Cabinet approves transfer of 5 billion crowns to Defence Ministry

Government to debate tighter coronavirus measures

PM refutes news that inoculations should be suspended due to fall out in deliveries

Wednesday is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau by Soviet forces in 1945. Due to the coronavirus, in lieu of traditional gatherings at Czech sites of remembrance, a memorial e...

The hotel market in Prague has been the hardest hit in Europe since the coronavirus pandemic hit the continent, with a fall-off of 84.6 percent in revenues per room, according to a report published by consultants Cushman & Wakefield on Wednesday.

News, Holocaust Rememberance Day, Footballer Tomáš Souček’s first year for West Ham United, one of the county’s most popular tourist destinations - Český Krumlov. 27.1.2021

Footballer Tomáš Souček made lots of headlines on Tuesday when he scored twice for West Ham United in a victory over Crystal Palace. The game came almost exactly 12 months to the day after the 25-year-old’s debut in the Premier League – and c...

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Holocaust Remembrance Day marked largely online

Former head of police squad for fighting organized crime plans to enter high politics

Czechs drinking more alcohol, popping more pills since pandemic started

Government to debate proposal to open ski resorts

Over 9,000 new Covid cases recorded, reproduction number climbs slightly

Blatný: “UK” Covid mutation not spreading by community transmission in CR

Broadcast in English - 01/26/2021

Snowfall below average so far this winter

Long queues of cars have been forming at the Czech-German border since Sunday morning following the introduction of tighter restrictions for travel into Germany. The new measures affected mainly cross-border workers commuting to Bavaria, who have be...

Number of non-nationals in workforce triples in decade

Liberec police chief fired over illegal party

The vaccination of vulnerable groups against Covid-19 is taking longer than anticipated in part due to production bottlenecks. Some politicians and health experts are calling on the Czech government to buy supplies from companies not party to the Eu...

Cinema operators reject planned new level four conditions

Jágr among names calling for Hnilička to stay in sports post

National covid risk index falls slightly

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Blatný: No plan to buy vaccines not approved by EU

ANO MP Hnilička gives up seat over illegal party

Czech national Covid vaccinations chief Blahuta quits

Broadcast in English - 01/25/2021

The Czech circus ensemble Cirk La Putyka has enlivened windows of closed shops, pubs and bars as part of the #kulturunezastavis initiative (“Culture cannot be stopped”). Actors, acrobats and musicians performed in the centre of Prague.

Closed ski centres have forced Czechs to switch from downhill to cross country-skiing, Hospodářské noviny reports. According to the daily, an increasing number of Czechs are spending their free time on cross country tracks. Producers and retailer...

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Health insurance company chief to remain in post despite questioned vaccination

The accordion has played a central role in Czech folk music for centuries, and remains a favourite instrument of many chanson signers here, such as Radůza – who is so well known, she goes by a single name. Among the Czech youth carrying on the in...

Police in South Bohemia are increasingly struggling with illegal miners of moldavites, bottle-green gemstones found almost exclusively on the territory of the Czech Republic. The rich deposits of the gem found in the area attract hordes of i...

Hundreds of WWII mines found in woods

Covid risk index remains in level four bracket

Medical worker Covid vaccine register to open Tuesday

PM wants sports commissioner’s head over illegal party

Traffic jams form at border crossings to Bavaria

Sunday saw lowest number of new Covid cases in over a month

February to bring colder weather to Czechia

Main Trilobit Award goes to documentary Caught in the Net

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Czech politicians condemn Russia’s arrest of Navalny protesters

Vaccine registration for people below 80 to be postponed

Eva Samková wins snowboard cross World Cup race in Italy

Number of hospitalised with Covid-19 drops below 6,000

This week marks 130 years since the death of Ignaz Schustala - the founder of the Nesselsdorfer Wagenbau-Fabriks-Gesellschaft, which later became Tatra.

Zdeněk Mácal, one of the most prominent Czech conductors of the present day, turned 85 in January. For political reasons, Mácal first gained recognition abroad, and only later shone on the music scene in his native country.

Forecasters issue snow and black ice alert

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Some 200 people in Prague protest in support of Alexei Navalny

Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines deliveries to Czechia to be cut down by 20 percent

Flock culled after bird flu detected at farm in south Bohemia

New book by Petr Sís: "Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued".

Czech national Covid risk index drops to 69

Germany adds Czechia on list of high-risk countries

Nicky & Vera, the latest work by the great Czech-born children’s author and illustrator Petr Sís, is being published on January 26, the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Subtitled A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Re...

Bankrupt entrepreneurs may be able to draw a so-called compensation bonus of 500 crowns per day, retroactively, if their businesses were impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, according to an amendment approved by MPs and government proposals.   

Anna Fernstädt takes silver in World Cup skeleton event in Germany

A Czechoslovak veteran of World War II who fought in the battles of Tobruk and Dunkirk has died at the age of 101, Czech Television reported. Bernard Papánek, who immigrated to Israel in the 1960s lived out his final days in Slovakia, where he died...

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Bird flu detected in Czechia after year-long absence

Assessing measures to counter the spread of coronavirus on Thursday, European Union leaders agreed to introduce a new category of “dark red” zones, indicating areas of exceptionally high Covid-19 risk to which all non-essential travel should be ...

Government extends state of emergency until February 14

Forty-two Czechs so far qualify for Tokyo Olympic Games

Czechia certain to be on EU’s “dark red” Covid risk zone, WWII veteran Bernard Papánek dies at 101,    Interview with Czech anthropologist Zdeňka Sokolíčková who is  studying how local people perceive the effects of climate change in ...

 Škoda Auto’s production dropped to 750,000 in 2020

Schools in Czechia could reopen for final-year students

For nearly two years, Czech anthropologist Zdenka Sokolíčková has lived in Svalbard with her husband and three children, studying how local people perceive the effects of climate change. What was it like adapting to life high up in the Arctic? An...

Covid-19: Czechia has second-highest new infection, death rates in EU

Czechoslovak veteran of Tobruk, Dunkirk battles dies aged 101

MPs agree on extending state of emergency three weeks, until February 14

Shoving match erupts among Czech MPs at Covid-19 state of emergency debate

Czech cities Karviná, Ostrava and Havířov among most polluted in EU, causing early deaths

MPs seek mandatory quota on Czech food sales in big stores; Prague’s Podolí swimming pool declared a national monument; researchers track mis/disinformation about Covid-19

Czech national census to proceed from March-May as planned

The number of passengers going through Prague’s Václav Havel Airport dropped by nearly 80 percent last year as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, suggests the airport’s end-of-year report. The number of flights decreased by 65 percent.

A team of researchers from the Faculty of Education at Palacký University in Olomouc have conducted an extensive study of how misinformation, disinformation and fake news about Covid-19 have spread throughout the country. Leading the research was d...

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The swimming stadium in Prague’s district of Podolí, one of the iconic examples of Czechoslovakia’s 1960s architecture, was recently declared a national cultural monument. The complex of three swimming pools, built on the site of a former cemen...

The lower house of Parliament on Wednesday passed a bill that would impose a mandatory quota on local food sold in retail stores larger than 400 square metres. The bill has come under fierce criticism from EU member states which say it would create ...

Prague court rejects former Jazz Section head’s suit against Jaroslav Hutka over StB allegation

Prague int’l airport passenger traffic fell 79 pct in 2020 to 25-year low due to Covid-19

Czech president: Russia should allow Alexei Navaly to stand for election

Covid-19: Over 7,200 people in Czechia have received second vaccine dose

MPs debate extending state of emergency until 21 February

Covid-19 cases dropping, but risk index remains high

The sugar cube was invented by Jakub Krystof Rad in 1843 in the town of Dačice, Moravia. Find out more in the first part of our Czech Made series.

Czech chess champion Koválek dies at 77; Heritage sites hiring guides for upcoming season; Czech Made, episode 1: Sugar Cube

Although there is still little clarity on what the upcoming tourist season in the Czech Republic will look like, several monuments in the Pardubice region are searching for new guides. This year the pool of applicants is much more varied than before...

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Communist Party like to support extension of state of emergency

Lubomír Kaválek, an international grandmaster of chess who won national championships in Czechoslovakia and in the United States after defecting to the West in 1968, has died at the age of 77. Once ranked no. 10 in the world, after retiring from i...

The production of cars in the Czech Republic – one of the country’s most important industries – declined by no less than 19.2 percent last year. The biggest drop-off in output ever seen stems from restrictions imposed to curb Covid-19 that ret...

Lower house approves bill on mandatory quotas on sale of domestic goods

When was the last time you sweetened your tea of coffee with a cube of sugar? Today we take the small compact units of sugar, the exact size of a teaspoon, for granted, but it was not until 1843 that the sugar cube first saw the light of day on the ...

Health minister sacks his deputy for unethical conduct

President Zeman gets inocultated against Covid-19

Covid risk index rises once again

Germany likely to put Czechia on list of high-risk states on Thursday

Miroslav Kalousek resigns his deputy’s seat

Broadcast in English - 01/19/2021

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, some 25 new foreign brands entered the Czech Republic’s market in 2020, one more than in the previous year, according to a new survey carried out by the company Cushman & Wakefield, published by the daily Aktuálně....

The Czech lighting and glass artworks company Lasvit has just completed another major project, installing a huge glass and steel pendulum in a medical centre in Abu Dhabi. The stunning, pen-like structure is suspended above a lobby, drawing various ...

For a third day running now, the Czech Republic’s coronavirus epidemic has been improving according to the government’s PES counter-epidemic system indicators. However, apart from the reopening of children’s clothing shops and stationeries, th...

Count Zdeněk Sternberg dies at 97

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2021 is an election year in the Czech Republic. Predictions about political developments in any country are difficult under normal circumstances, much less in the midst of a global pandemic. Nevertheless, Vít Pohanka asked Petr Just, a political sc...

Shops selling stationary products and children’s clothing reopen

Lower house to debate coronavirus related issues

Chcípl PES initiative to set up political movement against restrictive measures

Swimming centre in Podolí declared national cultural monument

Covid risk score remains at 70 but reproduction number again grows

British mutation of Covid confirmed in Czech Republic

Foreign Minister Petříček catches Covid

Stationery and children’s clothes shop allowed to open Tuesday

Broadcast in English - 01/18/2021

Number of reported crimes falls by 17 percent year-on-year

Czech foreign troops continue to be deployed in Mali as part of the European Union mission in the West African state. The Czech contingent is mainly involved in field training and is also in charge of guarding the two main Allied bases. In addition...