• Junior hockey team beat Russia
    01/01/2015

    The Czech under-20 hockey team beat Russia 4:1 at the World Junior Hockey Championship in Toronto on Thursday and finished second in Group B. The Czech goals came from Zdráhal, Zacha and Kaše. The young Czechs will next face Slovakia in the quarter-finals in Montreal on Friday.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Air quality improves in Moravia-Silesia
    01/01/2015

    Air pollution in the region of Moravia-Silesia, in the north-east of the country, improved on Thursday, the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute reports. Only two out of 16 monitoring stations, in Český Těšín and Orlová, are registering values below permitted levels. Meteorologists expect the situation will not be changing in the coming days. The Moravia-Silesia region is one of the most polluted in the country, with heavy industry, traffic and coal heating among the major factors. 
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Pilsen becomes European city of culture for this year
    01/01/2015

    The West Bohemian city of Pilsen has become one of the two European cities of culture for 2015, along with Belgium's Mons. The opening ceremony will take place on January 17. As part of the programme, the city will offer more than 600 events, such as the festival of new circus or the exhibition of the famous illustrator and puppet maker Jiří Trnka. The city has also constructed some new venues, such as the European house of culture, Světovar, for the event. The project, whose budget is around 430 million crowns, will end on December 12.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Emergency services and police received 3500 calls on New Year's Eve
    01/01/2015

    Emergency services and police in the Czech Republic received some 3500 calls on New Year's Eve, most of them in Prague, the czech news agency reports. Emergency workers in the capital were called to over 300 incidents, most of them ivolving people injured by fireworks. Fire services around the country also responded to a hightened number of calls,about twice as many as usual. Most fires in Prague involved rubbish bins and greenery lit by fireworks.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Taizé Community meeting in Prague
    12/31/2014

    Hundreds of young Christians from around the world are in Prague for a five day ecumenical meeting of the Taizé Community initiated by Brother Roger at the end of the 1970s. Their meeting in Prague, from December 29 until January 2, is devoted to joint prayers, reflection and communion. The young Christians who have come to Prague are being hosted by local church communities in and around the Czech capital. The highlight of their stay will be a joint prayer in Prague’s historic St. Vitus Cathedral at 7pm on New Year’s Day.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Traffic restrictions in Prague on New Year’s Day
    12/31/2014

    Traffic police have warned drivers about restrictions in the city center on New Year’s Day in connection with the fireworks display scheduled for 6pm. Due to the vast number of people who are expected to turn up for the event the police will stop traffic along the Edvard Beneš embankment, the Smetana embankment and the Čechov, Mánes and Štefanik bridges for the duration of the event. Traffic along Letná plain where the fireworks display is taking place will also be stopped –including public transport.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • New Year’s fireworks display scheduled for 6pm on January 1st
    12/31/2014

    Prague’s New Year’s Eve fireworks display is to take place at 6pm on January 1st. It should last for ten minutes and will be divided into five thematic parts, one of them symbolizing the Velvet Revolution that toppled communism twenty-five years ago. Thousands of people are expected to turn up for the display, congregating on Prague’s bridges and the banks of the Vltava River. The fireworks display was rescheduled from midnight to 6pm so that it could be enjoyed by children.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Shops to close earlier on last day of December
    12/31/2014

    Shops around the country will close early on the last day of December. Smaller shops are due to close at around two pm while the big supermarket chains should remain open until 5pm. Globus, Kaufland and Tesco alone will remain open until 6pm. Although the Czech Republic has one of the most liberal policies are regards opening hours practically all the shops will be closed on January 1st.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • Lower house to meet more frequently next year
    12/31/2014

    The lower house of Parliament will meet more frequently for shorter periods in the coming year, according to a procedural amendment which is expected to facilitate the process of debating and approving new legislation, the ctk news agency reports. At present regular sessions take place once in six weeks, as of next year they will be held once in every three to four weeks. The first session of the lower house in 2015 has been scheduled for January 20th.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

  • President and PM to meet for New Years’ lunch
    12/31/2014

    President Miloš Zeman and the First Lady will meet with Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka and his wife Olga for a traditional New Years’ lunch at Lány Chateau on January 1st, the president’s spokesman Jiří Ovčáček told the ctk news agency. The head of state has invited the Speaker of the Lower House Jan Hamáček and the Speaker of the Senate Milan Štěch to attend a New Years’ lunch in a weeks’ time.
    Author: Daniela Lazarová

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