Jan Velinger

Earlier in her career she enjoyed greater popularity but there's no question Education Minister Petra Buzkova, just 39, remains one of the most recognised Czech…

At the weekend Prague lost one it most famous photographers, Vaclav Chochola, who died after brief illness at the age of 82. Chochola, whose hey-day lasted from the 40s…

The expulsion of more than two million ethnic Germans from Czechoslovakia after World War II has long remained a source of tension in Czech-German relations and one of the…

Ever wonder what animals at the zoo do at night when they think nobody's looking? Whether orangs hang out in the leafy Indonesian pavilion or young wolves go on the prowl…

Four years ago it was tears of joy for Czech model Diana Kobzanova as she was crowned Miss Czech Republic for 2001. But, the idyll didn't last long: in 2003 Ms Kobzanova…

Twenty-five years ago, in communist Czechoslovakia, the young judge Vlasta Formankova sentenced a man to ten months in prison. All he had done was to throw a group of…

Czech roads have one of the worst reputations in Europe thanks to an appalling number of road accidents and related fatalities every year. Although legislators have now…

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the 6th instalment of JK Rowling's hugely successful series, has now been out for almost three weeks, and in Prague, as elsewhere…