Brian Kenety

The repeated closure of hotels and restaurants due to anti-coronavirus measures, along with the absence of foreign tourists, led to a steep drop in sales. 

The holiday season just got a bit merrier in Poniklá, whose blown-glass and beaded Christmas decorations have made UNESCO’s celebrated Intangible Cultural Heritage list. 

Archaeologists working to unearth a 13th century tower at Kost Castle are baffled who built the recently discovered mediaeval fortification. 

The Czech Republic hopes to begin vaccinating against Covid-19 in late January. But a sizeable minority are unwilling to get the shots. 

Adolf Loos, a pioneering modernist architect raised in Brno, left a rich legacy in Vienna, Prague and beyond, despite declaring “ornament is crime”.

Karel Čapek’s penultimate play was a dark satire of fascism, set against the backdrop of a pandemic, as prescient then as it is topical today, in the era of coronavirus.

Czech industrial production increased by 3 percent in October month-on-month despite renewed restrictions started amid a large spike in Covid-19 infections, ČSÚ data show.

The Czech state will pay dearly for Prime Minister Andrej Babiš’s conflict of interest, the improper disbursal of EU subsidies, an MEP on the budget committee says. 

The liturgal season of Advent is upon us, a joyful time, marked by traditional Czech goodies and a bit of church organ music. 

Students of Romani language and culture established Kher to promote writing in the minority language. The publisher's latest book is an anthology about spirits of the dead.