• 03/22/2024

    Ester Ledecká won the final super-G slalom of the World Cup in Saalbach just a day before her 29th birthday, her first triumph since her collarbone injury two years ago. The Olympic champion in the discipline at the Pyeongchang 2018 Games beat Italy's Federica Brignone by 28 hundredths of a second, with Norway's Kajsa Vickhoff Lie placing third.

  • 03/22/2024

    Prague's leadership has announced that it has started building a centre that would provide comprehensive care for children suffering from anxiety and mental problems. Almost a third of pupils in Prague are struggling with mental health problems and need professional help, but many are not getting it due to a lack of doctors and facilities. A study by the Centre for Primary Prevention showed that approximately 29 percent of primary school children and secondary school students have symptoms of high or medium anxiety. Severe or moderate depression is beginning to manifest itself in 11 percent of students, the study said. The new Prague centre offering comprehensive care should be operational within two years.

  • 03/22/2024

    The governor of the Moravia-Silesia Region Jan Krkoška, who was found guilty of bribery by a Prague court on Thursday has resigned from office. He has also quit as regional councillor and will leave the ranks of the ANO party at the request of its leader Andrej Babiš. The case, which relates to large-scale bribery of doctors by pharmaceutical companies, is 12 years old and involves close to 200 people. Krkoška, who pleaded guilty, committed the act in his former position as a representative of a pharmaceutical company. He was ordered by the court to pay a fine of 200,000 crowns.

    He is to be replaced as governor of Moravia-Silesia by Josef Bělica from the ANO party.

  • 03/22/2024

    Former president Miloš Zeman (79) who is recovering at Prague’s Motol Hospital after undergoing surgery to deal with a blood clot in his leg last week will be transferred from intensive care to a normal ward on Friday, the hospital reported. Doctors say Mr. Zeman is recovering as well as can be expected and had begun rehabilitating, although his condition remains serious due to the risk of further blood clots. His condition is linked to diabetes. A hospital spokesperson said it is not clear for how long Zeman will need to be hospitalized.

  • 03/22/2024

    A month-long series of events in support of reading will culminate on Friday with the traditional Night with Andersen held in libraries across and schools across the country.

    The aim of the event, which is now in its 20th year, is to promote reading among the youngest generation with thousands of children spending the night at their local library or school where they read, chat and listen to a public reading of fairy tales.

    This year, some 517 libraries and 616 schools across the country will take part in the initiative, commemorating the famous Danish children’s writer.

    Author: Ruth Fraňková
  • 03/22/2024

    Football club Dukla Praha coach Petr Rada has received a record eight-month punishment by the disciplinary commission for a racist insult he made during a football second league match, Czech Football League Association said in a press release on Friday. Rada, who used to coach the Czech national football team, cannot attend Dukla's matches until the end of the autumn season. In addition, he has to pay a fine of CZK 80,000. The unprecedented punishment comes in response to Rada’s racist remarks during the second league match against Zbrojovka Brno, in which he called Zbrojovka’s coach Tomáš Polach a "desperate gypsy".

  • 03/21/2024

    Hundreds of people have turned out to pay their respects to the Czech poet, lyricist, musician and artist Pavel Zajíček who died earlier this month at the age of 72. The farewell ceremony took place on Thursday afternoon in the Church of Peter and Paul in Radotín, where Zajíček served as an altar boy in his youth.

    One of the most important figures in Czechoslovak independent culture in the 1970s, Pavel Zajíček was perhaps best known for his work as the front man of the group DG 307, which he founded with Milan “Mejla” Hlavsa.

    Zajíček was jailed for a year in the 1976 trial of members of the Plastic People of the Universe and associates of the underground band. He was later forced into exile, settling in Sweden before moving to New York.

  • 03/21/2024

    Friday will be mostly overcast with occasional rain showers. Day temperatures are expected to range between 12 and 16 degrees Celsius.

    Author: Ruth Fraňková
  • 03/21/2024

    Prague’s Václav Havel Airport will offer direct flights to 167 destinations during the upcoming summer schedule, which comes into effect on March 31. That is 15 more destinations than last year, but 23 fewer than in the pre-pandemic year of 2019.

    The new destinations include direct flights to Verona and Florence in Italy, Ponta Delgada in Portugal, Tallin, Estonia and the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana. The flights will be operated by 68 carriers.

    Prague’s main international airport will also increase the number of flights on more than 30 lines, including London, Paris, Antalya and Amsterdam.

    Author: Ruth Fraňková
  • 03/21/2024

    Czechia's main priorities for the next five years in the European Union will be defence and competitiveness, the Minister for European Affairs, Martin Dvořák, said at a student symposium at the Prague European School on Thursday.

    Mr. Dvořák said that EU assistance to Ukraine in its defence against Russian aggression has shown that Europe lacks adequate defence industry production capacity.

    The conference is one of the many events marking the 20th anniversary of the Czech Republic's accession to the EU on May 1, 2004. One of the highlights of the celebrations will be an international conference at Prague Castle on April 30, with speeches by President Petr Pavel and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

    Author: Ruth Fraňková

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