Nomura Holdings: Czechia at risk of currency crisis

A papier-mâché effigy of the Russian and Belarusian leaders Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko, made famous at anti-Russian demonstrations in Prague over the past year and a half, has now been put to auction. Bidding starts at 10,000 euro...

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Czechia sending heavy bridge rigs to Ukraine

Archivists at Czech Radio have discovered 1,300 discs of recordings from the 1946 trial with Karl Hermann Frank, who was in charge of the Nazi security forces during the wartime occupation of Bohemia and Moravia. The discs are currently in the proce...

Record-high interest in subsidies for photovoltaics

Outgoing director of the Lány Forest Administration appeals mismanagement verdict

Free tests for HIV and hepatitis this week

Traditionally, the first snow of the winter season is meant to be brought to Czechia by Saint Martin riding in on his white horse on St. Martin's Day (November 11). This year, however, the first snow came to Prague a week later. On Friday night, th...

Václav Brožík is arguably the most famous Czech painter of the late 19th century and the best-known representative of the style of Czech historicism. His artworks, often addressing important moments of Czech history, grace some of the most import...

Medical Chamber wants to double fee for emergency care

Health minister in favour of introducing supplementary insurance

Christmas trees for Prague on their way to the capital

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Václav Brožík – painter of Czech history

Czechia struggling with shortage of nurses

Czech crown strengthening due to developments on global markets

Close to 9,000 illegal migrants detained on Czech-Slovak border since September

Real wages in Czechia see biggest drop in EU

Czechia preparing its own version of US Magnitsky Act

This year’s Czech Nightingales saw Lucie Bílá win her 21st Golden Nightingale for best female singer. She was also voted, for the twelfth time already, the overall Czech Nightingale winner of 2022. The best male signer award went to last year�...

On November 21, 1962, the Tatra T3 tram was put into regular service in Prague. It was a very modern tram for its time and would become a successful export product. Today, T3’s can still be seen transporting people in country’s such as Ukraine.

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Police investigating assault on journalists during anti-government protest

First snowfall complicating traffic around the country

Czechs planning to spend less on Christmas presents this year

Most manual workers in Prague moonlighting to make ends meet

Prague Archbishopric putting Jindřiška Tower up for sale

Defence minister visits troops guarding Czech-Slovak border

Czech foreign minister says allies should not dictate peace terms to Kyiv

The National Gallery in Prague has acquired a particularly valuable item – a wood carving of Mary sitting on a heavenly throne with baby Jesus resting on her lap and surrounded by three angels. The object is being called the Madonna from Havraň a...

The former home of the legendary Czech traveller Miroslav Zikmund in the Moravian town of Zlín opened to the public this month. The iconic functionalist villa, built in the 1930s by the Baťa Company, has been turned into a museum dedicated to Mr Z...

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Price of fuels drops further

Despite inflation, majority of Czechs optimistic about future

Lower house to vote on abolishing bill on electronic sales registers next week

President to pardon Polish couple convicted of importing and distributing hallucinogenic beverage

Don Hall grew up in the Deep South of the United States, in a poor, conservative, religious family. He became a successful evangelical Christian minister and was preaching to crowds of people all over the southeastern United States. But he was deepl...

Memory of Nations Awards honour those who resisted Nazi and Communist regimes

EU unblocks subsidies for Agrofert

Thousands attend protest march towards Czech TV headquarters

Student climate change protests culminate in march through Prague

This Thursday saw the 33rd anniversary of the onset of the Velvet Revolution. Commemorative events as well as demonstrations were held across the country. 

Survey: 39 percent of companies in Czechia plan to raise wages by end of year

Lipavský gets Magnitsky Award during UK visit

Parts of Praue’s A and C metro lines closed until Sunday

Slovak President highlights role of decency in November 17 tribute in Prague

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Archeologists discover Bronze Age burial ground

Fiala and Tsikhanouskaya condemn Lukashenko’s support for Russian aggression

Czechs mark anniversary of November 17

Lipavský hands out medals recognising diplomatic service

A picture can paint a thousand words. This is certainly the case with the photograph of a pregnant woman being carried out on a stretcher by five paramedics from a Mariupol hospital, where a Russian bomb had just landed on March 9th 2022. This pictu...

“Czechs have golden hands,” boasts a popular saying meaning, that Czechs are generally manually a very skillful nation. Economists do not doubt that the Czech economic success is based on a long tradition of manufacturing and other industries. B...

Preciosa – Bohemia crystal glass products sold the world over

Hand-made Bohemia crystal-glass and glass jewelry have a centuries old tradition and are among the country's leading export articles.

Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya visits Prague

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State-regulated electricity prices to fall next year, but people will still pay more

Teams of archaeologists and anthropologists are currently excavating on the site of the former military cemetery in Prague’s Karlín district. The site was in use from the second half of the 1700s to the end of the 19th century and excavators beli...

Czech officials have responded with concern to the news that two allegedly Russian missiles hit Polish territory on Tuesday, killing two people. Czechia has said it will coordinate with its EU and NATO partners and support whatever action is agreed ...

Legendary Czechoslovak bullet train receives award for exemplary restoration

Government’s Human Rights Commissioner invites striking students for talks

MPs approve establishment of Digital and Information Agency

Foreign Minister: Czechia supports Poland in investigating missile explosion

Hand-made Bohemia crystal-glass and glass jewelry have a centuries old tradition that is taken to new heights by cutting-edge technology. Stunning crystal glass lighting installations, art works and glasses grace palaces, luxury hotels, public space...

Czech Army chief: Calm heads needed over missiles in Poland

Slovak President Čaputová meets with Czech counterpart Miloš Zeman

Fiala: Russian missiles hitting Poland would be further escalation

Mayor: Prague unable to take in more refugees from Ukraine

Czechia’s Jurečka addresses COP27 conference in Egypt

Office of President calls for police action over Prague Castle barriers

This year’s November 17th celebrations will mark the 33rd anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. The annual celebrations are always packed with a multitude of events, ranging from cultural festivities to political protests. Here is a rundown of wha...

An exhibition presenting the life’s work of the twin sisters Jitka and Květa Válová got underway in Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region in Kutná Hora earlier this month. Entitled A Path Destined by Faith, it presents numerous works on loan ...

University students across Czechia are taking part in protests against climate change, calling on the government to take immediate action to address global warming, soaring energy prices and growing social inequalities.  The series of events, inclu...

‘Miya’ is an aeroplane with a difference – designed to carry up to four passengers, she can fly without a pilot. She is also intended primarily for getting around in cities – and can do so almost completely silently.

Soldiers’ pay to increase by 10 percent at start of 2023

Ministry plans to change function of “Covid app” Tečka

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New poll puts ANO way ahead of other parties

Czech foreign minister starts two-day visit to Great Britain

Czechia considering bid to host UN's 2024 COP29 climate summit

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The newly-restored greenhouse in the garden of the Augustinian abbey in Brno where the father of modern genetics, Gregor Johann Mendel, cross-bred pea plants and thereby discovered the laws of heredity, opened to the public for the first time on Sat...

The Czech men’s national floorball team has just registered its greatest international success in nearly two decades, reaching the final of the World Championships in Switzerland. Despite losing to Sweden 3:9 in Sunday’s final, recent Czech succ...

Proponents of “Czechia” got a boost this month, when Olympic officials in Prague asked the International Olympic Committee to register it in its database of country names. But will the short name ever replace the official “the Czech Republic�...

Czech researchers testing psiloybe mushroom on patients with depression

Train transport renewed on Prague - Horní Počernice route, but delays expected

Prague Castle Administration unhappy with security checks

Czech lower house speaker: EU needs to prevent power vacuum in Western Balkans

EC president praises Czechia for “exemplary“ support of Ukraine

Zlín’s Bar 1931 is already in a festive mood. It has been adorned with 12,000 Christmas baubles produced by the firm Irisa in the nearby town of Vsetín.

Czech mortgage rates highest in 20 years, major fall in new loans

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Poll: ANO remain in front but Civic Democrats and Pirates gain ground

Scientist Petr Pyšek in line for Czech Head prize

Study: Two-fifths of Czechs to spend less this Christmas

Interior minister: Large winter wave of Ukraine refugees would pose difficulties

The division of Czechoslovakia into two separate states was a peaceful process without a single shot being fired. However, arguments over the division of assets that belonged to the former state dragged on for 7 years.

Czech Christmas trees to go up around 10 percent this year

Lucie Bílá overall winner in Czech Nightingale awards

Czech band Vltava recently released a new album, much to the delight of their fans who have been waiting six years since the last one. Indeed, fans were so eager for its release that they supported its creation with a crowdfunding campaign.

Czechs knocked out of Billie Jean King Cup in semi-finals

Válek: Isolation for Covid positive may end

Doctors’ chief slams Ministry of Health as arrogant

Lipavský demands Chinese explanation for “police stations” in Prague

Unions come out against commercialisation of healthcare

Food collection takes place at over 1,400 Czech shops

Czechs into semi-finals at Billie Jean King Cup after beating US

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Josef Mánes left a rich legacy to the Czech Republic - but also fell afoul of a mysterious curse. What is the identity of the woman with the mysterious smile in his painting Josefína, “the Czech Mona Lisa”? And what is the curse of the astrono...

Škoda increased global sales by 29 percent in October

This year’s celebrations of November 17, the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, will see the centre of Prague and many other cities across Czechia fill up with events and festivities. The organisers of one of the largest annual events, the Fest...

German police arrested 70 Czechs last year for meth trafficking

November 11 is St. Martin's Day, and in Czechia that often means eating roast goose paired with St. Martin's wine. But what is special about this wine, and how do you know you're getting the real thing?

Tennis: Czechs to face US in Billie Jean Cup group decider

EC lowers growth forecast for Czech economy

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Fiala: Combination of nuclear and renewable sources only safe scenario for Czechia

Czechs honour memory of war veterans