• Austrian police intervened against Czech football fans
    07/16/2017

    Police in Austria had to intervene against a group of Czech football fans, who broke into a petrol station in Tyrol on Saturday night, the Austrian APA agency reported on Sunday. Two members of the group stole alcohol and sweets in the store. According to the agency, the cashier had to lock herself in another room until police arrived. The incident happened on a highway about 12 kilometres from Innsbruck.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Number of long-term unemployed keeps dropping
    07/16/2017

    Number of the long-term unemployed in the Czech Republic has been gradually dropping, according to the data of the Czech Labour Office released by the Czech News Agency on Sunday. In June, there were 166,691 people in the country unemployed for more than a year, while the number of vacancies stood at 183,500. That figure is twice as low as in 2014. Four out of ten unemployed are jobless for more than a year, and three out of ten for more than two years.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Fuksa and Zavřel take gold at Canoe Sprint European Championships
    07/16/2017

    The Czech Republic’s Martin Fuksa has won another medal at the Canoe Sprint European Championships in Bulgaria’s Plovdiv. A day after picking up silver in the 200 metres, the 24-year-old Czech topped the podium in the 500 metres on Sunday. It is the fifth consecutive gold for Fuksa in this event at European championships. Meanwhile, another Czech Jakub Zavřel took gold in the kayak single 500 metres event.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Tropical temperatures set to return to Czech Republic next week
    07/16/2017

    Tropical temperatures are set to return to the Czech Republic next week, according to a long-term forecast from the Czech Hydro-Meteorological Institute. The remaining weeks should be slightly cooler, with daytime temperatures expected to range between 23 and 25 degrees Celsius. Rainfall levels over the next four weeks should also be average for the time of year.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Body of drowned girl from Czech Republic found in Bulgaria
    07/16/2017

    Rescuers have found the body of a girl from the Czech Republic, who drowned in Bulgaria's Sunny Beach resort on Thursday, Czech television NOVA reported on Saturday, citing the Czech ambassador to Bulgaria Dušan Štrauch. The 11-year-old girl, reportedly of Vietnamese origin, drowned after she had been carried away by a strong underwater currant. A 61-year-old Czech woman, who was accompanying the girl, drowned while trying to save the girl. The incident happened outside work hours, when there was no rescuer on the beach.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Ethnic Czechs from Volhynia mark 70 years since repatriation
    07/15/2017

    Ethnic Czechs from the western Ukrainian province of Volhynia celebrate 70 years since the return to their homeland. On Saturday, a plaque marking the post-war events in the border areas was unveiled at a train station in Žatec, the final station of the first transport which took place in February 1947. On Sunday, a commemorative ceremony will take place in Český Malín, a village founded by Czech immigrants in 1871 in what is today Ukraine. The village was burnt to the ground by the Nazis during WWII and most of its inhabitants were murdered.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Czech man wanted by Interpol arrested in Thailand
    07/15/2017

    Police in Thailand arrested a Czech man wanted by Interpol on fraud charges in the Czech Republic, the daily Bangkok Post wrote on Saturday. The 42-year-old Radek Juříček from Vsetín was allegedly hiding in the Thailand for three years. According to the daily, the man had cheated a company in the Czech Republic by falsifying documents, causing damage worth 1.5 million euros to the firm. He was arrested on Koh Samui island in the south of the country on Friday, after being alerted by the Czech Embassy in Thailand. After the arrest, the suspect was taken to the Immigration Bureau before being handed over to Interpol.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Czech studio receives Emmy nomination for visual effects in Genius
    07/15/2017

    Czech post-production studio UPP has received Emmy nomination for their visual effects in the series Genius about the life of Albert Einstein. It is already a fifth nomination for the prestigious television award for the Czech studio. The series, starring Geoffrey Rush in the lead role, has been produced by the National Geographic channel and features a number of Czech actors. The 69th annual Emmy Award ceremony will be held on September 17.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Canoeist Fuksa takes silver at European Championships
    07/15/2017

    The Czech Republic’s Martin Fuksa took silver at the Canoe Sprint European Championships in Bulgaria’s Plovdiv on Saturday. The 24-year-old finished two seconds behind Sebastian Brendel of Germany. The Czech canoe team (Spicar, Slouf, Havel, Sterba) finished in the fourth place in men’s K4 500 metres event.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Czech tourist injured in Hurghada attack has been transported to Cairo
    07/15/2017

    The Czech tourist, who was injured in a knife attack on Friday in the Egyptian resort of Hurghada has been transported by a helicopter to a hospital in Cairo for further examinations, the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs has informed. According to the spokeswoman of the ministry, the woman sustained injuries to her leg and back. Two German women were killed in the attack at the Red Sea resort and another three people injured. The motives of the assailant who was arrested by the police are still under investigation, but he was allegedly in contact with Islamic State radicals over the internet.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

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