Covid-19: Czech Republic fourth least affected EU state

US actor Johnny Depp arrives in Karlovy Vary

Frank-Walter Steinmeier: Czech-German relations could not be better

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier is currently on a three-day visit to the Czech Republic. The German head of state is meeting with leading Czech officials, including President Miloš Zeman and Prime Minister Andrej Babiš. In an historic fir...

Czechs have been forking out more money for nearly everything – and flowers are no exception. The price of garden plants and conifers has made gardening an expensive hobby and even a bouquet of flowers costs significantly more than it did before t...

Study: Czechia offers below average conditions for working women

Every year scores of cheetah cubs are trafficked out of Somaliland to Persian Gulf states to be sold to wealthy buyers as pets. Poverty and criminal networks active in the breakaway African state have made the region a hub for trafficking of the exo...

Czech counterintelligence chief denies president’s wiretapping claims

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Covid-19 cases rising again

German president honours Czechoslovak paratroopers from Operation Anthropoid

Babiš: Czech Republic will not be negotiating with Taliban

Senate votes to make June 26 officially the “Day of departure of occupying forces”

E15: KLM asks Czech online travel agency Kiwi.com to stop selling its tickets

Goalkeeper Barbora Votíková signs contract with Paris St. Germain

Czech Army Kabul Embassy team to receive medals

German President: “Czech-German partnership based on strong foundations”

The Czech glassworks Květná has won a prestigious contract for furnishing Rolls-Royce car interiors. The company, based in the Uherské Hradiště region, will provide the cars with a set consisting of a bottle, a bourbon glass and a champagne gl...

A new brain bank, the first of its kind in Central Europe, recently started operating in Prague. The facility contains parts of brain tissue from patients who died of Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease, that have been donated for research. The sampl...

Czech School Inspection detects gaps in education among tens of thousands of students

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Czech runner dies while taking part in Mont Balnc ultramarathon

Study: 35 percent of women have experienced sexual harassment in public transport

ČEZ will make decision about whether to mine lithium by 2023, says company director

Every year, at the close of the summer Czech ambassadors posted around the world are invited to Prague for consultations on foreign policy and economic diplomacy. The week of intensive negotiations is closely followed by the media since it is a reli...

Tuesday saw fall in coronavirus cases, reproduction number indicates epidemic in retreat

Health Ministry seeks extra CZK 1bn for mental health centres, salaries, Covid-19 vaccines

Czech ice hockey hall of famer Jan Suchý dies, age 76

Finance Ministry revises upwards 2021, 2022 growth forecasts

The crucian carp (karas obecný) was once among the most common fish found in Czech waters. Now, however, biologists have registered its rapid disappearance from the country’s ponds and lakes. To save the fish, a new project has been set up with t...

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Prague International Marathon, pushed back to October, now cancelled

Czech team of only 28 athletes competing in Tokyo Paralympics

Covid-19: Firefighters begin distributing millions of antigen tests to schools

SČVR: Outdoor advertisers seek to repeal new Prague restrictions on tarpaulins

Czech diplomat Jana Hybášková overturned car in accident, crashed into parked cars

Czech archaeologists have made a unique discovery near the mythical mount of Říp in Central Bohemia. They have unearthed a Stone Age mound, which ranks among the oldest of its kind in Europe. They also found an exceptionally well-preserved burial ...

Škoda Auto to stop producing Fabia Combi due to emission limits

Prague metro: Jiřího z Poděbrad station reconstruction starts in September

Office of samizdat writer Ludvík Vaculík gifted to National Literary depository

Media: Prague court decision on Airbnb income to impact thousands of owners

The Czech Republic successfully completed three evacuation flights from Taliban-occupied Kabul last week. On board at least one of the planes were also Afghan holders of long-term residency in the Czechia. However, not all of them have been so lucky...

German President: “Czech-German partnership based on strong foundations”

Preventive coronavirus tests to remain free for everyone until further notice

The parliamentary committee that oversees the BIS counterintelligence service is due to meet on Thursday to address an astounding claim: President Miloš Zeman says the secret service’s director “wiretapped” people close to him without cause a...

The average price of hotel stays in Prague has been falling for the second year due to the lack of foreign tourists, caused by the ongoing coronavirus crisis, the Czech News Agency reported, citing Czech booking agencies.

Price of rents growing

Highway D6, which will link Prague with the Karlovy Vary region, has been under construction for nearly 40 years. Another stretch, a 5-kilometre bypass of the town of Lubenec, has just been completed. Shortly ahead of the opening, set for late Augus...

A long-anticipated documentary on the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia by Czech director Jan Šikl premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film festival on Saturday, on the occasion of the 53rd anniversary of the event. Called ‘Reconstru...

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Covid: Reproduction number drops below 1.0

Lower house committee to debate president’s claim that intelligence spied on people close to him

PM: we must deepen economic ties, but continue to defend human rights

Bishop Peter Esterka who served Czech expats in the U.S., Canada and Australia died in California on August 10, 2021, local media reported. Retired Bishop Peter Esterka was 85. A funeral mass was celebrated at Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove, CA on...

Unlike in other, especially Western-European countries, most Czechs still prefer to own their home instead of renting. The situation is a bit different in Prague, where house and flat prices are generally very high. To qualify for a mortgage, an ap...

Health minister: third Covid vaccine for high risk groups

Trade minister: Dukovany tender likely before end of 2021

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President Zeman: NATO needs to undergo fundamental reform

Accommodation prices in the regions soaring

President Zeman says counterintelligence wiretapped people close to him

Covid numbers still low, but authorities urging caution

Czech Association of Travel Agencies wants Bulgaria taken off “red” list

More countries to turn red on Czech travel map as of Monday

A large exhibition of Czech industrial products was organised on the occasion of the coronation of Leopold II as King of Bohemia.

This week’s Sunday Music Show features the legendary underground rock band Pražský výběr, who this week held a special concert (together with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra) to mark 30 years since the departure of Soviet troops Czech so...

Czechs are marking the 53rd anniversary of the Sovie-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Commemorative ceremonies are being held around the country at significant sites linked to the invasion of Warsaw Pact troops which were sent in by Moscow to...

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Czechs mark 53rd anniversary of 1968 Soviet-led invasion

Ten Czechs injured in bus crash in Germany

Government to order establishment of national coordination centre for cybersecurity

Czech government expected to up budget for EU presidency

Czech ambassador to Afghanistan and staff to have “evacuated employee” status

Karlovy Vary Film Festival honours British actor Michael Caine

This Saturday, Czechs and Slovaks will commemorate the anniversary of the Soviet-led invasion of August 1968, sent to crush the Prague Spring – the raft of reforms that Communist Party secretary Alexander Dubček had famously hoped would lead to �...

The Czech Republic ranked as the best country in Europe and fifth overall globally in this year’s annual Global Manufacturing Risk Index compiled by global commercial real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield.

Passing through rigourous coronavirus safety measures, more than two-dozen Czech atheletes have set out for Tokyo to compete in the Tokyo Paralympic Games, which will kick-off with an opening ceremony on Monday. Among the paralympic team are medal h...

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CVVM: Czechs most concerned about Covid and public finances

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival to open with biopic about Emil Zátopek

Covid statistics: Czech Republic fifth least affected EU state

Czech Republic suspends payment of 40 million crowns for development aid to Afghanistan

At the foot of the Jizera Mountains, Libverda is the go-to spa town of the Liberec Region. The small resort specializes in carbon baths that promise to help guests with movement disorders and heart problems. Curiously, the main symbol of Libverda is...

Covid-19: Antigen tests to remain free for under 18s, adults who cannot get vaccinated

Czech ambassadors returning from foreign posts for annual meeting

Study: Czechia still has best production conditions in Europe

PM Babiš: Czech evacuation mission in Afghanistan has ended

The hectic evacuation effort aimed at getting Czechs and their Afghan co-workers out of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan is over, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš announced at a press briefing in Prague on Thursday. The head of government said the operati...

Based on the number of positive PCR and antigen test results, around 17 percent of the Czech population has so far been infected with COVID-19. However, according to the results of the first phase of a study conducted by the RECETOX research centre ...

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KVIFF ticket sales brisk ahead of festival’s opening on Friday

Food inspectors: every other Czech ice cream cone sold fails to meet hygienic standards

Bodies of two missing Czech climbers found in Swiss Alps

Former MP Jaroslav Škárka sentenced for hate speech about premature babies with disabilities

Anti-corruption police: Health Ministry purchases of anti-pandemic equipment not ‘overpriced’

Wednesday sees number of new COVID-19 cases fall

Third Czech Army evacuation plane from Afghanistan lands in Prague

Third Czech Army aircraft leaves Kabul carrying Afghan interpreters

Defence Minister: Some Afghan interpreters who were not taken in by Czechia had ties with Taliban

Luděk Němec is not your typical student of history. At the age of 21, he has already authored two books, both about ethnic Sudeten German settlements in the Šumava National Park region, forcibly abandoned during the “wild expulsions” followin...

Plzeň-Bavaria railway route to be upgraded after accident

Czechia’s average mortgage rate at three year high

Up to half of Czech adult population may have been infected with coronavirus, study shows

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Karel Vachek receives posthumous award from Czech Culture Ministry

Czech Republic to send CZK 2.5 million to earthquake stricken Haiti

Tuesday saw highest number of detected coronavirus cases since end of July

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, which begins on Friday, prides itself on bringing titles from the former Eastern bloc to international audiences via its flagship East of the West competition. But how is the Covid situation impacting those ...

Zeman to make public further objections to counterintelligence chief

Second Czech evacuation plane from Kabul arrives in Prague

Second Czech plane takes off from Kabul airport

July saw year-on-year industrial producer prices grow by 7.8 percent, the biggest rise since November 2004, the Czech Statistics Agency announced on Monday. High price growth was also registered among agricultural producers and in construction work ...

A second Czech aircraft, intended for transporting evacuees from Kabul to Prague, landed in the Afghan capital on Tuesday. Like other NATO states, the Czech Republic is struggling to evacuate its Afghan co-workers from the possible wrath of Taliban ...

Over 60,000 households in crisis situation

On a visit to Cyprus you may come across a craft mini-brewery serving “Pivo” the Czech word for beer. Although it is not a brand you would find in the Czech Republic, the beer is made from Czech ingredients and the three young men producing it l...

Labour minister breaks own government’s Covid rule

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Table tennis association seeks compensation over Tokyo Covid infection

Monday Covid cases up one-quarter on same day week

New school year to start with mass Covid testing