Pavla Horáková

Last August the Czech Republic was hit by the worst flooding in the last 500 years. This summer was, by contrast, hot and dry with record-breaking temperatures. There has…

On Saturday, September 13th, some one hundred Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies across the five continents celebrated the first-ever "World First Aid Day…

Monday, September 22nd, is European Day without Cars. Several towns and cities around the Czech Republic have officially joined the event but the capital Prague so far has…

Czechs like to play. At least that's what comes to mind if you realise that within two weeks, Prague has hosted two independent exhibitions of puzzles and brainteasers…

In a café, just two numbers away from the Dum Panu z Kunstatu in Prague's Old Town, two publishing houses, Argo and Paseka, announced this week that their joint effort…

Quite a mixed bag of stories on today's front pages. MLADA FRONTA DNES leads with a planned campaign against aggressive drivers. The Transport Ministry is drafting an…

The Czech lands have a long history of ore mining, with the first attempts dating back to the Stone Age. Although the Czech Republic's metal deposits have not been…

On Saturday thousands of trade union members from all corners of the Czech Republic converged on Prague for the biggest workers' protest seen in the city for six years…

The government-proposed package of public finance reforms is in the focus of attention again. While economists and businessmen say the reforms are not radical enough and…