Jan Velinger

In Sports News this Monday: Czech tennis player Berdych loses to Ferrer in Doha final; biathlete Vítková clinches first World Cup win; press reports on English football…

The Prague Symphony Orchestra is celebrating 80 years of existence. The renowned orchestra was founded in the 1930s and to this day is abbreviated as F.O.K. which stands…

Later this month the Czech Republic will hold commemorative events over two days to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz at the end of World War II…

The leader of the populist Dawn Party Tomio Okamura has found himself at the centre of a scandal, endorsing a highly questionable text by his deputy on his Facebook page…

Czech archeologists have chalked up a new remarkable discovery at Abusir southwest of Cairo: the tomb of a previously unknown queen. Chentkaus III is believed to have been…

Radio Prague has a special music programme this New Year’s Eve looking back just a little at the year that was 2014.

Czechs have less than two days to hand in unregistered weapons without fear of reprisals, under a firearms amnesty which began six months ago. The latest amnesty, the…

František Václavek is a homeless man in the Czech Republic who will be spending this Christmas, as many before it, in a shelter. It needn’t have been the case. Four years…