Jan Velinger

In today's edition of One on One Jan's guest is charismatic Czech sportsman Martin Stepanek - world champion in freediving, a sport in which one dives without scuba gear…

Former Czech President Vaclav Havel and 100 international figures sent an open letter to the heads of all European Union and NATO states this week criticizing President…

This weekend saw the culmination of a four-day erotic fair held in Prague for the 10th year in row. Primarily a trade-show for adult entertainment, Erotica Sex 2004, saw…

There was rather shocking if not altogether unexpected news this Friday when star midfielder Pavel Nedved announced he was quitting the Czech national squad, an…

A long-standing dispute between players and owners in North America's National Hockey League came to a head on Thursday when the league locked-out players on a day they…

Czechs are living longer. This is the good news from a United Nations' state of the world population report just released. The statistics are just as encouraging when it…

The New York Times has called his work "magnificent", Publisher's weekly "stunning": he's Peter Sis the Czech-born children's book illustrator and author of such titles as…