Jan Richter

Welcome to this week’s edition of SoundCzech, Radio Prague’s Czech language programme in which you can learn interesting phrases through song lyrics. Today we will hear a…

In this week’s Business New: the Czech Republic to receive more funds from the EU; Home Credit starts off in China; Czech Railways plan record renovation; Czech food…

The head of the Czech communist party Vojtech Filip and communist MEP Miloslav Randsorf have contributed financially to a planned memorial to Milada Horakova, a Czech…

Cardinal Miloslav Vlk, the Archbishop of Prague, is the head of the Roman Catholic Church in the Czech Republic. Under the previous regime, he clashed repeatedly with the…

On the stroke of midnight on Thursday the Czech Republic and eight EU member states joined the Schengen border-free zone. Politicians from Austria, Germany, Poland and…

The Czech government has approved the draft of a new penal code introducing a number of new penalties and definitions of crimes. It raises the maximum penalty for murder…

The police have halted an investigation of alleged fraud and tax evasion on the part of Martin Bursik, the environment minister and the head of the Green Party. The “case…

Chanukah is the eight-day Jewish festival which falls at the end of November or the beginning of December every year. In the Czehc Republic, along with other religious…

The Czech defence minister, Vlasta Parkanova, said on Tuesday that the Czech government had decided to withdraw from a deal to buy armoured personnel carriers from an…