Škoda Auto to halt production for a week due to chip shortage

Czech team knocked-out of European Volleyball Championship after losing to Slovenia

President’s condition is not serious, PM says

Covid tests at the Czech Republic’s schools at the start of the new term did not produce particularly concerning results and such blanket testing will no longer be employed. However, they could be brought back at local level if isolated outbreaks ...

Former President Klaus may be released from hospital by end of this week, spokesman says

Saint Ludmila, the first historically documented duchess of Bohemia, was murdered on the 15th of September in the year 921. Together with her husband Bořivoj I, founder of the Přemyslid dynasty, she sought to spread Christianity throughout the Cze...

Deloitte: Construction of gigafactory would raise GDP by CZK 172 billion

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Blanket testing in schools shows coronavirus cases not rising among schoolchildren

Czechia’s second quarter GDP growth below EU average

Coronavirus: Karlovy Vary and Prague most affected regions

The Czech Centres and National Gallery in Prague have put the finishing touches on a video project showcasing selected artworks in the gallery’s collections from the early Middle Ages to the present day.

Two Czech climbers stranded on Rakaposhi mountain rescued by helicopter

Miloš Zeman grants his 20th presidential pardon

Czechia ranks 22nd in global index of economic freedom

For the first time in history, Batman will be fighting criminals in the Czech lands, specifically in 1980s Prague, where the masked vigilante will try to thwart the plans of a group of Communist mystics.  The story is part of the Batman: The World ...

IEA report: Czechia must abandon coal faster than planned

Martin Loužecký is a long-time skateboarding enthusiast and a graduate in African Studies from the University of Copenhagen. While still a student, he and his friends established a non-profit organization called Skate World Better, which aims to s...

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President Miloš Zeman taken to hospital

Two Czech climbers stranded on Rakaposhi mountain start their descent

Covid-19 incidence rate continues to rise

The Czech Republic needs to do more if it wants to meet the European Union’s energy and climate goals by the year 2030, according to the International Energy Agency.

The Czech Republic’s volleyball players achieved a sensational victory on Monday evening, overcoming recent Olympic champions France in the sport’s European Championships in Ostrava. What’s more, the Czechs didn’t allow the French even one s...

Czechs knock Olympic winners France out of European Volleyball Championships

CR to take part in Commission talks over Babiš conflict of interest

PM’s son testifies for six hours over subsidy fraud case

Daylight saving time to continue in CR for at least five years

Prague has placed seventh overall in Time Out magazine’s 2021 Index of the best cities in the world to live in. The Czech capital was among five European cities to make it into the top 10 of the ranking which focuses on several aspects including c...

Language schools in the Czech Republic are still struggling with a shortage of students, who are not applying for courses in pre-pandemic numbers, even despite the reopening of classrooms. The lack of demand has also caused an exodus of teachers, wi...

Czech women climb tennis’s world rankings after goods showings in NY

Governments, industries, businesses and everyday people worldwide are grappling with how to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic, not least in financial terms. The European Commission has set out a massive, coordinated response to counter the impact o...

Vojtěch: Key Covid indicators give no reason for panic

Tribute concert for Ivan Král held in Prague

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Czech death rate in first half of year one-third up on 2020

The wine, gastronomy and culture festival known as Pálavské vinobraní opened up in the South Moravian town of Mikulov on Friday. Among the guests was also a man symbolically dressed as Wenceslas IV. A traditional part of the festival, the attenda...

Kulhánek: Czechia should not recognise Taliban but some communication necessary

Coronavirus: Sunday hospitalisations highest since mid-June

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Czech Foreign Minister and business delegation visiting Saudi Arabia and UAE

Latest STEM poll puts PM’s ANO party ahead

Snowboarder Eva Samková named this year’s best Czech snowsports athlete

Memorial to miner traditions revealed in Most

Largest number of coronavirus cases detected in Czechia on a Saturday since May

More than 130 years ago, Czech composer Antonín Dvořák left for the United States, where he spent several years as the head of the National Conservatory of Music. It was there that he composed his most famous symphony From the New World.

Libeň was annexed to Prague as the last suburb before the establishment of Czechoslovakia. The largest district of Prague 8 has witnessed many historical events.

Train crash near Trutnov forces firefighters to evacuate over 200 people

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Czech elementary education to be revised on grand scale ahead of new education programme creation

Over 700 sites across Czechia taking part in this year's European Herritage Days

Škoda boss: We will not be able to produce 100,000 cars this year due to chip shortage

Friday sees further rise in coronavirus cases

On the morning of September 11th, 2001, Czech-born architect Jiří Boudník was working on a new federal courthouse in Brooklyn, three subway stops from the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan. After a second airplane hit the Twin Towers, and ord...

The popularity of Prague’s historic centre among tourists has left it dotted with various bars, restaurants and clubs. Many of these businesses are still struggling after the coronavirus pandemic substantially cut travel to the Czech capital. But ...

Inflation in the Czech Republic rose by 4.1 percent year-on-year in August, the most significant increase since November 2008, according to the Czech Statistics Agency. The rise in prices is being felt both in the cost of commodities and services, b...

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After more than a two-year break, caused by Covid-related restrictions, Czech archaeologists have returned to Israel to continue excavations at the Tel Motza temple. Experts say the discovery of the shrine from the time of King Solomon, which matche...

Film festival guests fined for ignoring rule on compulsory respirators

Tests will not be needed ahead of school swimming lessons

Mafia, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, or Machinarium – those are some of the internationally most successful Czech video games. The industry has been identified as a high growth sector by the Czech government and could receive state funding in the fut...

Inflation up by 4.1 percent in August, the highest increase since November 2008

Art Lines wins jury's award for Best Project at Venice Glass Week

Booster shots against Covid to be administered after September 20

Number of people hospitalized with Covid rising

Prague court finds four former communist secret service men guilty of harassing dissidents

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Researchers develop simple test to identify people at risk of developing severe Covid infection

 Publishing houses in the Czech Republic are struggling with a shortage of paper and cardboard, which, in some cases, forces them to postpone the release of planned titles. As a result, there could be fewer books in stores at Christmas and the pric...

Dr Eva Lehečková, a prominent linguist at the Institute of Czech Language of the Academy of Sciences, has been named the next dean of Charles University’s philosophical faculty. She is replacing as dean a historian who refused to allow a billboa...

Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde holds talks in Prague

Covid cases growing, highest incidence in Karlovy Vary

Third round of blanket testing in schools

Former Storks’ Nest manager testifies against PM in fraud case

America’s “Second City” has a long Czech history. Once home to a lively community of immigrants from Bohemia and Moravia, the suburb of Cicero still has a school named after the first Czechoslovak president Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk. Nearby “...

US Open: Karolína Plíšková defeated in quarterfinals by Maria Sakkari

Festival 4+4 Days in Motion gets underway in Prague

Police to question Czech PM’s son about alleged kidnapping to stop him testifying in EU subsidy fraud case

A new kind of lab test could make the detection of coronavirus antibodies faster and cheaper, according to scientists from the Czech Academy of Sciences who are behind its development. A license agreement for its industrial production has already be...

Czech PM awards medals to diplomats, soldiers others involved in Afghanistan evacuation mission

A new organization, dedicated to the development of renewable energy sources, will start operating in Prague in October. One of the main goals of the Prague Renewable Energy Community, which was approved by city councillors this May, will be install...

Czech who fought with Ukrainian secessionists sentenced to 20 years

Novelist, essayist and playwright Jiří Kratochvil is one of the most respected Czech contemporary writers.  Over his career, spanning more than 50 years, he has published dozens of novels and short story collection, which have been translated in...

Prague building car parks by terminus metro stations, raising prices of central ones

Covid-19: 588 new cases detected on Tuesday, most on weekday since late May

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September 11th: Czech Center New York preparing memorial events

Police question Interior Minister over alleged link between unrealised Moscow trip, Vrbětice explosion, Sputnik doses

Malaysian Royal Fund buys Protivín Castle in South Bohemia

Tennis: Barbora Krejčíková eliminated in US Open quarterfinals

Prime Ministers of Czechia, Slovakia and Austria speak against illegal migration

UNICEF: Covid epidemic forced 20,000 Czech children into poverty

Febiofest film festival to kick off with Woody Allen’s new movie

Czech scientists develop new coronavirus test that enables quick identification of antibody levels

Imports of used passenger cars to the Czech Republic in the first eight months of 2021 rose by a fifth year-on-year to 118,593 vehicles, according to the newly released data by the Association of Car Importers. In August alone, Czechs imported 18,20...

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ACK: Agencies focused on foreign tourists struggling in Czechia

Royal Investment Fund buys Protivin Chateau

Czech who fought with separatists in Ukraine receives 20 year jail sentence

Ash trees across the Czech Republic have been dying in recent years as a result of a disease known as Ash dieback, caused by a fungus imported from Asia. Experts say there is no effective defence against its spread and warn of other invasive disease...

EU finance ministers on Monday gave their final approval to the Czech National Recovery Plan, opening the way for the country to receive the first instalment of a 180 billion crown aid package from the EU’s Resilience and Recovery Fund. However, t...

Border crisis and Belarus in spotlight as Czech Foreign Minister visits Lithuania

Health Minister: Czechia on the brink of another Covid epidemic wave

Pandemic highlights inability of state bodies to help victims of domestic violence

Opposition says Babis govt could jeopardize payment of EU funds

Despite problems associated with deliveries of raw materials and components, analysts questioned by the Czech News Agency agree that Czech industry is doing well and could reach double digit growth this year.

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Despite COVID-19 vaccination rates falling over the past several weeks in the Czech Republic, the country’s Health Ministry has raised its vaccination target from the original 70 to 75 percent. A new campaign is now being rolled out by the ministr...

A team of Czech and German scientists has found DNA evidence of at least three hitherto unknown migratory waves that passed through Bohemia in prehistoric times. By studying the remains of 271 people who lived between the years 4900 to 1600 BCE, the...

Journalist and film critic Hynek Pallas grew up in a notable Czech household in Sweden, where his dissident family settled after being forced out of Czechoslovakia. From their home, his father Jiří Pallas ran the label Šafrán 78, releasing music...

Members of the Czechoslovak Legionaries Association took part in a ceremonial march through Prague to celebrate their 100th anniversary at the weekend. The Czechoslovak Legionaries Association is the oldest veteran organization in the Czech Republic...

EU finance ministers endorse Czech National Recovery Plan

Unemployment drops to 3.6 in August

Krejčíková reaches the quarterfinals of US Open

Covid cases slowly rising with start of new school year

Prague unable to meet EC deadline for mechanism against conflict of interest

Dvořák Prague Festival opens Monday evening in Rudolfinum

Football: Czechs lose to Belgium in World Cup qualifier, still second in Group E

Polish PM: Dispute with Czechia over Turów coal mine will “fade away” after elections

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