Pavla Horáková

Many foreign visitors to Prague or elsewhere in the Czech Republic are often puzzled by the ticking sound of traffic lights at pedestrian crossings. It is the acoustic…

According to latest data, the Czech Republic has the second lowest fertility rate in the world. There are now 10 million Czechs. Demographers warn that if the negative…

I'm now in a quiet residential area in the south of Prague, in fact just a few hundred metres away from the busy north-south thoroughfare that cuts through the city…

Pioneering research by Czech scientists suggests that the quality of the air we breathe may affect our health for decades to come. In the early 1980s the most serious…

Another name has appeared on the list of unconventional candidates for the June European Parliament elections. Beside such people as the former porn star Dolly Buster and…

Forman knighted to Legion of Honour. Birmingham hit by CzechMania

2004 is the Year of Czech Music and the Prague Spring International Music Festival has taken that into account, concentrating on the world-renowned Czech composer Antonin…