Jarka Hálková

Smoking kills five million people world-wide every year. By now more people have died from smoking related illnesses than the number of people killed in the First and…

Fireworks will be going off around the world in just a few days' time. But here in the Czech Republic there are also fears of explosions of a very different kind. No, this…

With Christmas around the corner the Czech Republic has turned into a one big Christmas market. Christmas trees are now being sold in many streets and before long…

Czech Scrabble fans say that it can change your life. The game, where you put together words with tiles, can easily grow into an obsession. The best Czech Scrabble players…

The agriculture chapter was the most complicated part of the negotiations before the accession of the Czech Republic into the EU in May this year. The most criticism came…

Marianna and Oleg Chibovskij have found an unusual way of getting rich here in Prague. They have become the Czech Republic's honey cake barons. Honey Cake or Medovnik in…

The African community in the Czech Republic today amounts to about 3,000 people. It has been shrinking since the fall of the communist regime when many scholarships were…

Studying abroad has been increasingly popular ever since 1989, and now with EU membership bringing lower tuition fees, even more Czechs consider studying abroad. The…

The early days of Dilny tvorivosti - the Workshops of Creativity - were difficult, but as it seems now dawn is finally breaking. The organisation, which helps young…

At first sight Lucie Schwarzova looks like a normal young woman. But as she admits herself, her hobby - historical fencing - makes her a kind of schizophrenic. A female in…