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10/30/2025
A Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) tournament will return to Ostrava next year after a four-year break, the WTA announced on Thursday. The event will take place in the Ostravar Arena and at the Ridera Tennis Club during the week starting February 2, on hard courts.
It will be the fourth WTA event hosted in Ostrava. The last edition in 2022 was won by Czech player Barbora Krejčíková, with previous titles claimed by Estonia’s Anett Kontaveit and Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus.
Held the week after the Australian Open, the tournament will feature singles and doubles matches. This time, it will have WTA 250 status, alongside the Livesport Prague Open as the Czech Republic’s second elite women’s event next year.
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10/30/2025
New Zealand’s Grammy-winning singer Lorde will be among the main stars of the 2026 Colours of Ostrava festival, alongside British musician Paris Paloma, the organisers said on Thursday. They had previously announced American duo Twenty One Pilots and singer Teddy Swims as the festival’s headliners.
Artistic director Filip Košťálek said the event aims to give more space to female performers. Also making her Colours debut will be Kateřina Marie Tichá, one of the country’s ten most-streamed female artists on Spotify, performing with her band Bandjeez.
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10/30/2025
Friday will be mostly sunny with occasional clouds. Day temperatures will range from 10 to 15 °C.
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10/30/2025
Škoda Auto increased its operating profit by 5.4% to €1.79 billion (about CZK 43.6 billion) in the first three quarters of this year, according to parent company Volkswagen. Revenue rose 9.5% to €22.34 billion, while Volkswagen’s own operating profit more than halved.
The Czech carmaker sold 870,000 vehicles between January and September, up 7.5% year-on-year, driven by strong demand for its electric SUVs Elroq and Enyaq. Volkswagen said Škoda is now among Europe’s most successful makers of fully electric cars.
Škoda operates three plants in Czechia and additional facilities in countries including China, India, and Slovakia.
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10/30/2025
Lidice’s art collection has received 65 works from Turkish-British collector Hüma Kabakci, the largest donation to date, valued at over CZK 10 million. Kabakci and Lidice Memorial director Eduard Stehlík signed the donation agreement on Thursday.
The pieces, mainly paintings and some objects by Turkish-speaking artists, will arrive at the turn of the year, and will be exhibited in May or June.
The Lidice collection, managed by the Lidice Memorial under the Ministry of Culture, focuses on contemporary art and was founded in the 1960s by British doctor and politician Barnett Stross.
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10/30/2025
The digital game Playing Prague, part of the city’s tourism campaign, has won the 2025 Central & Eastern European Game Award (CEEGA) for Best Mobile Game.
It was created by Charles Games, a studio linked to Charles University, for Prague City Tourism at a cost of CZK 1.5 million. An expansion with new levels and languages is in the works.
Since June, the free-to-play game has been downloaded about 80,000 times from Google Play and the App Store.
The expansion, expected next year, will feature new Prague locations and additional language versions, including Korean, Japanese, French, Italian, Polish, Dutch, and Spanish.
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10/30/2025
Czechia’s unemployment rate fell to 3% in September from 3.1% in August, the lowest in the European Union alongside Malta, according to fresh data released by Eurostat, the European Union’s statistical office.
EU-wide unemployment remained stable at 6%, while the Eurozone rate stayed at 6.3%. Spain continued to record the highest unemployment at 10.5%, followed by Finland (9.8%) and Sweden (8.7%).
Eurostat bases its Czech data on figures from the Czech Statistics Office, which differ from the Labour Office’s measure showing 4.5% unemployment in September.
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10/30/2025
Czechia will receive an additional 125,000 doses of hepatitis A vaccine for both children and adults over the next five weeks. Another 20,000 previously ordered doses are being distributed to doctors’ offices this week, Health Ministry spokesman Ondřej Jakob said on Thursday.
Cases of hepatitis A in the country have tripled compared to last year, leading to a surge in demand for vaccination. While 66,000 people were vaccinated last year, nearly 150,000 have received the shot so far this year.
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10/30/2025
Charles University will elect a new rector on Friday. Five people are running for the position, including the current rector, Milena Králíčková. Other candidates are Jiří Zima, an analytical chemist and longtime dean of the Faculty of Science at Charles University; Ladislav Krištoufek, the current vice-rector for research and creative activities; František Zahálka, a kinanthropologist; and Martin Mihaljevič, a geochemist.
The term of the newly elected rector is set to begin in February 2026 and will last four years. After the election, the rector must still be formally appointed by President Petr Pavel.
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10/30/2025
The Ministry of Defence will purchase 24 light armored Iveco vehicles for 538 million crowns excluding VAT. The ministry informed the government about the purchase on Wednesday, with further details provided in a press release by the state-owned Military Technical Institute (VTÚ), which is cooperating with the ministry on the contract. The army will receive the vehicles by 2030, and they are intended to be used, among other things, for reconnaissance. The purchase follows up on a contract discussed by the government in February, which included 15 vehicles for the artillery.
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