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Cities and towns across Czechia joined many of their European neighbours on Sunday in hoisting the Tibetan National Flag to observe the 65th anniversary of Tibetan Uprising Day on 10 March. The flag is raised not only to express solidarity with Tibet, but also as a reminder that freedom cannot be taken for granted and that human rights are still being violated today in many places around the world.

This gesture of solidarity takes place in several countries every year on March 10 to commemorate the over 80,000 Tibetans who died in the 1959 uprising and the hundreds of thousands more who died in the following years in prisons, labour camps or from famine. The Czech Republic has regularly taken part since 1996.

Former US President Bill Clinton arrived in Prague late on Saturday evening, natoaktual.cz reported on social media site X. He is due to speak at the conference 'Our Security Cannot Be Taken For Granted' on Tuesday at Prague Castle, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Czech Republic joining NATO. He came to Prague at the invitation of Czech President Petr Pavel. As well as Clinton, former NATO Secretary General George Robertson is also scheduled to speak at the conference.

A bill to transform Czech Post, the country's state-owned postal company, is currently undergoing an inter-ministerial comments procedure, after which it should head to the lower house for its first reading, Interior Minister Vít Rakušan said on Czech Television on Saturday. In the program Týden v politice (The Week in Politics), he said that the bill envisages the state enterprise being split into two parts - one that would continue to provide traditional postal services and would be subsidised by the state, and another that would be a commercial delivery company partly funded by private capital.

This part of the plan has received criticism from some members of the opposition, who say that the profitable part of the company will be handed over to private investors, depriving the state of profit with which it could otherwise have subsidised unprofitable basic services, and meanwhile the state will continue to finance the unprofitable part.

Last year, Czech Post closed over 300 branches across the country and laid off hundreds of employees after its losses in 2022 reached 1.5 billion crowns and it was at risk of insolvency.

Sunday is expected to be overcast but mostly dry with strong winds in some parts of the country. Daytime temperatures should range between 8 and 13 degrees Celsius.