Javelin thrower Jakub Vadlejch named Athlete of Year

Frantisek Bílek's villa in Hradčany is one of the most original houses in Prague. The villa has an unusual round floor plan, which is supposed to resemble the footprint of a scythe in a field of wheat. Wheat plants also served as inspiration for t...

This week’s Sunday Music Show is dedicated to rock musician Michal Ambrož, the frontman of the popular band Jasná Páka whose music was a beacon for many in a generation of Czechs that grew up in the final years of Communist Czechoslovakia. Ambr...

Record number of Czechs died abroad during summer holiday season

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Health minister considers re-introducing above-standard health care

Some 270,000 people in Czechia used food banks this year

Sanusi Ayomide is a 24-year-old professional dancer from Nigeria. For the past year, he has lived in Prague as part of a Nigerian mission established by Czech artist and UN Goodwill Ambassador of the Czech Republic Yemi Ankemi (professionally known ...

Lowest weekday increase in Covid cases recorded since June

Survey: More than quarter of Czech households can only afford cheapest food and clothing

US and Netherlands to jointly pay for renovation of 90 Czech T-72 tanks for Ukraine

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The Oriental Institute (OI) of the Czech Academy of Sciences is celebrating 100 years of existence this year. One of the oldest institutions dedicated to the study of Oriental cultures in Central and Eastern Europe, the OI has played its part in fur...

Fiala to attend UN climate conference in Egypt next week

A joint show presenting the youngest generation of fashion designers from Czechia and Belgium is due to take place in Brussels on Saturday. The event, called WE’RE NEXT BRUSSELS, is part of a day dedicated to Czech culture and is organised by Czec...

EU funds to go to Czechia's coal regions to help transition to low-carbon economy

With heating bills going through the roof, many Czechs are turning back to solid fuels, stocking up on coal, firewood and in the worst-case scenario, burning household waste, including plastics. Environmental experts are warning of the multiple dang...

On the backdrop of the ongoing Czech EU presidency, a special exhibition titled: “Design and transformation. Stories of Czech design 1990-2020” is currently on display at the Design Museum Brussels. The exhibition serves not just as an opportuni...

Czechia struggles with shortages of vital medicines

Police charge youth with attempted murder of grandfather and neighbour

Israeli airline offers 44 million euros for Smartwings

Czech minister urges Western Balkans to harmonise visa policy with EU

Government agrees on windfall tax

Foreign Affairs Committee describes Russian regime as “terrorist”

The Mucha exhibition which opened in July at Prague’s Waldstein Riding School has proven so popular that it has been extended until the end of the year, although it was originally slated to close on Monday. Marcus Mucha, the great-grandson of the ...

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President Zeman vetoes amendment to 2022 budget

Czechia plans to close embassy in Mali and consulate general in Chengdu

Czechia to receive CZK 780 million to strengthen EU outer border protection

Eurostat: Czechia’s unemployment rate remains lowest in EU

New documentary The Investigator follows one-time Prague detective Vladimír Dzuro as he returns to former Yugoslavia, where he made a groundbreaking 1997 war crimes arrest after helping uncover a grisly mass killing. The film had its world premiere...

A queue of 300 people standing for hours to register with a dentist in South Moravia has just made headlines news. More than any other report in the media, it underscores the lack of dentists in the regions and the fact that many people have to trav...

Prague City Hall and UNICEF to open new support centre for Ukrainian refugees

69 percent of Czechs dissatisfied with state support in energy crisis

Moody’s downgrades outlook for Czech banks

Patients in Covid isolation may be able to vote in upcoming presidential election

Czech Army to end participation in EU Mali mission by end of 2022

Czechoslovak classics now undergoing revival

Czechia to close its embassy in Kabul

A faithful replica of the Venus of Dolní Věstonice, Czechia’s most famous archaeological find, went on sale on Tuesday at the Moravian Museum in Brno. The current model is much more accurate than any of the previous ones. The prototype for the m...

One of the highlights of this year’s Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival was the Czech premiere of Darkening (Tmání), a film by Ondřej Moravec that explores depression – via virtual reality. Headsets are used for Darkening, with ...

Government approves energy price cap for state and municipal companies

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Civic Democrat Miloš Vystrčil re-elected as Speaker of the Senate

Babiš, Nerudová likely secured support to run for president

Prim watches, which started to be produced more than 70 years ago, are one of the most famous Czech trademarks. For many people in Czechia, who grew up during the Communist regime, the brand is synonymous with wristwatches. Today, Prim watches are p...

Minister: Gas consumption fell by nearly 28 percent in October

Czech sports teams to appear under unified name Czechia

Plzeň lose 2:4 to Barcelona for six Champions League defeats in six

Cyber security agency says attacks on Czechia up

A Czech government delegation led by Prime Minister Petr Fiala has returned from Kyiv, following a day of talks with their Ukrainian counterparts and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The trip was intended to express support for Ukraine in its fight ag...

Western sanctions should next target Belarus, says Fiala

Labour minister Jurečka also takes environment portfolio on temporary basis

Data released by Eurostat on Monday show that Czechia saw the sharpest year-on-year rise in electricity prices out of all EU member states in the first half of 2022 (+62%). The average cost of electricity for Czechs was the sixth highest in the EU a...

Scientists recreate face of Stone Age girl

According to sexologists, interest in sex change among young people in Czechia is on the rise. While in 2013 a special commission at the Ministry of Health approved 47 applications for gender transition, last year it was 195.

Media: Babiš verdict could come days before presidential vote

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Rakušan: Returned Ukrainian refugees could come back before winter

Kunsthalle project wins national architecture prize

Czechia has become an increasingly popular destination for foreign students from around the world, offering a rich cultural scene and a cost-effective, quality education in different fields of study. But for some of them finding a place to live may ...

Labour Minister Marian Jurečka takes over environment ministry portfolio

Analysts: electricity prices soared due to limited state action

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Czech government delegation holds talks in Kyiv

Czech astrophotographer Petr Horálek from the University of Opava was selected for NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for his photograph "Seven Years of Halley Dust". The photograph is a composite of the biannual Orionid meteor shower caused by ...

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Man shoots himself dead outside Office of the Government

Andrej Babiš officially confirms presidential candidacy

ANO party leader Andrej Babiš announced on Sunday that he will be running in the January 2023 Czech presidential election. The former prime minister made the decision despite currently being behind in the polls after several months of touring the c...

Czech household debts rising

Installation of Putin in cadaver bag draws criticism

Constitutional experts: no legal obstacles to Babiš’ candidacy for president

Czech government delegation in Kyiv

Tens of thousands of people joined a rally “against fear” in Prague’s Wenceslas Square on Sunday.  The demonstration, called by the civic association Million Moments for Democracy, came at a time when fear of rising prices and the looming ene...

The top domestic honour at this year’s Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, the Czech Joy award, went to Kapr Code by Lucie Králová. It explores the story of the once-celebrated but now largely forgotten composer Jan Kapr – in a h...

Majority of Czechs now economizing on eating out, new clothes and transport

General Pavel: Babiš’ populism is a threat to Czechia

ANO leader Andrej Babiš to run for president

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Living and subsistence minimum benefits to increase by five to six percent next year

Rudolf Jelínek is one of Czechia’s best-known brands of slivovitz (slivovice in Czech).

Warm spell breaks temperature records around Czechia

HIV infections on the rise

Eight injured in disco crush

President Zeman to meet with Babiš

Thousands join rally “against fear” on Wenceslas Square

Professor Jan Bedrna is one of the early pioneers of heart surgery in the former Czechoslovakia. At a hospital in Hradec Králové 75 years ago, he performed cardiac surgery for the first time in the country’s history.

The great singer and dissident Marta Kubišová – who many Czechs associate with key moments in the country’s modern history – turns 80 on November 1.

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Prague Castle opens Deer Moat for extended weekend

Four workers injured in accident in Příbram

Czechia to switch to Standard Time on October 30

Domestic violence among most common causes of divorce

Czech interior minister defends extension of border checks

State honours handed out on Czechoslovak Independence Day

 A unique collection of newly discovered photographs depicting everyday life in the Terezín ghetto are currently on display at the Memorial of Silence in Prague. The previously unseen images are on display at the Bubny train station, the place whi...

Czechs plant Sir Nicholas Winton Alley near legendary Říp Hill

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Installation on Czech Interior Ministry depicts Vladimir Putin in cadaver pouch

ANO party to announce presidential candidate on Monday

Slovakia pays tribute to common state of Czechs and Slovaks

Neela Winkelmann-Heyrovská never had the chance to meet her Nobel-prize winning chemist grandfather – Jaroslav Heyrovský died in 1967 and she was born two years later. But she had to live with his legacy her whole life – which, she says, was b...

Historic sites open their doors to the public for free

First Czech MP comes out as gay

Celebrations and anti-government protests on Czechoslovak Independence Day

EU strikes deal on new combustion-engine car ban

October 28th is Czechoslovak Independence Day, marking the establishment of Czechoslovakia in 1918.  Czechs will commemorate the 104th anniversary of the birth of the Czechoslovak Republic with a host of events, including the traditional ceremony a...

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New Chinese and Spanish ambassadors to Czechia sworn in

After nearly seven decades, the National Literature Memorial has left its premises in Prague’s Strahov Monastery and moved to its new headquarters in the district of Bubeneč. Last week it opened to the public under the name Museum of Literature.

Government extends controls at Czech-Slovak border for another 15 days

Zeman to receive Babiš at Lány residence on Sunday

Thousands of people gathered on Wenceslas Square in Prague on Wednesday evening to call for an end to prejudice against LGBT+ people, which led to the homophobic murder of two young men in Bratislava earlier this month.

Czech foreign minister continues two-day visit to Qatar

When the #MeToo campaign resonated in the Western world many Czechs were openly sceptical and even ridiculed what they considered to be a typical excess of Western feminism. Then two cases of multiple rape made media headlines – one involving Domi...

Budget deficit of CZK 295 billion for 2023 passes first reading

Thousands gather on Wenceslas Square to support rights of LGBT+ people

Wolf territories in Czechia increased to 24

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