Jan Velinger

This year's annual Prague Writers' Festival has come to its final day and already it is obvious it will go down as one of the most successful literary events in the Czech…

Little introduction is needed for this week's guest in One on One: Radio Prague's own Bill Bathurst, a writer and poet who listeners know well for his smooth-as-bourbon…

2003 marks something of a personal milestone for me - a decade since I left the country of my birth, Canada, which I love and will always consider my home, for my adopted…

In this week's Insight Central Europe: as Czech Romanies continue to seek asylum in the west, thousands of Romanies from Slovak have been moving to the Czech Republic. One…

Two more Czechs decided on Wednesday to take their lives in the most dramatic of manners, committing suicide by dousing themselves in gasoline and then setting themselves…

Destination Kuwait: that is likely to be the arrival point for the Czech's 7th field hospital over the next few days, in accordance with last week's UN request for aid. If…

He was a man who never lived, yet who went further in defining the Czechs in the 20th century than perhaps anyone else: the most famous of Czech literary characters, the…

After months of speculation over the future of a much-needed highway for north-east Moravia, the Czech cabinet has decided to pull the plug on previous plans involving a…

"Lightning strike runs into problems", "Allied offensive slows down": those are two headlines in today's dailies that sum up recent developments in the US-led war against…