Jan Velinger

Preventive measures have been in place for weeks on flights to Prague's Ruzyne airport, to help guard against the spread of the deadly SARS virus. Around seventeen…

Today's papers offer a broad selection of cover stories, ranging from recent developments in Iraq to a new study that reveals that almost 40 percent of Czechs use bribes…

Adela Drozdova is a charming and most talented violinist who recently performed a final graduation concert to finish her studies at Prague's distinguished music academy…

'How I Came to Know Fish' - for years I glimpsed this elegant volume of short stories in Prague's English-language bookstores, at times wondering over its greenish cover…

On Tuesday Czech parliament approved the deployment of the Czech Republic's 7th field hospital to Iraq. Parliament also agreed that the Czech chemical unit based in Kuwait…

"War at an end" that's how most of the Czech papers today size up the fall of Saddam Hussein's last bastion in Tikrit, showing photos of US soldiers celebrating as they…

One of the many interesting authors invited to this year's Prague Writer's Festival was Yann Martel, a Canadian novelist who made headlines world-wide by winning the…