent

It may be a little known fact, but Czechia houses a company that was once the main producer of photographic materials for the Eastern Bloc. The foundations of Foma Bohemia’s success were set up during the First Czechoslovak Republic. Today, the co...

The case of a man who was allowed to work with children after twice raping a minor has led the authorities to consider blacklisting offenders of child sex crimes.

No fewer than 21 people applied to stand in Czech presidential elections before Tuesday’s deadline for registration, though many may be disqualified. Meanwhile polls suggest Danuše Nerudová is catching up on frontrunners Petr Pavel and Andrej Ba...

Fiala cabinet to revise policy programme over Ukraine war and energy crisis

High number of cyber-attacks recorded in October, says security agency

Seven miniature versions of Prague’s Communist-era brutalist buildings have been installed in a park outside the Malostranská Metro Station. The site-specific project, featuring seven illuminated sculptures cast from concrete, was created by Czec...

A film festival highlighting brave acts of resistance to the Nazi and Communist regimes and the people behind them is currently underway in Prague. Organized by the Museum of 20th Century Memory the festival offers screenings, lectures and debates a...

Translator, writer and tireless promoter of Czech literature Markéta Goetz-Stankiewicz passed away at the age of 95 in Vancouver on Sunday. During the 1970s and ‘80s, she became a crucial link for Czechoslovak dissidents with the West, smuggling ...

Would-be presidential candidates submit signatures on deadline day

Lipavský to visit Georgia Wednesday and Thursday

Prague hosted the largest international fair of cannabis and medicinal herbs of its kind last weekend. Known as Cannafest, the 12th edition of the fair drew great numbers of Czechs of all ages to explore and try out the various legal cannabis produc...

17th All Sokol Slet planned for summer 2024

Written by Amal Al-Kheir (a story inspired by the life of my grandmother, Dana Svobodová)

Written by Gabby Gartner, aged fifteen (inspired by the story of my great-great-grandfather)

Written by Eva Nováková, aged 13 (inspired by my grandmother, Eva Nováková and great-grandmother Olga Szántová)

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Writer with links to pre-1989 Czech dissent Goetz-Stankiewicz dies at 95

Czech jobless rate remains at 3.5 percent

Written by Žaneta Málková, aged 14 (a story of resilience)

Written by Nathalie Rowe (inspired by an experience my father had as a soldier)

Written by Anushree Kshirsigar, aged 16 (the story of my great-great-grandfather)

Written by Jakub Liška, aged 15 (inspired by my great-grandfather)

Written by An-Li Frisk (set in the year 1981, Guangdong province of China)

Written by Johana Trejtnar, aged seventeen (a story that starts with my great-grandmother)

Written by Rade Meech-Tatić (adapted from the memoirs of my grandfather R. C. Meech)

Written by Lucienne Erent, aged 13 (inspired by my father’s story)

Written by Martin Rada (telling the story of the village where my great-grandmother lived)

Written by Amelie Sophia Piper, aged 11 (inspired by the story of my great-great-grandfather)

Written by Michael Lovitt, aged 13 (a story about my Grandfather Jiří, when he was 10 years old in the 1950’s)

Retail sales in Czechia continue to decline year-on-year

Siniaková and Krejčíková lose WTA Finals championship match

Czech currency at its strongest since start of war in Ukraine

Lipavský: EU must actively counter Russian propaganda in Africa

Czech plans for new nuclear reactor raising concerns across border

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Latest poll suggests support for Pavel and Babiš extremely close among voters

Fyield, a group of musicians from Czechia and Iceland, have just released the LP Future Landscapes. The unusual project, based on field recordings made in a variety of locations in both states, is aimed at boosting awareness of climate change. Membe...

Czechia experiences foreign trade deficit for eighth month in row

The final resting place of the Rožmberk clan, one of the richest and mightiest noble families in the land, was veiled in mystery for over 400 years. When researchers lowered a probe into the Rožmberk crypt in the Cistercian Monastery in Vyšší B...

Founded in 1974, the National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library in Cedar Rapids, Iowa is the most important institution of its kind in the US. For the last four years it has been headed by Cecilia Rokusek, who herself has deep Czech roots and was ...

ČEZ to increase price of heating by 20 percent next year

International survey finds Czech children's screen time one of highest

Twenty-four teams from four continents took part in the Football Tennis World Championship in Prague. From left: Chong Wuchin of Korea, famous for style of play, and Ivan Grom of Ukraine.

PM Fiala: Czechia to join global commitment to reduce methane emissions by 2030

Siniaková and Krejčíková through to WTA Finals championship match

Slovak road hauliers to block motorway crossing between Czechia and Slovakia

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Special envoys for Sahel to meet in Prague

Czech PM leaves for UN Climate Conference in Egypt

Valère Gustin, one of last Belgian veterans who helped liberate Plzeň, dies at 98

Exhibition of art by twin sisters Jitka and Květa Válová opens in GASK

Javelin thrower Jakub Vadlejch named Athlete of Year

Frantisek Bílek's villa in Hradčany is one of the most original houses in Prague. The villa has an unusual round floor plan, which is supposed to resemble the footprint of a scythe in a field of wheat. Wheat plants also served as inspiration for t...

This week’s Sunday Music Show is dedicated to rock musician Michal Ambrož, the frontman of the popular band Jasná Páka whose music was a beacon for many in a generation of Czechs that grew up in the final years of Communist Czechoslovakia. Ambr...

Record number of Czechs died abroad during summer holiday season

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Health minister considers re-introducing above-standard health care

Some 270,000 people in Czechia used food banks this year

Sanusi Ayomide is a 24-year-old professional dancer from Nigeria. For the past year, he has lived in Prague as part of a Nigerian mission established by Czech artist and UN Goodwill Ambassador of the Czech Republic Yemi Ankemi (professionally known ...

Lowest weekday increase in Covid cases recorded since June

Survey: More than quarter of Czech households can only afford cheapest food and clothing

US and Netherlands to jointly pay for renovation of 90 Czech T-72 tanks for Ukraine

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The Oriental Institute (OI) of the Czech Academy of Sciences is celebrating 100 years of existence this year. One of the oldest institutions dedicated to the study of Oriental cultures in Central and Eastern Europe, the OI has played its part in fur...

Fiala to attend UN climate conference in Egypt next week

A joint show presenting the youngest generation of fashion designers from Czechia and Belgium is due to take place in Brussels on Saturday. The event, called WE’RE NEXT BRUSSELS, is part of a day dedicated to Czech culture and is organised by Czec...

EU funds to go to Czechia's coal regions to help transition to low-carbon economy

With heating bills going through the roof, many Czechs are turning back to solid fuels, stocking up on coal, firewood and in the worst-case scenario, burning household waste, including plastics. Environmental experts are warning of the multiple dang...

On the backdrop of the ongoing Czech EU presidency, a special exhibition titled: “Design and transformation. Stories of Czech design 1990-2020” is currently on display at the Design Museum Brussels. The exhibition serves not just as an opportuni...

Czechia struggles with shortages of vital medicines

Police charge youth with attempted murder of grandfather and neighbour

Israeli airline offers 44 million euros for Smartwings

Czech minister urges Western Balkans to harmonise visa policy with EU

Government agrees on windfall tax

Foreign Affairs Committee describes Russian regime as “terrorist”

The Mucha exhibition which opened in July at Prague’s Waldstein Riding School has proven so popular that it has been extended until the end of the year, although it was originally slated to close on Monday. Marcus Mucha, the great-grandson of the ...

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President Zeman vetoes amendment to 2022 budget

Czechia plans to close embassy in Mali and consulate general in Chengdu

Czechia to receive CZK 780 million to strengthen EU outer border protection

Eurostat: Czechia’s unemployment rate remains lowest in EU

New documentary The Investigator follows one-time Prague detective Vladimír Dzuro as he returns to former Yugoslavia, where he made a groundbreaking 1997 war crimes arrest after helping uncover a grisly mass killing. The film had its world premiere...