Czech PM under fire over EU vaccine deal

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Sole survivor of helicopter crash in Alaska recovering

Snow and ice warning for coming days

Communist Party to decide on continued support for minority government

Government to decide on reopening of schools after Easter

Covid epidemic gradually slowing

Czech Republic, Austria and Slovenia excluded from EU vaccine redistribution agreement

Czechs have a plethora of Easter traditions that take place every year including the whipping of women with willow branches, painting eggs, or baking sweetbreads that look like a lamb. Some of these are based on the Christian celebration itself, oth...

Easter, the most important of Christian holidays, symbolizes redemption, hope, and the resurrection of Christ. As is true for all big holidays, food is a big part of it.

Two Masters students from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague have designed a robot called RHPv2. Made out of Lego pieces, it can play Ludwig van Beethoven’s famous Für Elise piano composition. I spok...

So-called coronavirus “vaccination tourism” is spreading rapidly in the Czech Republic. People who face long waits for an appointment at a nearby site to get the jab are registering elsewhere. Some regions are now officially recommending this su...

Health minister appeals for discipline over the Easter holidays

Czech defence minister on working visit to Mali

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Tourist season at Czech castles and chateaus delayed

March brings highest death toll since epidemic hit

Czech economy sees steepest slide in country’s modern history

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The films Alois Nebel (2011) and Dcera (The Daughter, 2019) are two of the most successful Czech animated films of the last decade. Both were made using innovative animation techniques, and their plots centre around characters that have to deal with...

Forty percent of over 70s vaccinated at least once

Blatný: Behaviour over Easter could influence return to schools

Few Czechoslovak products have been as internationally successful as the Jawa motorcycle. For a period of more than a decade the company’s models dominated their respective international markets, while at the same time helping Czechoslovak racers ...

Some special events planned to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of the writer last year were muted due to the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. But a literary museum dedicated the memory of the “mother of Czech literature” in Česká Ska...

The Czech small arms producer Česká zbrojovka Group SE (CZG) saw year-on-year profits rise by 14.6 percent to CZK 6.8 billion in 2020. Meanwhile, the holding’s operating profit increased by 11.9 percent compared to the year to more than 1.056 bi...

No special Easter measures on roads, says police chief

No Colours of Ostrava festival this summer

Prague police deploy more officers as people gather in sun

Prague transport authority to check vehicles for presence of coronavirus

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Tuesday first in nearly two months with fewer than 10,000 new Covid cases

Czechs are heading for a second Easter marked by coronavirus restrictions. Although people will have more time to dwell on the spiritual aspects of the holiday, there are concerns that for many the loss of loved ones and fears of what the future wil...

Czechs lose 1:0 to Wales in first World Cup qualifying defeat

On Monday, the State Security Council formally agreed on tasking the security services with conducting a detailed risk assessment of four potential bidders to expand the country’s Dukovany nuclear power plant. The government announced previously t...

The death of Petr Kellner, a reclusive Czech billionaire and the head of PPF group, came as a big shock in the Czech Republic on Monday morning. As further details of his death in a helicopter crash in Alaska emerge, Czechs are looking back at the b...

Poll puts Pirates and Mayors three points ahead of ANO

Kúdela travels to Wales for World Cup qualifier despite controversy

Second doses of Pfizer and Moderna jabs now after 42 days

Minister Maláčová contracts Covid-19

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Security checks on all visitors to Prague Castle end after five years

Covid cases, hospitalisations continue decline

Tennis: Kvitová, Vondroušová exit Miami Open

Czechs forbid travel to Peru, Colombia over Covid risk from April 12-May 31

Social Dems outline post-Covid recovery plan

Deadline for online census submissions extended to May 11

Educators reject PM’s proposal for “official” diploma without final exams

Covid death toll over 26,000, March deadliest month so far

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An innovative new project is helping Prague theatres hit hard by the Covid situation, bringing productions by top companies via “take-away” virtual reality headsets delivered to people’s homes by courier. I discussed Brejlando – which is sup...

Jesuit, ex-political prisoner František Pevný dies at 100

FAMUfest student film showcase set for April 28-May 2

The Czech Republic which started inoculating people against Covid -19 late last year, has thus far respected the recommended interval between the first and second dose. Now the health minister says the country must extend the interval in order to sa...

Covid vaccine open to ‘indispensable’ workers police and firefighters

Up to 50,000 volunteers took part in Czech spring-cleaning campaign

In Český New York (Czech New York), Martin Nekola describes how the community in Manhattan dissipated after the war, as many Czechs moved out to Astoria and elsewhere. However, the book also documents the fresh influx of notable post-war émigrés...

Billionaire Petr Kellner, a dominant figure in Czech business in the country’s post-1989 period, died in a helicopter crash in Alaska at the weekend. Tributes have been paid to the 56-year-old, whose business empire extended around the globe.

Prague’s public ferry service is back in operation after the winter break. There are currently seven ferry lines on the Vltava River accessible with Prague public transport tickets and passes. Last year the ferry service was used by 694,000 passen...

Brno lab discovers new Covid-19 mutation

Czech billionaire Petr Kellner dies in helicopter accident

Czechs draw 1:1 with Belgium in home World Cup qualifier

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Tennis: Kvitová and Vondroušová through to Miami Open fourth round

Price of apartments in panel houses up by nearly 20 percent

2021 national census: some 300,000 online forms submitted so far

Over 1.1 million Czechs have received at least one dose of Covid-19 vaccine

Number of hospitalised lowest since end of February

Property restitution became one of the cornerstones of the transformation of the Czech economy after the fall of communism in 1989. The law was intended to right the wrongs committed by the communist regime as far as possible.  

Antonín Dvořák’s famous and much loved opera Rusalka received its world premiere 120 years ago, on March 31, 1901.

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Czechs to mark Earth Hour on Saturday evening

Czechia saw record number of Covid-19 deaths in March

National census: website crashes hours after launch

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 ...