Lipavský to hand out medals recognising diplomatic service

A picture can paint a thousand words. This is certainly the case with the photograph of a pregnant woman being carried out on a stretcher by five paramedics from a Mariupol hospital, where a Russian bomb had just landed on March 9th 2022. This pictu...

“Czechs have golden hands,” boasts a popular saying meaning, that Czechs are generally manually a very skillful nation. Economists do not doubt that the Czech economic success is based on a long tradition of manufacturing and other industries. B...

Preciosa – Bohemia crystal glass products sold the world over

Hand-made Bohemia crystal-glass and glass jewelry have a centuries old tradition and are among the country's leading export articles.

Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya visits Prague

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State-regulated electricity prices to fall next year, but people will still pay more

Teams of archaeologists and anthropologists are currently excavating on the site of the former military cemetery in Prague’s Karlín district. The site was in use from the second half of the 1700s to the end of the 19th century and excavators beli...

Czech officials have responded with concern to the news that two allegedly Russian missiles hit Polish territory on Tuesday, killing two people. Czechia has said it will coordinate with its EU and NATO partners and support whatever action is agreed ...

Government’s Human Rights Commissioner invites striking students for talks

Legendary Czechoslovak bullet train receives award for exemplary restoration

MPs approve establishment of Digital and Information Agency

Foreign Minister: Czechia supports Poland in investigating missile explosion

Hand-made Bohemia crystal-glass and glass jewelry have a centuries old tradition that is taken to new heights by cutting-edge technology. Stunning crystal glass lighting installations, art works and glasses grace palaces, luxury hotels, public space...

Czech Army chief: Calm heads needed over missiles in Poland

Slovak President Čaputová meets with Czech counterpart Miloš Zeman

Fiala: Russian missiles hitting Poland would be further escalation

Mayor: Prague unable to take in more refugees from Ukraine

Czechia’s Jurečka addresses COP27 conference in Egypt

Office of President calls for police action over Prague Castle barriers

This year’s November 17th celebrations will mark the 33rd anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. The annual celebrations are always packed with a multitude of events, ranging from cultural festivities to political protests. Here is a rundown of wha...

An exhibition presenting the life’s work of the twin sisters Jitka and Květa Válová got underway in Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region in Kutná Hora earlier this month. Entitled A Path Destined by Faith, it presents numerous works on loan ...

University students across Czechia are taking part in protests against climate change, calling on the government to take immediate action to address global warming, soaring energy prices and growing social inequalities.  The series of events, inclu...

‘Miya’ is an aeroplane with a difference – designed to carry up to four passengers, she can fly without a pilot. She is also intended primarily for getting around in cities – and can do so almost completely silently.

Soldiers’ pay to increase by 10 percent at start of 2023

Ministry plans to change function of “Covid app” Tečka

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New poll puts ANO way ahead of other parties

Czech foreign minister starts two-day visit to Great Britain

Czechia considering bid to host UN's 2024 COP29 climate summit

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The newly-restored greenhouse in the garden of the Augustinian abbey in Brno where the father of modern genetics, Gregor Johann Mendel, cross-bred pea plants and thereby discovered the laws of heredity, opened to the public for the first time on Sat...

The Czech men’s national floorball team has just registered its greatest international success in nearly two decades, reaching the final of the World Championships in Switzerland. Despite losing to Sweden 3:9 in Sunday’s final, recent Czech succ...

Proponents of “Czechia” got a boost this month, when Olympic officials in Prague asked the International Olympic Committee to register it in its database of country names. But will the short name ever replace the official “the Czech Republic�...

Czech researchers testing psiloybe mushroom on patients with depression

Train transport renewed on Prague - Horní Počernice route, but delays expected

Prague Castle Administration unhappy with security checks

Czech lower house speaker: EU needs to prevent power vacuum in Western Balkans

EC president praises Czechia for “exemplary“ support of Ukraine

Zlín’s Bar 1931 is already in a festive mood. It has been adorned with 12,000 Christmas baubles produced by the firm Irisa in the nearby town of Vsetín.

Czech mortgage rates highest in 20 years, major fall in new loans

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Poll: ANO remain in front but Civic Democrats and Pirates gain ground

Scientist Petr Pyšek in line for Czech Head prize

Study: Two-fifths of Czechs to spend less this Christmas

Interior minister: Large winter wave of Ukraine refugees would pose difficulties

The division of Czechoslovakia into two separate states was a peaceful process without a single shot being fired. However, arguments over the division of assets that belonged to the former state dragged on for 7 years.

Czech Christmas trees to go up around 10 percent this year

Lucie Bílá overall winner in Czech Nightingale awards

Czech band Vltava recently released a new album, much to the delight of their fans who have been waiting six years since the last one. Indeed, fans were so eager for its release that they supported its creation with a crowdfunding campaign.

Czechs knocked out of Billie Jean King Cup in semi-finals

Válek: Isolation for Covid positive may end

Doctors’ chief slams Ministry of Health as arrogant

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?

EC lowers growth forecast for Czech economy

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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)

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

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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)