Alena Škodová

This week Prague hosts the fifth World Abilympics - in which physically and mentally handicapped people compete in a number of wide-ranging activities. It's a first not…

The sound of Vera Bila, the queen of Czech gypsy music. Last week, Bila and her band Kale sang in New York's Central Park, as part of a popular open-air music festival…

The number of crimes uncovered involving police officers has grown by nearly a half as compared to the first six months of 1999. The Interior Ministry has a special…

The third European congress of the International Confederation of Christian Family Movements opened on Wednesday at the Roman Catholic Archbishop's Seminary in Prague…

An incident at the Cerveny Ujezd refugee camp in the north of the country has led to some serious questions about conditions in camps in the Czech Republic. In recent…

Germany has thanked the Czech writer and journalist Pavel Tigrid for his work in improving Czech-German relation, by awarding him the country's highest decoration, the…

Unlike in many countries where cyclists are protected from the onslaught of cars, buses, trams and lorries, their counterparts in the Czech Republic, and especially in…

On Friday two covered caravans drawn by horses and carrying 30 young Romanies started a three-day journey leading from the town of Kladruby in eastern Bohemia to the…

50 years ago today, Radio Free Europe began broadcasting into Communist Europe from a converted goods lorry trundling along the Czechoslovak border. One of the pillars of…

A petition signed by 400 people has forced officials in the North Moravian town of Prostejov to examine more closely the problem of coexistence with a community of…