Covid reproduction number at its highest since October

One of the Czech Republic’s most iconic landmarks, Charles Bridge in Prague, has been spray-painted with graffiti. The inscription, written in blue paint, stretching almost halfway up the stone railing. Conservationist Jakub Tluchoř is now workin...

Plíšková moves into WTA tennis top 10 after reaching Wimbledon finals

PM to propose further shortening interval between Pfizer / BioNTech vaccines

Spain tightens restrictions for travellers from Czech Republic

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Seven bison escape from Tábor zoo during storm

Activity of ticks at highest level

Reproduction number at its highest since January

June 2021 third warmest on record

Youth who spray painted Charles Bridge turns himself over to police

Two walk-in vaccination centres to open in Prague

The first section of the D1 motorway was opened to traffic on 12 July 1971 with a spectacular ribbon cutting ceremony, attended by Communist leaders. The section was only 21 kilometres long, running from Prague to the Central Bohemian town of Miroš...

Czech theatre has a strong tradition of musicals. Even the Czech national anthem originally comes from a musical theatre production. However, the real golden age of Czech musicals began after 1989.

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Karolína Plíšková hopes of winning first Grand Slam dashed by Ashleigh Barty

Lobbyist Roman Janoušek ordered back to jail

Police looking for young couple following damage to Charles Bridge

Czech javelin champion Barbora Špotáková claims her 21st Diamond League victory

Four more Prague metro stations get mobile coverage

Unemployment drops to 3.7 in June

Visegrad group leaders call for inclusion of Western Balkans into Schengen

Chief Hygienist: Delta mutation particularly common among people returning from high-risk states

Bill that envisions cutting benefits for people avoiding fine payments passes through lower-house

More than 50,000 children registered for coronavirus vaccine in Czechia

Recent polls have suggested a new political grouping may make the five-percent threshold to reach the Chamber of Deputies in elections this autumn. The Oath (Přísaha in Czech) have been using similar anti-corruption rhetoric to previous new partie...

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The annual Baroque Festival gets underway on Friday in the Moravian city of Olomouc. Over the course of the next two months, visitors will have a chance to see a wide range of performances from symphonic to chamber and sacred music. One of the highl...

Františkovy Lázně is the smallest and westernmost town of the Bohemian Spa Triangle, which it forms along with Karlovy Vary and Marianské Lázně. But although its population numbers only a little over five thousand residents, the town can certa...

Charles Bridge sprayed with graffiti

Army and veterans commemorate anniversary of Battle of Britain

Slovakia reopens all border crossings with Czechia

Labour Office: Unemployment fell to 3.7 percent in June

Powerful storms leave tens of thousands of households without electricity

Apartment and house prices in the Czech Republic increased by an average of 11.9 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2021, after rising by 8.9 percent in the previous three-month period.

Plíšková: First Grand Slam final in five years shows value of persevering

Unvaccinated must now present negative test at work after foreign trip

Plíšková wins at Wimbledon to reach second Grand Slam final of career

The Czech Republic should enable the handing out of EU COVID certificates to Czechs, EU citizens – and foreigners with permanent residency in Czechia who have been vaccinated in selected foreign countries – from July 12, the health minister has ...

While most of the coal mines in the Karviná region are closing down, miners on the other side of the Moravian-Silesian region may be soon returning underground. There are many abandoned slate mines around Opava and with growing demand for the preci...

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Makers of hit Owners complete new movie

Czech Center New York launches video talks on Czech National Gallery gems

Rutt and Palát help Tampa Bay Lightning retain Stanley Cup

Minister: Fully vaccinated Czechs don’t need tests after inbound travel

Czech government to discuss donating excess coronavirus vaccines

Coronavirus infections on Wednesday at double the rate of last week

Ruling ANO party slips back into lead in latest STEM poll

President Zeman to visit China next year

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With the easing of travel restrictions, the demand for short-term accommodation through house-renting applications, such as Airbnb or Booking.com is slowly increasing. However, the number of Airbnb apartments offered for short-term rentals currently...

Hamáček: Slovakia to reopen border crossings with Czechia

Václav Havel Airport in Prague recommends travelers arrive three hours before flight

End of May saw number of deaths return to pre-Covid rates

Czech tennis star Karolína Plíšková has been world number one and is a constant presence in the top 10. However, she has only been to one Grand Slam final in her career – and she is now hoping to at least equal that achievement after reaching ...

Czech economy will grow by 3.9 percent in 2021, according to European Commission

Hundreds gather in Prague to protest against coronavirus measures

The patriarch of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church, Tomáš Butt, served mass on Tuesday at the Bethlehem Chapel in Prague on the occasion of the 606th anniversary of the burning at the stake of Jan Hus, the Czech Church reformer who preached at the s...

Rising prices and shortages of building materials are beginning to be reflected in apartment prices in the Czech Republic, the Czech News Agency reported, citing property developers.

Covid-19: Reproduction number lowest in week

Czech Republic joins condemnation of violence against Georgian LGBT activists

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Karolína Plíšková reaches her first Wimbledon semi-final, Muchová exits in fifth round

Tomas Butta re-inaugurated as patriarch of Czechoslovak Hussite Church

Meteorologists issue heatwave warning

Czech tourist dies in Austrian Alps

Covid-19: reproduction number drops to 1.2

Czechs mark Jan Hus anniversary

Four injured in chemical plant explosion in Lovosice

July 6th is a public holiday in the Czech Republic honouring the memory of reformer priest Jan Hus who was burned at the stake for heresy against the doctrines of the Catholic Church in 1415. A theologian, philosopher and professor at Charles Univer...

Covid vaccination: Czech Republic slightly behind EU average

Plíšková and Muchová through to Wimbledon quarterfinals, Krejčíková exits in fourth round

116 athletes set to represent Czech Republic at Tokyo Olympics

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Covid-19 incidence rate continues to increase

Czechs mark legacy of St. Cyril and Methodius

Basketball: Czech Republic crushes Greece to advance to Tokyo Olympics

July 5th is a public holiday in the Czech Republic, celebrating the legacy of the Greek missionaries Cyril and Methodius who came to Great Moravia in 862. As founders of the liturgical Slavonic language and the Glagolitic alphabet, the Byzantine bro...

Prague Pride set for August 2-8, without parade

Czechia misses EU single-use plastics ban deadline

ČSSZ: Nearly every third Czech senior opts for early retirement

Football: Czech team captain Vladimír Darida steps down

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Deloitte: prices of flats in big Czech cities up 19 pct on average

Banat Festival in Czech-Romanian community to resume

Covid cases rise slightly, testing soars ahead of holidays

Over the past decade, big bands have been experiencing something of a Renaissance here in the Czech Republic. One of the new ensembles on the scene is Cotatcha Orchestra, named after its bandleader Jiří Kotača.

90 years ago, a statue of Radegast was unveiled in mountain path along the ridge from Pustevny to Radhošt'. Its creator was the sculptor Albín Polášek.

Football: Czechs lose to Danes 1:2 in Euro quarter-finals

Grant Agency chairman, scientist Jaroslav Koča dies at age 65

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Senate approves amendment to let women to remove -ová suffix from surname

Prague hotel summer booking levels remains weak

Liberec Region and Post Bellum to cooperate on oral history project

Prague’s Liechtenstein Palace opens to the public on Monday

Covid cases rise slightly, 126 total Delta cases recorded

The Czech Ministry of Health has announced a tightening of restrictions amidst an upsurge of new Covid-19 cases. Starting next Friday, Czechs who are not fully vaccinated will have to undergo a test for the coronavirus when returning from abroad, s...

Most Czechs eligible to vote in the October parliamentary elections say that a party’s program will be the deciding factor in how they will cast their ballots, according to a Median survey for Czech Radio. The party leader’s personalities are al...

Pubs and restaurants may soon be obliged to check people’s Covid certificates

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Children over 12 registering for Covid vaccine

Fire in Prague’s Letnany fairgrounds causes extensive damage

More soldiers to help tornado-devastated villages

Rise in Covid numbers following weeks of steady decline

63rd Smetana’s Litomyšl festival gets underway

Vojtěch: Not fully vaccinated must undergo test on return from abroad

With one of the largest concentrations of hot springs in Europe, Karlovy Vary is the largest Czech spa town. For hundreds of years, it has attracted visitors from all over the world, including some very famous figures such as Johan Wolfgang Goethe o...

Hungarian minister presents Babiš with 100,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine

Prague Public Transport Company has signed a contract with a consortium of companies for the construction of the first section of the planned new “D” line of the Prague metro, serving the southern suburbs of the capital.

The Municipal Library of Prague marks its 130th anniversary on Thursday. The Public General Library of the Royal Capital of Prague, as it was called in the old days, opened to the citizens of Prague on July 1, 1891. Today, it has 44 branches around ...

The last 12 Czech soldiers stationed in Afghanistan as part of a NATO mission to fight the Taliban returned home on Sunday afternoon, thus bringing to an end the longest operational deployment in Czech Army history. In total, some 11,500 Czech soldi...

Online grocers Rohlik now valued at EUR 1 billion

Zeman defends ex-MP investigated by police over sexual misconduct

Living standard of Czech households unchanged since pandemic

Czech Covid reproduction number at highest level since February

Czech fans drop plan to charter plane to Baku for Denmark game

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Czechs must show Covid certificate on entering Croatia

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