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Souček secures win for West Ham in Everton clash

Major post-1989 political figure Petr Pithart turns 80

Babiš calls for perseverance in fight against Covid in New Year’s speech

Nearly 49,000 Czechs apply for resident status in UK

Czech Covid risk index again at 90 out of 100

PM apologizes for painful decisions, urges Czechs to get vaccine

Top parliament officials call for solidarity and tolerance

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Health expert: Vaccine provides longer immunity than undergoing Covid

Brexit-related changes in force

2021 will bring lower taxes, increased pensions

New variant not yet detected in Czech Republic

New Year’s Eve celebrations muted

Czech Republic reaches 90 points out of 100 on Covid-risk scale

Margita (Dina) Štěrbová is one of the recipients of the 2020 Gratias Agit Awards for promoting the good name of the Czech Republic abroad. A mathematician by profession, Dina has a lifelong passion for mountain climbing and has scaled dozens of p...

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OKD mining company starting massive lay-offs

Night curfew will apply on New Years’ Eve

2020 budget deficit expected to be under 380 billion crowns

Brexit-related changes around the corner

Antigen testing free of charge will continue

Hospitals banned from performing elective surgery

Record daily increase in Covid-19 cases, 52 percent of those tested positive

2020 has been a long, tough and stressful year for many around the world. So we thought it’d be a nice idea to ask some notable people what they’ve been doing to keep their spirits up during the Covid-19 pandemic.

All teachers to be added to vaccination priority groups, says Education Ministry spokeswoman

New police data suggests crime rate fell in 2020

Neither rain nor sleet nor closure of ski resorts, lifts, hotels and services due to coronavirus have stopped Czechs from violating government restrictions and taking to the slopes, albeit on foot, cross-country skis and in toboggans. 

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Health Ministry promises to work out methodology of vaccination plan by January 5

Czech regions begin to receive coronavirus vaccines

Health minister: First week of January will be key in development of epidemic

Social Democrats to negotiate with other Parliamentary parties in order to sink new tax legislation

As the coronavirus spread in 2020, touching virtually every country in the world, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) adapted or scaled up its ongoing activities and started new activities wherever a pressing need arose. The Czech branch of MSF also launc...

Mf Dnes: Czech police to strengthen night patrols during New Year’s celebrations

The Association for the Restoration of the Czech Kingdom has raised money to make a copy of the St. Wenceslas Crown for Charles Habsburg. The grandson of the last Austrian Emperor Charles I, who was also the king of Bohemia and Hungary, will celebra...

Covid-19 risk at highest level, with record number of cases, positive tests on Tuesday

Czechia to send material aid to earthquake-hit Croatia

Czech Republic formally confirms EU-Britain agreement

Czech volume of cryptocurrency trading up a third

Education Minister requests priority vaccination for preschool, special school staff

It is exactly 31 years since Václav Havel became Czechoslovak president. The dissident was unanimously elected by a Federal Assembly largely thanks to the country’s then Communist prime minister and opinion polls at the time did not suggest that ...

The annual Three Kings Collection, the biggest fundraiser in the country, organised by the Catholic charity Caritas, has been forced to go online in 2021 due to the strict coronavirus measures in place. Nevertheless, its organizers hope that it will...

Covid-19 vaccinations start in Ostrava after logistics snag in Belgium

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Zeman returns tax package to lower house without signing it

Confidence in the Czech economy rose in December after 2-month decline

Czech parliamentary elections set for October 8-9

Covid-19: Record number of new infections on Monday

Three Kings Collection to be held online

President and PM to meet for traditional New Year’s lunch

UNICEF works in over 190 countries of the world to save children's lives, to defend their rights, and to help them fulfill their potential. This year its efforts have been complicated by the coronavirus pandemic which has worsened the situation in p...

Fire at Veolia power plant following explosion

Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and a 95-year-old veteran of the Second World War were among the first people in the Czech Republic on Sunday to receive a coronavirus vaccine. In the coming days, some 10,000 people, mainly medical professionals and sen...

After nearly five years of negotiations, Britain and the European Union have reached an agreement on trade relations after Brexit. The announcement came on Christmas Eve, the traditional day when Czechs give each other presents. But was it a welcome...

Ice Hockey: Czechs beat Russia 2-0 at Junior World Cup

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Customs officials confiscate over 400 kilos of psychostimulant drug Khat

The Czech Development Agency was set up in 2008, under the Czech Foreign Affairs Ministry, with the aim to help eradicate poverty in the world and contribute to sustainable development. Where is it helping today, how are the countries for developmen...

The 74th Alfréd Nikodém Memorial event, an annual swim in the Vltava River on December 26th ,was allowed to go ahead despite the strict coronavirus measures in place.

Tatra Around the World 2 expedition will continue

Covid-19 risk index drops to fourth level over Christmas holidays

Vaccine brings prospects of economic growth

Czech Republic under full lock-down

Inoculation against Covid-19 underway

Zpívejme koledy (Let’s sing Christmas carols) is a newly released album recorded by the Czech Radio Children's Choir and the Brno Radio Orchestra of Folk Instruments on the occasion of the choir’s 75. anniversary, which it is celebrating this y...

A symbol of Prague and the largest castle complex in the world, Prague Castle was unusually quiet this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. 

The coronavirus pandemic has had a worldiwe economic impact, often most damaging to small businesses and the self-employed. Many of them are reliant on the Christmas season for most of their income, but with epidemic measures in force, Christmas mar...

Christmas in this country wouldn’t be complete without Jan Jakub Ryba’s Czech Christmas Mass from 1796, one of the most popular piece of Czech Christmas music ever written. But the small-town teacher and prolific composer created hundreds of oth...

Health minister appeals for discipline over the holidays

Despite the disappointing figures from the spring auction season, the anti-coronavirus measures did not affect the Czech Republic’s art market as much as experts predicted, the Czech News Agency reported this week.

The coronavirus epidemic has hit the Czech culture sector badly, especially live performers. Theatre productions have had to remain closed, with one exception. Loutky v nemocnici (Puppets in hospital) is a drama-therapy group that is still allowed t...

With more than 30 books and 1.5 million copies sold under his belt, Michal Viewegh is quite possibly the Czech Republic’s most popular contemporary author.

    A new book called Naše hory, lyže, sníh, (Our Mountains, Skis and Snow) explores the Czech passion for winter sports. It covers all sorts of topics, from skiing pioneers and famous ski races, to the tradition of post-war collective recreati...

Czech government announces full lockdown as of December 27

Veselé Vánoce! It’s Christmas Eve, traditionally the most important day for Czechs in this holiday season of good cheer. It is on this day that Christmas presents are exchanged – left under the tree by Ježíšek (the Baby Jesus) – following...

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Christmas Eve midnight mass at St. Vitus for limited number of believers

Czech scientists: body retains Covid immunity memory for at least 6 months

Foreign minister: Czechs can return from UK by air with negative coronavirus test

With more than 30 books and 1.5 million copies sold under his belt, Michal Viewegh is quite possibly the Czech Republic’s most popular contemporary author. His books have been published in 15 different languages and have also been adopted into sev...

Czech national Covid risk index rises to 81

Documentarian and teacher Karel Vachek dies at 80

The majority of Czech believers are Catholics. However compared to neighboring Poland or Slovakia, Czechs are rather lukewarm in their faith. And Christmas traditions in this part of the world are a colourful  mix of Christian and pagan rites.  

MPs back extension of state of emergency until January 22

Minister: Tighter Covid restrictions may start Sunday

MPs confirm creation of 15 percent income tax rate for most Czechs

The Czech Republic is currently experiencing another rise in coronavirus infections. Data indicate that the past five days have been equivalent to the country’s highest emergency level in the PES counter-epidemic system. Health Minister Jan Blatn�...

With the post-Brexit transition period due to end in less than two weeks’ time, what does the situation look like for the thousands of Czechs living and working in Britain, particularly the large Czech Roma community? Do most of them plan to stay ...

  Archaeologists working in the Milevsko monastery in South Bohemia say they have discovered part of a nail which allegedly comes from the so-called True Cross, on which Jesus Christ was crucified. The find is one of the rarest Christian relics, co...

Covid risk index in highest bracket for fifth day

Pubs to sue government over forced closure

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Percentage of positive tests highest since mid-November

Foreign Ministry trying to help Czechs stranded in UK

Czech PM to be among first to get vaccine

Evangelical priest Svatopluk Karásek, a key figure of the Czech underground, has died at the age of 78. The former dissident, musician and Charter 77 signatory was persecuted by the Communist regime and spent part of his life in exile with his wife...

The number of Czechs watching TV shows on their mobile devices has doubled in the last year and today stands at around 6 percent, according to data from the operator Telly.cz cited by the Czech News Agency.

The Czech Republic has joined other countries around the world in suspending flights from the UK following the detection there of a more infectious variant of the coronavirus. A negative test will not suffice for those who do manage to make it from ...

Archaeologists discover part of a nail likely from the True Cross in Milevsko monastery

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Shopping over the holidays

Annual Polar Bear Swim to take place on December 26

A commemorative procession entitled Heart to the Castle 2020 was held on Friday, the ninth anniversary of the death of Václav Havel. The heart became his symbol during his period as president.

Czech Republic on highest Covid emergency level for fourth day in succession

National Reference Lab says mutated strains of Covid-19 present in Czech population as well

Sales soar on the fourth weekend of Advent

Lower house to take re-vote on tax reform on Tuesday

Government bans flights from UK as of midday Monday

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Evangelical priest Svatopluk Karásek dies at 78

Ester Ledecka wins first Super G of new season

PM:Inoculation will start as soon as possible

Ski resorts gradually opening to visitors

Andrej Babiš, Václav Klaus and Petr Pavel hot favourites for next president

Czech Republic on highest Covid emergency level for third day in succession

Christmas is traditionally a time to spend with families and friends, and also singing Christmas carols. However, due to the global Covid-19 outbreak, many people won’t be able to meet with their loved ones this year. To celebrate the festive seas...

The Adršpach-Teplice rock town, located in the northeast of the Czech Republic, is one of the most popular excursion sites in the country.

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