• 08/04/2024

    The legendary Czech striker and hockey coach Josef Beranek Sr. has died at 82, the Litvinov hockey club reported on its web page on Sunday. Beránek Sr. played for Litvínov appearing in 422 games in 14 seasons and accumulating 198 points for 113 goals and 85 assists. He coached hundreds of promising Czech players, including his son Josef Beranek Jr. who later played for the Oilers, Philadelphia Flyers, Vancouver Canucks, and Pittsburgh Penguins. In 1998 he was part of the Czech Republic's gold-medal winning Olympic ice hockey team in Nagano.

  • 08/04/2024

    Some 130 cyclists from around Czechia and Slovakia set off from Uherský Brod on Saturday for a pilgrimage to the Italian town of Aquileia. According to the organizer of the event, Petr Gabriel from the sports organization Orel, the cyclists will ride to the Adriatic coast via Slovakia and Austria, covering almost nine hundred kilometers in nine stages. They should arrive in the Italian city of Aquileia, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, on Sunday 11 August. In previous years, the peloton has travelled to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, Budapest in Hungary, Cologne in Germany, Krakow in Poland, Fátima in Portugal and also to Svatá Hora in Czechia.

  • 08/04/2024

    The cities of Prague and Brno are increasing the number of street lights with integrated electric vehicle charging points, in addition to regular charging stations. There are thirteen such street lamps in Prague and another one hundred should be added by the end of the year. Brno also plans to continue expanding this service. Ostrava, Plzeň and Karlovy Vary only have charging stations.

  • 08/04/2024

    An increasing number of Ukrainian doctors and dentists can treat patients in the Czech Republic, after passing proficiency and linguistic assessment tests in this country. According to the Ministry of Health the number of Ukrainian doctors who successfully passed these exams in the course of the past year has exceeded two hundred. Preparing for them takes a minimum of one and a half years. Nearly three hundred more professionals from Ukraine are currently undergoing the approval process.

  • 08/03/2024

    A Czech citizen drowned in Austria's Wolfgangsee Lake on Thursday when he tried to help four children out of the water because of an approaching storm, Austrian public radio and television (ORF) reported.  The children were on a paddleboard but the waves were carrying them away. The forty-two-year-old father swam to them but suddenly disappeared in the water. His body was later retrieved by emergency crews. The children were brought to safety by other swimmers.

  • 08/03/2024

    President Petr Pavel and his wife Eva paid a surprise visit to the Olympic Festival at Lake Most in the north of Czechia on Friday. They spent a few hours at the event, delighting fans and trying their hand at archery, fencing and javelin throwing, assisted by Olympic, world and European champion Barbora Špotáková.

    The festival, at which visitors can try out various sports as well as root for Czech athletes at the games, runs throughout the games. It has already attracted thousands of people. Some of the Czech athletes in Paris are expected to visit the site toward the end of the Olympics.

  • 08/03/2024

    Czech top officials have hailed the country’s first gold medal in the tennis mixed doubles at the Paris Olympics as a huge success. Congratulations poured in for Kateřina Siniaková and Tomáš Macháč on social networks. "A beautiful end to Friday night with gold for Katerina Siniakova and Tomáš Macháč in the mixed doubles! Congratulations on this huge success," Prime Minister Petr Fiala wrote on the X network. He added that Siniakova is a double Olympic champion, which he considers an extraordinary sporting feat.

    Words of praise also poured in for the Czech fencing team which won bronze on Friday night, securing  the country’s very first medal at the Olympics.

  • 08/03/2024

    Sunday should be partly cloudy to overcast with rain around the country and day temperatures between 20 and 25 degrees Celsius.

  • 08/03/2024

    A new app will guide users through the underground of Prague Castle which is mostly inaccessible to the public, the ctk news agency reported. The app covers the five most important archaeological areas of the castle and shows users how they have evolved over the centuries. It was produced by experts from the Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Department of Heritage Protection of the Office of the President.

  • 08/03/2024

    A travelling open-air exhibition commemorating the renowned Prague writer Franz Kafka is now on display on Prague's Mariánské Square in front of Prague City Hall. The exhibition, featuring texts from Radek Malý's book Franz Kafka: A Man of His and Our Time and brilliant illustrations by Renata Fučíková, was prepared by Czech Centres to mark the centenary of the writer's death. It will remain on show until the end of August.

    The interest in it is so big that the panels which were first produced in four world languages, English, French, German and Spanish, were later also translated into Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Armenian, Serbian, Polish, Greek, Portuguese and Russian.

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