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The Czech Police proudly announced last year that a new initiative would see the force more multi-cultural. Members of the country's biggest minority group, the Roma…

Hello and welcome to SoundCzech. Today's idiom comes from "Moje malá válka" or "My little war", a song by the popular singer-songwriter Jaromír Nohavica. The phrase we'll…

The country of Nepal has around 29 million inhabitants. At least one third of the population lives below the poverty line and cannot afford medical treatment. But a new…

Exactly fifteen years ago, on February 13th 1992, the Czech Technical University in Prague hosted a momentous event. At a meeting with university computer science experts…

In January 2008, to be in accordance with an EU directive on taxation on energies, the Czech government will implement the first of two phases of an environmental tax…

Christian Democrat Senator Jiri Cunek has been stripped of his parliamentary immunity. The Senate, on Wednesday, made the decision following a request by the Czech Police…

A statue by Wilhelm Lehmbruck, which used to stand in the functionalist Tugendhat Villa in the Moravian capital of Brno, was sold to an anonymous bidder for one million…

Crowds thronged Prague's Strasnice crematorium on Tuesday to pay their last respects to the composer Karel Svoboda, who committed suicide last week. The sudden death of…

The number of people infected with the HIV virus in the Czech Republic increased significantly last year. According to the National Reference Laboratory for AIDS, 2006 saw…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Prague on Friday to try and revive talks on the European Constitution agreement. The ratification process was put on hold after the…