Covid: new cases down, reproduction number lowest since mid-January

Spring clean-up of Czech countryside gets underway on Saturday

US writer Paul Polansky who brought attention to Lety concentration camp has died

MPs approve two-week extension of state of emergency to April 11

Health Minister: free movement after Easter possible

Interest in small one, or two bedroom flats is growing in the Czech Republic. Experts believe that the cause is a mix of high property prices together with the phenomenon of couples living separately.

This Saturday marks exactly 25 years since the visit of the British monarch to the Czech Republic. Elizabeth II, accompanied by her husband Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, came at the invitation of the late president Václav Havel and was the first B...

Czechia, five other states seek EU support for nuclear energy

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First Regeneron doses for use by Covid patients arrive in Czechia

Czech airline Smartwings secures EUR 72 mn lifeline loan

Czech national census begins on Saturday

Thursday’s Covid case tally lowest for working day since Feb 8

Average consumer credit rate rose to 6.2 pct in February

A year after the Covid pandemic hit the country, the Czech Republic has the highest number of Covid deaths per capita in the world. On the sad anniversary of the first Covid death-on March 22-  bells tolled around the country and close to 25, 000 c...

Czech tick-borne encephalitis cases rose, Lyme disease cases fell

Footballer Kúdela to miss Wales trip over security concerns

Kupka painting sells for stunning GBP 7.5 million in London

Decision on Dukovany contract matter for next government, says minister

A group of prominent art historians, architects, conservationists and others in Brno have joined forces to stop what they call the rampant demolition of historic city buildings. Due to registration errors before the Velvet Revolution, and new zoning...

Communists look set to back extension of state of emergency

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Old Town Sq. becomes unofficial place of remembrance for Covid dead

Minister: Younger elementary pupils will alternate classroom and home

Solar panels installed on the roofs of Prague houses could provide electricity for some 120,000 households, suggests an analysis carried out by the company EkoWATT. Rooftop energy could therefore significantly increase the overall amount of electric...

Zdeněk Miler’s famous Krteček (Little Mole) is not the only cartoon character to come out of the country’s animated film studios. Bob and Bobek – the Rabbits from a Hat, The Tales of Moss and Fern, Maxipes Fík and The Oddsockeaters are cart...

Up until now people in quarantine with Covid -19 or those ordered to self-isolate as a preventive measure have been very much “on their honour” in complying with the regulation. Now hygiene officials and police officers have been tasked with mak...

Babiš says he believes Czechs will be able to travel abroad in summer

Wednesday Covid figures down, total known cases almost 1.5 million

Blatný: Vaccine registrations for over 65s to open after Easter

Czechs beat Estonia 6:2 in opening qualification game for World Cup

Blatný gives assurance that vaccine orders are sufficient

The 2021 national census gets underway this weekend. Not only Czech citizens but also foreigners with permanent residency or living in the country for more than 90 days as of the start date must complete the survey – or face a fine of up to 10,000...

Plaga: Tutoring programmes will help smooth out learning divide

Vietnmese in Czechia dissatisfied with lax attitude to COVID-19 measures, says community leader

Czech researchers have become the first in the world to use fish scale samples to map the changing quality of water. A new study, published in the prestigious international magazine Science of the Total Environment, shows that fish scales are a reli...

Ecologists calling on head of Czech environment agency to resign

New COVID-19 infections rose on Tuesday, but week-on-week comparison shows downward trend

Justice Ministry issues apology to ex-mayor of Prague Tomáš Hudeček

Škoda’s net profits fell by more than half last year, but board expects things to improve in 2021

Mikuláš Minář’s People PRO ceases activities

West Ham’s Souček again named Czech Footballer of Year

Media: Czech govt. applied for 81 percent of vaccines it had right to

Great chanson singer Hana Hegerová dies at 89

Czech zoos have been hit particularly hard by the coronavirus restrictions, leaving them without visitors and unable to pay for upkeep. Some zoo directors have said that this may lead to animals having to be put down or sent to other European zoos. ...

MPs to discuss government call for further month of state of emergency Friday

Marie Šupíková, one of the last survivors of the Lidice massacre, has died at the age of 88. Mrs Šupíková, who was ten at the time of the event, was one of the few children selected for re-education, escaping death in a concentration camp. In ...

No to recognition of Prague, Prague-West and Prague-East as one district

Klaus Jr. quits Tricolour party and exits politics

The national carrier Czech Airlines (ČSA) will resume flights to five destinations in the coming weeks and increase the frequency of flights to European destinations. ČSA will once again be flying to Odessa, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Iceland and Malt...

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Slavia contact UEFA over incidents surrounding Rangers game

Number of cases of second Covid infection shooting up

Covid death toll in Czech Republic passes 25,000

Police to crack down on breach of quarantine rules 

Lidice survivor Marie Šupíková dies at 88 

Government wants state of emergency extended by 30 days

A new online photo-database of Czechoslovak Legionaries who fought for the establishment of Czechoslovakia during World War One has recently been set up. The website not only gives viewers the chance to see the faces of thousands of legionaries, but...

Historians have long known that members of the infamous communist-era Auxiliary Technical Battalions (PTP), army units comprised of “politically unreliable” persons, helped build the Stalin monument in Prague’s Letná Park. But only recently h...

Czechs are known as being among the top countries in the world when it comes to the consumption of beer. However, the alcoholic drink that is consumed by the most people in the Czech Republic is not actually beer but wine, according to a new survey....

Bells toll for thousands of Covid victims

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At noon on Monday people in cities around the Czech Republic held a minute’s silence for the victims of Covid-19, a year after the first known death of the virus. To date almost 25,000 people in the country are known to have died with the coronavi...

PM to meet with president to discuss government’s response to epidemic

Tens of thousands of birds being culled over aviation flu

The Czech community in Manhattan once numbered up to 40,000 people, served by Czech stores, newspapers and cultural organisations – and even cops who spoke their language. Historian Martin Nekola dives into the rich history of Czechs in the Big Ap...

Change in Covid rules: People may jogg, bike or walk outside their municipality

Supreme Audit Office: State was ill-prepared for pandemic

Plans revealed for Czech day at Dubai EXPO in year's time

Sunday new Covid cases figure lowest since mid-December

Covid tests likely for small firms and self-employed, says Schillerová

Hamáček: Covid measures effective, must remain in place another fortnight

MPs set to this week discuss extending state of emergency

New cases down, reproduction number lowest in two months

Study: Property prices continuing to shoot up

Coalition dischord over possible pension rise beyond framework of law

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Young Czech solo artist Amelie Siba has recently won the Apollo music critics’ award for Czech album of the year for her debut LP, called Dye My Hair. It was released last year, when she was only 17, and received rave reviews from the critics. 

The idea of creating a National Park in the Šumava Protected Landscape Area was politically impossible under the Communists, as the area was literally on the Iron Curtain. However, it was achieved 30 years ago, on March 20, 1991, after the return t...

Samková seals overall victory in Snowboard Cross World Cup for third time

Prague police raid two restaurants and one bar

Tender to supply Covid tests for schools announced

Klaus suggests electoral alliance of son’s party and Okamura

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Kintera best-selling contemporary Czech artist at auction

Temperatures set to reach up to 15 degrees next week

Coalition parties reach agreement on short-time working bill

Weekday new Covid cases below 10,000 for first time in over month

More than 200 children in the Czech Republic have been diagnosed with a rare condition that can occur several weeks after Covid-19, known as paediatric multi-system inflammatory syndrome or PIMS-TS. If untreated,it can cause tissue damage, poor fu...

The biggest architectural competition in modern Czech history has advanced to the final stage. The Brno City Council this week chose four teams that will vie to design a new main train station for the Moravian capital. For this last leg of the compe...

First delivery of Regeneron to arrive in Czech Republic by March 25

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Health minister wants state of emergency extended over Easter

Social workers should be able to register for vaccine in April

Czech researchers develop faster method for comparing sensitivity of antigen tests

Slight drop in new Covid cases, but hospitals under severe strain

Slavia Prague into Europa League last eight with win over Glasgow Rangers

Strict measures remain but Czechs may exercise further from homes

In the fourth episode of our series Masters of Czech Animated Film we present Jan Švankmajer, a Czech Surrealist artist, puppeteer, animator, and filmmaker whose work transcends borders. His films, the most famous of which are Alice, Little Otik, ...

The Senate has rejected an amendment to the Food Act that would set quotas on the sale of Czech food in retail stores. At least eight other EU countries had objected to the proposal, which they said was clearly discriminatory.

Around 200 children in CR have Covid-related syndrome

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Two more gorillas at Prague Zoo test positive for Covid

Ten cases of death after Covid vaccination recorded in CR in week

New Bianca Bellová novel among titles included in Big Book Thursday

Metronome music festival postponed until June 2022

Number of Covid deaths in CR passes 24,000

As the coronavirus measures stretch into their second year, artists have been looking for various ways to boost the public morale and spread some good cheer. In the south Bohemian town of České Budějovice members of a local music ensemble climb o...

The Remoska oven has been a household name in this country for over sixty years now, braving competition from ever more sophisticated kitchen appliances.

The Czech Republic, along with five other European countries, has submitted a joint nomination for the timber rafting tradition to be inscribed on the UNESCO world intangible cultural heritage list. The tradition, dating back to the 14th century, is...

Senate votes to maintain role of ‘lay judges’ in courts

MPs to discuss Nat’l Recovery Plan to draw EU ‘SURE’ funds on March 26

Czech PM, others speak to EU Council President about proportional vaccine distribution

The series of severe droughts and heatwaves that hit central Europe in recent years have been the most severe in the past two millennia, suggests a study carried out by an international team of scientists, including researchers from the Czech Republ...

Number of Czech students lacking tech for online classes down 80 pct

Who makes the prettiest looking lattes in the Czech Republic? According to the results of this year’s annual Latte Art competition it is Jakub Souček from the North Bohemian city of Liberec. His impression of a two-winged swan on the top of a cof...

Foreign minister opens new Czech schools in Croatia during official visit

CVVM poll: 59 pct of Czechs ready to be vaccinated

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CRIF: Companies, self-employed increasingly missing loan payments